Starfield has had a bit of a bum ride. At launch, Bethesda Game Studios' long-awaited space opera epic received largely positive reviews, nabbing a Metacritic score of 83 in the process. While that's nowhere near the heights enjoyed by, say, the evergreen bestseller Skyrim with its nigh-peerless 96, it was a promising enough start for what Xbox's Phil Spencer once insinuated that Starfield would be receiving large-scale updates for a dozen years.
But it's been a long road, getting from there to here. On Steam, Starfield has retained an unenviable 'Mixed' player rating. And while many had hoped the ship would right its course with the first big expansion, Shattered Space, is stuck at 'Mostly Negative'. It wasn't the partial reinvention that this flawed galactic adventure desperately needed. Lead writer Emil Pagliarulo even took to Twitter afterward to reassure folks that "nobody, and I mean nobody, at Bethesda is patting themselves on the back while ignoring our players."
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Shattered Space arrived slightly over a year after Starfield itself. In an age when AAA games typically take so long to release, getting it out this swiftly was a decent...
