Starfield Pre-Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

The only difference on that topic between him and the ‘Jake Stevens’ (or whatever his name is) guy you liked better is the degree of planetary facility copy-paste.

Nope. Mort went out of his way to make excuses and had the gall to say there weren't many bugs. Even in his criticisms of the lack of meaning to the exploration, he just ends up writing them off and saying that exploration isn't really necessary for you to do.

Like AwesomeButton said, what's left? The space battles in tiny skyboxes? The Rick and Morty sans jokes storyline that ends in a buggy cutscene?

 

[The Dutch Ghost]

At this point I'm interested in the chances of modders turning this into a first-person Alpha Centauri.

Out of curiosity, if a RPG based on Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri had been made, would people here have played it?

Just from a worldbuilding perspective in terms of factions, sure. SMAC is great in that department.

That is what I mean. All the factions and their politics, Planet, the Mindworms, the mystery of the alien artifacts minus the aliens. But now in an isometric perspective or first person perspective.

 

[ArchAngel]

All I want is what Frontier: Elite II gave me 30 years ago, but every dev including Braben himself keeps messing up the formula.

Have you heard about Star Citizen? I think it's close to being finished about this time next century.

FIFY

 

[Lovely Feather Pillow]

Mort went out of his way to make excuses and had the gall to say there weren't many bugs.

Jeff Gerstmann said the same thing. There’s the usual Bethesda jank but nothing major. Huge improvement over Fallout 4.

 

[Grauken]

All I want is what Frontier: Elite II gave me 30 years ago, but every dev including Braben himself keeps messing up the formula.

Have you heard about Star Citizen? I think it's close to being finished about this time next century.

FIFY

Found another one with a broken irony sensor

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Jeff Gerstmann said the same thing. There’s the usual Bethesda jank but nothing major. Huge improvement over Fallout 4.

It's funny that Fallout 4 is your standard for a SPACE game.

It's almost like every Bethesderp game is just Oblivion with guns and you all know it.

 

[ArchAngel]

As long as it does not have sexual perversions like BG3 it will be a better game.

 

[Lovely Feather Pillow]

Jeff Gerstmann said the same thing. There’s the usual Bethesda jank but nothing major. Huge improvement over Fallout 4.

It's funny that Fallout 4 is your standard for a SPACE game.

It's almost like every Bethesderp game is just Oblivion with guns and you all know it.

That’s what Jeff Gerstmann said. This isn’t the space sim you were hoping for. You’re gonna have to accept that.

 

[TheHeroOfTime]

Unbelievable new technical achievement for Bethesda.

They took a year to copy the Skyrim mod community



They did the same in Fallout 4, the AP working as stamina was a feature on the Project nevada mod from New vegas.

 

[Stavrophore]

Why is there so many BG3 fans and anti fans gathering here?

 

[Heroic Liberator]

This isn’t the space sim you were hoping for. You’re gonna have to accept that.

He accepts it, he just doesn't care. Shitposters gotta shitpost and doomers gotta doom & gloom (same as with some posters in the BG3 thread).

 

[Hagashager]

Remains to be seen if Starfield will be as popular as Skyrim. The modding potential is certainly there...

The lack of high fantasy dooms it.

Notice how all the biggest Crusader Kings mods all deal with high fantasy.

The sci-fi autism market simply isn't as big the fantasy autism market. Trekkies have died as a phenomena.

I blame the rise of Cyberpunk media in the '80s. It took such a massive dump on the optomism of Golden Age, Cambellian Sci-Fi that the whole of Science-Fiction just never recovered.

 

[Tyranicon]

Why is there so many BG3 fans and anti fans gathering here?

Because the BG3 thread drama is slowing down.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Why is there so many BG3 fans and anti fans gathering here?

Because the BG3 thread drama is slowing down.

They should go to the war thread instead, seems they're needing reinforcements over there as well))

 

[Jenkem]

Christ how bad must the game be to get a 7 from IGN, even Diablo 4 got a 9!

The guy that did the IGN review gave Prey 5/10.

He also gave Alien: Isolation a low score and then admitted after publishing the review that he didn't realize you could SPRINT in the game while he was complaining about "not being able to escape the xenomorph" or some shit.

seems history repeats itself:

 

[Zariusz]

Why is there so many BG3 fans and anti fans gathering here?

Starfield and BG 3 threads intertwine so much that i sometimes forget which one is which, shills battle for domination.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

There has never been a Bugthesda game released that was actually stable on day one. We're talking going all the way back to the beginning in 1986.

Bethesda Softworks' Amiga games, Gridiron and Wayne Gretzky Hockey, didn't have serious stability issues; their games only became buggy when they switched development to IBM PC.

 

[Drakortha]

I think IGN and Gamespot and similar woke garbage sites has given up on Bethesda and are now just fully embracing Larian and wants them to have the GOTY title.

Not saying this game is great (didn't play it) but i highly doubt its worse than e.g "10/10" Skyrim.

You hit the nail on the head.

There's a new kid on the block. It's called BG3, and it's already overrated as hell, but they just want to make it GOTY officially. There's more money to be made on the BG3 hype train and shilling that piece of trash than shilling starfield. Bethesda are old now while Larian is the new poster child. It's really that simple.

You are going to see a trend going forward with these reviewers doing everything they can to protect the BG3 narrative. A game that couldn't even do Day/Night cycles or NPC schedules in 2023, and brought absolutely nothing new to the table. Deus Ex, New Vegas, etc, already had good narrative and choices and consequences, but they like to pretend that BG3 is somehow special. Todd actually isn't the liar in this equation anymore.

 

[perfectslumbers]

Apparently you can play 5 days early if you bought some special edition. Isn't that a really stupid idea from Bethesda? People who bought the game will have to wait while people who pirate it will be enjoying it already.

 

[racofer]

Starsisters!

 

[Drakortha]

It looks exactly like Fallout 4 with that color palette and post processing effects..

 

[fantadomat]

LoL watched a gameplay and looks generic as fuck.

 

[Vic]

keep the hype coming guys

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

As long as it does not have sexual perversions like BG3 it will be a better game.

It's not an either or choice. You can just not buy both games.

FFS, there have been great PC games for longer than some of you have been alive and you're treating it like there are only two choices.

 

[tastywaffles]

Oblivion with guns

Did you just coin that? That's perfect! Ha ha ha!

BREAKING NEWS: der sky ist bleu!

Even in 2030 when Skyrim 2.0 comes out, it will be Oblivion with guns, I'm certain of it.

Why is there so many BG3 fans and anti fans gathering here?

Whether boo or rah, talking shit is a lot more fun than eating shit.

starfield seems to suffer the same curse that fallout 4 has: the side quests are actually enjoyable, the gunplay seems to be really good, and the world is enjoyable to explore - but the main story quest itself is boring as hell and the underlying rpg mechanics are outclassed by other games that only had a tiny fraction of starfield's budget

Bethesda has perfected the formula for video game adequacy.