““We were finally at a state in the project where we could play through the whole [game]. And it became very clear that we were missing the large final location that was going to tie the story together and have a satisfying action-filled payoff,” Shen said. “I was both implementing the main quest and leading the quest design team, so I had absolutely no time. The entire quest design team was already overbooked.””
The quest design team being overbooked and not having time certainly explains a lot.
if you gave me 30 seconds to design a final quest for a video game, I could come up with something better than “you float around the room and you have to touch the right star a dozen times but you move really slowly and we don’t bother explaining it to you the first time”.
You’d think that the main quest line was one of the very first things that they’d design. Like, before they even started coding. Not something they’d rush at the very end of development.
so it would have a satisfying final quest
Satisfying to whom? 🤨
The most interesting thing in Starfield is tied to RNG that affects NG+. You might not even get one of those alternative universes though. You may need to play through 2 or 3 times before it happens. And it’s not worth it because at the end of the day, it’s a whole lotta boring exposition and overused tropes just to see an amusing gag maybe.
Jesus people give this Bethesda company a break, they’re a brand new indie company. They have like 3 employees and this is their first game, it’s not like they have decades of experience to judge how much time designing a story could take or what issues might pop up. That’s shit you’d expect from a AAA company.
I thought the ending was interesting until I played through it. It just reinforced how pointless the whole story was. Maybe it had good intentions, I can see that on paper, but it made me question why I wasted my time if none of my decisions mattered anyways. We play games to be entertained and escape reality, not to reinforce what we already know. Most of what we do doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things.
