{"id":12644,"date":"2025-07-15T22:02:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T22:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/12644\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T22:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T22:02:03","slug":"starfield-isnt-worth-remembering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/12644\/","title":{"rendered":"Starfield Isn\u2019t Worth Remembering"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since my review of 150 hours spent in Starfield<\/a> at launch, my opinion on the game has only soured. The added survival mechanics<\/a> were of fleeting interest to me, and there are a handful of neat mods to toy with. However, nothing I\u2019ve heard of the game\u2019s singular expansion since its 2023 release\u2013from the inclusion of features beyond the marginally compelling ability to drive on each planet\u2019s limited instances, to Bethesda\u2019s attempt to charge us for pieces of a faction quest<\/a>\u2013fill me with a desire to make space on my cluttered storage devices for its mammoth 120-plus GB install size. So what I\u2019m left with are the memories of those random moments where I did find some joy, mostly by taking in the starry sights. But now, seeing as I\u2019ve completely lost access to hundreds of gigabytes of capture<\/a> across its enormous galaxy, I\u2019m wondering if those memories aren\u2019t worth hanging onto anyway.<\/p>\n

The Top 10 Most-Played Games On Steam Deck: October 2023 Edition<\/p>\n

Read More: Starfield Isn\u2019t Boring Actually, Bethesda Tells Steam Reviewers<\/a><\/p>\n

In the nearly two years since its launch, I haven\u2019t thought much about Starfield or the massive amount of capture I had until a friend told me he needed to clear space and thus deleted all of the videos. I then realized that I had likely done the same a few months ago, probably under some frantic attempt to make room on my ever-overflowing storage devices, during which I thought, \u201cWhen the hell am I gonna sift through hours of Starfield footage?\u201d But after learning the only other copies of these videos were trashed, and realizing I completely misplaced and lost the game\u2019s photo mode folder, a rather strange quote sprang to mind from Bethesda\u2019s managing director, Ashley Cheng, addressing early concerns that Starfield<\/a> was bland:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the astronauts went to the moon, there was nothing there. They certainly weren\u2019t bored.\u201d<\/p>\n

Look, if I took a trip to the actual barren, desolate surface of the moon and then lost 500 GB worth of capture from that trip, I think I\u2019d be rather crestfallen. Hell, in the vast travels I took across the states, Canada, and a sliver of the UK in my 20s, I took tons of videos and photos that I haven\u2019t looked at in many years, but I\u2019d be really upset if I found they were just suddenly gone. In fact, I still think about things I saw that I regret not taking a picture of nearly a decade later.<\/p>\n

Read More: Starfield: The Kotaku Review<\/a><\/p>\n

It all brings to mind so much of the work Bethesda and Microsoft were doing in telling us this game was something special, instead of ever really showing it to us in the form of a compelling game. The emptiness was the point, apparently. But also, it would be \u201cone of the most important RPGs ever made<\/a>.\u201d Todd Howard talked a big game about being an explorer, about finding things that no one else had seen before, and how that moment of discovery was something Starfield was designed to deliver.<\/p>\n

Early on, I felt a need to be defensive of Starfield\u2019s vast nothingness. I mean, I\u2019m the girl who has John Cage\u2019s \u201c4:33\u201d<\/a> linked on my Tinder account as the one and only featured song. Visiting La Monte Young\u2019s Dream House<\/a> was a formative experience of my 20s. There are many video games that capture this spirit of stillness, of just being in awe of a visual spectacle that communicates a sense of place. But Starfield\u2019s overabundance has failed to be one of them. Despite some fleetingly beautiful moments across its many worlds, not a single one of them felt precious enough for me to feel bad about losing the archival footage.<\/p>\n

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