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[–] [email protected] 82 points 10 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I feel like BG3 had more bugs for me than Starfield, but BG3 is the better game by far even considering that.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Understandable to have a few more bugs when you have 20x the content lol

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Larian and owlcat for me. I have enjoyed pathfinder WoR and Divinity original sin 2/Baldurs gate 3 far far more than fallout 4 and Starfield.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Owlcat has released Rogue Trader now too!

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 10 months ago (4 children)

it's like AAA games are only early access these days

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In two years they can get the award for “best ongoing game” then, just like Cyberpunk :D

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

God, what a dick sucking award. Cyberpunk may be playable now, but it did fuck all to deserve that.

Better games launched excellent and got better with age. Launching to get removed from online stores and taking years to reach playable is not the best ongoing anything.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thank corporate morons forcing devs to the door to meet ridiculous timelines, they don’t give a fuck if it’s ready or not.

I’m a SWE and my manager would tell me shit like “even Apple pushed out the iPhone with some bugs”, “at some point you have to wrap it and ship it”, etc. Mgmt uses this bullshit to feel better about their (or their bosses) poorly balanced priorities and decisions.

It’s all about announce early, bag as much interest and money as possible and then ship it regardless if it’s reached the definition of done or not (you better believe mgmt will throw those goalposts around as they see fit)

Pre-ordering morons hold some blame here as well as they play right into the bullshit I’m talking about

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

why the surprise? as long as people keep buying they will try to squize more money for less effort.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Glad to see they're still improving it. When I get the Ultra Game of the Year Turbo Deluxe edition for $20 in years to come, I no doubt will enjoy it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm gonna wait for the Ultra Game of the Year Turbo Deluxe edition Complete

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Can't forget the Ultra Game of the Year Turbo Deluxe Complete Anniversary edition, now with built-in mods.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

i didnt play new vegas until the ultimate edition was 5 bucks at wal mart. thankfully avoiding the horrid bugs it had on launch

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

oh boy, now i get to enjoy... basic features that should have been there at launch?

seems this is a recurring thing nowadays. i pray to god fable 4 doesn't suck the big one.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Putting your faith in a fable game to live up to expectations is a terrible move.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Peter Molyneux is not involved with the project or studio so there’s actually a chance we might have both reasonable expectations and promises delivered. I had to google around to make sure; initially I was going to link some stuff about how trusting Molyneux is really dumb.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When a city map is a luxury.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Insane that wasnt in the list of "must ship" features

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Nakey Jakey recently did a super indepth video on what is wrong with Starfield. And suffice it to say, I've removed the game from my wishlist. There's betterr games to spend my money on.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (7 children)

If you too have an unhealthy relationship with absurdly long video essays, I'd point you in the direction of PatricianTV's Starfield analysis.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Yeah yeah, wake me up when AI modders recreate Daggerfall in the ES6 engine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I think people would hate it again, seeing how they hated Starfield that is also procedural.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

I'd say "i will pick it up on a sale in a year or two" but they're just going to release the enhanced / special / anniversary / superspace edition down the line too, so why bother

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Until I can navigate in space like I can in FREELANCER...which BTW is from 2003....

I want nothing to do with it

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Friiiiick I miss freelancer so much. Best space sim to date.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

It's free to download mate! Plus there's a huge mod that turns it into an MMO that is still being worked on

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

It's abandon ware now

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The main feature I want is better optimization. It’s really not good still and I’ve played with the settings more than I wanted to

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Last months patch did a lot for optimization, especially on the cpu and non amd gpu builds, seeing double digit gains.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Still not buying that garbage.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I let my Gamepass lapse and was considering re-upping it to play Starfield. And now I am for sure not going to re-up it for Starfield. Maybe I’ll visit it in a few years, but it sounds like not a great time from Nakey Jakey’s review on it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He provided so many examples of how it's worse than Skyrim 😅

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Just the fact that the ship combat is awful AND you don’t get to fly your ship TO other planets makes this a pass for me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

It's nice Bethesda wants to pull a Cyberpunk, but Starfield at it's core just isn't as good. I'm all for some redeeming updates though, because at least there would be something to come back to

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Pro tip: finish game first, THEN release it!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I haven't bought Starfield, was waiting for sub-$25. If there are no mods, I'm lowering that to sub-$10.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When will game companies learn that they could be doing so much better if they just released their games AFTER they're finished?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Reminder that Todd wanted to release this last year, imagine the state it was in lol

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I should probably pick this up when it’s on sale. I bought it on release after playing CyberPunk with ray tracing and asked for a refund after playing for 20 minutes because it just looked like garbage in comparison.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Part of the reason why Bethesda games visually looks bad is because their tied to the hip with creation engine for modders to use. Part of the reason why bethesda games have soo many mods is because of how much of the games engine is open to modders to modify.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I agree. I was fine with it for Skyrim and Fallout 4 but after getting used to how gorgeous CP2077 was, the difference was jarring for a AAA title in 2023.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The thing is, cyberpunk also has mod support, and it's pretty good, I use a climbing mod, a drone mancer class mod, and before the 2.1 update it already had a metro system via mod.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Starfield is a fucking joke.

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