There's massive enemy stagger, they go flailing all over the place if they're shot. I'm using the Deadeye revolver and it staggers enemies with pretty much every hit.
But this would be work. Whereas generating a rock landscape costs nothing.
I agree, at least about the plot hook. But at the same time this is literally what everyone said they wanted.
I think gamers need to play more board games. Board games are procedural by their very nature. You can't rely on presentation, convoluted narratives, or highly scripted events. You need game systems that provide meaningful engagement and diversity across permutations derived from the same base state. Furthermore, you also can't just chuck arbitrary complexity at them because the setup will become unbearable. You need to tune mechanics that are simple on their face but explode into emergent decision networks in practice. Chess and Go are very elegant games because their rule sets are so simple you could teach them to a child in 15 minutes, but the decision networks are so complex that even with entire datacenters of computing resources thrown at them they remain un-solved.
But the baffling thing is, they've done the work - it's just scattered out across the needlessly large map. They've more or less made one of their usual games, in terms of the amount of actual quests and content and such.
todd created a masterpiece that only those of the highest IQ can immediately grasp
This has mostly been solved, and for quite a long time. It still occasionally happens, but there's a lot more variety in random NPCs now.
This is also p. much an illusion. It's just the new version of, "I saw a mudcrab yesterday," with just a little less retardation factored in.
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Holy crap what a huge improvement. Downloaded.
so we are comparing CP2077 after years of patches vs newly launched Starfield?
No, smartass, but I will tell you that behavior didn't happen much (in my recollection) when CP2077 was first released. I think I would remember that, too, because I was so fascinated with the city on the first day I started playing the game.
that's hilarious, yeah lots of stuff needs patching, my helmet is constantly clipping through the camera when I exit the loot menu
It was really something, but the more I played the shallower it became, I hope the same won't happen to Starfield.
The art of self-conditioning?
No, I'm still giving it the benefit of the doubt, but I'm only liking it for the novelty.
Whatever you might say that overindulgent attention-deficit spoiled brats should do more of, besides playing videogames, you would be correct.
after I gave up trying to explore planets on foot, I am now using my spaceship to hunt for planets that have points of interest on them, so that's how my exploration happens now in the game, which is yeah, a lot of menus and loading screens.
