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

[Fedora Master]

game is shit but I can't stop playing

Thats not allowed on the Codex

You played it, that means you like it.

 

[Vic]

game is shit but I can't stop playing

Thats not allowed on the Codex

You played it, that means you like it.

Just to clarify, I was addressing another poster with that who was playing the game but complaining all the time. I like it, didn't have this much fun since Cyberpunk released. Tranny Gate 3 doesn't count.

 

[Fedora Master]

All that space, wasted on Space Aborigines.

 

[Lemming42]

I was wondering, are there really no sentient aliens?

Looks like there's none. They must have set out to make something "realistic" and grounded in science (hence the boasts about their research and references to NASA), but then realised nobody would want to play something like that.

It's annoying though because, despite all their stuff about how it's a brand new universe and totally new IP for them to play with, they've created something so boring and hackneyed. I can't imagine sitting down to make an all-new, totally original sci-fi setting, and coming up with nothing other than "Western Town" and "Cyberpunk City".

Aliens would have done so much. People liked Mass Effect even though it sucked, and that was partly just on the striking visuals of the aliens and the cool backstories of their races. Liara, Wrex and Tali looked so cool that they immediately made people engaged with the setting, even though there wasn't that much to get into. If Starfield had stuck a Sexy Alien Man and a Sexy Alien Woman on the marketing, they'd have had a winner on their hands no matter how dull Emil's writing was, and people would have immediately had something unique and fresh to identify the game with.

 

[Justicar]

 

[Alienman]

Isn't the ending proof that there is aliens? Well, in the background at least.

 

[Mark.L.Joy]

The lack of aliens does suck. I get the feeling the game went through a change in tonal direction midway through - it seems like they set out to make a realistic thing (hence "NASApunk"), realised that it would be excruciatingly boring, and then started adding in Cyberpunk World and Cowboy World and Solarpunk World.

But it just feels completely peculiar. Everything looks and feels drab, but then wacky genre-pastiche shit is happening on screen.

It would have been 100x better if they'd just added aliens. The game would have gotten some much-needed visual variety, would have started to feel a little bit like a distinct new setting rather than a crappy generic waste of time, they could hire voice actors to do fun accents and inject a bit of life into the game, and everyone would doubtlessly have fawned over the game because they got to romance Big Amazonian Purple Alien Woman With Four Arms and/or Suave Fish Man With Smooth British Accent or whatever.

They could have just used argonians and khajit

 

[Vic]

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All that space, wasted on Space Aborigines.

12 gigabytes for face animations?

 

[Vic]

I was wondering, are there really no sentient aliens?

Looks like there's none. They must have set out to make something "realistic" and grounded in science (hence the boasts about their research and references to NASA), but then realised nobody would want to play something like that.

It's annoying though because, despite all their stuff about how it's a brand new universe and totally new IP for them to play with, they've created something so boring and hackneyed. I can't imagine sitting down to make an all-new, totally original sci-fi setting, and coming up with nothing other than "Western Town" and "Cyberpunk City".

Aliens would have done so much. People liked Mass Effect even though it sucked, and that was partly just on the striking visuals of the aliens and the cool backstories of their races. Liara, Wrex and Tali looked so cool that they immediately made people engaged with the setting, even though there wasn't that much to get into. If Starfield had stuck a Sexy Alien Man and a Sexy Alien Woman on the marketing, they'd have had a winner on their hands no matter how dull Emil's writing was, and people would have immediately had something unique and fresh to identify the game with.

Damn, no hot twi'lek's to fuck?

They left it all to modders again, huh

So it's just humans in space... Aliens DLC incoming? Or too optimistic? Maybe all the blacks are placeholders for aliens. If they do leave it in this state, that's going to be a huge wasted opportunity.

 

[Hirato]

It would have been 100x better if they'd just added aliens. The game would have gotten some much-needed visual variety, would have started to feel a little bit like a distinct new setting rather than a crappy generic waste of time, they could hire voice actors to do fun accents and inject a bit of life into the game, and everyone would doubtlessly have fawned over the game because they got to romance Big Amazonian Purple Alien Woman With Four Arms and/or Suave Fish Man With Smooth British Accent or whatever.

More importantly, this would've given modders some material to actually work with.
I just don't see Starfield getting mods to the extent Skyrim has.

 

[Moink]

I don't think you need aliens to make an interesting space setting.

 

[Lemming42]

Photograph of the Steam refunds department on the night of September 5th, 2023

 

[Ibn Sina]

The most sterile original universe ever created in the sci fi medium. WTF was Bethesda thinking? And what is this name "nasa punk? There is nothing punk about this like at all. The game does not even have gore or dismemberment like in Fallout or Skyrim which had beheadings. Enemies just collapse from grenades like ragdolls.

The most safe, cali-arts corporate slop universe ever created.

 

[Lemming42]

I don't think you need aliens to make an interesting space setting.

You don't, but they've failed pretty severely at making one without them. Aliens are a quick fix for bad writers to make a setting immediately more interesting (see: Mass Effect).

Plus, Emil's writing on previous games like Fo3 makes me think he's decent at writing big bombastic larger-than-life characters, but bad at writing anything with nuance or complexity. Having the usual cast of Proud Warrior Race Alien, Snooty Pacifist Alien, Greedy Capitalist Alien etc would let him write his usual insufferable characters in a way that would suit his strengths and bless the game with some much-needed character.

 

[Eisenheinrich]

Everything I see gameplay or designwise in this game looks dull. Who designed this? It's like they took F4 and stripped it from everything that made that setting unique. This just feels bland, uninspired and well ... boring.

 

[Sòren]

game is shit but I can't stop playing

Thats not allowed on the Codex

You played it, that means you like it.

Just to clarify, I was addressing another poster with that who was playing the game but complaining all the time. I like it, didn't have this much fun since Cyberpunk released. Tranny Gate 3 doesn't count.

u post here like every 15 minutes u claim to play the game. i don't think a person like u can enjoy anything besides tiktok videos.

 

[Fedora Master]

The game has all the exact same problems as every other Gamebryo game.

 

[Reinhardt]

Damn, no hot twi'lek's to fuck?

you can remove wig from one of shaneekwas, paint her blue and pretend rolls of fat are her tentacles.

 

[Eisenheinrich]

Tranny Gate 3 doesn't count.

Why tho?

 

[Vic]

It's like they took F4 and stripped it from everything that made that setting unique.

Yup, gameplay wise it's FO4 without the original concepts.

 

[Vic]

Tranny Gate 3 doesn't count.

Why tho?

It was good at first but I got bored at around 10-15 hours in. With this one I'm still pumped.

 

[Vic]

u post here like every 15 minutes u claim to play the game. i don't think a person like u can enjoy anything besides tiktok videos.

I enjoy fucking your mom.

 

[Fargus]

Seriously, why playing this game when you can play Space Rangers2?

I see you are also a man of prestigious taste. My pick for a more unknown space based roleplaying RPG game that is a better pick than Starflop would be Star Wolves, any game in the trilogy would be a much better use of your time and hard drive space.

Good stuff. Largely forgotten now. First Star Wolves is one of my favorite games, one of the few space themed games i like too. Totally worth playing for epic dog fights in space, decent story and great soundtrack.

 

[0wca]

Wait a fucking minute.

I thought it was 100mil not 400mil?

This is like 5x the failure of ME: Andromeda.

 

[Ryzer]

Wait a fucking minute.

I thought it was 100mil not 400mil?

This is like 5x the failure of ME: Andromeda.

Where did all the money go?

This is the first question that should have arisen at Microsoft when testing it.