Cyberpunk doesn’t railroad you into any sex scenes. Dialogue choices that lead to romantic or sexual scenes are clearly marked with a lips icon and the romanceable characters all have obvious off-ramp choices to turn them down. 

I don’t know which was more absurd, Higgs fighting robots with a laser guitar, or Fragile’s ridiculous hand necklace thingy.

I feel like it really says a lot about us as people when we are okay with the most violent imagery in games, and we don’t bat an eyelash. But if any sort of romantic or sexual content is in a game, optional at that, a subset of gamers will complain about it.

...publishers are knowingly, intentionally selling access to a game before it’s finished. Pretty sure they’ve stopped giving a f*** what they’re selling as long as they get their money. And if they don’t, well, that’s [insert random scapegoat] to blame. Why? Because their customers have told them that they’re okay…

On the latter part, what I find so hilarious about the antagonism against romances is that it’s not like having them in the game removes any other parts of the game. However, just reading through the comments here, having them apparently excludes having any other kinds of relationships in games and just change the…

So you admit to not having actually played the game then, sad for you. Because if you had then you’d know that right before any of these scenes there are good Obvious options to just remain friends with the companions.

Not to mention - the Google Play store is not the only game in town.  Their platform is open enough, there are other app stores they allow onto the devices (a distant second is the Amazon app store).

Because they’re BGS and good enough is good enough for massive profits and because the modders will make it better. But I don’t see a decade life span for the current iteration, it’d need a CP: Phantom Liberty or No Man’s Sky level of investment and BGS isn’t going to do that.

He’s setting himself up for disappointment if he’s expecting Starfield to be the next Skyrim. He’ll be lucky if it’s the next Fallout 4.

Plenty of things get put into contracts are unenforceable. I haven’t done the research into whether this is but “contract” is not always the answer.

Terms of service can be contested in court if they’re anti-consumer. Removing content that customers have directly purchased seems pretty anti-consumer.

Not outside the US they don’t. You can’t dictate people’s legal rights in real countries. Even in the US, attempts to force people to use arbitration haven’t worked out as well as companies have wanted. Especially as a large number of people entering arbitration can be more expensive to a company than a class action…

I can’t wait for the day that game developers realize there are more ways to be evil than ‘kill everything’ and actually build gameplay around it. I think the closest I’ve seen is maybe Tyranny?

I cheer their downfall because they are an examplar of “release broken game fix it later” which is a hideous PC mentality that drags down the whole industry. And after Fallout 76 players were pledging they were done but of course that was lies, so I'm glad players who vote with their wallets for shitty Quality Control…

I don’t know - if I’m Bethesda I’d be concerned that Skyrim a 10year old+ game has more players than my two month old latest release. And that Fallout 4 has the same amount of players which is what almost 10 years old? Those are not great metrics.  

That is the biggest problem I have with Bethesda, they are incredibly tone deaf and disingenuous towards valid criticisms. Yeah the moon was empty when humans visited it and ostensibly the rest of the galaxy is in terms of life but people were doing science and meaningful exploration in the real world. The motivations…

But is it actually an open world game? Serious question. It doesn’t feel like one. I played Tears of the Kingdom and then Starfield and Tears felt like an open world. Starfield felt like a bunch of areas connected by forced fast travel. 

Its a single player game, and if you go after it playing all day for several weeks of course you are going to run out of things to do.

“I think Starfield is Subjective, but too many people claim its Boring, or it Sucks stating their opinion as fact.”

I’m not a streamer or influencer, and i found it boring not after playing all day for several weeks, but after less than 10 hours. And i’m not even a peripheral person to Bethesda games: I was a massive consumer of their stuff up to Oblivion.