I honestly believe Starbound was... A failure, to say the least?

I have to say, I didn't have any enjoyment out of what's currently presented.

* The game is very clunky and unintuitive

* The interface is unhelpful and I often find myself fighting with it

* The inability to change controls is tedious

* Enemies are less intelligent than Terraria's, a feat I didn't think was possible

* It isn't fun

* I get so many errors, crashes, and black screens - One time, my view zoomed in to what looked like 10x with the zoom option only being at 2x in the menu.

Fun might be a personal opinion, but when I move at a snails pace from the start with no ability to run, given a melee weapon I can't do anything with but swing in front of my character lazily and slowly, put on a world with unintelligent enemies and given a 'mining tool' that takes a goddamn eternity to mine resources, I can't stand to play it for more than ten minutes before being frustrated to the point of deleting it. Waste of hard drive space.

The key term, primarily, is "slow". I don't expect to be sonic the hedgehog, nor do I expect to be able to do everything in a matter of minutes. But I should at least be given the feeling that I'm progressing. In Starbound's beta, I don't. I feel like I'm doing nothing. I feel urged to explore, but can't, because my character is so terribly slow that having to cross the same stretch of land repeatedly is a chore, and trying to dig downward instead is even slower.

I have nothing positive to add that other people haven't likely already said. The music is good, I suppose, but the mood swings all over the place from calm and serene putting-me-to-sleep-while-I-slug-around, to a sudden upbeat boss-like music the fuck outta nowhere when hostile enemies approach. The contrast is awful. Graphically, while it may appear better than Terraria from screenshots or tech demos, everything is so softly colored that very little stands out. Terraria might be graphically unintuitive in some respects, but having hard black outlines on active entities is a pretty good idea, which Starbound lacks.

Honestly? I feel sorry for everyone who has invested in Starbound. If you like the game as it is, all the power to you; but if Terraria is a baseline for a horizontal Minecraft, Starbound fails to succeed it. And correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't that one of its goals? Beta or not, the given impression is disheartening, to say the least.

 

Dude.
It's BETA.
BETA.
IT WILL GET BETTER WITH TIME.
Does the Word BETA Mean nothing to you?

 

I don't even think anymore can be said than this.

Hello, it's beta.

 

This is a very bad idea to post on here.

I guarantee most of the population is enjoying Starbound and you're part of the very few.

I understand where you're coming from and what not with your opinions, but all of this is going to get changed/fixed.
If you really can't find anything good about the game, then you've either set your expectations way too freaking high or you're trying to compare it too closely to Terraria (which has been out for quite a while).

 

Beta

Remappable controls are actually a huge undertaking, so it's no surprise they haven't been implemented yet, considering most of the actual content also hasn't been implemented

 

One word.
Beta.
And you fully knew when buying into it that it was Phase one of the beta.

 

What did you expect from an early beta that might as well be an ALPHA build with an assload of the features missing? You knew VERY well what you were buying.

You have NO idea how long I've been waiting to use this picture, by the way.

 

Oh, so I can't criticize it because it's beta? I was under the impression that the entire point of releasing betas was to receive criticism.

 

The idea of beta is for people to test the game out, provide feedback and suggestions, in order to make it the best when it actually hits full release.

 

It's a stage 1 beta, which is actually an alpha in standard programming definitions... of course it's clunky as is. Of course, I vehemotly disagree that it isn't fun... despite being a beta and knowing my character will be deleted on update, I am having loads of fun with it.

I'd suggest you chill & wait for the 1.0 release if you want a complete experience. Your expectations seem unreachable considering the current state of Starbound's development.

 

If your criticisms are all about the lack of features that haven't been implemented yet because it was just released a few days ago, yeah

It's pretty dumb

 

Please, all future betas for every game, any early accesses, stay clear of them. You clearly do not enjoy TESTING a game.

 

Basically what the other people said, it's fucking beta. First stage of the beta, too. It is literally the clunkiest and least refined that the beta will ever be.
I would reserve judgement for the full version.

The problem is that you said that Starbound as a whole was a failure in the title, when only the first stage of the beta is out.

 

There is a difference between criticism and slandering a game. "Complete failure" The game isn't even complete yet and you're passing it off as a failure.

 

Saying that the entire game is a failure isn't critisim. Learn what words mean and try again later.

 

Love starbound, i find it enjoyable and great. there are crashes ,and bugs, but you may have noticed that we're in beta stage 1, and you were -warned- about it being buggy, crashy, and unoptimised.. yes?

 

Translation: I know this is Beta, very early beta, but I'm going to judge it against standards of perfection.

 

While I, too, think it's still Beta and some of the annoyances could have been expected, I like to make a suggestion: Give the Beta another month or two and come back again. I bet much has changed until then, and maybe the game will be a lot more enjoyable for you.

 

Point of a beta:
"This part of the game sucks, and here's why:"

You:
"This entire game sucks, everyone throw it in the garbage and leave it to die"