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

[FedPostalService]

Is this why all the drugs in Starfield are inexplicably also called "chems"? That's such a specific Fallout thing that I was kinda surprised to see it in Starfield.

I think they call them chems to get passed the censors in Australia.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

I think they call them chems to get passed the censors in Australia.

Oh yeah, didn't they have to rename Morphine to Med-X in Fallout because of Australia?

But I was actually expecting something from the writing given Kirkbride was involved. It was a call of duty tier non-existent plot.

It should be noted that Kirkbride was an artist who just kind of got thrown into the "writer" role at Bethesda because back in the day that's just kind of how things worked.

Kirkbride gets a lot of undeserved credit for Elder Scrolls lore, and by his own admission Kurt Kuhlman had a much bigger role in overall ES lore than him.

And despite claiming he wasn't under a drug and alcohol fueled psychosis while writing the sermons, he absolutely *was* an addict and has admitted to this. I think he claims he got clean around like 2014 or so, but I think he is a similar case to Stephen King where his best work was done while being completely fucked up and shit faced.

Kurt was the more important person holding ES together as well as it was, and now he's been shitcanned so ES VI is probably doomed.

 

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

If it's meant to be some commentary on corruption because the only one that's illegal to own is the one drug the corporations control on Neon, it still falls flat IMO.

To me it sounds more like a system that was just mostly unused, contraband was probably like survival earlier in development where it was more of a feature that you interacted with in the game, but as the game went on the system got stripped back more and more until it was just a shell that no one would ever interact with.

 

[30+GameOvers]

So, uh, Starfield supposedly got a brand new update, with cars and everything!
...and nobody cares. Still no modding tools, it will be a year by the time the promised DLC comes out, and Bethesda is already back to ruining Fallout 4 like they ruined Skyrim with their updates.
The new toy syndrome wore off, Starfield is finished. It's gotten so bad I have seen an increase in people mockingly calling it a poor man's Outer Worlds. When the first, and likely last, DLC comes out, that will be the game's last wet fart before it disappears from the public conscience forever. Even mods won't save this one.

To me it sounds more like a system that was just mostly unused, contraband was probably like survival earlier in development where it was more of a feature that you interacted with in the game, but as the game went on the system got stripped back more and more until it was just a shell that no one would ever interact with.

At this point, the only thing I'm curious about is seeing what exactly they cut out and seeing if it can be restored. Since we've seen so little documentation, and we know anybody can look thru the files right now even without the Creation Kit, the only reason we know relatively little is because nobody cares. Goes without saying that the drama and all the hour long autistic videos about it were the only relevant things it brought to the table if even the gamebryo autists don't want anything to do with this.

 

[Mr. Racewar1488]

When the CK comes out for Starfield I might be tempted to make a mod about the Nazi UFO base in Antarctica that survived.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

It's gotten so bad I have seen an increase in people mockingly calling it a poor man's Outer Worlds.

You're the only one who does that, dude.

 

[30+GameOvers]

You're the only one who does that, dude.

Not anymore, which is concerning lmfao. That is still true, Outer Worlds gives Starfield the wedgie anyday of the week.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

Outer Worlds gives Starfield the wedgie anyday of the week.

tell us you've been masturbating to ashly burch without telling us you're been masturbating furiously to ashly burch

 

[BoomerSperg1922]

Not anymore, which is concerning lmfao. That is still true, Outer Worlds gives Starfield the wedgie anyday of the week.

comparing them is like disputing who won #1 at the special olympics.

 

[30+GameOvers]

comparing them is like disputing who won #1 at the special olympics.

Funny how far both Obsidian and Bethesda has fallen, but it still pretty funny how people get angry over such an inoffensive game as OW(especially when it is better than Starfield in almost every single way, this is a fact)

 

[BoomerSperg1922]

Funny how far both Obsidian and Bethesda has fallen, but it still pretty funny how people get angry over such an inoffensive game as OW(especially when it is better than Starfield in almost every single way, this is a fact)

I have a hard time deciding which one I hate the most.

OW had objectively better "gameplay" though it seemed like just a worse borderlands rip off. While the dialogue made me cringe so hard I uninstalled after an hour or two of playing. Meanwhile starfield had shittier gameplay, but the dialogue didn't make me cringe. However, it was so... bland that I kind of wish it had been cringeworthy.

Tough call.

 

[30+GameOvers]

I have a hard time deciding which one I hate the most.

OW had objectively better "gameplay" though it seemed like just a worse borderlands rip off. While the dialogue made me cringe so hard I uninstalled after an hour or two of playing. Meanwhile starfield had shittier gameplay, but the dialogue didn't make me cringe. However, it was so... bland that I kind of wish it had been cringeworthy.

Tough call.

Both games were disappointing in their own ways, but people shitting themselves over them is the funniest part. I don't think there are any "Outer Worlds" fans, but boy are there quite a few Bethesda/Starfield fans still remaining(coping, mostly). Bullying them is going to go on a whole new level if OW2 ever comes out and doesn't bomb(remember, OW1 didn't "bomb", it just kinda flatlined a couple weeks after launch)
Anyways, there is definitely people who will have a fit if you talk about either game in a certain light. It's best not to take this "rivalry" too seriously, but it certainly exists(even if only in Bethesda tard's heads)

 

[Snekposter]

I have a hard time deciding which one I hate the most.

OW had objectively better "gameplay" though it seemed like just a worse borderlands rip off. While the dialogue made me cringe so hard I uninstalled after an hour or two of playing. Meanwhile starfield had shittier gameplay, but the dialogue didn't make me cringe. However, it was so... bland that I kind of wish it had been cringeworthy.

Tough call.

I somehow managed to slog through Outer Worlds. I gave up on Starfield. 'Nuff said.

 

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

I somehow managed to slog through Outer Worlds. I gave up on Starfield. 'Nuff said.

Honestly had the exact opposite experience, played through Starfield and loved every second of it, finished the first quest in Outer Worlds by killing all the rebels and uninstalled.

 

[Sniperwoof]

One thing about Outer Worlds is that the only essential character in the entire game is knockoff Rick Sanchez.

Autistic Lesbian tried whining to me about how hard it was being an autistic lesbian so I shot her in her stupid face and she died.

I don't really OW but at least 99% of NPCs aren't essential.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Not anymore

Post screenshots please, because I see a LOT of shit talk about Starfield but you're the only one that brings up Outer Worlds anywhere I go.

 

[TVB]

Not anymore, which is concerning lmfao. That is still true, Outer Worlds gives Starfield the wedgie anyday of the week.

Both games are ass, but do tell me, how's it like to be a consoomer for an equally as shitty game?

 

[dustnight]

Not anymore, which is concerning lmfao. That is still true, Outer Worlds gives Starfield the wedgie anyday of the week.

Maybe you're getting Outer Worlds confused with No Mans Sky....

 

[BoomerSperg1922]

I somehow managed to slog through Outer Worlds. I gave up on Starfield. 'Nuff said.

I kept expecting it to get better so I managed to finish starfield. Instead it just got worse the more I played. Should have listened to my instincts.

 

[Tiger Jack]

Wasn't the earliest rumor that Starfield was supposed to *literally* be a Fallout spinoff?

The bones of everything certainly feel like it, which makes me think a science fantasy like Star Wars was always off the table. (then again, there *are* aliens in Fallout I guess so what the fuck am I talking about?)

I distinctly remember a copypasta of some Bethesda leak being thrown around /v/ roughly around the time that Fallout 4 first came out that mentions the name Starfield specifically, way before it was ever officially announced. Basic gist was that it was meant to bridge the gap between Fallout and Elder Scrolls. So lorewise they would be set in the same universe with Fallout being the distant past, Elder Scrolls being the far, far future, and Starfield as the midpoint in the timeline between the two.
I guess there's some ideas that're too stupid even for Bethesda.