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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 87 points 11 months ago (6 children)

This is some of the most honest feedback about Starfield. It's not bad. It's just horribly dated.

It's a standard Bethesda game, and it's great for a Bethesda game. But Bethesda hasn't updated anything in years, over a decade even. Characters are flat, storylines are fun but not engaging, it's just.... fine.

If this had come out in 2014-2016 as a successor to Skyrim it'd be one of the best games, I firmly believe that. But it didn't, they took their time building it, which is good, but now we have games like the Witcher 3, Cyberpunk, RDR2, even ME3 came out after Skyrim. The format for story propelled RPGs has changed, and the bar has been raised.

Again I don't want to be one of the "Oh bethesda bad boooo" people because honestly, I'm still having a ton of fun in Starfield. It's just that for a brand new game... it's really showing it's age.

[–] squid@feddit.uk 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Idk I find starfeild could even be a downgrade in some way, no ai habits like shop keepers must be on a meth bindge as they never leave they're stores, the openish world is gone, in one lengthy mission I'd see 5/6 loading screens, usually when going from planet to planet then into the city then to do the objective then repeat in reverse.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

i don't understand how they could ship the game with more than 1 featureless gray rock planet, the interesting environments is the bread and butter of bethesda games and the one thing you've been able to rely on enjoying even if you find everything else to be garbage!

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

If this had come out in 2014-2016 as a successor to Skyrim it’d be one of the best games,

LOL nah, it'd be shat on like FO4 was. Maybe not as heavily, because it didn't opt for voicing the protagonist, but sure as hell wouldn't be called "one of the best games".

[–] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 4 points 11 months ago

My son complains about this but I'm glad they didn't give the protag.

[–] acastcandream@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

it’d be shat on like FO4 was.

FO4 printed insane money and won countless awards. It did fine lol

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