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Starfield Thread - now with Shattered Space horror expansion

jackofshadows

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"See? It's not my fault! I may have painted a bulls-eye on my head by making myself a prominent public figure, but really, it's the no-name drones who should take their share of the blame."
Yes, the transfer of responsibility is very readable in his rant. Pathetic. But I like even more that he's trying to argue a customer should care how hard is to make a product. That's just silly. It's like a whole rant is a prove by itself of how hack of a writer he is.
 

ADL

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So what's gonna be for our homie Emil, "I'm excited to start a new chapter in my life" or "I am looking foward to spend more time with my family"?
If he weren't the same age as Todd I'd predict he'll up running the damn company. Thank God they'll probably end up retiring together.
 

Lyric Suite

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The sad part is that Starfield isn't actually any worse than any of their previous games. Fallout 3 or Skyirm did the sandbox thing a little better but in most respects they didn't actually "decline". They were already rock bottom from the get go. Oblivion is in no way any better than Starfield except in some superficial way.

Normies realizing Bethesda is a shit company now is beyond being the definition of too little too late.
 

Butter

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Fallout 4 came out in 2015, I just want to know what Beth was doing for those 8 years, do they just sit around the office and occasionally make a model or texture without clocking off?
They were working on Fallout 76 until 2018. Youtube shills worked overtime to convince people that the Maryland studio had nothing to do with that turd.
 

DJOGamer PT

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Oblivion is in no way any better than Starfield except in some superficial way.
Nah

As bad as it might be, Oblivion is a coherent work - it has a focus and a concrete experience it's trying to achieve and so it does try to make sure it's various elements strive towards that goal
Which is why inspite of everything, there are things about Oblivion which still ended up being enjoyable and even memorable

Starfield is genuinely bereft of direction and its design elements are highly atomized
This game is a new low for Bethesda
 

destinae vomitus

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it has a focus and a concrete experience it's trying to achieve and so it does try to make sure it's various elements strive towards that goal
That goal being to make a vapid open world action game for consoles, designed around the player constantly fast traveling and following compass markers on autopilot, with a main quest revolving around a gimmick that was obfuscated prior to release and is tedious beyond belief, four "factions" which in actuality are just linear themepark ride questlines that each exist within a vacuum, character progression that outside of a select few perks and magic powers boils down to numbers growing bigger (which is nullified thanks to level scaling enemies with increasingly inflated HP), and last but not least, a setting that had zero thought or effort put into it beyond trying to make it look like a superficial facsimile of popular genre movies and other media.

Which Bethesda game am I describing, the one released in 2006 or the one that came out a few months ago? Just a rhetorical question.
 

abija

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The entire videogame industry has gotten far too comfortable with standards so low that in any other industry they would have most likely been locked up for fraud.
The world is a lot SHITTIER than you seem to think.
 

Halfling Rodeo

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The sad part is that Starfield isn't actually any worse than any of their previous games. Fallout 3 or Skyirm did the sandbox thing a little better but in most respects they didn't actually "decline". They were already rock bottom from the get go. Oblivion is in no way any better than Starfield except in some superficial way.

Normies realizing Bethesda is a shit company now is beyond being the definition of too little too late.
Fallout 76 took the blind fold off when they couldn't mod it into a functional game. Bethesda has released the Same Fallout 3 clone over and over. They change the enemies and the weapon skins but they're all the same basic game. All starfield did different was it made you fast travel to your boring quest marked locations. Fallout 3 was already a bland walking sim with turn based VATs combat for most people. So what difference does Starfield make to them except Internet Historian and a bunch of reddits complaining woke them up to what everyone with a brain already knew.
 

Bulo

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This is what Starfield fans have to look forward to (in twenty years, maybe, if its mod scene isn't dead like Fallout 4's, which it almost certainly will be):



The unrecognisable, diseased husk of an already wretched game
 

Lemming42

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Hey, the gameplay there might look like rancid dogshit but the graphics look fucking incredible (hilarious supermodel NPC "overhaul" aside). That's one of the best visual overhauls I've ever seen, looks very close to the vanilla art direction but with a really impressive new coat of paint.
 

Bulo

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looks very close to the vanilla art direction
I disagree. Some of the new environments are pretty in isolation, but they clash with vanilla assets where the two meet. I've yet to see any mod imitate Skyrim's style successfully
 

Lemming42

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There's always gonna be stylistic clashes in parts and it's never gonna be possible to fully shake the reality that it's a 12-year-old game on an engine that was outdated back then, but that is definitely one of the best collections of visual mods I've seen. Looks downright good for the most part. Skimming through the video, the only thing that stood out to me as notably out of place is the vanilla trees at around 9:30 but they can surely be replaced.
 

Yosharian

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This is what Starfield fans have to look forward to (in twenty years, maybe, if its mod scene isn't dead like Fallout 4's, which it almost certainly will be):



The unrecognisable, diseased husk of an already wretched game

Looks like absolute trash, good god
 

Fedora Master

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This is what Starfield fans have to look forward to (in twenty years, maybe, if its mod scene isn't dead like Fallout 4's, which it almost certainly will be):



The unrecognisable, diseased husk of an already wretched game

Mods have never "fixed" a single Bethesda game.
 

Kiste

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The sad part is that Starfield isn't actually any worse than any of their previous games. Fallout 3 or Skyirm did the sandbox thing a little better but in most respects they didn't actually "decline". They were already rock bottom from the get go. Oblivion is in no way any better than Starfield except in some superficial way.

Normies realizing Bethesda is a shit company now is beyond being the definition of too little too late.

While still complete dogshit, Starfield is better in almost every regard than their previous games, except in the one area that counts: exploration. Exploring a hand-handcrafted world that feels reasonably alive and interactive and has a decently enough density of things to discover apparently is what most Bethestards enjoyed so much that they would eagerly swallow the rest of the garbage without complaint.

In Starfield, Bethesda had the brilliant idea to replace their only saving grace with procedurally generated wastelands. With the exploration fig leaf ripped away, many Bethestards can finally see that the whole foundation of the "Bethesda formula" is a crock of shit. What an epic self-own by Betehsda.
 

ferratilis

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Nigga what?!
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Tyranicon

A Memory of Eternity
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So this has no modding interest? I'll never get my zero G space sex simulator now. Goddammit.

:argh: :argh: :argh: :argh:
 

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