• Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Im just sitting here wondering how anyone thought this was going to be good in the first place. Every bit of trailer or gameplay footage has made me meh from day one. “Looks like skyrim but in space” ive played skyrim… to death… changing the theme to space isnt exiting. Its cheap.

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      1 year ago

      When I first heard about it I was excited and then I looked it up and realized it’s a Bethesda game. So then I thought, Yeah I don’t trust them I think I’ll leave it.

      They will keep doing this as long as people put up with the fact that they make crap half the time. Don’t pre-order stuff just wait until it comes out and if it’s good buy it otherwise no.

      It’s their problem that they are on a 20 year old game engine and refuse to use something more modern, and it’s also their problem they don’t have a quality control department. Why do we have to suffer for their mistakes?

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        1 year ago

        I haven’t pre-ordered a game since 2011. They aren’t usually playable for a few weeks at least after launch anyway. The trend is becoming a year or two wait for games to get to the state promised pre-launch. By then they are heavily discounted or in some cases free to play. Just a way better deal.

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        1 year ago

        Starfield did have an acceptable level of quality control as I have heard. It just isn’t that great of a game, but not a defective product.

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        1 year ago

        Yeh, exactly, both famously disappointing games

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      1 year ago

      I never got the Starfield hype either, Bethesda lost their touch years ago and proc gen rarely makes things good. I suspected it would be very average like other Bethesda games and it was.

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      1 year ago

      Those auto generated planets sure tricked a lot of people. The idea of thousands of planets to explore to find out they are all generic empty spaces I bet has been fun for people to have to acknowledge

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        1 year ago

        Why did people ever think that was going to work I don’t know. It never even worked in No Man’s Sky, the reason people consider that game good now has nothing to do with the procedural generation.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I fell out of love with Bethesda with Skyrim, and I’ve never been big on scifi, so I knew it wasn’t going to be for me, but even with my lowered expectations, it just looked so incredibly generic.

      I guess, I forgot to factor in that it’s also a AAA title. Those are, of course, prohibited by law from containing any resemblance of fun. But yeah, I don’t know, it just looked like generic space game + generic shooter + generic Bethesda game. And then, as you’ve said, we’ve seen plenty games in each of those categories. Merely combining the categories, doesn’t yet make for a good game.

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      1 year ago

      Looks like skyrim but in space and also its just a shittier space explorer than no man’s sky

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      1 year ago

      what’s hilarious is when I took a break from Starfield and went back to play skyrim for a bit, it was amazing how quickly I stopped and went “Oh! I’m having fun.”

      even skyrim which I’ve played to death still is fun to play.