I didn't see anything here that I particularly disliked, aside from the chugging framerate and the classic Bethesda wooden facial animations that were outdone by LA Noire eleven fucking years ago, and the classic Bethesda generic dog shit dialogue writing. I can see Todd the Ancient One lathered in the Just For Men really hard for this presentation.
The ship building looks neat. I'm used to shit like Starmade and Space Engineers, where you actually have to
build-build your shit from scratch, not just stick prefabs together, but even then, this still looks solid. It's actually a more involved system than X4, since it appears that you can build entire ships out of modules glued together in endless possible configurations. I love how the enemy ships come apart at the seams and leave behind fields of debris when shot. The space parts look very Freelancer-ish.
I expect it to launch like every Bethesda title launches. With a hundred serious bugs and threadbare content, to be immediately cured and expanded upon by scores of talented modders.
I will, without a doubt, play this game to hell and back, load it up with 200 mods, and play it some more as Jesse Ventura in MJOLNIR armor with an anime girl dressed up in a load-bearing vest like a /k/ meme and Sonic the fucking Hedgehog in a space suit for companions.
Looks like they got rid of gender for character creation.
God, the mental gymnastics they engage in these days.
"Male and Female? Don't you mean Body Type 1 and Body Type 2?"
"Wait, isn't that kind of implying that one comes before the other? We can't have that. We can't have female be Body Type 2 because that would mean second best."
"So? Big deal. We'll play semantic games and call them Body Type 0 and Body Type 1."
"Wait, that still implies priority! Tell you what, we'll use a curvy pictogram to mean female and a squareish body pictogram to mean male."
"Not all women are curvy, dude, that's sexist. Damn, we can't use that, either!"
"So, like... we've got this new UI thing, and it's
electrical plug symbols."
And just like that, all the humanity is gone.
"This looks like shit. I'm probably only going to put 1000 hours into it like I do all their games I say I hate."
Typical Bethesda game cycle.
Bethesda game players are always like, "Man, this ice cream tastes like dog shit! Why do I keep eating it? Oh gawd, nom nom nom, the whole tub is gone. Why did I do that? I hate my life. I hate myself! Another!"
I can't believe they're going with the "fuck you, there are no settlements except for the ones you build yourself because worldbuilding too hard." Shit from Fallout 4.
