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Starfield design director calls out unfair game criticism: 'Don't fool yourself into thinking you know why it is the way it is' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"People have unrealistic expectations for AAA games! It's impossible to make them as good as people expect them to be!"

I remember lots of big studios saying that shit after Baldur's Gate 3 officially released. The work of a comparatively small studio with a Skyrim budget (100 million USD) did what many bigger budgets failed to do. How was that possible? Clearly, it's the fault of gamers for expecting too much!

Side note: Witcher 3's budget was around 34 million USD, with less than 13m for development proper, which is another good example of a game that even at release was already looking and playing great.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

And those examples are not hard to come up with either. For example:

  • any Nintendo game
  • games with a passionate designer - "Nier: Automata* and Death Stranding come to mind
  • refined, broad market appeal sequels to popular niche games - as Elden Ring is to Dark Souls

Starfield was a mediocre rehash of their Elder Scrolls formula, but without the interesting variation that Elder Scrolls games have. And performance sucks, so you're paying a penalty for an average gameplay experience.