Starfield Finally Lands on PS5 in April with New DLC and Huge Updates

Unpopular opinion - this is mine on launch, had a great time on the Xbox version and interested to see it play on the Pro.

I shell double dip on day one and those Pro modes sound better then usual offerings from MS. The Free Lanes update sounds fantastic.

I'll wait another year for it to come on Extra

@Boomers-r-us There's the announcement / prices.

I'm interested but it's not at the top of my list. Problem is, I can't see a time when it will be.

I'll probably stick it on the wishlist and wait for the first decent sale price

Always good to see games gets updated. Not interested in one bit though.

Will 100% be buying, once it goes on sale haha (and yes I know it’s not launching at full price)

@Gremio108 bingo

Cool.starfield looks like a game I will enjoy.so it's all good Word up son

A game needs to be special to get my time. Fromsoft games, niohs, cd project red games… ect… this ain’t it.

its a good 7/10 game not trash

game gets alot of unnecessary hate

Unless a friend gets this and I can borrow it then the only way I'm going to play this is with Extra. It just looks like something I'd enjoy for about 12 hours and then get bored, which isn't something worth that price tag for me.

Let's see if Bethesda can properly update it without breaking things and causing new problems.

@trev666 It really isn't as bad as people say it is imo, hopefully some PS5 players will enjoy it

All my favourite Xbox games are now on my PS5, never thought I’d see the day! Glad I kept my original Constellation Edition. A bit sad there won’t be a Starfield themed DualSense.

Good that Bethesda and Push Square have clarified like three times that this is the most comprehensive version to date. Because it’s super common for subsequent releases to be less comprehensive. Like how we can’t know if it’s the best iPhone ever until Tim Apple literally says it is.

I may give this a chance. I didn’t like it when I first played it, but I was also deep in BG3 and Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty, so I wasn’t really taking my time with the game. If it reviews well, I may give it a try.

@Questionable_Duck its a couple of reasons because Bethesda are now a company people just blindly hate because

Microsoft bought them
they expected it to be great, if its not must be trash
they assume as its Bethesda game its broken buggy mess

@Oram77 I could see this coming to Essential by then. Veilguard took 4 months to get to Essential

As I’ve said before, this is not a bad game by any means.

It’s a bit like Crimson Desert in that a bunch of hype monkeys had been hyping this up to high heaven for years before it launched, and it wasn’t the 10 out of 10 life changing experience that they’d falsely built it up to be.

Same thing that happened with Cyberpunk.

It’s just a fairly good 8 out of 10 game. Just like Cyberpunk, and just like Crimson Desert will be.

I just hope they do add some good quality of life features, one of them being doing something about the garbage inventory system. Much like Fallout 4, half of my entire game time was spent trying to manage inventory.

@Questionable_Duck @trev666 I think the ‘hate’ comes down to a certain minority of gamers aligned to a shade of green rather than blue shouting from the rooftops for anyone that’d listen, about it being Game of the Generation… then when it actually released it was around a 7/10. If they’d just kept their powder dry on the gushing, this hate you speak of would’ve been far less of a thing.

'1000 Creation Credits'. So....mods aren't free on PS5??? What is this nonsense Bethesda.

I guess this is old news, but what a load of crap.

Should have shadow dropped fallout 3 remasters

Day one, unironically. I had fun with little I played on Series X, but PlayStation is my home.

@AdamNovice Why do you hope for that?

Unfortunately this game is just flawed on a foundational level. Hope they learn from this

Had a great time with this on Series X and PC, I think I’ll go for the platinum

@Stragen8 There are still plenty of free mods, but there are a bunch of sanctioned paid mods as well. Same thing as Skyrim and Fallout 4.

Took them long enough. Not sure if I’ll play it though

Are people trying to forget how totally mid this game is?

Starfield represents one of Bethesda Game Studios’ most ambitious projects

Ambitious ≠ good, mind. But I guess "Starfield represents one of Bethesda Game Studios' most mid and overhyped projects" isn't a great soubdbite.

Looking forward to playing this! I wonder whether Crimson Desert or Starfield will be more buggy? I expect both to be rough at first.

This game is like so middle of the road, it's the yellow paint telling you where the middle of the road is. Like I really do feel that Bethesda was so arrogant and seeing this game get a tepid reception gave them this "wait what, no way, our game is great" attitude since

As someone who owns Starfield on Series X physical disc…well, this certainly is a game.

I still can’t get into it after several tries, but hopefully those who want to play this rather meh game on PS will enjoy it!

I'll wait for the innevitable sale.

I guess the Xbox gamers were beta testing the game all these years until it finally launches for PlayStation. It seems actually polished this time. Regardless, I will be waiting for a discount.

I have yet to play an actual Bethesda-developed game. Mostly Arkane, Obsidian, Tango Gameworks, etc. But that formula (first person action/RPG) is weirdly addicting to me. So I might very well check this out at some point.

Can’t see this one selling all that well.

@darthvirgin most articles are paid advertisements on gaming “news” sites these days. Once you learn to spot it you can’t unsee it.

Is the game still ***** though?

@psmr If it was a PS5 exclusive (as Sony had initially intended) or if it was multiplatform from the get go, I'd assume there'd be less hate. But, more importantly, there would also be less hate if the game just wasn't made by Bethesda at all.

There's a lot of baggage that comes with the Bethesda Game Studios name, and frankly, at the time the game was released, Bethesda and Todd Howard's reputations weren't all that positive. When people hear "new Bethesda RPG," they automatically expect a generation-defining game that will influence game design for generations to come. And, you know what? Maybe that's fair, given how Bethesda themselves portrayed the game leading up to its release.

But I legitimately think, if this game was made by anyone other than Bethesda and (to a lesser extent) wasn't an Xbox exclusive, it wouldn't have received nearly as much intense, vitriolic hate as it did. Like, seriously, judging by how some people were acting, you'd think Todd killed their family or something.

Finally! I'll put this one on my wishlist. This game, alongside Avowed and South of Midnight really got my attention and I'm planning to buy all of them eventually, plus Indiana Jones and Hellblade 2 in the future

It’s competing with a number of backlog and new games I’m interested in but I’m still tempted.

The setting and game style should work for me. I had an Xbox, and Gamepass, when this came out but didn’t go for it then as I was put off by the bugs and need for updates. This version is a lot more tempting. I’ve done the same with Cyberpunk!

@PloverNutter The game is almost 3 years old.

I loved this at launch, and I can't wait to get stuck in with the new content and DLC on PS5 Pro!

Is this what V1.5 update to Cyberpunk 2077, the equivalent for this game basically? Or somewhat bigger?

Hard pass at that pricing.

@trev666

its a good 7/10 game not trash
game gets alot of unnecessary hate

I dont think people are hsting on it, they’re just calling it mid. I think that was because it was hyped as the next big thing in gaming, the game of the generation. And then it released, as you said, as just a 7/10 game

I played it on Xbox - loved it tho didn't play more than about 15hrs - sold Xbox - now will get it for my PS Pro -

@Dogbreath Cyberpunk is at least a 9/10 after all the updates they made in the 12-18 months post launch. And Crimson Desert isn’t even out yet, but could also be a 9/10!

I enjoyed this back at launch on PC and what I'm seeing here are some very smart updates to remove much of the friction amd make it more enjoyable to play. I may well jump back in at some point but there are a few new games I'm interested in playing

Does it now have a map?

@Questionable_Duck if it was a ps5 exclusive no one would’ve been hailing it as Game of the Generation before it’s even released.

@GirlVersusGame 🤔 think I'll wait

@Stragen8 There are both free and paid mods available in Creation Club.

@Boxmonkey yeah, I’m just amazed at the level of idiocy it must take for someone to be impressed by these kinds of claims about releases.

I am pretty shocked that they priced the deluxe edition fairly.

An extra $20 gets you 2 paid DLCs plus $10 in creation credits.

Once the discounts start rolling in post-release that will be an even better price.

@Questionable_Duck that sounds like an excuse to me. if a game is good does not matter one bit what people say.

@GirlVersusGame On the UK store the standard edition is £44.99 and the premium is £60.99.

I just watched through all the update videos.

Seems like there are some nice updates in there. Probably nothing truly life changing but looks like a lot of great improvements.

I'll definitely be picking this up. Played about 125 hours when it released until my Series X decided to not work anymore, so I'm super excited to start over on PS5 Pro. Was there any mention of a physical version? Or did I miss it?

@Alpine The game is "decent" but not "great". The problem is that for various reasons it gets treated like it's Gollum.

It definitely isn't a game for everyone but I feel like some people who may have enjoyed it, missed out due to all the hate.

@pyrrhic_victory Physical copies are already up for pre-order at some stores in the US.

Not sure what is actually on the disc though.

loved it on XSX. Terran armada looks great, lots more bounties is great. will wait for a sale as already bought it once, but looking forward to replaying it, and the new content.