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- starfield@lemmy.zip
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trash game, wasnt too bad till they introduced space magic and the chosen one shit
space DMT was fun, space dragon shouts were just “why”. Additionally the fact there is no lore about the ancient race that built the artifacts infuriates me, not even a “they all disappeared due to mysterious circumstances”, they were, and now they are not, now go chase the macguffin
The game tells us what is known about the ancient race. A tiny part of mankind has just found out about them, how could they have any kind of “lore” or “knowledge” about them? More then “they build the temples and created the armillary, now they are not around anymore” is just not known. And for me that is enough, there are things that I don’t want to be explained. I don’t wanna know why and where the Dwemer vanished, I don’t want to know the origin story of the Borg and I don’t care about the fate of the ancient Starfield race. Not everything has to be explained, some things can just be lost to time.
The player is not a chosen one on this game, it is just that in the one universe that we start in chances, possibilities and entropie align I our favour and we survive and thrive. As we are told, and shown, multiple times in most other possible universes we die. That we are not special is further shown by all the other Starborn.
And I have no problem with the space shouts, a lot of great sci-fi has space magic (Star Wars with the Force, Star Trek with the Q for example, Star Gate with the Ori) and as we get the powers in the temples it could just be some kind of alien BioTech that enhances us.
I have major regret for buying this game. Games like this should have a 20 hour refund window instead of 2. It took me 2 hours to realize it wasn’t possible to get the game to not run like garbage.
Buying at release ALWAYS means buying the worst version of the game for the highest possible price.
People expected at least the game depth of Skyrim, but with a fixed No Man’s Sky gameplay.
What they got was a halfway fixed Fallout 76 depth and an at release No Man’s Sky gameplay. Usually I don’t like comparing games to other games, but I would bet these games are the “parents” of Starfield.
I have 500+ hours in the game and I still love it. Sure I have changed a few things with mods, disabled the boring temple “puzzles” for example, but besides there is not much I could criticise with the game.
Lots of alike man made structures on the planets? Well, sure because most of them are old military stations created fast and efficient, all build with the same blueprints out of the military handbooks.
The realism of empty space and the space travel mechanic is something I really like, because that is how space is and functions. Space is huge, empty and utterly boring and it is up to everyone to find and/or create a meaning for themselves out there.
Starfield for me is a huge sandbox I can express myself in and have fun. For me Starfield is one of the best games this year.
Sure BG3 and Cyberpunk 2077 both have the better and tighter overall storytelling, sure but I invested way more time into Starfield then into both of those games combined, because Starfield is scratching a very specific itch for me.
Space is huge, empty and utterly boring and it is up to everyone to find and/or create a meaning for themselves out there.
If I have to make the game in my head, I don’t want to pay that much money. In Skyrim, you also make your own fun… after the third playthrough, not in the first. It is my fault for buying a game at release and not waiting.
For me, there was something so fundamentally missing from this game that I just couldn’t be bothered to fill in the blanks myself, because those blanks were huge. I’ve tried to remember the name of a single NPC and I can’t. I had no emotional response to the world, the story, the NPCs. There were tiny bits that I liked, but they were smashed into the ground by loading screens and hurt because you could for a brief moment get a glimpse of what the game could have been.
I am still glad that there are people who genuinely love the game and have fun with it, but it is the only game I regretted buying in 2023. And this is coming from someone who enjoyed Cyberpunk 2077 on release, despite the shitshow it was.
I can see that this game is not for everyone, or even for the majority of people.
Is it a perfect game? Far away from that.
But at the same time the game is not the shit show many people, and the steam reviews, make it seem to be.
I would say it is a solid game, a mostly positive with the potential for more.
I can see that this game is not for everyone, or even for the majority of people.
Is it a perfect game? Far away from that.
But at the same time the game is not the shit show many people, and the steam reviews, make it seem to be.
I would say it is a solid game, a mostly positive with the potential for more.
