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.
The 12 hours tutorial might be off-putting for people who aren’t Bethesda pay piggies
Also, this might just be me but the game just looks so incredibly bland and drab, no flair or personality whatsoever
Apparently Todd called it “Skyrim in space” before launch, so
a) people are waiting for modders to fix all the issues, or
b) people finally got tired of the shallowest storylines ever, which leads to
c) people are waiting for modders to add stories worth playing
the problem is how will they get the modders enthusiastic enough to leave fallout 4 or skyrim 8 anniversery special edition. those games it seemed like everyone played for a while, they’re still on meme templates and shit. if a big modding community doesn’t organically crop up, the game is never going to get fixed, it’s never going to be worth playing, and the monetization of those mods they for sure put in the accounting sheets will never materialize. fuckers suffering from success on the free labor of fans forget how to make a good product
Honestly I hope the game stays shit and modders don’t fix it. I get doing things out of passion - whether with or without donations/compensation - is the point of modding, but the industry, and especially Bethesda, has taking advantage of people’s good will. Free labor is one thing, but free labor due to negligence is bullshit.
Yeah. Nasapunk is an incredibly generic aesthetic. The factions are all different flavors of liberal so there’s nothing really interesting about them. The constant loading screens break up the exploration people loved in Skyrim and previous games. There’s a dearth of hand-crafted stuff to find. It’s all very bland, generic, and stripped down from prior games. Really embarassing, but Cash Rules Everything Around Me.
I refuse to play games with the illusion of choice when the choices that are offered are all apathy-liberal “improving society somewhat is impossible” interactive sermons.
I don’t need to improve the entire world but I’d like to help people and make things better locally without some smug concescending narrative rails saying “actually that was stupid and wrong and you went against the Witcherino Code, you simpleton.”
I haven’t actually seen anything pop up talking about starfield for a while yet BG3 memes pop up all over the place. It’s not a bad game but not good either. Playing it feels about as engaging as my dayjob once you get past oggling at the pretty bits.
Fallout 3 and Skyrim were more popular for their time due to it being quite unique and new. The idea that you could go off and carve our your own story in these big worlds filled with content was a novel thing not done often. Now open world boring shite is everywhere and the Bethesda formula looks really outdated in comparison.
Also I’m yet to actually find any joy in exploration in starfield. Skyrim had a crap story but it had a very nice world to roleplay in. Starfield seems to have none of that.
Skyrim wasn’t really novel, it was just better marketed than Oblivion at a time where video games were more widely accepted
The new engine contributed a lot to skyrim’s popularity too. It’s more accessible to casual players because it plays more like an action game than oblivion
You didn’t have to sheat your sword to cast fireball in Oblivion so it will always be better than Skyrim
On one hand, yes, the internet does move really fast nowadays and a bunch of other really good games are out this year.
But on the other hand…
All of the companions are at best boring and samey or at worst really irritating so the people who play Bioware+Bethesda games to romance the NPCs aren’t hopping onto playing the game.
The game is like. stunningly, jaw droppingly ugly for a 2023 AAA game and runs like shit on top of that so nvidia paypig people who play games to record their gorgeous 4k 60fps videos aren’t making a lot of buzz around the game.
The creation kit equivalent isn’t out yet (I’m not sure if there’s even a script extender yet) so the modding community can’t sink their teeth into it yet. Like there are nudie mods but ngl the human models are so ugly it seems like more of a token effort until the modkit gets released.
So yeah even if there’s really baller story beats or meme worthy dialogue there’s not enough dedicated eyes on it.
Script extenders came out for starfield in a very short amount of time. The games just waiting for CK
I uninstalled pretty fast, it just felt like Fallout 4 again.
