“Just upgrade your PC”

  • ono@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Highlights:

    • Starfield’s open world is made of procedural copypasta.
    • Prey species can’t or won’t escape predators.
    • Predators routinely wipe out their own food supply, yet somehow haven’t gone extinct.
    • keeb420@kbin.social
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      I watched some predators kill their prey and then just left it. Didn’t even have an animation to eat it.

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          1 year ago

          I don’t think the Creation/Ganebryo engine is capable of such complexity.

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            1 year ago

            Nah it’s just a skill issue, Steam Workshop modders have been carrying the franchises of incompetent studios like Bethesda and Paradox for ages and as others here have stated, they’ve already modded this problem away within the first week of this game being on Steam.

            Just like how the traffic manager mod for Cities Skylines always updates only days after all the usually pointless shit Paradox keeps doing to their games’ mechanics every other week in those stupid nickel-and-diming “patches”, because they already know the other “sick man of the gaming industry” isn’t smart enough to implement speed limits, make roundabouts act like roundabouts, make cars honor emergency vehicle sirens, set up vehicle restrictions for industrial/maintenance roads or stop virtual vehicles from using only one lane on a 3-lane highway or EMTs from collectively booking it for a tiny downtown road that cycles about 3 ambulances per green when there’s an on-ramp right next to their hospital. There’s a reason why Cities Skylines has such negative reviews on the Amazon order page for its Switch cartridge compared to its Steam page; with Nintendo sending ninjas after anyone who so much as looks at their IPs funny, there is no such opportunity for modders to cover Paradox’s ass there. Steam’s encouragement of crowdsourced, third-party bug fixes is the only reason Paradox is relevant, and also why Bethesda is.

        • cordlesslamp@lemmy.today
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          Extra polishing will need 25 more years. Just in time for Elder scrolls V Ultimate Mega Super Ultra Universal Anniversary Remastered Remake Extreme to release.

  • Grass@geddit.social
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    1 year ago

    I would have had no complaints about this game if it was released a decade ago. Two decades ago even then I would have significantly more time to waste on it and be more forgiving, on top of it being legitimately state of the art.

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      You’d be more forgiving of a game decades ahead of anything released at the time? Yeah, no shit. Y’all really need to chill on the ridiculous hyperbole. Starfield has a lot of problems, but it’s unmistakably a modern game.

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        Even a decade ago i would laugh out loud every time i saw these dead ass expressionless npc’s and their clunky ai. Gta 5 released 10 years ago. But a small indie developer like Bethesda can’t be bothered to make their games better

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          I wish they would just use modern game engine / build a new engine that let people have inventories rather than having to teleport things from chests hidden under the world, and allowed animating of faces.

          They keep pushing the engine they have past its breaking point and then it shows.

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        It is not a modern game in any way. It’s just Fallout 4 in space, which was Skyrim with retro futurism.

        It’s once again a giant shallow pond.

  • Epicurus0319@sopuli.xyz
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    Of course it’s a flop, it’s Bethesda. Not particularly known for their quality control