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It feels like when Fallout 3, 4 and Skyrim came out you couldn't escape people posting about them for weeks, especially with Skyrim. Now the most I've seen are complaints about how disappointing Starfield was.

Is the game that much blander or does Internet culture just move on that much faster these days? On the other hand, I do feel like there was a lot more enthusiasm for other games like Elden Ring, and sometimes you get an Among Us that just completely take over the Internet.

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[–] KarlBarqs@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've also not seen anyone that can give me an elevator pitch for the game. It looks exactly like any other bland Sci-Fi Game (tm).

Mass Effect is a space opera where humans are the newcomers to the greater galaxy and are trying to carve a niche.

No Man's Sky is about infinite exploration on an infinite number of worlds, and the joy of discovery.

Outer Worlds is what if Fallout New Vegas was in space, and corporations literally owned entire worlds.

Meanwhile Starfield has nothing like this. It's just Space Game.

[–] prismaTK@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ugh if only outer worlds gameplay wasn’t absolutely horrible

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] prismaTK@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

At least from my experience everything from weapon handling to itemization to the fact that enemies are just bullet sponges was pretty bad, I think you’d need a lot of nodding to make it fun to play

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is the AI at least not braindead like in FO4?

[–] prismaTK@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would say the outer worlds AI makes FO4 AI look like Zhukov

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago