Most of the complaints I saw were how soulless and empty and sloppily made it is, so it’s really just Fallout 4 in space
I regret to inform you that it is more soulless and empty and sloppily made than Fallout 4. You can repeatedly run into the same points of interest that have the exact same enemies, the exact same diary entries, and the exact same set dressing.
My favorite example is the racetrack some raiders have set up for robots you find in Fallout 4 where the only option you have is to kill everyone there. You can’t enter your own robot into the race, bet on the robots, or anything like that. The only way to interact with this marginally interesting thing is to destroy it utterly.
I am certain Starfield has nothing even remotely that clever
I loath ‘Raiders’ and ‘Bandits’. Who are these people, and why are there so many of them?
The fuck? Being able to death race would have been a perfect minigame. Same with tears of the kingdom, you can make your own vehicles and there’s only one racetrack and it’s time trial and sucks?
It’s genuinely mindboggling how bad it is. The story, quests and universe are somehow extremely bland, boring and senseless even for Bethesda’s standards, there’s genuinely like twenty barely unique dungeons stretched over like two thousand planets, I’d be surprised if there were more than 10 enemy types, the base-building feels even less relevant than in Fallout 4, the “powers” are irrellevant and how you unlock them is ridiculously repetitive, the crafting is so much worse than Fallout 4 and the whole new game plus system just doesn’t work at all.
The one thing I feel actually kinda works is customizing your spaceship (no matter how clunky it is) but they ruin even that in New Game Plus by giving you a shitty non-customizable ship that is just stats-wise much better than any other ship you can probably buy, although new game plus also removes all money and items you earned so you couldn’t buy another ship right away even if you wanted to. The ship they give you doesn’t even have chairs for your companions so they just stand around awkwardly and it also doesn’t have crafting stations, making it even more useless.
It’s by far the worst thing they’ve ever made and that’s saying something.
This is advanced CEO brain. He read the same reviews as everyone else did, but he has to conclude that he should play it safer with the company’s money, which means we’ll probably be getting another Skyrim port or two before TES VI.
The lovingly crafted story|-------------------------|infinite steamed hams ratchet only goes one way.
If a game using more procedurally generated content does well, the ratchet is cranked and the next game has even more busy work. If it bombs, we get a rerelease of the last game a.
The fucked up thing is he’s probably right
If they had just made Fallout 5 or Elder Scrolls 6 I’m pretty sure the game wouldn’t have gotten nearly as much backlash even if it sucked just as bad because people would have been more forgiving of an existing IP due to feeling loyalty to that series
Everyone ignored how deeply flawed Bethesda games were for years up until this and I don’t see too many waking up to how they’ve always kinda sucked
That’s not to say Skyrim and Fallout 3 aren’t fun but the base gameplay has never been great
all bethesda has ever been decent at was world design, fallout 3 and skyrim were super well made open worlds imo, just great to walk around in
but the engine and combat and dialogue and storytelling is such trash, every single time, and this time they fucked up the world too
I very strongly disagree with the notion that the Capital wasteland was fun to explore. Really does have nothing on New Vegas.
No Todd. It was dogshit writing and poor code because the engine is horribly out of date.
In comparison to what you’ve made in the past it was also literally 1:1 Skyrim in space with collecting the powers. What are you even talking about, you are full of shit Todd.
Give Fallout to Larian so they can make an isometric strategy game with it again and do it right. We know why BG3 scares you so much Todd.
How was it divisive? It was universally shat on.
I dont know I didnt play it
