PanteraNera
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Pretty sure the game is just incomplete in its current state. Lots of cut corners in a variety of areas.So, they couldn't figure out how to do city maps?
why notMy question is why would you play that mediocrity instead of the dozens of other First Person Shooters that do it better? Nothing in that video intrigues me whatsoever. I've seen FPS gunplay ad nauseum.
Stop being part of the problemwhy notMy question is why would you play that mediocrity instead of the dozens of other First Person Shooters that do it better? Nothing in that video intrigues me whatsoever. I've seen FPS gunplay ad nauseum.
why notMy question is why would you play that mediocrity instead of the dozens of other First Person Shooters that do it better? Nothing in that video intrigues me whatsoever. I've seen FPS gunplay ad nauseum.
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why notMy question is why would you play that mediocrity instead of the dozens of other First Person Shooters that do it better? Nothing in that video intrigues me whatsoever. I've seen FPS gunplay ad nauseum.
What do you mean, "why not"? Good grief people like you...are you a woman?
fast travel was in their games since OblivionIn Starfield, one second I'm on a windy, freezing blizzard 150 light years away from Earth. With two clicks of the mouse I'm instantly on a sunny afternoon on New Atlantis. In most cases my ship is not even to be seen at any point. It's just like waving a magic wand.
A question for you tech guys, why is the game designed like this? I mean, it's the same old engine, so we know it allows for vast open environments. Is it only because of area transitions? But then, we know for example Skyrim can have the cities open through mods, as in being part of the open world.
To simplify a lot, because there is a limit to how many objects the memory can load. Bugthesda always had interiors and exteriors as different "scenes". But I'm not a game dev, I can be talking shit.
You misspelled Netimmerse. It's a Frankenstein engine that's been around since 1997.
I see, yeah that makes sense. I think the difference between games like Baldur's Gate which had interconnected areas without "empty space" in between is that the whole game takes place on a small part of one planet (Toril). Even then, the distances are abstracted as it would take you much longer to walk from say, Beregost to Nashkel than what the game is showing you in in-game time. So we have an abstraction going on here for the sake of gameplay.It's not the fast travel, it's the fact that there is NOTHING BETWEEN point A and point B.
Ship -> POI: Empty
POI -> Ship: Empty
Planet -> Space: Nothing
Planet -> Planet: Nothing
Zone -> Train: Nothing
Train -> Zone: Nothing
A series of boxes. No connecting game-play between any of them.
I am 100% sure that Microsoft has established metrics to determine if Starfield overperforms, underperforms, or does just as they expected. It is very much in their interest that they can determine if a game did well or not, and they have a lot of people who can do that kind of analysis.
That's not the only factor, there's also a question of what and how much of that data will be readily available at various decision-making levels inside the organisation. The standalone product model of "game X sold Y copies" is a very stark and easily parsed metric, whereas measuring and reporting the performance of individual titles on a subscription package is much more open to "massaging" in the grand scheme of things, and not just for the external public. Megacorporations the size of Microsoft are rife with conflicting interests and diluted shareholder control, and you should never assume all their ducks are quacking in the same direction.oh, yeah. Internally they can definitely track it if they look at how many people sign up for gamepass to play starfield, then count the months they stay subscribed and boom, starfield is an investment in M1CRO$OFT
did the same happen to film and tv with Netflix? Asking because I really have no idea.Bottom line - yes, Gamepass and similar competing services are the cable model for videogames and they will certainly lead to a decline in quality as various inner circles leverage reduced accountability to push their own financial interests inside their respective companies. Not saying this will be the case for Starfield here, but in the long run, this will happen.
Hasn't it? I don't have Netflix and I don't watch TV, but as far as I can tell from the internet and people I know, that certainly seems to be the case. You hear about all these Netflix shows that nobody watches, you turn on the TV and start flipping through a hundred channels and can't find anything worth your attention before you finally settle on watching Discovery's show about chimps in the zoo, just because they seem about as miserable as you feel. Hell, I have TV as part of my internet package, but I never watch it.did the same happen to film and tv with Netflix? Asking because I really have no idea.
My hope is that indies and smaller studios can't afford to release their games on subscription services and will try to make great games to win people over. I think as long as there is competition and not one monopoly over something people will continue to innovate. In this vain, maybe Microsoft buying Bethesda was a good move for all to maintain a healthy competition with Sony.Hasn't it? I don't have Netflix and I don't watch TV, but as far as I can tell from the internet and people I know, that certainly seems to be the case. You hear about all these Netflix shows that nobody watches, you turn on the TV and start flipping through a hundred channels and can't find anything worth your attention before you finally settle on watching Discovery's show about chimps in the zoo, just because they seem about as miserable as you feel. Hell, I have TV as part of my internet package, but I never watch it.did the same happen to film and tv with Netflix? Asking because I really have no idea.
The thing about cable models is that they incentivise the old "there's nothing better on" model of consumption. You're not gonna go out and buy a videogame or a DVD just because it's inoffensively mediocre, it needs to appeal to you somehow, but if you're already paying ten bucks a month for a subscription package and you've got some time to kill, you "might as well" settle for the least shit thing on even though you know it'll leave you with a feeling of ennui by the end.
Meanwhile, the people running the crap factory have a stable income that's unlikely to vary short of collossal fuckups in adverse market conditions, and their only remit is to occasionally make their crap slightly less crap than the competition's crap. One or two tentpoles will keep the entire thing running 'cause you won't cancel whatever service has Game of Thrones on, and under that umbrella they'll keep hiring their friends and associates to make the rest of the crap you've never heard about and wouldn't watch if you were the one getting paid instead. And the scope of the business makes it unrealistic for the shareholder to be able exercise any genuine control over its course even in the unlikely event that they do know anything beyond "number go up."
And that's how, ten years from now, you're gonna be playing Assassin's Creed 23. "Because I pay for it anyway and there's nothing better on."
Nigger shut the fuck up. I want more BGS games and lots of mods because BGS games scratch an itch for me that no other games scratch. Others might come close, but they don't have the mod support to carry them to the finish line. I hope SF thrives because I want mods, mods, and more mods. I don't mean to single you out, you're not the only one retarded, but whenever I go to this thread it's the same people bitching and whining for pages and pages like you're owed something for not liking the game. NIGGER JUST DON'T PLAY THE GAME. Nobody is forcing you to like it. The only reason you niggers post here is to farm upvotes like cattle plebbitors from the usual suspects. I also don't even mean for you to shut up, because in the back of my head I know that more thread activity is good, even if it's negative. But hoooly fuck the whiny attitude is so unappealing and off-putting. You have fucking Mebrilia the Viera Queen of all people making fun of how effeminate and whiny you guys are and you still don't use that to self-reflect.the reason why we keep getting shit games like this is because the sheer number of shit people who gobble the shit up
From what I have heard, the salary received from working an entire season of netflix shows is the same as what actors used to get per episode of normal TV or cable.did the same happen to film and tv with Netflix?