Starfield - Bethesda's new space IP: will probably be full of fun and easily trackable bugs

[Terror Sandwich]

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You can see the obvious uniform distribution of their procedural generation, they are using blue noise. There is absolutely nothing on planets, just an arbitrary distance between places to waste your time under the guise of being gameplay.

This shit is so fucking soulless. Why go this direction when your strongest point has always been world design.
Are there any planets with actual handcrafted terrain? Or are the only handcrafted places cities and dungeons?

You can definitely make a zero alien Sci fi setting interesting, and unique. Todd didn't even try.

A Death Stranding-like would be perfect for a hard sci-fi game

 

[Epoch]

Another nitpick level thing, hole in terrain.

The artifacts are just word walls, they even play the music as you get near them.

Or are the only handcrafted places cities and dungeons?

Seems like only cities and dungeons. The landmarks stick out on the planets because they are pretty poorly blended in to the terrain and they all have a square footprint.


Spot the POIs

 

[Rotollo 2]

I couldn't get this guy to give me the eye thing but the lighting really evokes Ape Escape

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holy fucking shit, with how black npcs look I almost expect todd to be a secret racist if it wasnt just Bethesda being incompetent bc god the white npcs do not look this bad

 

[Zero0]

So those hundred planets are all randomly generated deserts save for the capital? I was hoping at least it was not all deserts, but some being jungles, watery, swamp.

Unless someone tells you to go there it's not worth going there as far as I can tell.

 

[Epoch]

The powers are skyrim shouts, you even use Z to activate them

 

[blablabla]

The spaceship is fucking ass. Just fast travel to everywhere

 

[Moths]

It is literally The Outer Worlds 2.

Ill unegg my own self-egged face from earlier then and instead bask in my prediction that bethesda could only match obsidian even in the activision era

Seriously what does a nigger have to do for a new and interesting scifi game to come out that doesnt bake in early access for a fucking decade

 

[Raging Capybara]

Phil Spencer will need another podcast tour.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

The powers are skyrim shouts, you even use Z to activate them
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Damn truly ground breaking and insane step forward in gaming! 6 years to make a shitty Skyrim total conversion!

Ill unegg my own self-egged face from earlier then and instead bask in my prediction that bethesda could only match obsidian even in the activision era

Seriously what does a nigger have to do for a new and interesting scifi game to come out that doesnt bake in early access for a fucking decade

Probably have a indie studio make it and be willing to accept the game tech either being 10 years out of date compared to AAA or some sort of 2d meme.

Big Companies have become complete and total cowards, afraid of even the slightest amount of risk. Something like Mass Effect will never be made again until things change in the industry.

 

[derpherp2]

Bethesda still doesn't know how ladders work btw

They don't have the guys who did Morrowind lore so they couldn't manage to make a interesting universe. The lack of Goodall's and Kirkbride's and Rolston's hurts the thing. Todd has never been the single visionary behind Bethesda, but a part of the whole machine.

tl;dr of plot
Magic aliens make magic rock, you touch rock, am magic now. Congrats. Go space.

 

[Epoch]

Everything is like 500 meters away from your ship when you land so you just have to spend minutes running from POI to POI, there aren't any enemies on the surface of planets (just the very occasional alien creature, but they spawn in packs of 1 or 2) or random encounters like Skyrim. Do yourself a favour and bind auto walk, then you can go do something else while you wait to arrive.

 

[Moths]

Todd has never been the single visionary behind Bethesda, but a part of the whole machine.

I really wish one of the other faggots stepped up because todd always talks big game but the nigger cant ever make an interesting fucking game. What was the writing team on xanax the entire fucking time because there is nothing there.

Not to mention since it is just a kitbashed fallout4/skyrim with a reskinned ui I cant imagine it took that long to make so what took the game so long? Were they just paying themselves to dick around?

 

[Miller]

I like the game so far but yeah, they really need to add a land vehicle because it can get very very very very boring to go to one landmark to another, especially when you're carrying too much stuff.

 

[Moths]

which is still missing forge and co-op mode,

Yet a modder can mod in co-op mode faster than 343 can lmfao

 

[Epoch]

I sure wonder what this is.

Underwhelming, unless there are upgrades later.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

I really wish one of the other faggots stepped up because todd always talks big game but the nigger cant ever make an interesting fucking game. What was the writing team on xanax the entire fucking time because there is nothing there.

Not to mention since it is just a kitbashed fallout4/skyrim with a reskinned ui I cant imagine it took that long to make so what took the game so long? Were they just paying themselves to dick around?

Ship of Theseus.

Bethesda has the same name brand, and a few employees from back when, but it isn't the same company that made Morrowind or Skyrim. They have changed massively since then, even before MS bought them there had been big changes in the years after Skyrim's meteoric success. People leaving, new teams, a B studio...

And given the nature of AAA gaming you can bet your ass even Todd isn't in full control here. He is more of a glorified PR guy by now. A horde of faceless market research and writers were likely the ones pushing the things in the background and working on how to make Starfield happen.

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I sure wonder what this is.

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Underwhelming, unless there are upgrades later.

Baby's first Fus Ro Dah

 

[Epoch]

I've noticed that only with this game do you have people coming out of the woodwork whenever you mention their engine being 20 year old duct tape. I've seen people say something always along the lines of 'gamers when they don't know how an engine works'. Even the OpenMW devs are doing this now, because only Bethesda gets a pass for having 2 decades of tech debt.

There is whirlwind sprint as well, how many of these are just literal skyrim shouts?

 

[Miller]

I hope there's a modder out there who will find a way to remove fat people from Starfield. Toning down the number of melanated characters would be nice too.

 

[Moths]

I've noticed that only with this game do you have people coming out of the woodwork whenever you mention their engine being 20 year old duct tape. I've seen people say something always along the lines of 'gamers when they don't know how an engine works'. Even the OpenMW devs are doing this now, because only Bethesda gets a pass for having 2 decades of tech debt.

There is whirlwind sprint as well, how many of these are just literal skyrim shouts?

Even in the "hard sci-fi" game they couldnt resist having magic

Would've been cooler to have science gizmos like a magnetic repulsor or something

 

[The Ugly One]

I want to know the back story for why Russians decided to bring niggers into space with them.