• HalfSalesman@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    I wish there were more new sci-fi RPGs of that quality.

    I do hear CP2077 is good now and I keep meaning to play it.

    TBH I’ll probably end up enjoying Starfield once I get around to trying it as well.

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      1 month ago

      I’ve had cyberpunk since launch and the only thing that has improved is stability. The game is still a hodgepodge of half baked RPG systems, most of which aren’t even necessary to interact with. No amount of polish can change the fact that it’s a turd underneath.

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      1 month ago

      I’ve heard people take that approach with Starfield and still be very disappointed. If it’s space you want and are ok with creating your own story, Elite Dangerous is getting a pretty big revival

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        1 month ago

        Its mostly just that I want a Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim with a sci-fi setting. A solid story, lots of side-quests, and a dynamic world that reacts to the player. I’d probably enjoy a modern metropolitan criminal setting as well for an RPG like GTA’s settings but Elder-Scrolls/3D-Fallout gameplay but you never see that at all.

        Space is cool though.

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          I don’t think it’s a super common opinion, but I really liked Starfield’s main story. That said, it completely fails on the dynamic world front. You might be better off with Cyberpunk for now.

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          1 month ago

          I don’t believe you. That game exists, it’s called Starfield, and it failed specifically because of its sci-fi setting and for no other reason.

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            29 days ago

            fucking lol.

            • terrible game design
            • zero game direction
            • nonsensical script
            • not even 2 dimensional characters
            • incredibly unlikeable companions
            • bad dialog
            • fallout 4 style fake choices and railroading, only one way to complete most quests,
            • open world" that requires fast travel, completely undercutting exploration
            • immersion breaking loading screens for literally everything, even following cutscenes which aren’t used for bg loading for some reason
            • spaceship fantasy that barely makes use of the spaceship, it’s just a toy you can decorate but can’t properly pilot, space combat is horrendously bad even though other games nailed it in the fucking 90s
            • planet exploration fantasy that breaks planets into tiny chunks even though no man’s sky existed for years
            • open world fantasy where discovery is undercut by the fact that the same assets are reused over and over. like not even texture and models randomized to have some variation, but entire buildings copied including the placement of objects inside.
            • classic Bethesda style afraid to lock the player out of anything approach that means you have no choices to make, just get through everything in the order you like … be a cop and a thief and a merchant and a cultist and a garbage man why not
            • vast space fantasy with a gazillion planets yet you are the center of everything
            • scifi universe that doesn’t have means of long distance communication for some reason, needing you to go back and forth between planets just to relay messages

            i can go on but got bored.

            the fact that you claim that the only problem starfield had was it’s scifi setting when massively successful scifi games like cyberpunk, deus ex, half life, nier, mass effect etc exist just proves you know nothing about video games.

            and more specifically your seem to have no idea what people want from rpgs if you even consider starfield to be one worth mentioning, let alone an exemplary one.

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            28 days ago

            I’ve not gotten around to trying it yet, I’ve already got like 6-7 games on my plate ATM on various devices. I actually suspect I wont hate it but I hear its pretty meh.

            Hopefully Bethesda can turn it around with DLC/updates though. I hear modding is still in its infancy too so maybe we’ll get something in that area down the road too.

            Also I figure if I wait hopefully Starfield will get a VR edition (or maybe a mod) and that might be when I really want to jump in.

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      1 month ago

      CP2077’s story is nice but short (for an RPG these days) but the meat is in the world and side missions.

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        Is it one of those “play the whole main story and then focus on the side content” situations or “Save the final mission for later because its a proper ending” situations?

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          1 month ago

          the latter, the main story’s final quest lets you know before you start it that’s it’s a point of no return (though you can also just reload a save from before you do it)