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Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda DLCs of all time (lemmy.world)

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Starfield steam page for the DLC currently shows eight user review score of 41%, making this one of the worst Bethesda DLC's released of all time. This is so horribly, shockingly bad for Bethesda, because it shows as a gaming company, they are no longer capable of delivering a really good gaming experience as they had in the past. Some of the reviews sum up quite nicely what is wrong with this DLC....

Less content than any skyrim DLC. Less than The Fallout 4 story DLCs. Doesn't change of the complaints people had with the base game, writing is still at a 4th grade level.

Quick: If you are looking to buy my answer is no, you aren't missing much content. I was really hoping to enjoy this DLC. Took about 4 hours for the main story and maybe 2 more hours to 100% the achievements.

These two reviews I think really summed up what Starfield has become, $70 for an AAAA title that has extremely little buy-in from the community, horrifically low amount of replayability and can be breezed through easily. It's mind-boggling to see this

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[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 171 points 2 months ago

Remember when Cyberpunk fucked up their release. They knew they fucked up and owed it to the gamers. They told their board and stockholders to hold off, and that they needed to rebuild trust with their users before they could make line go up.

So they took their time, they redid many of the mechanics that people didn't like, the fixed all of the bugs, and then they released Phantom Liberty - one of the best expansions I have ever seen in gaming history. Good enough where it could have been a game on it's own.

That is how you rebuild trust with the community. You tell your stockholders to shut the fuck up and let you do what you do best. If they don't trust you to do that, then fuck em, they can sell their stock, why are they holding stock in a company they don't trust?

[-] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago

I might need to revisit cyberpunk, I didn't know an expansion was ever released. I kind of hit max level doing mostly side quests within 4 months of launch and lost interest.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 16 points 2 months ago

It's pretty legit. It stands on it's own, and they also improved the base game quite a bit. I'd suggest it for sure

[-] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

I was having fun, despite the flaws at launch. I'm sure with improvements and more content it'll be a great one to revisit.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Phantom Liberty is a great expansion in its own right, combined with the 2.0 changes just made the entire experience better.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 2 months ago

Oh trust me, I had a decent time playing it. I played through it 100%, did all the side stuff, did the base building - everything. But, I still felt annoyed and bored a good chunk of the time. The game was fine. But it was only fine. I wouldn't say it was revolutionary or anything Bethesda said, it was just.... fine.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

They changed a lot, but in a good way. I had also spent a while away from the game and came back recently for the expansion. It's really good.

I would suggest starting a new character from scratch if you pick up the DLC. You'll really appreciate the new changes to cyberwear that way.

[-] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

I would definitely need a new character, nothing worse than picking up an old save and having zero clue about what's going on in game. I think I'll put that on my list, I really did enjoy the game at the time I played it, and I definitely got 100 hours playtime from it.

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I've had it sitting in my library, maybe it's finally time to play it. Which is the better voice actor to pick, dude or chick?

[-] teft@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I prefer the male voice but the female voice is more emotive. Plus the female avatar gets a nice story with Judy.

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I'm the opposite. I prefer the fem VA, but I like Panam just a bit more than Judy.

[-] pseudonaut@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

It's REALLY good.

[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

basically the major points of change was launch, then cyberpunk edgerunners clothing dlc patch (1.0 but bigs fixed). 2.0 rewrote some of the games mechanics that dropped before the expansion. and then the expansion was released (which added new endings)