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

How do you think Starfield will turn out?

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Super Hans v2 said:
When was the last time a NVidia or AMD sponsorship made much of a difference in a game? Last time I can think of is how Crytek obscenely tessellated the water in Crysis 2, which could only be explained as a fuck you to AMD owners.
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deus ex human revolution has some special amd effect.
 
Snekposter said:
Both of those cities are technically impressive and gorgeous. Hell, I'll give RDR2 a ton of flak for the same thing as Bethesda, with that game's New Orleans stand-in being barely a dozen streets. Talk about disappointing, especially since there's a disturbing lack of crime aside from the Italian mob.
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I suppose it was somewhat small, but I felt satisfied with the scale of New Bordeaux since it was only ever supposed to be one mini-region of the map instead of the core of it, and on horseback or even foot I thought it felt downright expansive.

What I DON'T like about New Bordeaux is that every other part of the RDR2 map has things the player can play with as they wander around, but New Bordeaux doesn't and is too big to really be worth going into. You can kind of "live in" other parts of the map, but you can't really "live in" the city due to lack of things to do to justify staying there long.


Starfield will HAVE to disappoint because it is in the most autistic vidya genre. Gamers may get really weird about games (like they did with building up every new GTA, or Cyberpunk, or Fallout 4), but there is something disturbing in the level of fervor and dedication a spaceship autist will devote to something like Star Citizen or No Man's Sky. Merge that autism with Bethesda autism and it's just fucked. It could be hte best game in the world and it would still be doomed by its choice of subject matter.

I rather like the term their creative director uses for the setting, "NASApunk." It's not my ideal of NASApunk - sublight rocketry where you have to plan orbits and transfers - but it's much better looking than I thought. Had zero interest until something popped up about it recently. Still, why are we all jizzing ourselves over Todd Howard Presents: No Man's Sky?
 
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Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
Still, why are we all jizzing ourselves over Todd Howard Presents: No Man's Sky?
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General hype marketing, the fact it's been 12 years since Skyrim, 8 since Fallout 4 and 76 was a massive disappointment, the general lameness of this generation and Xbox games lineup in general and the fact this is the first Series X game that isn't cross generational.

Take your pick, really. I'm cautiously excited for it, but I wouldn't say I'm jizzing myself. But I can see why some people would be given how gay the gaming community has become.
 
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xXx: State of the Union said:
General hype marketing, the fact it's been 12 years since Skyrim, 8 since Fallout 4 and 76 was a massive disappointment, the general lameness of this generation and Xbox games lineup in general and the fact this is the first Series X game that isn't cross generational.

Take your pick, really. I'm cautiously excited for it, but I wouldn't say I'm jizzing myself. But I can see why some people would be given how gay the gaming community has become.
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Well, I'll say this, it has a huge advantage in that it doesn't have to live up to a franchise. Fallout 4, for example, really screwed itself by dumbing down its narratives with yes/no/what?/sarcasm dialogue options. This, on the other hand, can play more into the Space Autism (EVE/Star Citizen/Elite/No Man's Sky/others) genre and still have Bethesda-like stuff without having to piss off either base.

I think 1000 planets is retarded.
 
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Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
Still, why are we all jizzing ourselves over Todd Howard Presents: No Man's Sky?
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At least speaking for myself, I'm fucking cursed with that Bethesda-style RPGs are my favorite genre of vidya. The stories are shit, the combat is shit, the quests are shit, but something about them still draws me to them, and there isn't anything that comes close to that style that's come out since Kingdom Come, and nothing before that I can think of.
 
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SiccDicc said:
Because the industry has become such complete and utter garbage that anything Todd Howard manages to shit out through his mediocre asshole looks like a masterpiece in comparison.
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I would rather play any homosexual shit from EA or Ubisoft than this shitfest.

But you must be one of those weirdos who still plays Fallout 76 so whatever.
 
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Raging Capybara said:
I would rather play any homosexual shit from EA or Ubisoft than this shitfest.

But you must be one of those weirdos who still plays Fallout 76 so whatever.
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Those are fighting words, sir. HAVE AT YOU.

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SiccDicc said:
Because the industry has become such complete and utter garbage that anything Todd Howard manages to shit out through his mediocre asshole looks like a masterpiece in comparison.
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It looks like a videogame that you can play and that is pretty much how low the bar is.
Raging Capybara said:
I would rather play any homosexual shit from EA or Ubisoft than this shitfest.

But you must be one of those weirdos who still plays Fallout 76 so whatever.
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I don't know, Ubisoft is making garbage feminist shit lately and EA... Do they even make games anymore?

Starfield is less amazing and worth getting hype over and more the only 'big' game on the horizon.
 
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Super Hans v2 said:
At least speaking for myself, I'm fucking cursed with that Bethesda-style RPGs are my favorite genre of vidya. The stories are shit, the combat is shit, the quests are shit, but something about them still draws me to them, and there isn't anything that comes close to that style that's come out since Kingdom Come, and nothing before that I can think of.
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Probably the immersion of living in a world that feels like a world. It can be janky, but when every NPC has a name and a unique identity in the game world, and the stories between them intersect and are things you can wander into, and you can physically interact with the environment (rooting through their cabinets), and so on, then that is way more engrossing than other games even if none of the particulars of it are all that good. (I think New Vegas is very good - one of a few games people can discuss like it's literature without sounding like wankers - and Fallout 3 may have been stupid, but it never meant to be anything but a stupid comic book and it is very imaginative with its settings and much better at building an apocalyptic vibe than other Fallout games were.)

Kingdom Come definitely fits in the same vibe. We Happy Few feels similar while lacking the expansive scope or the non-linear quests/dialogue options, like half of it feels like Fallout and then half of it feels like a good action-adventure game. I can appreciate being shackled to a shitty company that has a de facto monopoly on the genre you like.
 
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