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All I can think about is how mediocre and sometimes downright bad this game was, yet they're trying to sell it like some epic space opera lol
 
Unfortunately updates won't help the terrible story, characters or writing.

But hopefully it improves things from technical perspective. They really need to beef up random generators for planets and outposts so folks don't see the same crap every time.
 
Just tried the free lanes feature a bit and flying around in space feels much cooler now, it will automatically adjust the speed so you don't slam into planets, so if planets are a bit close to each other the speed is a bit slow, but otherwise you're just zipping around with random encounters inserted as well.
 
I've never done it, so i don't know what he is going on about, but i am a little bit hyped for the new additions for a first playthrough.
 
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Tried flying into a sun but that doesn't seem possible, couldn't get closer than ~45 LS; still pretty cool zipping past them though
 
I will always say this: I thought I was in for an epic journey during that first hour, like Interstellar type stuff, and then nothing ever happened after. Nothing.
 
I haven't actually played Starfield, ever, but it sounds like it tried to be kindasorta like Freelancer or No Man's Sky or X but doesn't go far enough? I remember liking the graphics in videos of it I saw at the time :pie_thinking:. Are the story and RPG systems any good?
 
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All I can think about is how mediocre and sometimes downright bad this game was, yet they're trying to sell it like some epic space opera lol
over my dozens of hours of it, there'd be glimpses here'n'there of the epic adventure it was supposed to be, but then i'd just keep dropping back into this soulless vanilla 'adventure'. what's weird is, they deliberately went with the 2001 aesthetic, graphically, but it turned out that the writing, & particularly the companions, were just about every bit as sterile as a conversation with h.a.l. was in the movie...
 
You build ships by hand? That sounds like a lot of work on my part.
well, yeah, but it's just sorta falling in line with other recent 'build your own adventure' games like tears of the kingdom & crimson desert, where creating vehicles & campgrounds is all part of the fun. supposedly, anyway. i enjoyed metal gear solid 5 (but never replayed it), & i'll likely be giving crimson desert a shot shortly, so we'll see...
 
I'm downloading this again on PC with the latest update just to see how much has actually "changed." Honestly, it's a total love-it-or-hate-it game. It's fine for the first 15 hours, but after that, i have basically seen everything... just going to a science facility and seeing the exact same buildings over and over. Even Shattered Space got a worse rating than the main game lol. The game feels way too sterile and safe—perfect for PEGI 12, I guess. But that's still OK, some people might like that.
 
well, yeah, but it's just sorta falling in line with other recent 'build your own adventure' games like tears of the kingdom & crimson desert, where creating vehicles & campgrounds is all part of the fun. supposedly, anyway. i enjoyed metal gear solid 5 (but never replayed it), & i'll likely be giving crimson desert a shot shortly, so we'll see...

I have a weird sense of humor. I was just joking. Building a space ship "with your own hands" would be a lot of work.
 
I have a weird sense of humor. I was just joking. Building a space ship "with your own hands" would be a lot of work.
well, thing is, from all i've read up here, i'm thinking that there's a possibility crimson desert might actually feel like a lot of work to me. really disliked tears of the kingdom. just have to see...
 
I can't really get mad just yet. I did put it down after a few hours, but I also did that with CP2077. Now, I have like 300 or so hours in that. I think I will like it, but it will fall short of what I expect. I anticipate that.
I wish I was at least half as optimistic as your are my man. :goog_relieved:
 
Everytime I hear this dude i get transported to that scene in Requiem for a Dream.

"I know its pretty baby, but I didn't take it out for air"
 
Starfield ads always try to sell you a completely different game, as if this was some epic space RPG when it's a bland story bolted onto an aged game engine.
 
Fuck.

Am I gonna double dip and get the PS5 port and then triple dip and get the Switch 2 port down the road.

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Keith David voice + trailer cutting out all the tedium isn't gonna work.

Any hope this game had of coming back rested on it pulling off No Man's Sky's massive overhauls to its procedural systems that made the universe feel more alive, and enough to put up with the remaining jank. So far it's been pretty meh.

Comments on the video are just people liking Keith David, and remembering Mass Effect.
 
Why would I play Starfield when Mass Effect exists?
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I want to play through the Legendary trilogy, but, damn... I don't feel like modding the shit they censored or removed. I feel I might end up doing it at some point, this year, however.
Fixing the graphics was the main reason why I modded the originals and they were a fucking pain in deepest part of the asshole to mod. I guess that is why I am so hesitant. It took me a day and reinstalling the original trilogy, dozens of times to get things right.
 
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I want to play through the Legendary trilogy, but, damn... I don't feel like modding the shit they censored or removed. I feel I might end up doing it at some point, this year, however.
Fixing the graphics was the main reason why I modded the originals and they were a fucking pain in deepest part of the asshole to mod. I guess that is why I am so hesitant. It took me a day and reinstalling the original trilogy, dozens of times to get things right.
Did they change a lot of things for the Legendary Edition? Why? There's nothing offensive in any of those games :pie_open_mouth:.
 
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