5/5 ★ – onestub's review of Starfield.

An absolutely massive RPG in all aspects, this is a must play for anyone who likes sandbox type Bethesda games. It's impossible to cover everything the game has to offer but I'll start by saying the combat is by far the best I've played from Bethesda studios and probably the best in any RPG out there today. Nothing beats flying into battle with a jetpack, launching an explosive, and watching a million flying objects - all with their own physics - fly off into space in near zero g. Not to mention the sheer number of weapons which all look amazing, and the "special abilities" that I won't spoil here. Which leads me to my next point, the fine details in the game are actually mind boggling. I believe there's a little under a thousand landable planets in the game and each has their own individual orbit around their star, daily rotation, biomes, gravity, weather, level of inhabitants, and atmospheric conditions which differ from planet to planet. Your car will actually drive differently depending on its environment. The local fauna (and flora tbh) are extremely well designed. They all look realistic yet outlandish and cool and have their own behaviors. Some will be aggressive, others defensive, and the peaceful ones you can even harvest materials from non lethally. You could also start a farm with some of them on your outpost (yes you can create outposts as well, including greenhouses, drilling rigs, landing ports, production lines, cozy houses...the works). Each beast can generally vary in size and color patterns match depending on what biome they live in. Like I said - extremely well designed. I mentioned building outposts a little bit earlier, you can actually build your own spaceship from scratch which acts as your mobile outpost. Build it pretty much as massive as you can afford, decorate it inside and out however you want, but make sure you have the firepower and mobility to dogfight around asteroids and space junk. There's probably hundreds if not a thousand+ ship parts to customize however you want. All this being said...now I'll finally review the actual RPG aspects of the RPG lol. I think I read that there was almost a million lines of spoken dialog in this game and after playing I believe it. Random people you meet walking the street with no quest will have dialog trees. Companions talk a ton and it's hardly ever repeated. They all have words to chip in with every conversation. The quest lines are some of bethesda's best (THE best IMO) and the factions quest lines are all decent at worst. One of which may be the best faction quest of all time but I won't spoil which one. Tons of random encounter quests that range from crazy sci-fi to bounty missions, typical of a Bethesda game. Cities are huge like everything else and you can explore for hours before realizing there was a whole city section hidden away somewhere. I've gone on long enough and I haven't even touched on the music which is great, the insane amount of customizable settings, the graphics, the insane amount of mods available on console, smuggling, bounty hunting, etc. Easiest 10/10 I've ever given.