What on earth was in the water when Starfield released?
Every review was like picrel until the honeymoon phase was over. I thought I was missing something because i thought it was complete shit and uninstalled after an hour
What on earth was in the water when Starfield released? Every review was like picrel until the honeymoon phase was over.
>What on earth was in the water when Starfield released?
money
FPBP
People need to get better at identifying shilling campaigns around here.
Shill campaigns aren't real and only alt-right chuds believe them. There's no way someone would pay money for internet praise.
(This is what most of Ganker actually believes)
We should have gatekept better
You type with the victim complex of a woman.
Maybe on planet moron
Shills got paid and the hype
Gmanlives is an obvious industry plant and his videos being 99% shilling with the occasion extremely forced edgy joke to appear "legit" makes that very obvious.
But he continuously shits on triple A releases and praises garbage indies. I've been watching him for a long time, he mostly just gets hard for boomer shooters.
that scene of boomer shooters is a pretty big deal. i could see someone wanting to control the narrative of these games that often get picked up by AA studios
Bethesda gave out shillbux to reviewers
if you want to see proper video reviews you have to wait 10 years after the product released
The best reviewers don't get access to early review copies and they take their time doing their job properly.
Unfortunately they also don't get millions of views.
>Starfield Retrospective || 10 Years Later...
>The Hidden Beauty of Starfield
>In Defense of Starfield
>Starfield is now BETTER THAN EVER (Review)
Truly
>"Starfield in 2034"
>Thumbnail is a female astronaut with giant ass and tiddies
everytime
the sseth review is already good and properly shits on it
Sseth is in bed with trannies and troony supporters. I don't know how can you guys have the stomach to watch that humongous homosexual.
Same with the homosexual of the Synthetic redditor, he will ban you from his streams if you talk shit of the homosexual community
THE homosexual COMMUNITY!?
Yeah, gays and gays with alternative labels
why does coby G0Ldst31n love futanari?
>be some guy, streaming
>some anon wanders in, starts complaining about homos
>ban anon
>"wtf, streamer guy loves homos"
I'd ban you too anon
you need to learn some social grace, right topic at the right time
>Starfield is better than you think!
is that because it takes them so long to edit the 1000 hour deep dive videos?
This started way back in like 2020 were every youtuber started hemorrhaging viewers so they started praising slop. There's genuinely tons of "influencers" that know nothing about games despite that being how they got internet famous, so half of it is the desire to see their subscribers go up through promoting new content and the other half is just being moronic. But yeah most modern games are trash
I found a good review on BG3 this way. This guy gave BG3 a 15/10 review before he had even finished it because he wanted to fit in, then kept playing the game and released another review saying it was shit
Modern gaming is dead
dunno what some sloptubers opinion has to do with the state of gaming, perhaps you should play more games yourself instead of watching someone else play them
They praise slop because the industry is dead, being negative about the state of the industry kills their channels. Some major youtubers like act man were pretty negative about games from 2018-2020 then they collectively lowered their standards to try and regrow their channels with new games. Now he's back to saying the industry is dead 4 years later. They're all morons but yeah, the industry is dead
if the industry was dead, there wouldn't be any new games coming out
>This started way back in like 2020
This has been a thing as long as reviewers realized they could get shit for free if they just gave games good scores.
No the collective "we need to shill all slop because our channels are dying" thing was in 2020 starting with elden ring
No, it started way earlier you fat fricking mongoloid. Get bent and paint your ceiling red.
Youtubers praising slop to save their channels started in 2020, it has never been this blatantly bad, because the industry is dead so they're walking on glass to try and keep their channels alive
>2020
>elden ring
Are you actually moronic?
what came out in 2020? Oh yeah it was cyberpunk, the overly positive reviews and shilling of cyberpunk (which didn't even work) was the nail in the coffin
Yet you wrote elden ring, you dense homosexual
And? They're the exact same thing. Slop games that didn't work on release that youtubers shilled to get subscribers
The only youtube reviewer I take seriously is Mortismal and StratEdgy. Mort genuinely seems to try and find positives with every game, and even when he mentioned his Starfield videos were sponsored, he said enough to stave me off. Strat because I love to hear people rambling.
I do watch every GMan and Jarked video because I am super nostalgic about every single early 2000s first person shooters.
The 2018-2020 industry crash and then subsequent "oh frick our channels are dying, shill everything!" turned me off of any sort of modern gaming related media forever
Yeah, Im not sure I go to them for informed opinions anymore, just its content I enjoy for the sake of it (talking endlessly about Half-Likes and cRPGs). Oh, and putting on four hour Zero Punctuation compilations for all the analogues. I never thought about it until the last few years, but he is one of the few that seems to be put care into the presentation. An example is the Sekiro one where he mentioned the chronological order of James Bond movies instead of "Dark Souls" just to avoid repeating the same words over and over. Then after I finished Lies of P I put on Iron Pineapples video and within the first five minutes the guy must've said "Dark Souls" and "Bloodborne" som fifty times.
yahtzee is really good at what he does. he's underappreciated imo
The commitment of putting out a snappy five minute video every single week for sixteen years, surviving two lable crashes under Escapist, and still coming up with new ideas, writing books and making games on the side (and having a wife and kids) is an impressive commitment.
In my dreams I have enough money to buy the rights of Duke Nukem Forever and pay Yahtzee to finish that draft he made for it back in the day.
he's super talented imo. no idea why people on Ganker hate on the guy
I have no idea why people even watch Youtube for reviews anymore since that whole playform is designed for monetization. Youtubers are just going to do exactly what they planned to do, find a niche and sell the frick out.
Mentally ill trannies hate starfield which is why we see so much shitposting against it because it a mega successful good game that isn't woke.
>Not woke
>Not woke
Is it really that bad? Cause now it feels like we are in the "post-breakup" phase where everybody pretends it was worse than it was.
I pirated it and it plays better than Bethesdas previous games. Ganker hasn't even played the game to make up their own mind about it and they won't change their minds until some youtuber makes a video about it.
>plays better than bethesda's previous games
No it doesn't. Fallout games were dogshit but at least had more going on than the same flat fields with random copy-pasted outposts with the same few types of "spaceman with gun"
Oh but I forgot, Starfield had a hole that is just there and serves literally no purpose, so it's the best game ever made.
You didn't play starfield. The gameplay is dramatically better than fallout 4 and 76 and a lot of gameplay systems are vastly improved over their previous games. The exploration does suck though but everyone else is objectively better.
>Nuh-uh: The Post
Any time one of you moronic shills says things like “X is objectively better,” you immediately expose yourselves because you donMt articulate what that fricking means. HOW is it “better,” you discount pajeet telemarketer?
Whatever troony, go consume your DEI troony slop while I enjoy starfield.
>he says as he plays a game made by a "very diverse team" where every npc is an abo and you pick up a "never apologize for being a fricking woman" mug
This has to be marketing because this post is extremely detached from what Starfield actually is and feels like someone's rose tinted memories of a mediocre game they played at some point in early childhood.
Hating something isn't a personality, anon.
Neither is consuming product and blind devotion to brands and corporations.
Nah that sounds like someone who found the thing they liked about the game and did that and nothing else. There is some fun in building a ship and going to some far off nowhere and just farming whatever spawns there and then selling it all for no good reason and then doing it again. It's not deeply rewarding but its nice like levelling in a dead mmo is nice.
you are sucking off a worse no man's sky which is already a mediocre game itself. literally fricking have a nice day.
how is that lukewarm review sucking anything off moron
Exactly
I wasn't looking for a game to absolutely blow my mind off, just a decent rpg that ticked off a few boxes i really like in a game
It's just relaxed, mindless fun
>just turn your brain off!
>i had a blast!
>You can't just have fun!!!!
>you've gotta THINK!!!!
>this is someones adult male son saving grotesque images like this on his PC (bought by his parents)
yikes
>There is some fun in building a ship and going to some far off nowhere and just farming whatever spawns there and then selling it all for no good reason and then doing it again.
If you have bottom barrel taste in games and don't play anything actually good,maybe.
>it doesn't need to be good, just stop thinking!
Do bethesda drones really?
It's good if you have fun
I can have fun playing games that aren't dogshit.
I'm not convinced you can have fun at all.
Well if it's not your cup of tea then that's fine. We all have different tastes. For me, the ship building mechanic alone was good enough. I've spent dozens of hours on it
>we all have different tastes
Yes, and your tastes are dogshit.
>extremely detached from what Starfield actually is
Like what exactly?
This. Its always empty praise or empty criticism. No one on this site has the coherence to actually pinpoint what they like/dont like without using recycled buzzwords and catch phrases.
>The gameplay is dramatically better than fallout 4 and 76
Can you find a bar that isn't ground level?
I agree that the gameplay is better but I can't think of one system that improved on what they had before. At best you have crafting that is exactly the same or character progression which is differently mid.
it is literally exactly the same game as fallout 4 even down to not having equalized X/Y sensitivity in a fricking FPS without going into config files
you think starefield defenders are capable of understanding things like this? they're mentally handicapped. Every time you tell them something bad or that the game is mediocre at best, their brain collapses and nothing works. Here, take a look at this image. This is what a starefield defender will do. they will literally play this game for a thousand hours and act like this is the only game in the universe that has ANY sort of feature.
Exploration is kind of the main point for many people who play these types of games
it's dogshit
>nearly 100 hours
Anon, how did you stand it for so long...
i played it for 100 hours mostly doing base building
it's pretty bad
It's genuinely a good game and it's only issue is the loading screens
Actually you're wrong the combat is bad and if you disagree I'll break into your fricking house and tickle your balls.
The combat is fine.
The combat is the same dogshit fallout 3 shooting bethesda has been pushing for 15 years
> No VATS
> Has had id dev input
> "It's just like FO3!"
Sure thing bro.
>has id dev input
As if this fricking means anything. Explain how the shooting is improved from fallout 3. The guns are the same. The enemy AI is the same. The janky physics is the same.
Starfield is the comfiest game I'm playing since 2023 and there hasn't been anything good released this year either.
wtf
I have to ask - what do you enjoy about it?
It's gotten a lot of content mods like starvival and that ship building mod which enhances the game a lot so I've been enjoying my time slowly through it.
>It's good with mods
so, like skyrim and fallout and you know the rest of the games by bethesda
"It's good with mods" has never been true. It's a cope for people trying to squeeze blood from a stone.
nope.
you're just too poor to afford enough ram to run mods
What fricking mod requires excessive amounts of ram? Vram certainly, for texture mods, but regular ram?
all of them.
well i guess not something simple like a texture mod which would mostly need vram
>the comfiest game I'm playing
Thats 97 hours you'll never get back, moron. You could have just looked at the game and told it was dog shit within minutes, instead you let Todd waste your precious limited time in this world
It's a below average game on the whole. I liked some aspects of it but mostly it's very bland and sometimes it's completely awful (outposts and everything to do with them).
Pirate it and see for yourself. Theres some layers to how shitty this game is.
It is Skyrim/Fallout 4 in space but worse than both. The main issue is that Bethesda games always had janky, mediocre combat and RPG systems but they had excellent world design and exploration. There is no longer world/exploration design in Starfield, as it has le 1000 empty planets to explore instead of a map with hand crafted things to look at. Even the copy-paste-edit dungeons of Skyrim are better than the planets of Starfield. Starfield came out a decade after Skyrim yet feels like it actually came out BEFORE it due to how much less ambitious it feels once you get over the sheer number of planets. If you count the number of interesting places to go, things to do, or people to meet it is less than Skyrim.
The game is not 0/10 trash, but it is astounding how they fricked it up so badly. It is just not good.
Yeah I dont understand what they were thinking. This game plays to none of their strengths at all. And Todd should know by now that in 2024 NOBODY is impressed with 1000 empty algorithim generated planets that they kept trying to sell the game on
you realize every dev in the industry can't make games anymore and it's not just bethesda right
In terms of RPGs then Baldurs Gate 3 came out at the same time as Slopfield and completely raped it. So devs can still make good games and good RPGs but not with morons like you who have 0 fricking standards and will pay to eat shit
bald gays 3 isn't even AA quality
I couldn't get through more than a few hours of Starfield, and I'm someone who thoroughly enjoyed Skyrim and thought aspects of Fallout 4 were solid (namely the world, exploration, and kind of the gunplay).
There is no open world. Every location in the game is either a poorly designed town none of which are any more memorable than Rorikstead, or a piece of procedurally-generated flat land that goes for ages and has absolutely nothing on it except for copy-and-paste ships and tiny copy-and-paste dungeons. And when I say copy-and-paste dungeons I literally mean copy-and-paste: once you've seen one medical facility you've seen them all. There is no exploring. There is no climbing that mountain over there. So all there is to do is do missions. And most of the missions consist of fast-travelling to a location, talking to an NPC, and then fast-travelling back to the questgiver.
Also there is no space travel in the game it's all just fast travel your ship is a glorified fast-travel beacon.
Genuinely no clue what Bethesda were thinking
they weren't thinking beyond
>we're bethesda, just put old and withered ideas guy todd out there and the cattle will go nuts and buy any garbage slop we shit out
It's bad in every way it could be. It has no redeemable qualities even at the conceptual level.
I really wanted to like it, but virtually everything felt tepid and shallow. It feels like a cold, methodical machine built the game instead of people with a vision. In every sense of the word, it truly felt soulless.
The worst part was probably the exploration and dungeons. The latter literally had like four different types and once you'd seen them, you'd seen them all. They were literal copies with just a different enemy faction inside being the only difference That was absolute crap.
The shipbuilding was kind of cool, but even the holes in that showed up pretty quick (interior item placement reset if you so much as change the hull's paintjob, atrocious automatic ladder and doorway placement)
They're fixing that last thing with the update on the 15th... allegedly. Including adding empty habs that you can fully customize like a settlement.
I'll believe it when I see it.
But I'm kinda done playing until they un-frick their shield bugs like this ship that should have over 2k shields but they are so thoroughly bad at checking their coding that they allow a 60% bonus to get turned into a 60% penalty any time the player dares to load a save made in space.
All I wanted was to cruise around space in my nicely decorated spaceship crewed by prostitutes and build a little resort by a lake in some nice backwater planet and the game failed on every single measure even the one I thought they couldn't frick (cruising through space).
I bought it for 0$ on release and was genuinely impressed at how stable it was, I think I crashed less than a handful of times over 60-ish hours.
However the game itself is absolutely dogshit. Every storyline is awful with, perhaps, the sole exception of the clones—but even that is made better by the player choosing the ‘evil’ choice and siding against the strong african kween.
Gunplay is probably the best so far but enemies are still bullet sponges even with upgrades, so who gives a shit?
Melee combat should’ve just been dropped entirely for how awful it was, and it’s really fricking stupid how awful it was. How are there not specialized marine regiments developing future melee tech to assist in ship boarding actions? The game mentions numerous events (even in the main questline) of stray rounds inside a ship causing catastrophic failure—so why does every ship boarding have enemies (and likely yourself) hosing bullets everywhere?
5/10 pirate
0/10 if you had to spend actual money
>Is it really that bad?
it's boring as frick, which is the worst sin any game can commit
It’s boring. Once the veneer wears off after a few hours it’s like a slap in the face. For me it was after I entered my third copy pasted ave with nothing in it but some ammo. The writing was on the wall in Skyrim, and was tattooed on their penis by fallout 4. Especially with their current
>you want to a settlement
>make it yourself chucklefrick
Mentality
It's actually worse than Fallout 76, at least 76 has a proper open world to explore.
I liked it but idgaf about the main quest at all
It's a Shillthesda game
Any youtuber who shits on starfield are braindead trend followers with no opinions of their own. No doubt they will be the same people making videos praising it in a few years when the tide of opinion changes. Never trust youtubers they are all scumbags.
>Never trust youtubers they are all scumbags.
That's not a nice thing to say about your cousin's tech support channel
they just play something for half an hour and then parrot the current trending opinion on their journo/content creator group chats.
Amateurs publish reviews before they know the general opinion of their audience.
Professionals wait to see what the herd thinks, and gives them what the cattle want to hear.
If you aren't willing to acknowledge the bribery companies this large commit then you are a moron and deserve to be confused.
Always echo what people are already saying
every game has a honey moon phase
youre watching steller blade's play out right now. In a couple years it'll just be that mediocre korean game people only remember for pissing off trannies
> His rig can't handle the Kinofield so he cries on an American blacked pornography forum.
Many such cases.
Everyone has to rate it as ultimate goty 10/10 or super garbage 0/100, when in reality it was just painfully "mid", as the kids say
The most 5/10 game to ever exist, going by real score scales
I've been thinking about making a channel that parodies trash like this where I just blatantly felate and praise whatever game it is I am covering in a manner that mocks the vermin who accept the bribes.
A gimmick would be starting every video by saying "we got a game of the year on our hands" no matter how fricking dogshit it is.
As long as you have a good voice I'll be watching
i'd like to personally thank GODD howard for depositing exactly 50,000 united states dollars into my hands
"it's a true videogame classic" is my epic meme phrase when i'm mocking a shit game
If you have a good voice and writting, it will be absolte kino.
Riding high off the bethesda copium. Even Paul Tassi admits he went overboard with his 9.5 review.
>riding high
what high. if bethesdas games pre starfield were actually good then i could easily see people going in with false expectations but they straight up fricking arent. fallout 76 was a steaming pile of dogshit, fallout 4 casualized fallout to the point its barely fallout anymore, bethesda has put out nothing but flop after flop after flop and they cant coast by on the nostalgia goggles of fallout 3 or even further back in any of the tes games
Fallout is more popular than ever recently. Just because you hate Bethesda doesn't mean you should deny reality
in what world does popularity = quality? the fact bethesda made their first new ip in decades only to get assblasted shows just how mentally bankrupt they are. emil is a leech and so is todd
Emil is a moron who should kill himself I agree but starfield is still a great game despite his dogshit writing
It's a good game with a large scale paid psyop working against it. Reviews prove that.
I genuinely loved starslop. Just to be an astronaut in outer space with your own comfy starship. I love the fashion and guns and character costumization. I only did two questlines, the main quest and the cowboy rangers quedtline, and both were good. The mq has some surprisingly amazing moments especially regarding theology and the fight between science and religion.
The gunplay is very satisfying. Loved blasting dudes with my double barrel and my revolver.
Idk man it's something i always thought a lot about. Being lost in space in my comfy little starship. That alone was good enough for me, but i get it if you don't like it and want an rpg to sink thousands of hours into
the only explanation i've got is that they wanted to get into big studios good graces so they could get early access in the future so they could pump out content faster than anyone else. any sane person knew starfield was mid. these people were disingenous in hopes of making money in one way or another
The game gets worse the more you play and realize how much content is low effort copy/paste.
Most 'reviewers' just put a few hours in and basically give a first impression as a review.
to be fair as a gamepass borderline free game you're going to play for 4 hours it's pretty good
>and realize how much content is low effort copy/paste
Procedurally generated, actually. It's literally space daggerfall, in all the worst ways
Folks saying "copy pasted" aren't wrong. There are like... 10 different buildings/installations on planets, occupied by either civilians/c-fleet/spacers/ecliptic, the latter three having functionally no difference between them combat-wise.
That's the part that is copy-pasted, right down to
>This desk is going to have an apple and a tablet on it
every time, with containers being randomized from a loot-table.
Even that randomizing of loot tables is jank, because you can save in front of something like a spacesuit mannequin and each time you load it will be different, from style to quality.
mortismal gaming released a pretty positive review while others were tearing the game down, but the thumb for the video isnt "bethesda masterpiece 10/10" and its more even critique so no one has an issue with that approach
Remember that ign gave it a 7
There are reviews that aim to pander and reassure the gamers that the thing they bought is great, or that the thing they didnt buy is shit and gain an audience that way. Problem is you stop having opinions of your own and simply reflect back what the audience already believes in.
>I thought I was missing something
Yeah, a paycheck from Bethesda
homosexuals who use gigachad or any 'jaks in their thumbnails should be dragged into the street and shot
>pirated starfield
>enjoyed it as a good 7/10 game
>moved on
People are still seething over it? It's not the worst game but its not the best game either, it has flaws that can be fixed with mods. Just pirate it when the mod creation kit comes out.
>nooooo you have to consume product and be excited for the next product, you can't actually be critical of game companies and bring up their mistakes!
Remember when you took experimental gene therapy and did segregation? Same thing
>NO STARFIELD IS ACTUALLY GOOD!
>it just had zero cultural impact
>or good characters
>or good gameplay
>or good memorable locations or quests
>or any good story beats or writing
>BUT ITS GOOD, FILTERED
severe mental moronation.
Most people are cattle and just like to repeat stuff to fit in.
Slaughter normalgays. Start with E-celeb prostitutes.
Good news! They already killed themselves anon. Normie cattle have all chosen to become lab rats for genetic technology.
>2 weeks until vaxies die off
>bambi.jpg
Anon, read the fricking study. They proved statistical correlation between jabs and cancer death. This pathetic two weeks chant is aging SO badly.
Anon, they took the jab and are in the denial phase of coping. They still believe the 'official' line about safe and effective because if they stop believing it, they'll have to face the reality they were lied to, they took an experimental gene therapy medication that is potentially damaging to their health.
I know. I'm not shutting up until they start forming lynch mobs. Hopefully the memory and shame of being mocked by morons on Ganker helps make their hate deeper and more abiding when it finally takes hold.
1 week and everyone will be dropping dead.
I didn't take it so I never have to worry about potential side affects, you took it and as much as you want to laugh and joke you've got this thing hanging over your head like a Damocles sword and you know in your heart of hearts that you're hoping that you'll be fine but know it could be any moment for the rest of your life because you didn't stop for a single moment to question medical advice from politicians.
Funny that you used the word "correlation" without even understanding the negative connotation is carries when separated from "causation."
That "negative connotation" doesn't exist for medical studies, Jackass. The connotation of a correlarion in a medical study is a relarionship.
what
>TWO
>MORE
>WEEKS
I'm so glad I didn't take this shit, you'd have to be fricking moronic
How does it feel knowing you WILLINGLY bent over and took big pharmas experimental wiener and jizz up your ass???
Most schizos have already moved on by this point it takes a special kind of autism to bring it up in an unrelated thread about video games
he just wants yous. that's it. its not autism or schizos, just shut in NEETs addicted to short dopamine hits of attention. they just shitpost all day, every day. a barren husk of a man.
It's just a dishonest leftist shill trying to change the subject. Sort of like the "me poster" wojack homosexual that shows up whenever you insult miles morales
>Just move on!
>Ignore the rampant crimes against humanity dude!
No I just hate you and want you scared and angry so you might actually demand justice for the crimes committed against you.
I didn't take the clot shot, moron, you're just trying to derail the thread
People who didn't take any were still subject to unacceptable crimes. They just didn't become prostitutes and lab animals so they still have their morals and souls and most importantly; their health still intact.
i agree with most of your schizo babble, but i love the way everything went down personally. i didn't have to take the shot, worked for awhile, then enjoyed a full YEAR!! of government gibs time. during that year there was less traffic, less lines, less everything bad in the world. best time of my life, unironically.
Yeah I can relate to some of that for sure. There were upsides, doubtless.
Thanks for your concern. I'm good, though.
Yeah I can move on. But you can't. That dangerous mystery juice is gonna be flowing in your blood for the rest of your miserable life. All cause you were too weak to stand up for yourself.Pathetic honestly, I hope it was worth the life of sin
>Study doesn’t even control for vaccination status
Dogshit like every other study I’ve seen the 2 MORE WEEKS crowd try to slip by as evidence.
that's just shills being shills, anyone with half a brain could see this was a piece of shit game
Was this homosexual the one that complained about GTA being to violent?
or that was Qctman?
No, it was him
It was someone shooting up a hospital in a game
Bethesda are notorious for blacklisting you from early copies if you give them a negative review, the industry is moronic and the rags let them get away with it
Starflop
Video games, stupid homosexual, VIDEO GAMES.
Microplastics.
There's something about Starfield that only engages you for about 40 hours, 20 hours into the game. Then you go right back to realising how shallow the game is once you run out of those high points it had.
>What on Earth was in the water when Starfield released
It's called $$$$
These "reviews" are paid sponsorships, there are very few organic views out there anymore from people who make game reviews, video deep dives or stream games.
I don't think it's nearly as bad as Ganker would like to believe, simply because they enjoy shitting on overhyped AAA releases -- which is fair.
You can go pretty evil on some of the faction quests, which is fun, even if 95% of companions piss and moan about your choices. Frick 'em.
Designing and customizing spaceships is fricking fun. I do wish space combat was more varied. There's like... one fight against a capital ship/fleet, unless you like attacking planetary defense.
i think it is exactly as bad as people claim just some people desperately don't want to admit bethesda will literally never make even an average game ever again. its over.
Isn't this the same homosexual that got filtered by Sigil?
Reminder that GManLives had a Jack Thompson tier meltdown over someone killing civilians in a Grand Theft Auto game just a few months ago
Im not sure three sour Tweets constitutes the equivalent of suing the entire video game industry.
What was in the water after it? Now you have Fallout 4 fans acting outraged at Starfield. Ridiculous, it may be shitty but it's not as shitty as Fallout 4
Post ships
SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARS
Reviewers lie to get money. Everyone was supposed to love Skyrim 2 so they said it was amazing. When people hated it they changed their reviews to say it's shit.
but it will get an update and become a good game like a FO4, right?
I know it won't happen
Game reviewing is the same as movie reviewing now. Everybody giving the most mediocre film 10/10 "changed my fricking life" is exactly whats happening to gaming. It's not about criticism, its about promoting.
Because modern gaming is like an icecream cake.
Remember those as a kid? Reamember going to Baskinrobbins or Dairy queen and seeing the ice cream cakes in the freezer and thinking wow look how pretty they are i bet they taste amazing!
Thing is they always look great, and guess what, they even taste great, but here is the thing, that window in which they are good, only lasts for about 10 min once you pull it outta the freezer because then it starts to melt, and you see all the problems, the colors run, the icecream and everything else gets liquidy and it all falls apart. You can only enjoy the icecream cake for a small moment.
But here is the thing, that ice cream cake? cost WAY more then just a normal cake would cost.
This is what modern video games are like, they look great and are amazing for the first 10 min, then it all fricking falls apart into a puddle and a runny ass mess. Star field is the icecream cake of video games.
Nah dog. I like ice cream cake even after it gets melty. I didn't like starfield enough to even play it after seeing others play it.
Thinking of getting back into it with the may update. The gameplay toggles they added seem interesting.
>paid shills act like paid shills
>"HUH WHATS IN THE WATER HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN WHA HUH WHAT"
>you can explore endless planets!
>why though? they're empty, there's no reason to explore them.
>why are you so entitled, why do you need a reason to explore and not just explore for explorations sake?
there was people genuinely making this argument for a long time.
You’re forgetting
>well space exploration is kind of boring in real life
>that’s what we’re trying to capture
As far as haphazard, half baked or responses go, saying your interactive media product was designed to be purposefully boring is not great
It would be kinda defensible if it were even remotely true, but starfield's space stuff is less fleshed out than elite dangerous, let alone an actual realistic astronaut simulator.
It went from being overrated to overhated in my opinion. I don’t think it’s a bad game and it launched in better shape than their last two games (FO4 and 76), but it’s not a particularly good game in its current state either. The whiplash from the extreme hype at launch had armchair game devs claiming the game was bad because the game engine is bad (can’t support vehicles bro) rather than actual criticism like there not being enough memorable NPCs/quests, but no one ever talks about some of the good like the gunplay being way better than anything BGS ever made. I genuinely think this is all just because of the overhyping, people got upset that it wasn’t the game of the century because some people hyped it up to be so but I also assume there was some subtle console warring happening as well since it did exclude a huge market (PS5)
My friends who really enjoy Bethesda games didn't like it either. In the end, the damning criticism was "it's not that interesting and pretty lame."
That’s why I said the writing is the main issue, they didn’t do enough with the setting in the main game at least. Personally, any technical flaws with the game like loading screens is virtually nothing compared to that
modern bethesda writing has literally always been dogshit besides a few rare quests.
>Personally, any technical flaws with the game like loading screens is virtually nothing compared to that
I wouldn't discount it for the constant drain, but yeah, if the game actually had interesting writing, you can look past things like this.
>I genuinely think this is all just because of the overhyping, people got upset that it wasn’t the game of the century because some people hyped it up to be
Where exactly were these people before launch?
I'd been following the game for a year before it released and basically everyone outside of Bethesda fanboy groups talking about it was somewhere between "meh" and "it's shit", especially because Bethesda didn't even market the fricking game until like a month before launch. There was so much radio silence people thought another long delay was coming like 4 months before release.
I'm not a Bethesda fanboy, but I was pretty interested in the game pre-release and there was a lot of chatter on Ganker and they were doing some pretty big teasers with their marketing so I can't relate.
All the speculation on starting perks with the story elements, ship building, taking out loans, space kino, etc. etc.
>but no one ever talks about some of the good like the gunplay being way better than anything BGS ever made
Nobody ever talks about this because it's a fricking lie.
Starfield was the best game of last year however
People had fun with the game, stopped playing, then jumped on Ganker and got reminded to hate the game.
>be a honest game journo
>shit on a game that deserves to be shat on
>invitations dry up completely
>be a dishonest game journo
>hype up whatever slop you get access to
>continue getting access because you're reliable
There’s only one person on YouTube who I value for their vidya reviews. He’s not overly analytical and readily points out flaws and shit they do or don’t like while admitting to their biases. Basically that’s the. For what they are, interactive media products.
starfield sort of has a foundation for an okay game. i spent 50 hours playing it but most of it was me looking for the "good part" that i was sure was just around the next corner. but the game really is just endless stream of stale mediocrity.
Wish they would stop marketing their games as dogs. Since they obviously know their modern core audience is morons who just want to shoot and loot. As shown when you’re immediately indoctrinated into the worst faction they’ve ever created within the first 30 minutes. The most surprising thing was not being made leader by the two hour mark
>surprised shillmanlives is a shill
What were you expecting?
>ShillmanLives
Why does this homosexual keep acting like an imageboard oldgay wannabe when everyone here hates him and he knows it?
bethesda drones
Hydrogen and oxygen
gays being gays like that loser the gayactman sucking bethesda and starfield off like crazy
Too much instability with these upscalers and new versions and abbreviations every two weeks. Not upgrading before things feel more settled.
Starfield was boring the first 10 hours, got good 25 hours in, then got boring again around 40 hours
>this anon is moronic
it never got good lil bro
Also fricking Diablo IV. Every "diablo expert" youtuber was shilling it hard as the REAL D2 successor and then I booted it up and it was just D3 with less cartoony style and with absolutely soulless main campaign with tons of filler sidequests nobody cares about, feels like cheap korean MMO aside from decent art.
Then suddenly everyone magically realized it's actually mid as frick.
all the dopamine fiends got over it when they nerfed everything to slow the grind down