Posted on 10/01/2023 9:53:11 AM PDT by Lazamataz
I really didn't give Starfield a proper review, last time, as I hadn't really played it. I just offered my first impressions.
Well, I finally have had some time to really play it, and my review can be summed up in one sentence: Bethesda has managed to make space boring.
It's formulaic: Hear about a mission, travel to the planet, land where specified, fight some bad guys, get the McGuffin or the information, travel back, get your reward.
Yay.
Yes, you can survey a planet, but even that becomes repetitive. Find the x number or resources, scan them, find the y number of flora, scan them, find the z number of fauna, scan them.
Yay.
Sometimes you have spaceship battles, which is also repetitive. Lock onto an enemy ship, knock down their shields, punch holes in their hull, watch them explode, go to the next enemy ship. Rinse and repeat.
Yay.
There was a kind of magic in their previous titles. The Fallout series had questlines that had great stories behind them. Some of the NPC's were iconic and had great 'personalities'. The entire 'feel' of Fallout was original, and the writing was stellar. Same can be said about Skyrim.
This title, on the other hand, feels played out before you even play. I can deal with the fact that it has very much the same mechanics and game-engine as their other two hit titles. What I cannot deal with, is the lack of interesting NPCs and kinda crappy storylines.
I mean, I will still play it... I bought it, right? .... but this is no Fallout or Skyrim.
Thank you. I was curious about this game. There have been other attempts, going back to 286 CPU days even, at having a simulated “borderless” space game. Seems like after 35 years nobody is still able to pull it off.
As a long time EVE player, I can only shake my head. I was away from the game for a few years, and when I came back, much had changed. One thing has remained the same - players make their own content. If you’re bored, you ain’t trying.
Fallout 3, 4, and New Vegas are amazing and very replayable.
BTW Facebook is giving me shit about reclaiming my account. I might not be returning.
I just finished Far Cry 4 for the umpteenth time. My favorite game.
If I can finally find work I may be able to stop worrying enough to at last complete New Vegas. Have only had it since the day it came out LOL. What can I say, real life is a fickle b-tch.
After about 45 minutes I knew this was not the game for me. But I truly admire and appreciate that EVE exists and what the players have made of it.
https://youtu.be/SsepkKKmERs?si=O55wJ-Ae4ESXa2Zm
Far Cry 4 ending music.
Time travel, and/or the multiverse? Now there’s some hot Iowa farm boy/Mdme Pompadour action.
When I first saw it advertised, I was thinking "Cool! Fallout in outer space". Then, there were a lot of giveaways of Starfield with the purchase of XXX. That got me to thinking, if this was going to be the Fallout replacement, why is it being given away? Crappy game? In-game purchases required to complete substantive mission? I'm definitely in the "wait for the first two or three updates" crowd, now.
It is very tame.
Would like to see more randok encounters.with npcs.who talk to the player about tye human condition and “intellectual” topics.
Mass effect 2 pulled it off.
I was afraid this game might end up being tedious and/or boring.
See, that’s a good set of titles. Far Cry 3 was far and away my favorite of the series. That mohawk-wearing Vaas, played by an up-and-coming star before he actually became a star, was simply brilliant. In fact, they were auditioning for the main antagonist, Hoyt.... Michael Mondo, who didn’t get the part of Hoyt, so impressed the auditioners that they actually wrote a part in FOR him.
“Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? Insanity is doing the exact same f****g thing over and over again expecting s*** to change. That. Is. Crazy. The first time somebody told me that, I dunno, I thought they were bullshitting me, so, boom, I shot him. The thing is... he was right.”
Fallout New Vegas is a masterpiece.
However, I cannot fault ANY video game that managed to create THIS dialogue. It actually gave me chills.
True. It's not like it was in the movies. What science fiction was now seems more like fantasy.
It’s a split between Far Cry 3 and 4 for me.
Pagan Min has quite a few great lines.
https://youtu.be/LSb5bM1-hFg?si=uQ2olsPVlcgqkEpf
Far cry 5 took away the knife takedowns, which kinda sucked.
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