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Recent content by Robotigan

  1. Robotigan

    Starfield - Epic Shit Takes from Bethestards

    Ship modules. They're by far the highest quality assets in the game and there's a lot of them. They had this up until they cut it within a year of release. Helium-3 was supposed to be a major mechanic and the primary reason to construct Outposts was for refueling. There's a ton of hints the...
  2. Robotigan

    Starfield - Epic Shit Takes from Bethestards

    As someone that isn't opposed to procgen/radiant content what baffles me is how underutilized that stuff is. Prior to release there was some fear that the content would be stretched too thin and I was pretty adamant that wouldn't be the case because I naively assumed they would use some of the...
  3. Robotigan

    Starfield - Epic Shit Takes from Bethestards

    Almost all but the most self-serious RPGs have stupid shit. Baldur's Gate was THE RPG of its generation and one of its main characters is a Ranger that takes orders from a hamster. Certain gamers overestimate the medium and feel compelled to be really snobby to compensate. The point is that Emil...
  4. Robotigan

    Starfield - Epic Shit Takes from Bethestards

    I don't consider "we ran out of time" a good excuse when talking about the climatic finale. Even though it happens near the end chronologically, it's pretty clearly one of the most important parts of your game that deserves attention/planning early on in the process. I work at a large company so...
  5. Robotigan

    Starfield - Epic Shit Takes from Bethestards

    I'm a Bethestard, but no one reads my posts. :|
  6. Robotigan

    Starfield - Epic Shit Takes from Bethestards

    You're right, but that wasn't how the criticism was articulated at the time. Much of the vitriol was directed at the dialogue wheel itself for being too "dumbed down". This is despite the fact that it can functionally do everything a list interface can do albeit trading a bit more redundancy for...
  7. Robotigan

    Starfield - Epic Shit Takes from Bethestards

    Just thought I'd point something out. Will Shen was propped up as 'that one good Bethesda developer' by grognards because he was the lead on the Far Harbor DLC which brought back dialogue-heavy questlines and speech checks to the Fallout franchise. However, if you were paying attention you would...
  8. Robotigan

    Starfield - Epic Shit Takes from Bethestards

    This is more psychological than people want to admit. You see what you expect to see. Once you start looking, it's not hard to see through the facade of any game. Bethesda's reputation is such that a lot of very vocal content creators play their games with a high degree of skepticism so they...
  9. Robotigan

    Starfield - Epic Shit Takes from Bethestards

    The sad thing is that 95% of the planet surface, the part you want to skip past, could probably handle it. It's just when players attempt to drive through populated areas that things get dicey.
  10. Robotigan

    Starfield - Epic Shit Takes from Bethestards

    You're right. She should have been an arrogant English major that tries to disguise awful prose by overusing high concept ideas. Get the fuck out of here, you guys worship a bunch of humanities majors that wussed out of college-level math.
  11. Robotigan

    Starfield - Epic Shit Takes from Bethestards

    Ah, you guys realize she works exclusively on Fallout 76 and has a Master's in Computer Science (with great GPA apparently), right?
  12. Robotigan

    Starfield - Epic Shit Takes from Bethestards

    This is cool though? If you get bored of Spacers and Ecliptics just jump to a new universe.
  13. Robotigan

    Starfield - Epic Shit Takes from Bethestards

    After completing the questline in full, I feel even more strongly that Crimson Fleet is the best questline in the game. It's not even particularly close. It has the most intriguing plot hook. Makes better use of the setting and art assets. Leverages the game mechanics way more thoroughly...
  14. Robotigan

    Starfield - Epic Shit Takes from Bethestards

    It's the same as any Bethesda game. Outside of the main story beats, not much happens. I mean a lot happens in Starfield but not for the scale of the game. It's mostly about wandering around and drinking in the setting or in Roadwarden's case descriptions thereof. There's more focus on what the...
  15. Robotigan

    Starfield - Epic Shit Takes from Bethestards

    Come to think of it. Roadwarden is a text-based RPG full of written descriptions like that and relatively light on exact events. I don't think it's truly about "the writing" as Morrowboomers claim. It's about the lore wiki. They're not interested in that intimate, experiential stuff. They want...

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