• Moonguide@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Ouch, I feel like “creatively bankrupt” is a bit harsh but I can’t really think of how they aren’t. It seems obvious their best days are behind them.

    Starfield could’ve been so much better if it didn’t do the “transcend humanity” which is just such a tired sci-fi trope at this point. Rehash the civil war plotline if they have to, just done right. Planet to planet, take it by means of diplomacy, intrigue, or just violence. It wouldn’t have been original, but at least it would’ve been more entertaining than going around, faffing about in 0g while trying to hit some floating lights for 15 times, and then the story ends.

    They fixed a lot of what skyrim and fallout did wrong, there are some skill checks and the character’s background becomes at least a conversation item, but everything else is just so limp dicked. Ugh, I’m still mad about it even when I did not expect anything else than what we got.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      “transcend humanity” which is just such a tired sci-fi trope at this point

      “Transcend humanity” is a cliche that is most often put forward and consumed by people that aren’t really that interested in humanity to begin with and want to “escape” it in a lazy selfish way.