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Destraight ,

I doubt that OP has played starfield

yoink ,
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hmmm people seem to like this thing i don’t like

ah it’s because they’re actually lying for the purposes of fooling me, the objectively correct main character

sturmblast ,

I literally spent my entire Labor Day weekend playing this game so anybody that says it’s boring I’d really don’t understand what they’re talking about

Asafum ,

I have so many hours on my save for a game that just released Thursday night that I should be ashamed… It’s literally in the days, not hours anymore.

I can’t stop lol

DeathWearsANecktie ,

I like the game

npz ,

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    NewSmileadon ,

    If I had a dime for every dumbass who says “the engine is old” or something like that I’d take all of you to Popeyes, asking you guys kindly to stay under 12$ per order.

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    NewSmileadon ,

    We’re going into ship of Theseus territory here, but do you really know the extent to which they overhauled the engine? Because when I hear blocky terrain I think of LOD generation which all modern engines use to save processing power. Unreal engine itself is still the same propeitary engine based on C++, which similar to CE, has been overhauled over the years. Really what I see is you getting into the semantics of what makes a new engine without understanding the changes to the back end.

    sentient_loom ,
    @sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works avatar

    I love this game and this engine.

    Cyberpunk 2077 has a horrible gameplay style, the action is constrained and clunky, the stories have too many rails. It doesn’t feel free and open. It’s basically just Grand Theft Auto with better stories.

    No Man’s Sky seems endlessly pointless (or pointlessly endless?). It’s a cool idea but I enjoy Starfield a whole lot more.

    eochaid ,
    @eochaid@lemmy.world avatar

    I agree totally.

    I don’t get people stanning NMS over Starfield. I mean No Man’s Sky is alright as a tech demo sandbox but even with the latest update, I get bored so quickly. Even the stations and civilization hubs feel dead, the plot is just so haphazard and slapdash. Starfield feels so much more cohesive and…has actual characters. But they’re also just very different games. Starfield is heavier on story content and NMS is heavier on procedural generation.

    I loved Cyberpunk’s story but I’ve found very little reason to come back outside of the main plot. GTA5 was a technical achievement under sweatshop conditions and while I hated the story, the world felt alive and full of things to do and places to explore. Cyberpunk feels like GTA if it was made with half the team and with one less year of development (because it was).

    eochaid ,
    @eochaid@lemmy.world avatar

    And you stanning Cyberpunk and No Man’s Sky as polished games is hilarious to me.

    It took several years of fixing No Man’s Sky before it was anything more than a boring tech demo. Cyberpunk took years of bug fixes and a popular anime to break people out of the hate circlejerk and actually experience the fucking game. Starfield hasn’t even officially released yet. People need to chill the fuck out.

    Also what are you talking about with “the engine is showing it’s age?”. This is a brand new fucking engine. I’m playing the game on my Xbox in 4k and it looks better than anything I’ve played this year.

    UlyssesT ,

    Surprise twist on an old comic chefs-kiss

    Jyrdano ,

    So how much R is in this RPG game? Is there any character customisation? Like at least Skyrim-level (which is already a pretty low bar to conpare to)

    Cabrio ,

    More than you expect but somehow still less than you want. Just look at the beard options and that will describe the whole game experience so far.

    WarmSoda ,

    Are there 3 beards and 17 mustaches again in this one?

    Cabrio ,

    Closer to 16 stubble, 2 beards, and your choices are short growth or carnival magician.

    WarmSoda ,

    It’s like dreadlocks. For some reason games always have 20 different types of dreadlock styles. I know like maybe two guys that have had dreads.

    Who tf are all these devs sporting dreads?

    WereCat ,

    Red Dread Redemption devs in action

    Sinister Bot ,
    @Sinister@hexbear.net avatar

    Damn starfield is bad? With its premise being Another basic america glass towers neolib united federation in space, while also made by bethesda? Who could have known.

    Hadriscus ,

    Probably not very class conscious. But I have not played it

    Tankiedesantski ,

    Yes but this game is political because it lets you pick pronouns. Give me back my wholesome, unpolitical, giant stars and stripes robot spouting anticommunist catchphrases, Bethesda game!

    Tofu_Lewis ,

    Uhh just play Outer Worlds you nerds

    moonsnotreal ,
    @moonsnotreal@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    Am I the only one who noticed the gun animations are just the fallout 4 ones? Like the pistols use exactly the same animations. I know because I played hundreds of hours of 4.

    Viking_Hippie ,

    I mean, you don’t always have to reinvent the wheel: if 4 achieved realistic-feeling energy weapon animations, why fix what isn’t broken? Third folksy saying.

    CordanWraith ,

    Yeah, Elden Ring for example has tons of DS3 animations. It’s just more sensible to use the existing ones rather than completely remaking the same thing.

    MindSkipperBro12 ,

    Yes but we need to go vertically, not horizontally.

    Rolder ,

    I’ve got about 15 hours in it. So far so good. Not 10/10 GOTY material no, but good. Probably about a 7 maybe 8/10

    Guster ,

    Says it comes out tomorrow for me? How are people playing it

    sturmblast ,

    early access or piracy

    Rolder ,

    If you bought the deluxe edition you got a few days early access

    FatTony ,

    This thread feels like everybody is pointing guns at each other.

    Spaceinv8er ,

    https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/9972d8c0-1e45-41a1-9da3-e7bf1ad5c991.webp

    Awoo ,

    The game has incredibly bad performance issues and dogshit politics.

    For a game they’ve dubbed “Nasa punk”. There’s no punk at all. It’s 98% corporate fantasy wish fulfillment for musk-brained techbros and 2% punk. The criticism of capitalism is so paper thin that you can barely notice its presence anywhere at all.

    The space pirates use guns with anarchist symbols on them and say anarchist slogans but are clearly not anarchists in ideology and instead are straight up thugs and raiders.

    The UC military is presented as real professionals, which is not really correct. If they accurately represented the US military that they’re based off of then they’d being jarheads, except for the recruiters and media where the professional show is put on. This is fantasy wish fulfilment at best, or propaganda at worst.

    There is no bigotry, patriarchy, etc in this universe and it’s absolutely absurd. The universe would have these, capitalism provides an incentive to exploit. Marginalised people are the easiest to exploit. Capitalism has an incentive not to solve marginalised people’s problems fully and the further away you get from states enforcing laws to try and mitigate these problems the bigger they would get. So in space and because of the colony wars these issues would have gone through the roof.

    It is bizarre that there are wars occurring and yet there are no space refugees anywhere? Where are they? Also there’s no homeless people which is fucking weird again. Also no slums or self-constructed accomodation on the periphery of the cities which really ought to exist given that the player can do just that. It’s all so idealised to a ridiculous extent.

    Everyone doesn’t have the money for a starship, there is one absurd mission where you apply for an admin assistant job. You’re expected to fly into space and to a space station with your own starship to apply for an administration and assistant job? There should be a private shuttle company that people use to taxi around space for things like this.

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    In short, the politics are dogshit and the performance is bad. But, the gameplay is good if you like other bethesda titles it plays just like them. Additionally, I think it’s probably the strongest ever game they’ve released for modding… And probably their best title since Oblivion (not counting New Vegas which they didn’t make).

    K0W4LSK1 ,

    Ha you got me with that last panel

    Papercrane ,

    I didn’t play starfield but watched around 2 hours of gameplay. The story was kinda nonsense, the gameplay I can respect but I know it wouldn’t be for me. Like everyone says it’s fallout in space, but it seems like it takes itself much more serious

    PillowTalk420 ,
    @PillowTalk420@lemmy.world avatar

    With how many call backs, jokes and references I’ve seen in the main plot: it doesn’t take itself too seriously. Half of the jokes have been directly related to the lack of dialogue options and having a silent protagonist.

    FMT99 ,

    I wish it took itself more serious. It’s tongue in cheek non stop but the jokes rarely land.

    PillowTalk420 ,
    @PillowTalk420@lemmy.world avatar

    Fully agree. Lots of jokes; they’re not very funny, tho. IDK… Maybe it will get more interesting the further I get. I still wanna check out Neon (the cyberpunk city) and do deep space exploration (can’t even get out there yet). I’ve been to a museum ran by the Starship Troopers faction that gives a ton of exposition on the lore and it was a chore to stay awake through all that.

    bennieandthez ,
    @bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml avatar

    It’s “fallout in space” but without the stuff that makes fallout good.

    UnverifiedAPK ,

    “fallout in space but without the stuff that makes fallout good.”

    So Fallout 4 in space.

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