What, no mention of the fact that you can choose your pronouns!?! That’s my single biggest issue with this game.

I could not agree with this review more. The planet exploration is a slog, and there’s far more emphasis on FPS combat than space dogfights. And when you do actually get the chance to engage in large scale space battles, the difficulty spikes to an obscene degree. I’m thinking specifically of the final mission in the…

Bethesda botched the only thing they’re good at... building vast and meaty environments that are fun to explore. Remove that, and you’re left with dated mechanics, poorly written dialogue, and badly designed quests.

I disagree with that premise entirely. There is very, very little “ambitious” about Starfield.

That feels like wishcasting on systems that, in different hands with different design goals and a different understanding of incentives, reward structures, and compelling player choice, could be good. I’ve felt plenty of…

Holy cow this (and the original review) is so well put. 1000% agree.

I mean I have done a FO4 replay last year, and just finished replays of Oblivion and Skyrim, where I could go hours and hours playing, in spite of having played all three countless of times before. But in spite of having “new things” to do with outcomes I have no clue about, it’s just utterly boring and the gameplay…

What you’re feeling is a simple lack of competency at the top. Todd Howard and his cabal of leads are some of the most creatively bankrupt people currently working. There a ton of incredibly talented people at Bethesda, but they’re largely among the rank and file. The people leading big picture systems design just do…

The Bethesda formula was worn out by Fallout 4, completely fell apart with Fallout 76, and now all future attempts to re-use it are going to be immediately dated.

That was a very long and winding way of saying “it’s a Bethesda game, you should know what you’re getting into by now.”

The problem with Starfield is that it is the worst thing a product can be - mediocre, mundane. It has things it does well, and things it does poorly, but its the exact same game that has been released by this studio so many times over, with all of the familiar jank that comes with their products.

Never in my life have I tried so hard to get any sort of enjoyment out of a game. But every slightly positive thing is marred by a bethesda formula that has not only been shattered into pieced but gets watered down more and more with every new game they make.

Oh, you’re talking about a future where platforms are all purely digital. It could happen, though an all-streaming future doesn’t seem like it’ll happen anytime soon. The bandwidth demands of streaming a game at 4k60 with responsive inputs are a lot higher than just streaming video.

The fact that multiplatform games seem to consistently perform better on PS5 than Series X and has more hardware-specific features doesn’t help. Elden Ring for example, and Jedi Survivor more recently. At this point I mostly get multiplatform for PS5 because of spatial audio (which costs money on Xbox), better…

Fuck off

So which of these games will be like Odyssey and Valhalla? because I know im in the minority here but I havent enjoyed AC at all until we got these huge open world games. Odyssey is one of the best games I have ever played. I have like 300 hours in it as I went and did all the side quests and shit. I have absolutely…

Nah, your bitch ass is up near the top.

I’m pretty sure that the Bobsled color guy ejaculated a few times.

I disagree, I watch more snowboarding than 99.9% of people in non-Olympic years, and I think they’ve done a fairly good job trying to rope in casual fans. The terminology is difficult and technical and they split the difference between explaining it to snowboard people and explaining it to lay people pretty well.

You meant, “keep his Chen up”, right?

I’m suspecting it’s the former, but the person who made the copies available included a fake version of Order, either intentionally to screw pirates up, or accidentally because they didn’t bother to QA their files.