Rubicon is a mining planet with volcanic terrain.

At this point, I think they’ll be pissed off if Starfield is good, because they’re so invested in it being a mess. They’ll be happier if it’s bad, because that means they were right about something on the internet.

He should make God Emperor of Dune and just go completely all in on the weirdness of it, and since it’s his last one, he can just not give a shit about whether people understand it or not. Make something weirder than the 1980s Lynch movie.

I assume it’s because of Kotaku being blacklisted by Bethesda a few years back. Every article about one of their games has a snarky attitude. I’m just glad to have a big new sci-fi universe that’s somewhat realistic and serious in tone - feels like the last one of those we got was Mass Effect.

Clever girl.

I’m thinking I’m probably still just a little bit more likely to get in a car crash than a plane crash.

Lee Pace and Jared Harris are the two reasons to watch it. Other than that, it’s...sort of okay, if you take it on its own merits rather than as an adaptation in anything but name.

Who cares what Elon Musk is thinking about? If he manages to drag Elden Ring into the bullshit online culture war and make people “take sides” for or against it, I’m gonna be fucking peeved.

It’s a fun game and I put way too many hours into it when it first came out, but they definitely need more class flexibility and some Vermintide-style subclasses.

Mostly, I think gamers just want to be angry. What it’s about doesn’t even matter.

Yeah, out of everyone in “the discourse” about games as an industry, the groups that get no sympathy from me are company execs and gamers. Phil Fish is absolutely an abrasive asshole who seems to take pride in it, but I didn’t blame him one bit when he just threw up his hands and went “Okay, fuck it, I’m done making…

I kind of wonder what the deal is with it. Some games just seem to be the designated punching bag before they’re released. Now that FFXVI is out, I guess they needed a new one.

If every sci-fi property where people set foot on Mars within the next 25 years were an “Elon Musk-type vision of the future,” there would be a few hundred of them at least. Name-dropping Musk in an article gets clicks, it doesn’t mean the game was inspired by him.

I don’t think Starfield is, either.

It must have taken a while to come up with something that rhymed with “pounds.”

Sci-fi always has an abundance of optimism. Even the dystopian ones. We’ve got all the worst parts of a dystopia without any of the cool tech.

There are plenty of options for weighting the dice in your favor. Send someone who has the right skill to deal with the situation instead of just using your main character for everything. Use Inspiration, which is pretty common to get. Use Guidance or Bardic Inspiration or any number of other spells and abilities…

I think Shadowheart’s dislike of the Gith is pretty clear, but what strikes me as weird is that these articles don’t ever seem to mention La’zael, who’s way more racist than Shadowheart and much less compassionate.

That’s being very generous.

I mostly go around with Shadowheart, Karlach, and Wyll, and they’re all very friendly and generally approve of heroic actions. Shadowheart only gets catty and racist around La’zael, since she doesn’t like Gith, and La’zael hates anybody who isn’t Gith, since the Githyanki have the whole “interplanar conquerors raised…