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At the risk of sounding Bethestardy Witcher 3 is a great game and I enjoyed the experience but I never felt like I wanted to replay it when it was done, whereas I've replayed all the Fallouts (including Bethesda's 3 and 4) and Oblivion and Skyrim several times despite having bucketloads of complaints about them. For all the jank there is a certain charm to Bethesda games that other studios don't capture well, aside from the fact they scratch an exploration itch for me in a way that most other games don't there's a slightly unreal and fantastic quality to them that makes the whole world fun to interact with. If anything the main criticism I have of Starfield is that it's lost some of that, I can forgive everything else that's wrong with it but the blandness of the setting has diluted a lot of the things I liked about Bethesda games. Here's to hoping that if they add House Va'ruun stuff in the DLC that that will help inject some of the strange magic that previous Bethesda games had, because without it it becomes really hard to ignore the other glaring flaws that this game and other Bethesda titles have.There are no other games like Bethesda games. They are unique and nobody ever either managed or even tried to emulate them.
Everyone who claims Bethesda games are not unique should immediately post a list of other games which achieve this level of interactivity, vastness of world, number of quests (which are quite good in Starfield, BTW, not Fallout 4 level of idiocy), economy, crafting, dialog options, C&C (even if often cosmetic or poorly written) and so on.
Starfield is far from a perfect game but it has no competition from other studios. We never got a Skyrim killer, an Oblivion killer nor a Fallout killer. Pretty much the only game that could ever compete with BSG releases was Obsidian's New Vegas... and it was an overgrown DLC for Fallout 3 which used their despised Creation Engine... which might actually be the X factor of BSG's uniqueness and lack of competitors.
The Witcher 3 is head and shoulders better than any Skyrim, Oblivion, Fallout? In what world are any of these games better than The Witcher 3? Story, crafting, vastness of world, economy, dialog, story etc? Feel free to elaborate...