For those who have pre-ordered it is already here, the rest have to wait a little longer. Starfield is finally here! Have you bought it, why or why not? If you’ve already played it, what do you think of it? We are very curious!

Discuss all things Starfield below!

  • Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    I think people were expecting fallout no man’s sky…and I don’t know why.

    Well, Outer Worlds is already almost literally “Fallout 3, in space”. We had more, but smaller, open world areas but that isn’t much different than how The Pitt and the like were treated. Hell, it has been a minute, but I want to say DC proper was already a separate set of exterior cells that you transitioned into from the capital wasteland?

    Mentioned elsewhere that I think anyone who was expecting seamless transitions just do not understand game dev (or Bethesda’s engine) in the slightest.

    But it IS disappointing that there is such a massive emphasis on fast travel. Because Outer Worlds showed that traversing a space wasteland to do a few quests and find some POIs is really fun. And Bethesda have a LOT more resources than Obsidian and could have made that a much more “real” world. Even if it was mostly procedurally generated landscapes with painted in POIs.

    • tal@kbin.social
      5·
      10 months ago

      Well, Outer Worlds is already almost literally “Fallout 3, in space”.

      Outer Worlds really did not scratch my Fallout itch.

      Yeah, superficially it’s similar in a number of ways, but:

      • For all practical purposes, the game is fairly linear. The world is open, but you have little reason to go back.

      • The Fallout perk system introduces a lot of interesting mechanics, is an important part of the game. The Outer Worlds perk system was almost entirely flat bonuses to one thing or another. Didn’t change much how one would play the game.

      • I rarely found myself stumbling into new and interesting situations just walking around the world.

      • The weapons weren’t all that interesting or customizable. That includes the uniques, other than the science weapons.