:.:. Starfield .:.: - by Vae
Anarchic Fox on 22/2/2022 at 17:22
As a physicist, "realistic science fiction" is a term that makes me wince. If your sci-fi shows you traveling between star systems in less than a human lifetime, it's not realistic.
Aside from that, I'm happy to see Bethesda start a new franchise. The Elder Scrolls series is groaning beneath the weight of its own lore, and the Bethesda Fallout games were power fantasies incongruent with their setting.
Jason Moyer on 23/2/2022 at 04:18
TES has some amazing lore, unfortunately most of it was written by Michael Kirkbride either directly for Morrowind or in the various meta pieces he's written about that game. The readables in Skyrim are kind of hilarious, because you can immediately tell which ones originated in either Skyrim or Oblivion and which ones came from Morrowind. I'm glad the weird stuff exists though, because some of my favorite parts of the newer games are when they have you doing things directly relating to the Scrolls themselves and other weird bits of MW lore and then you're suddenly in a Morrowind fever dream.
Anarchic Fox on 23/2/2022 at 18:00
Morrowind's lore was great, for sure. If the next Elder Scrolls returned to a localized threat, it could continue to improve the lore. But right now the series faces the same problem that Terry Brooks' Shannara series did. Every new story introduces a new existential threat, which in turn requires a revision of the overall lore in order to wedge the new threat into it. The more times you do this, the more contrived the lore feels.
Jashin on 23/2/2022 at 19:25
It's a shame I played Gothic 2 a few years before Oblivion, and that prior experience showed me how out-of-date Oblivion was on launch. I didn't bother to even play Skyrim. figured it's another balanced-to-be-easy power fantasy like FO3. Really hoping TESR Skywind can come through so I can finally experience TES3.
No idea what Starfield is lol, and I'm pretty sure nobody does. And knowing Bethy it'll take a good while after before it's even worth investing time into.
EvaUnit02 on 12/6/2022 at 19:51
Out 2023, for PC and Xbox. Day 1 in Game Pass.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1716740/Starfield/)
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I'll rent it in Game Pass and if I end up liking it I'll buy it on Steam, for the modability.
Pyrian on 12/6/2022 at 21:13
No Man's Skyrim? ;)
Briareos H on 12/6/2022 at 21:58
Not seeing anything I haven't played before.
Jason Moyer on 13/6/2022 at 02:41
Oblivion with guns in space!!!
I'm looking forward to playing a game that plays like Fallout 4 without constantly pissing me off because it's missing everything that was awesome about Fallout, because I actually enjoy exploring their worlds and fighting stuff when it's their own thing.
demagogue on 13/6/2022 at 04:38
I liked the gameplay presentation. It's an open world/universe with a scripted main quest & side quests, and that can be good if that's what it is. In this context, Empyrion meets Outer Worlds. I mean as an open world thing, it'll be better if many planets are populated and it's about interacting with these different societies. I think that's what can make this genre work that isn't like every other open world space game.
It's reported to have modding, which is cool in theory since it's rare these days, although I don't know if the modding scene is the same now as it was with Skyrim.
