Iprovidelittlepianos
Vault Senior Citizen
It hasn’t even been out for a month, you’ve got to give the degenerates more time than that.
Vault Senior Citizen
Mr Fish
Slippy sloppy, The
Uh-uh, when something is great the degenerates get to work to create porn ASAP. Sometimes porn is out half an hour after the announcement of something. If it's good the porn freaks will go crazy over it.
Eumesmopo
Learned to love the bomb
Just a massive and super powerful corporation with a major stake on the PC gaming market (talk about understatements). We know for a fact that Youtube removed the dislike feature because of how embarrassing it was being for a lot of large companies (think how many big studio films and video games were getting their reveal trailers disliked to oblivion because fans didn't enjoy them). We also know that Metacritic often removes negative reviews by the thousands on controversial games in order to combat so called "review bombing". I doubt that Steam wouldn't face similar pressures by major players who have tremendous sway over the PC gaming market.
It's all about removing our ability to boycott and reject their products, in the end. "Do not think critically, just consume."
From what I have read from other players on /v/ and elsewhere, Starfield is rather sexless, like all of the other Bethesda "RPGs" (maybe except for Morrowind if you count the background lore). There is a noticeable lack of actually attractive characters and titillating content of any kind. You have a love interest, but she is a granny who probably was a 7/10 at best on her heydays and you can't even kiss or hug her before marriage (even your nuptial night is just another "fade to black" skip, lol). The plastic-looking 3D models, with horrendous animations and terrible writing only making her even less appealing and believable as a character. Almost every other RPG (forgive me for using the term loosely) released on the past 20 years mogs Starfield to hell in terms of providing some stimulating romance for the player to engage in. This is not something I would usually criticize a game over personally, since I think video games rarely do sex very appropriately and maturely (I hate the bear sex meme from BG3 and the Fisto questline from FNV, for example), but it's an interesting thing to note, nonetheless.
Iprovidelittlepianos
Vault Senior Citizen
I’ve started playing Daggerfall recently and it is refreshingly lewd, much more so than Morrowind.
Did you play the Unity version?
Morgan_
Duckerz
Even Daggerfall has lewd modding scene?
Nah, the game straight up has titties and willies in it.
Iprovidelittlepianos
Vault Senior Citizen
Eumesmopo
Learned to love the bomb
We should probably open a separate thread for this topic but I have seen some of the mods made for this version including one that 'smooths' the NPC sprites.
If I remember correctly a lot of the content in Daggerfall is rather rogue like, it being generated by the game. But the content is compared to that of Morrowind or Oblivion or Skyrim, there is such a decline in what is included in the games. I am not sure if the handcrafted quests in the later games make up for it.
Mr Fish
Slippy sloppy, The
Decided to test something out of the blue that I hadn't thought about.
The game does not have destruction in it. It's a AAA shooter game where if you shoot glass it doesn't crack, if you shoot a vase it doesn't splinter apart and if you shoot electronics it doesn't go out all that happens is that a generic "bullet hole" decal is overlayed on top of its texture. And that is if it even gets a decal on it. I've shot a sofa chair and a cupboards glass door and neither got the decal, instead the bullet "goes through" the world object to the other side.
Something else I forgot to mention is that the game in contrast to Fallout 3 and 4 that typically just has 'weapons' in it where a plasma rifle is always a plasma rifle in 3 and in 4 you can always upgrade your gear to be better in Starfield we're actually running with a Diablo kind of system instead. Both in terms of the coloured gear (white<blue<purple<orange) but also in terms of area level. See the guns you get at the first area are all "low tier" weapons, meaning that when you get to higher level areas you pretty much have to get rid of all of your weapons and start over as they'll be pathetically weak. Problem is that each area is not guaranteed to have all types of weapons, you might not find a suitable replacement for a sniper in a looooooooong time. So enjoy a quality sniper while it lasts cause when you move on to the next star system that is higher leveled it will become a pea shooter. Don't get too invested in upgrading your weapons and thinking that there is literally any kind of permanence to them.
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I heard this from a 4chan source so I dunno how accurate it is but apparently there is twice of every item in the game you can pick up. One world object and then one inspection object. And apparently a sandwich (inspection mode) has 70.000 polygons (or triangles) to it. And this is for every single item you can pick up. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevery single one of them. (there's a lot) Wanna take a wild guess as to what might be bloating the game?
>Creates an unoptimized mess of a game
>"Just upgrade your PC, bro"
Fuck you, Todd.
I want to remind everyone that the reason for why in Fallout 4's Boston that the FPS can drop to an absolute crawl is because the geniuses over at Bethesda decided to load in everything around you in the city the same way that it loads around you anywhere else in the game. Meaning that within X diameter of you it gets loaded, completely forgetting about the fact that you are in a big city with tons of clutter and stuff. And it took a modder to come up with the brilliant idea that maybe... Maaaaaybe... If we just modify the game a bit so that things that are 'behind' the buildings don't load... Then the game will run better! And it did!
"you may need to upgrade your PC"
No you may need to upgrade your fucking optimization department, Todd.
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So... There's no gore in this game, I think that's pretty wellknown at this point but what might not have been mentioned a whole lot is this... There's NO gore. I don't mean chopping off limbs and stuff. I mean there's no bullet holes in flesh when you shoot it. There'll be a blood spatter on the background of whatever the body is laying at but there is no bullet holes into the body, whether it is on the skin or on clothes.
The game does not have destruction in it. It's a AAA shooter game where if you shoot glass it doesn't crack, if you shoot a vase it doesn't splinter apart and if you shoot electronics it doesn't go out all that happens is that a generic "bullet hole" decal is overlayed on top of its texture. And that is if it even gets a decal on it. I've shot a sofa chair and a cupboards glass door and neither got the decal, instead the bullet "goes through" the world object to the other side.
Something else I forgot to mention is that the game in contrast to Fallout 3 and 4 that typically just has 'weapons' in it where a plasma rifle is always a plasma rifle in 3 and in 4 you can always upgrade your gear to be better in Starfield we're actually running with a Diablo kind of system instead. Both in terms of the coloured gear (white<blue<purple<orange) but also in terms of area level. See the guns you get at the first area are all "low tier" weapons, meaning that when you get to higher level areas you pretty much have to get rid of all of your weapons and start over as they'll be pathetically weak. Problem is that each area is not guaranteed to have all types of weapons, you might not find a suitable replacement for a sniper in a looooooooong time. So enjoy a quality sniper while it lasts cause when you move on to the next star system that is higher leveled it will become a pea shooter. Don't get too invested in upgrading your weapons and thinking that there is literally any kind of permanence to them.
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I heard this from a 4chan source so I dunno how accurate it is but apparently there is twice of every item in the game you can pick up. One world object and then one inspection object. And apparently a sandwich (inspection mode) has 70.000 polygons (or triangles) to it. And this is for every single item you can pick up. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevery single one of them. (there's a lot) Wanna take a wild guess as to what might be bloating the game?
Click to expand.
Someone said this is the real one.
Someone said this is the real one.>Creates an unoptimized mess of a game
>"Just upgrade your PC, bro"
Fuck you, Todd.
I want to remind everyone that the reason for why in Fallout 4's Boston that the FPS can drop to an absolute crawl is because the geniuses over at Bethesda decided to load in everything around you in the city the same way that it loads around you anywhere else in the game. Meaning that within X diameter of you it gets loaded, completely forgetting about the fact that you are in a big city with tons of clutter and stuff. And it took a modder to come up with the brilliant idea that maybe... Maaaaaybe... If we just modify the game a bit so that things that are 'behind' the buildings don't load... Then the game will run better! And it did!
"you may need to upgrade your PC"
No you may need to upgrade your fucking optimization department, Todd.
[edit2]
So... There's no gore in this game, I think that's pretty wellknown at this point but what might not have been mentioned a whole lot is this... There's NO gore. I don't mean chopping off limbs and stuff. I mean there's no bullet holes in flesh when you shoot it. There'll be a blood spatter on the background of whatever the body is laying at but there is no bullet holes into the body, whether it is on the skin or on clothes.
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Iprovidelittlepianos
Vault Senior Citizen
Hey @The Dutch Ghost , sorry for not getting back to you sooner. The site’s certificate has expired or whatever so I haven’t been able to log in using my preferred browser. Once that gets fixed I’ll probably create a new thread about Daggerfall, because I do have some things to say about the game and how some of its design elements could’ve been applied to Bethesda’s Fallout games.
Mr Fish
Slippy sloppy, The
TheKingofVault14
Fallout Fan For Life!
One of the best & most truthful review of Starfield!
Also I've two things to say after seeing this review, and just overall seeing the end result of what this game actually is...
1. With the way this game turned out, Elder Scrolls 6 & Fallout 5 are straight up DEAD. ON. ARRIVAL! And oh I cannot wait to see how those games are going to turn out, and when the time comes for Fallout 5's release, I'll definitely be there to roast it to hell!
2. For those who shilled for this game, giving it good reviews and all, make a list of them! Never forget their names & faces, they're untrustworthy in regards to gaming reviews & journalism.
Mr Fish
Slippy sloppy, The
plz no ban...
Gizmojunk
Antediluvian as Feck
That is actually a real B&W film; not a joke title.
Mr Fish
Slippy sloppy, The
If I could only get through my stupid gaming backlog so I had more free time I would want to watch it someday.
I know nothing about it apart from its title.
So I can safely say, after seven hours of Starfield, and not playing it in like 3 weeks, I can come to my massive conclusion;
It's dull, it's really dull.
Maybe a lot more dull than previous Bethesda games, because at least they were smaller in scope, meaning that the busy work was limited to a smaller space.
But it's the opposite problem that something like Fallout 76 has, which suffered from a large map with no content.
This is a limitless map with countless content, but it stretches it out to make something that feels very empty.
The game is rather aimless, and there's no crutch the main campaign.
It's funny because I was an early defender to Cyberpunk 2077, and yeah, that game has a tone of issues, but it's, for the most part, got an actual crutch to that story. Seeing it get revaluated after a huge fix has allowed People to actually see there's a good game under the cracks.
But with Starfield, no matter how many patches and fixes you give the game, will never cover up the fact that it's just not a lot of fun to play.
It's dull, it's really dull.
Maybe a lot more dull than previous Bethesda games, because at least they were smaller in scope, meaning that the busy work was limited to a smaller space.
But it's the opposite problem that something like Fallout 76 has, which suffered from a large map with no content.
This is a limitless map with countless content, but it stretches it out to make something that feels very empty.
The game is rather aimless, and there's no crutch the main campaign.
It's funny because I was an early defender to Cyberpunk 2077, and yeah, that game has a tone of issues, but it's, for the most part, got an actual crutch to that story. Seeing it get revaluated after a huge fix has allowed People to actually see there's a good game under the cracks.
But with Starfield, no matter how many patches and fixes you give the game, will never cover up the fact that it's just not a lot of fun to play.
Eh... I don't play with mods all that much.
Even on the games I do like, I prefer to play it as pure as possible.
On another hand, I started playing The Outer Worlds again, and it's not perfect, but my God, it's a masterpiece compared to Starfield.