imagine simping for this game while thinking that this shit is on any way on top of the list of "graphical fidelity" this gen.
Eh. There are some things this game does right. The things it doesnt do are no different from other games. Spiderman and horizon both have loading screens when you go into interiors or dungeons. Name me a shooter not named control and I will show you clips with no destruction whatsoever. throw a grenade in TLOU Part 1 and RE4 which actually have enhanced destruction and see what happens to furniture. It's actually the same as Starfield, certain items have physics to them, but most of the big objects like sofas and chairs dont. This has been my major gripe with shooters and why i want destruction in every game, and yet Starfield is apparently the only game being trashed for it.
What else? Ah yes, Falling animations being passed off as physics. Like come on. Its ragdoll. Starfield has a far more advanced physics system than RDR2. Anyone who has played the game for more than a few hours would know this because thats when you get the anti gravity ability. Clearly, not many people have actually played the game.
This bizarre fascination people have shooting NPCs is so ridiculous. This isnt cyberpunk. its not trying to be a GTA clone. these are hub worlds. you cant even kill anyone in these hub worlds in horizon or ghost of tsushima. this is not that game. I honestly dont remember anyone even trying to go on killing sprees in witcher 3's novagrad let alone using gtav to show off the NPC reactions. Did Mass Effect have this in their hub worlds? Is Mass Effect 2 trash now because starfield lets you shoot civilians and mass effect didnt?
And thats the thing, the games this is being compared to are action adventure titles. They are not doing half of the things Starfield is doing. How accurate would be a comparison where we show a dialogue sequence in GTAV and compare it with a quest dialogue sequence in Starfield with branching paths?
Would it be fair to compare RDR2 or Horizon interiors with Starfield? it will lose every time. Even the Burning Whores PS5 only DLC had some atrocious looking interiors. Poor lighting, even worse asset quality. Yet myself and others have consistently praised its Cauldron as some of the best graphics we've ever seen. Why cant we do that with Starfield which is far more consistent in its interiors? Hell, its interiors are better than most of the games released this year, if not all of them.
Why not compare Starfield's lighting to FF16? Star Wars? RE4? Hogwarts? RDR2? or any of the games that came out this year? Or even Horizon FW? Maybe because it will win despite all the downgrades. Or you know who cares about lighting? It only makes up 50% of the visuals.
These disingenuous comparisons are shit and can be used against any game. in five years, people will be using starfield to shit on the next game everyone loves to hate. just like how cyberpunk was the butt of the joke just three years ago and is being used to trash starfield now. Ironic.