Starfield Pre-Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Vic]

Exploration so far is effectively not even a thing in this game.

this it's either empty shit or point of interest amid empty shit

I mean, what do you expect with proc gen. That's why I said Daggerfall vibes.

 

[Alienman]

Does anyone know what the actual plot of the game is? Didn't get much while watching some gameplay.

 

[Vic]

Does anyone know what the actual plot of the game is? Didn't get much while watching some gameplay.

probably some chosen one shit

 

[AlwaysBrotoMen]

 

[Naraya]

Does anyone know what the actual plot of the game is? Didn't get much while watching some gameplay.

probably some chosen one shit

That sounds fresh.

 

[Butter]

Does anyone know what the actual plot of the game is? Didn't get much while watching some gameplay.

You track down artifacts planted by Ancients and acquire space-Dragonborn powers. The goal is to catch 'em all and travel to an alternate universe, which begins the New Game+. Along the way you encounter other space-Dragonborns who came from other universes and are trying to collect the artifacts so they can continue doing it.

In other words, some talentless hack (Emil) jotted down an idea during an initial design meeting 10 years ago and they just ran with it. Nobody at Bethesda has a science fiction book.

 

[Vic]

ah, fresh twist on the chosen one formula, now you're not simply THE chosen one but one amidst many from alternate universers, makes it much more believable

 

[Alienman]

Does anyone know what the actual plot of the game is? Didn't get much while watching some gameplay.

You track down artifacts planted by Ancients and acquire space-Dragonborn powers. The goal is to catch 'em all and travel to an alternate universe, which begins the New Game+. Along the way you encounter other space-Dragonborns who came from other universes and are trying to collect the artifacts so they can continue doing it.

In other words, some talentless hack (Emil) jotted down an idea during an initial design meeting 10 years ago and they just ran with it. Nobody at Bethesda has a science fiction book.

Isn't that the same story of No Man's Sky?

 

[Naraya]

What's with the eyes seriously? Translation is also top notch

 

[Lemming42]

Have to admit I'm quite enjoying how every Citizen NPC has completely randomised appearance and dress. Everyone looks fucking insane.

 

[Tyranicon]

Does anyone know what the actual plot of the game is? Didn't get much while watching some gameplay.

You track down artifacts planted by Ancients and acquire space-Dragonborn powers. The goal is to catch 'em all and travel to an alternate universe, which begins the New Game+. Along the way you encounter other space-Dragonborns who came from other universes and are trying to collect the artifacts so they can continue doing it.

In other words, some talentless hack (Emil) jotted down an idea during an initial design meeting 10 years ago and they just ran with it. Nobody at Bethesda has a science fiction book.

After watching the ending, I remain unconvinced that a human wrote this and it wasn't just fed through like a 2019 version of ChatGPT.

 

[Butter]

Does anyone know what the actual plot of the game is? Didn't get much while watching some gameplay.

You track down artifacts planted by Ancients and acquire space-Dragonborn powers. The goal is to catch 'em all and travel to an alternate universe, which begins the New Game+. Along the way you encounter other space-Dragonborns who came from other universes and are trying to collect the artifacts so they can continue doing it.

In other words, some talentless hack (Emil) jotted down an idea during an initial design meeting 10 years ago and they just ran with it. Nobody at Bethesda has a science fiction book.

Isn't that the same story of No Man's Sky?

I think so.

Imagine the wide-eyed writer hired at Bethesda after Skyrim's success, being told they're working on a brand new sci-fi IP. His mind starts racing; he loves Heinlein, Burroughs, Asimov, Herbert. And then he's told "Yeah, we're just doing some chosen one shit where you hunt down artifacts. Yeah I know it's done to death, but nobody plays our games for the story. You're in charge of writing the cowboy town."

 

[deuxhero]

Turns out the game has normal, open top, containers for liquid. In space. So much for the "NASA punk".

The original Gundam, a show so low budget it had to have voice recorded in mono and periods of extremely low quality animation every episode, actually did the idea better. Despite being a cartoon about a giant white robot that lives on an even more giant horse space ship and almost single handedly swings a war, it actually includes a lot of hard scifi elements in the background where they don't mater in the slightest. Characters in the background are seen drinking from a sealed container with a special straw (like real astronauts use), all the random ship corridors are designed with zero gravity navigation in mind, all the space colonies you see for a few establishing shots are based on real concepts, and artificial gravity isn't just an easy solution to make everything on the ship work like Earth (the sequel even make a deliberate point of showing that the artificial gravity is a convenience feature that's shut down during combat)

 

[Vic]

but nobody plays our games for the story

this

I actually don't want it to have a good story so I can focus on collecting trash to build my outposts and improve my gear to (hopefully) kill legendary terrormorphs or whatever the equivalent of deathclaws gonna be

 

[Gargaune]

ah, fresh twist on the chosen one formula, now you're not simply THE chosen one but one amidst many from alternate universers, makes it much more believable

Please tell me whoever mentioned the "Starborn" earlier in this thread was joking...

 

[Avarize]

We can't overlook the merits of Bethesda! Give them a chance.

 

[Vic]

dude women get less pay and jobs because they are prone to getting knocked up and fucking shit up for the company.

this idiot complains about some trans faggot asshole getting fired because he can't come to work because he needs to cut his balls off?

fuck them

 

[Lemming42]

The facial animations are very good. Here, my character's deer-in-the-headlights look perfectly encapsulates the horror of realising that you've paid £85 for a videogame.

 

[Vic]

The facial animations are very good. Here, my character's deer-in-the-headlights look perfectly encapsulates the horror of realising that you've paid £85 for a videogame.

are you playing as Dr. Phil?

 

[Late Bloomer]

Please tell me whoever mentioned the "Starborn" earlier in this thread was joking...

Starborn indeed.

Ending Explained

 

[Stavrophore]

genius at open world exploration.

I wouldn't call them genius at that. Unless outdoors without buildings to enter, its loading screen hell.

Now Nintendo is genius at open world exploration a la BOTW/TOTK, where everything can be explored without having to budget >=1/10 of your time with loading screens. And they did it on TI calculator-grade hardware, while Bethesda requires $3000 in hardware just for basic shit, and even then they don't come close. TOTK even has flying and land vehicles!

Can anyone really say that New Atlantis is fun to explore? Its like they took everything they did poorly in previous games and decided it wasn't nearly bad enough.

They really should have made at least one moon-sized planet to explore fully. Exploration so far is effectively not even a thing in this game. Fun exploration is the only part I care about, and so far it blows.

Starfield in a nutshell:
1. It worse!
2. It sucks!
3. Pain never changes.
4. End of days!
5. Bouffant spacenigger sex slaver emulation, yay!

 

[Vic]

 

[Child of Malkav]

player.modav carryweight 999999999
Should be basic knowledge by now.

 

[Late Bloomer]

For anyone interested.

 

[Vic]

Meanwhile I cannot name you any interesting characters in Starfield, a few hours in. I've met the Constellation people but they all suck. I think the character who has made an impact on me the most so far is Lin, who was in the tutorial for five seconds and probably isn't coming back. I've not been on any quests that rival the most basic "my daughter has been kidnapped by the Dark Brotherhood" type Daggerfall quests either.

disagree. do you properly explore? There are multiple named NPCs throughout the city who you can talk to for some lore/info and get quests. Like this guy, who was randomly walking in the park outside of Constellation. For some reason there is always a creepy nigger in the background.

or this chick who was sweeping the floors in the metro, notice creepy niggers in background.