With no due respect this is a beautifully written and reflective piece, go fuck yourself. Perhaps you should touch grass if this is all you have to say. People like you are the problem.

Well, we’ve got the lore to backup the preoccupation now, at least.
This was a cute reflection. Best of luck finding the ‘home’ in wherever you’re at.
Maybe one day you’ll even feel comfortable enough in it to give other parts of these games some screen time. 😉

“By the time the credits roll, only one person of the main crew is alive.”

Cyberpunk 2077 isn’t really about capitalism per-say, but dehumanization in general: for example, someone like Adam Smasher wouldn’t be a kind, loving person in ANY society, capitalist or not, because he only wants the thrill of power and murder. He’s not trying to escape poverty, he’s just doesn’t love or respect…

Damn. I’m gonna struggle to find time for my 4th playthrough of Cyberpunk between my first and second playthrough of Baldur’s Gate 3.

“You are implying that those random encounters are worth your time”

They are though?

I mean, it’s fine that you don’t think so, but they’re implying something that I and many others agree with.

If it helps any, all the characters have a potential for growth.

I mean this is the thing right. The reason people attach so heavily to the romances in stuff like Baldur’s Gate or Mass Effect is 1) production quality. Performance capture on high quality models with talented VOs and strong writing is just not comparable to 6 JPEGs of a mute questionably aged anime girl with writing t…

Extremely weird and problematic take to automatically say sex and sexual assault. Sex and love are *the* most universal things as a part of the human experience

sex and sexual assault

Call me a deviant but I prefer people over the age of consent.

“Aside from ship-building mechanics that borrow heavily from No Man’s Sky”

I’ve never played this version of No Mans Sky, when can you build ships? I’ve not seen that in hundreds of hours. All other faults aside, the ship building in Starfield is pretty well featured, you can literally build a ship. I don’t think you…

I was going to say, that’s quite a reductive statement for a really intense ship building system. 

I think this is mostly spot on. Ubisoft is maybe better with the gameplay basics like traversal and combat (though Starfield may have changed that), but Bethesda is much better with immersion, writing, world building, and environmental storytelling, which critics seem to totally gloss over at this point.

Yeah it’s a bit of a half truth. It’s now a genuinely good game with a bizarrely underrated story and characters, but on launch, it was a buggy, glitchy mess even on PC, it’s just you could play through it if you wanted to.

it’s kind of required in this game. at one point I made a wrong dialogue choice and it led to my party being wished out of existence, instant game over.

Why? They paid their money to play the game they can play it however they want. 

So you’re the obnoxious and snobby British stereotype, got it.

Someone need to mod these into the game.  When you hit level 2 I want to hear “Aren’t you a big bad player character now”

I need a mod that plays her “Haha you rolled badly” every time you roll a Nat 1.