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Post by baihu1983 on Jan 13, 2024 6:20:45 GMT
Love how they're trying to spin it as an exciting new patch that will improve the game, but it's just fixing broken shit. Great job, guys - keep adding all this free content like working quests Why not though? Everyone else does now. Hell Baldur's Gate 3 got praised for putting over 1,000 patches in 1 update. |
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Post by mothercruncher on Jan 13, 2024 7:49:56 GMT
But they should hold themselves to higher standards given their reputation.
Oh, wait.
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Post by darkling on Jan 13, 2024 8:35:24 GMT
I was just thinking of a specific scenario of this game I enjoyed and thought about reinstalling it, then realized I was thinking of No Man’s Sky. I bounced hard off Starfield and haven't played it in months, but strangely it was still responsible for my favourite gaming moment this year... A zero-G gunfight to capture a pirate ship. The game has a ton of potential, but they should have allowed free exploration into uncharted space, given the game is focused around your ship, in the same way Bethesda's other games were focused around your character. I can forgive the bugs, the jank, the poor design decisions, etc. but the heart of the game is missing because any thrill of exploration is completely absent. I'd have happily just tootled around in my ship the entire game, commandeering enemy vessels, a la Black Flag. Maybe landable rocky planets could have been a rarity, a respite from the harshness of space, and a chance to regroup and upgrade your ship. |
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Post by dfunked on Jan 13, 2024 8:43:59 GMT
Yeah, the zero G gunfight (yes, singular) was easily the highlight of the game for me. I suppose I probably could've found more if I'd focussed on taking out grav drives or whatever, but the ship combat was so awful I just couldn't be bothered.
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Post by JuniorFE on Jan 13, 2024 8:57:26 GMT
Love how they're trying to spin it as an exciting new patch that will improve the game, but it's just fixing broken shit. Great job, guys - keep adding all this free content like working quests Why not though? Everyone else does now. Hell Baldur's Gate 3 got praised for putting over 1,000 patches in 1 update. Feels like the difference here is that Baldur's Gate was an already great and critically (and publicly) acclaimed game becoming even better, while Starfield's reception was at least rocky to begin with and the fixes are probably being viewed as related to things that should have been working from the jump (whether that's true or not, we shall see)... (also the Baldur's Gate megapatch wasn't just bugfixes IIRC, there were also new additions and QoL updates aplenty, something that doesn't sound like it's the case here) |
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Post by EMarkM on Jan 13, 2024 9:03:05 GMT
I can forgive the bugs, the jank, the poor design decisions, etc. but the heart of the game is missing because any thrill of exploration is completely absent. I'd have happily just tootled around in my ship the entire game, commandeering enemy vessels, a la Black Flag. Maybe landable rocky planets could have been a rarity, a respite from the harshness of space, and a chance to regroup and upgrade your ship. Herein lies the truth; heed no other. |
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Post by Timo180 on Jan 13, 2024 10:31:19 GMT
Yeah, the zero G gunfight (yes, singular) was easily the highlight of the game for me. I suppose I probably could've found more if I'd focussed on taking out grav drives or whatever, but the ship combat was so awful I just couldn't be bothered. I haven’t played in a while and didn’t get to this mission. What series of missions does it form part of? |
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Post by apollo on Jan 13, 2024 10:55:55 GMT
Larian is a small dev and tbh BG3 looks so much better starfield. While I have not played BG3, seen videos of the amount of depth in the game and ways to complete quests. You don't get that in SF, its just FPS with stats and the usually bethesda naff game engine jank
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Post by dfunked on Jan 13, 2024 10:59:40 GMT
@timo180 not a scooby I'm afraid. Haven't touched it since launch.
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Post by mothercruncher on Jan 13, 2024 11:01:36 GMT
No, I can’t personally forgive the jank anymore. For such an enormous developer it’s not good enough. Never had been either.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 13, 2024 11:09:17 GMT
No, I can’t personally forgive the jank anymore. For such an enormous developer it’s not good enough. Never had been either. I stopped giving them a pass from Fallout 4. It looked dated even on release and compared to the Witcher 3 which was around the same time in terms of story, characters , visuals, art direction it was just embarrassing. |
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Post by suicida on Jan 13, 2024 12:46:42 GMT
Starfield winning "Most Innovative Gameplay" in the 2023 Steam Awards has to be a joke, right? I thought it was a photoshopped screenshot when I saw it, but it's right there on the page store.steampowered.com/steamawards |
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Post by mothercruncher on Jan 13, 2024 13:14:59 GMT
Somebody got a Porsche, a fancy leather jacket and a 15 year old Thai sex slave behind the scenes.
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Post by baihu1983 on Jan 13, 2024 13:28:55 GMT
Isn't it voted for by users?
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Post by dfunked on Jan 13, 2024 17:56:14 GMT
People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis Starfield, you can’t trust people.
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Post by zephro on Jan 13, 2024 18:20:59 GMT
Isn't it voted for by users? Yeah and check the shortlist. As you'd think BG3 would be UK there but it wasn't a voting option. |
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Post by mothercruncher on Jan 13, 2024 19:54:03 GMT
BESTGAME Of ThE WORLD YEYAR:
1. STARFIELD
2. STARFIELD
3. STARFIELD
4. STARFIELD
5. THAT GOLUM THING
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Post by Aunt Alison on Jan 13, 2024 20:51:38 GMT
Gollum was robbed
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Post by JuniorFE on Jan 13, 2024 21:04:53 GMT
Well yeah, they stole his precious! Tricksy little Hobbitses... Hates them... We hates them! |
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Post by deebs on Jan 14, 2024 5:28:50 GMT
Easily and without question the Worst "AAAA" effort I have ever submitted myself to. Bethesda's formula is done, and I am never touching it again. I can't even bring myself to consider a replay of one of their "good" games because this was so transparently lazy that it exposed the entire ecosphere of lazy process that comprises all of their games. Once pretty innovative but hasn't budged an inch or brought anything new in all these years.
Fuck em. Go bust.
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Post by EMarkM on Jan 14, 2024 19:47:06 GMT
But…but…we’re still looking forward to The Elder Scrolls VI, right?
Right guys?
Guys?
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Post by Aunt Alison on Jan 14, 2024 20:07:00 GMT
More like toilet rolls
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Post by Resident Knievel on Jan 14, 2024 21:56:26 GMT
What's innovative about taking a Bethesda game and removing the exploration?
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Post by ekz on Jan 14, 2024 22:03:22 GMT
It was a new take on a tired formula, or something.
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Post by Timo180 on Jan 16, 2024 11:56:34 GMT
Haha. This thread coming back re-ignited my interested in this game and I’ve managed to polish off the Crimson Fleet / UCSysDef questline, which was actually a lot of fun though the ship section at the Key was not easy. Think I will spend some more time with this game.
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Post by robthehermit on Jan 16, 2024 12:06:28 GMT
I finally got round to finishing that quest the other day. Currently burning my way through the 144 loading screens to get all the powers before I jump into NG+9.
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Post by Tuffty on Jan 16, 2024 12:09:10 GMT
Isn't it voted for by users? It is. For what it's worth Red Dead Redemption 2 won the Labour of Love award despite not being released in 2023 or even having any update. Good example of why you can't give too much power to fan voting. |
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Post by baihu1983 on Jan 19, 2024 7:25:27 GMT
I'm sure she survived the fall..
They really need to let you skip stuff like the sitting down/up animations.
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Post by baihu1983 on Jan 24, 2024 14:23:28 GMT
Sweet, I'll wear it to go shopping
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