Good to hear. Looks like I'm buying a Series S.
I'm still hyped, and jealous of you getting to do that!
I always dreamed of doors and sandwiches when first reading about this game. Happy days.I'm still hyped, and jealous of you getting to do that!
Plus, the doors are the new sandwiches
Well even though the reviews are basically saying what deep down we all knew, this is basically Skyrim in space, nothing more nor less, the space part and what I've seen still have me ridiculously hyped to start it.
This is definitely going to be like Skyrim. Vanilla is mid-decent at best, but with 100+ mods it will be absolutely outstanding.
I see it now. Woefully static is right, definitely not what I expected and something mods can really address.
Sadly, I don't see that aspect being modded. It's not like you can open it up, there's literally nothing there, each area is treated as just that. A separate room/dungeon/area loaded in where you don't actually move in it, anything there moves around you. Very archaic.
Yeah, you are all about making everything as easy and dumbed as possible!
It is rather bizarre how basic the space stuff is. What's the point of 1000 planets then? None of them are even actually modelled.
It’s funny that a lot of people (including a few in this very thread) were giving shit to The Outer Worlds (and rightly so maybe) for being so basic in its space exploration and you just fast travelling to every planet so the space aspect really means nothing, and it turns out this is the exact sameIt is rather bizarre how basic the space stuff is. What's the point of 1000 planets then? None of them are even actually modelled.
It's not even the limitations that is the most interesting thing to me, it's how they've seemingly done it. I can't be 100% sure until I play it myself, but those videos posted earlier show some incredibly dated techniques to handle basic movement and space dogfights. You can see with the movement "towards" other objects.
The sad thing is, there are Roblox games that do all this stuff way better. From starship building to space dogfights, that engine handles way more on a much more advanced level than this.
All this being said, I'm rushing through work tomorrow to start this
(Still hit me up if we are going to do some Forest 2 shenanigans too)
It's funny you say that, because as I recall this was pretty much the reaction Skyrim got as well. "It's lifeless compared to Oblivion". And I can't remember specifics, but I bet Oblivion was also unfavourably compared to Daggerfall.
If that's the comparison, you have to give Starfield a lot of time and effort to come right, because that's what it took for No Man's Sky. I mean I assume, I haven't actually played it. When the lead developer was caught outright lying about his game, I lost all interest and it hasn't returned.
That doesnt seem right? Skyrim had way better reviews. I think a lot of the criticism was that it was actually a bit dumbed down compared to the older Older Scrolls games but overall it was seen as a bit of a landmark game from the get go and the hype was off the rails when it got released.
Not unpredictable though.It’s funny that a lot of people (including a few in this very thread) were giving shit to The Outer Worlds (and rightly so maybe) for being so basic in its space exploration and you just fast travelling to every planet so the space aspect really means nothing, and it turns out this is the exact same
Qol stuff?
Cyberpunk had amazing reviews on release, didn't it? Not that Skyrim is comparable to that, specifically, but I do remember it being criticized more after a time. Also 88 on Metacritic is still really good.
The trajectory of Skyrim after released and Cyberpunk couldn’t be any different. One is one of the biggest games of all time and the other is still seen as a massive failure!
This is correct. It WAS dumbed and the criticism was that is actually changed genre. But it was hyped up and considered a great game by most from the off.
One could argue there's a lot about Starfield that has mislead people.
Perfect example of why reviews should never be taken as gospel. The reviews for this are the same, most of what they say doesn't actually match up to the scores given. Even that positive video Spanner posted has parts that attempt to put a positive spin in the issues others have pointed out, but you know he agrees.
I'm not sure about that. There went a lot of work into Cyberpunk post-release (rightly, since it wasn't actually finished when they released it in the first place). I think Cyberpunk will go down in history as a cautionary tale as far as early releases go (and expectations to go with it), but also as something that eventually did get really good. It's a very good game now, and supposedly (
) the new patch and DLC are going to make it even better. That's pretty much where I'm at too.
The problem with Cyberpunk isn’t that it was released too early and therefore it was buggy or felt a bit rushed out, a lot of games do that actually and don’t suffer the sort of backlash it did (Baldurs Gate 3 for example). The problem is that they didn’t in any way release the game that was promised. It was basically missing everything they promised it would have and the whole world was empty and lifeless. There are certainly aspects of the game I’m sure they have fixed since then in the near 3 years since release, sure, but if you look back at what CDPR said it would be vs what it is, even now, I guarantee it’s still nowhere near it.I'm not sure about that. There went a lot of work into Cyberpunk post-release (rightly, since it wasn't actually finished when they released it in the first place). I think Cyberpunk will go down in history as a cautionary tale as far as early releases go (and expectations to go with it), but also as something that eventually did get really good. It's a very good game now, and supposedly (
That's pretty much where I'm at too.
It seems exactly what most assumed it would be: Space Skyrim. Big, impressive as a whole, but mostly same old with nothing new and pedestrian gameplay.
It absolutely is nowhere near it. It's still not even that great of a game in terms of gameplay at least.
As long as making absurd hype gets Bethesda good sales it will keep happening with their games.
@Alock1 why?"I never said that, I said might be bad but it might be good."Can we take a moment to pause and remember that we were told that this could only do 30fps in the series X cause it was doing things no other game had done before
There is in Bethesda games they are called mods. It's one of the first ones I look for.
Pretty much.
Yeah I’m pretty sure the first thing i did with fallout 4 was a cheat code or mod to give me unlimited inventory space. It was full after a fecking hour and I wasn’t arsed trying to manage that shit. Crazy it’s still so bad.Pretty much.
Though the mods will be out very quickly for this, especially inventory mods. I haven't even played the game yet and I know I can't wait for those
Being able to move items between characters has been in Baldur's Gate games for the past 24 years. Nearly 25.
That guy. He's totally insincere. He gets praise on here for some reason but I've seen him play and praise a game before release for the game mechanics and then when the game released completely 180 his opinion on the exact same game mechanics because his hands-on thoughts didn't line up with the consensus upon post-release.
That's the opposite of disengenous.
The ones I've seen claimed "best for a bethesda game", which is basically meaningless.
