>No intelligent aliens
>No interesting factions
>No cool concepts like Dune or Star Trek
>Lore is incredibly lame
How did these morons manage to make Space Exploration this BORING?
I'm genuinely mad
>No intelligent aliens. >No interesting factions. >No cool concepts like Dune or Star Trek
IT JUST WORKS
Starfield Bethesda is not the same Bethesda as Skyrim or Fallout 3 Bethesda if you catch my drift...
It is, but they were always kinda shit. It's just a lot more obvious now since they refuse to throw out their shitty fricking engine.
it's not the same bethesda
Everything is nerfed and neutered and changed to appease the "modern sensibilities" of a small group of gays that do not even play video games.
>no interesting factions
Space cowboy faction could have been interesting if it was a real proper faction and if they shoot you on sight if you appear as vanguard or varruun. If it was less superficially cowboy(like keeping things that make some sense in the universe like some outpost farm on a outpost planet, farm made of wood and like barely having a spaceport not the main town being that), but more its core values being that outer frontier wild west .
Like shooting first asking wuestion later, or claiming planets with resources and confilicting claims and the gang shit nad everything but in space...
Same goes for Neon the failure of cyberpunk city. It needed to be bigger, to be a separate faction like some city state in renaissance era, think Venice, that relies on extreme wealth and mercs and shit to be like a semi neutral region between two or 3 big factions.
Instead its all watered down shit.
There was no design document and they outsourced development to India. Everything interesting in the writing was edited out by the HR department. These reasons are why the whole game feels like a cobbled together mess where none of the parts work together in a beautiful whole.
Because space is boring. God decided to put nothing there because its too much work to make stuff
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One of the few things that were actually enjoyable in Fallout 4 was exploring the map for the first time. And they managed to remove that in Starfield. Brilliant.
And then you get coping xkeks saying
>it's nasapunk, it's meant to be boring and use the space setting for nothing more than saying you're traveling to another planet and not another city/country
They tried to make the setting grounded, but that sort of game doesn't really appeal to most people, and you can't really half-ass it either.
Of course, Emil being the moron he is, ended up introducing the Starborn bullshit which threw the grounded aspect out the window.
just play freelancer
The only thing that even looks slightly redeemable about the game is the ship-building
I imagine I could probably download a save file with all the ship parts unlocked
I agree the ship building is good. It almost made me forget how bad the rest of the game is sometimes. I spent hours and hours playing with it.
But even then, they fricked it up. They let you build a big spaceport in your settlements that has "all" the ship parts in it. Except each main manufacturer has a shitload of custom parts that are only available at their respective shipyards. So if you want to truly mix and match parts, you still can't. And there's no way to partially build a ship, save it, and leave so you can, say add the landing gear from one with engines from another.
Everything about Starfield is, at minimum, just slightly broken. Even the "good" stuff.
There is a mod that lets you use any ship part at any yard, it's called ultimate shipyards or something
Right but it should have been possible without a mod.
In a perfect world, there would be a questline you could pick up if you really focused on shipbuilding, or got a certain number of perks in the shipbuilding skill, that would have you go do a trading or licensing thing that lead to you having full access to the ship parts, or even some exclusive ones, in the base game. And let you sell designs like that short quest does, for some cash.
You know, like an actual RPG
The game's this weird thing where there are all these systems that are impressive conceptually (like they simulated all the orbits of planets even though you can't fly between them) but then fumbled it on the important bits.
>How did these morons manage to make Space Exploration this BORING?
It's a tech demo.
They spent all their time on the world and objects (which aren't even impressive).
Then in the last couple months they just tossed in a few fetch quests, generic enemies, copy pasted the few POIs they finished everywhere, and tossed in some lazy plot-lines.
Wouldn't be surprised if they used chat-gpt for most of the story and dialog.
It's obvious that constellation was originally just supposed to be a faction quest and that the main quest would have been about the war, but they didn't finish any of that so they just promoted constellation to the main quest hoping nobody would notice.
You can tell 90% of the game is just content stubs that they gave up on. This is what happens when you have an incompetent dev team that misses their deadlines over and over to the point nothing actually gets finished and the directors try to pull the wool over the consumers eyes and ship it anyway.
You can tell they intended to have vehicles, they intended to have mechs, they intended to have landing on planets, they intended to have multiple factions with companions in each, they intended to have building and marriage mechanics like hearthfire, they intended to have reactive NPCs, they intended to have survival mechanics and getting stranded on planets, they intended to have different types of damage and armors for each.
At some point they just gave the frick up on everything and shipped it anyway.
They repeated the no-mans sky mantra of "The world will be so big that people will be distracted walking from place to place and won't be able to tell that we didn't finish anything"
The interesting concept was supposed to be the space magic/multiple versions of yourself travelling the multiverse. But it was executed extremely shittily. Little to no mystery in it.
I don't think it needed aliens. Some of the best scifi has no aliens.
I actually really like the aesthetic of the game. No idea why some people hate it so much.
They just reached the limitations of what they can do with their crappy engine. Gamebryo would never have been able to do orbital to ground flight or flying between planets. And the fact they thought they could make a game like Starfield without that just shows Todd's hubris. Nevermind the very empty planets and the trudging across barren landscapes for hours at a time. Starfield feels like they spent a lot of time working on technical issues that could have been solved using a real engine, and then they needed to rush it out the door before populating the planets properly.
I blame it on Todd and his buttbuddy Emil gayliauro. Unironically Todd is the reason why Emil still works at Bethesda
they removed ship fuel as a resource pretty late in development and this change ruined the game fundamentally.
Nah, it needed jumpgates, not fuel.
no fuel to limit travelling led to fast travel spam which in turn made the world feel small and pointless. the game would had been good if there was a reason to land and search for helium to refuel your ship.
what a chore. maybe make combat as good as dark souls so it's finally enjoyable
Fast travel spam exists because there is no other option. You can't fly between planets. Not because fuel was removed but because the engine can't handle it. Spaceflight is a box with a skybox of a planet.
Adding searching for fuel would just make an already tedious game even more tedious. If there were lots of different interesting POIs to run into while you went looking for fuel, I'd /almost/ agree with you, but thats not the game that exists. Adding just fuel would make it even worse. The game would need double the content at least to make fuel an interesting addition.
Yeah that's what the jumpgates are for
They removed it because spending 600 hours building shitty copypaste bases to refuel at would be even more boring than the game already is. Base building is already finicky as shit due to planetary resources being moronicly spaced 90% of the time.
The whole space part of the game feels extremely lacking, they should have added an elite-lite fight sim model instead of just being locked to small regions around the planet/moon.
I understand not having seamless land-orbit, but not being able to fly between planets in space is silly.
I still can't believe that Bethesda thought normalgays would be happy with all of the space """"""exploration""""""" being done through menus.