Or more like Mass Effect.
Hard disagree here, man. As an FPS this is at best mediocre but honestly just a pile of shit. All the NPCs, all the quests - the same. No, this thing should've tried go all in on its exploration/base and ship building stuff like it has been imagined initially as I understand. Yes, they failed miserably at that but that's not the reason to tack on all those shitty RPG and story elements and shooting from F4 (but somehow worse) and call it a day.
You've more or less restated the thesis of Emil's K.I.S.S. talk. Incredible, we've come full circle.
The main problem with Starfield is precisely that it isn't Open World, instead offering empty procedurally-generated environments with at best 3 or 4 type of alien fauna to shoot at and generally not even that. Bethesda gutted the ludic model established by Morrowind and had nothing worthwhile to replace it with. Rather than attempting to substitute procedural blandness for hand-crafted content, Bethesda should have set out to create ten or so habitable planets, each of which would offer a sizable Open World area in the style of Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3, Skyrim, and Fallout 4 (though less dense with content, to make them somewhat more realistic for the setting), but without attempting to actually simulate an entire planet. The game could still have occasionally directed the player to lifeless rocks, but these would be detours from the main action in the true, populated Open World environments. These would have offered the same kind of exploration as in Bethesda's previous Open World RPGs, with similar hand-crafted settlements and dungeon-substitutes, and a variety of enemies rather than fighting the same spacers over and over again.
I read that Beth didn't realize in development that a lot of the POIs were leveled, so that meant that instead of seeing random points of interest from the full list, they would only show you five or six points of interest that matched your current character level, causing repetitive gameplay. They said they're fixing this by Shattered Space
it would have been much better if Starfield had just been ES6 but the twist was that halfway through you obtain a teleportation spell to visit other planets, although I'm sure it would have been leaked
There's no way they could resist the urge to put that all over the promotional materials, and in the first 30 minutes of gameplay. These are the people who made Skyrim and Fallout 4.
the only problem is that you're railroaded into constellation instead of able to pick different occult orders with varying belief systems. maybe they had intended you to choose between Constellation and House Varuun in dev but ran out of time like how Deus Ex had unfinished content about staying with UNATCO
i wouldn't be surprised if MS stepped in to purposely make the game worse. Elder Scrolls has multiple races. there is no conceivable way Starfield was not intended to have aliens and survival mechanics
Few could conceieve of the shitty shooters I have played. I've battled through the likes of Forbes Corporate Warrior, The Stalin Subway, and Mortyr. Next to those, Starfield is a class act.
Buyers remorse is a hell of mental state
has there ever been any j*wish references in a sweetbaby game? i can't think of one. does sweetbaby actually just remove all references to religion and spirituality under the guise of "diversity," and bethesda turned them down so Starfield got review bombed?I prefer to explore in Bethesda games. I can create my own story while playing in their worlds. Starfield couldnt even do that right.
