All of them are Lawful Good wet blankets who criticize you every roughly 15 seconds. But at every turn the writing slaps you in the face. The core mechanics of exploring, shooting, and looting can hold your attention, just as they may have in Bethesda’s previous open world RPGs. This doesn’t mean it’s a worthless failure of a game overall.

Well, Starfield fails at RPG writing on every level.

You might appreciate years spent on developing the worldbuilding for an interesting universe full of diverse characters, races, species, backgrounds, and ideas. You might appreciate an epic adventure full of memorable twists and turns. You might appreciate deep conversations with realistic characters. Good writing in an RPG means different things to different people. But Starfield clearly showed that Bethesda either can't update their tech stack or they don't want to. And I have been a 'Creation Engine' apologizer for the longest time. If this is the technical base for TES6, they should just quit making games, sorry. And you can't explore jack shit in the game. Hell, the main organization you join up in that game is about explorers. For a game that wants to simulate systemic worlds, the reactivity and player-feedback is shallow like a puddle.Īnd how fucking disingenuous was Todd's bullshit he said in his directs, he kept going on and on about how one of the core pillars of the game was supposed to be 'exploration'. Companion reactions and AI is something you can decipher within an hour of playtime there's nothing reactive there. Space travel doesn't exist outside of a map screen, AI still can't navigate somewhat complex environments and still can't deal with verticality. There's no seamlessness on a planet, there's no seamlessness whatsoever. There's not seamless transition from space to anywhere on a planet. And probably by that time that i get there, i may see some interesting mods being developed.Ĭlick to expand.I fucking hope not because the tech behind this game is what actively holds it back. Right now i'm basically rushing through the main story because i saw that maybe, just maybe, the 'new game' has some interest twist not seen in other games of this type. Even worse than when she was just an insecure Navy's over achiever star captain. Every single one of her dialogues will become one of the cringiest romance interactions that i ever saw in a game. Yes Bethesda, we know.īut hey! You can construct a ship just to see it on the take off/landing cutscenes or on some random uninteresting encounter.Īnd don't you dare to marry Sarah.

The only thing that i really enjoyed was that at least the main characters are well modelled (finally) and the Ship Builder, which is a copy of games like Ultimate Dreadnoughts. Trying to enjoy this script after playing Baldur's Gate 3 is a hard task. And the list goes on and on.Ĭyberpunk 2077 1.0 swallows this game in every single aspect. The space exploration is basically non existent as there is no difference between using the so called Starmap and choosing your destination from list of planet/locations, the ship gameplay is just a series of small events as you never navigate with the ship per se, the writing is exactly as Evilore said (plain is the right word), the shooting mechanics are serviceable at best, the skill tree is dull and obnoxious, the UI is one of the worst ones that i can remember in a triple A game, the already famous 'Bethesda Cinematography Filter' is back. I'm 30 or so hours in and more and more i'm convinced that this game is nothing more than a glorified techdemo of the new engine for the next Fallout/TES.Ī game about space and planetary exploration that tries to hinder you from explore on every possible opportunity.

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