There a scene in Starfield where you go to a night club on Neon and its just techno music with people awkwardly dancing in funny hats. I couldn’t help being disappointed that THAT was what they thought a futuristic space night club would look like. Jesus. My high school prom was just some christmas lights hung in the gym and it was cooler than that
There a scene in Starfield where you go to a night club on Neon and its just techno music with people awkwardly dancing in funny hats. I couldn’t help being disappointed that THAT was what they thought a futuristic space night club would look like. Jesus. My high school prom was just some christmas lights hung in the gym and it was cooler than that
That’s one of my most common recurring criticisms of so-called future speculation, especially Reddit-style “futurology:” too many people can daydream about spaceships and superpowers and maybe immortality, but any actual social/cultural changes of actual significance are unfathomable or even scary.
It’s what put me off from the Cyberpunkerinos from CDPR: it was outright boomer-tier stale in its supposed futuristic world.
Star Citizen is laughably backward in what it claims is almost a millennium in the future: that fantastical far future is bleak 90s malls with hot dog stands and push-carts to deliver packages via private space trucks to grease the wheels of Roman-style space fascism with corporate characteristics. Oh, and the head grifter directly inserted himself into the fiction’s lore as the savior of humanity, style:
I remember the first time I got to Vivec city in Morrowind and how astounded I was. It seemed so alien and it was really cool to see a city not built by or for humans. Now 20 years later they had the opportunity to really outdo themselves. Make it weird, make it gross, make it fantastic, even if they didn’t entirely stick the landing it would have been cool to experience a sense of wonder at what maybe the future could look like.
They didn’t do any of that. They built the futureland section of a second rate amusement park
They didn’t do any of that. They built the futureland section of a second rate amusement park
It was a glorified Fallout settlement. I took one look at what was supposed to be the future capitol of space neoliberalism and never felt the temptation to play it again.
but any actual social/cultural changes of actual significance are unfathomable or even scary
This is definitely a giant problem in Starfield, but I don’t think it’s why the clubs are so lame. Cause the problem isn’t just that it isn’t a cool club for a magic space future, it isn’t even a cool club for now. If I walked into that club tonight I would be like “this place is lame and dead.”
For one, it’s the most incredibly sex-less club I’ve ever seen in my life. If you’re gonna have dancers on a stage in your space bar can you try to make it at least slightly sexy?
Mass Effect 1 had a better nightclub and it’s not even very good and that game came out like 15 years ago.
I’m not even sure if making the Starfield club superficially hornier would actually help that much if nothing else was changed about it, not at this point, considering how bleak and bland the setting is to the point of being its own meme.
but any actual social/cultural changes of actual significance are unfathomable or even scary.
It’s why I fucking love The Expanse. The Belters feel absolutely distinct, with a unique culture and language that would develop from being exploited, poor, and forced to work in space without any support. It’s one of the few sci-fi series to actually have a thought about what culture would look like in space and how even the (relatively, in scifi terms) short distance between Earth and Ceres would still contribute to massive social changes.
There a scene in Starfield where you go to a night club on Neon and its just techno music with people awkwardly dancing in funny hats. I couldn’t help being disappointed that THAT was what they thought a futuristic space night club would look like. Jesus. My high school prom was just some christmas lights hung in the gym and it was cooler than that
That’s one of my most common recurring criticisms of so-called future speculation, especially Reddit-style “futurology:” too many people can daydream about spaceships and superpowers and maybe immortality, but any actual social/cultural changes of actual significance are unfathomable or even scary.
It’s what put me off from the Cyberpunkerinos from CDPR: it was outright boomer-tier stale in its supposed futuristic world.
Star Citizen is laughably backward in what it claims is almost a millennium in the future: that fantastical far future is bleak 90s malls with hot dog stands and push-carts to deliver packages via private space trucks to grease the wheels of Roman-style space fascism with corporate characteristics. Oh, and the head grifter directly inserted himself into the fiction’s lore as the savior of humanity,
style:
https://starcitizen.tools/Chris_Roberts_(lore)
I remember the first time I got to Vivec city in Morrowind and how astounded I was. It seemed so alien and it was really cool to see a city not built by or for humans. Now 20 years later they had the opportunity to really outdo themselves. Make it weird, make it gross, make it fantastic, even if they didn’t entirely stick the landing it would have been cool to experience a sense of wonder at what maybe the future could look like.
They didn’t do any of that. They built the futureland section of a second rate amusement park
It was a glorified Fallout settlement. I took one look at what was supposed to be the future capitol of space neoliberalism and never felt the temptation to play it again.
This is so on point. New Atlantis looks like store-brand Tomorrowland.
This is definitely a giant problem in Starfield, but I don’t think it’s why the clubs are so lame. Cause the problem isn’t just that it isn’t a cool club for a magic space future, it isn’t even a cool club for now. If I walked into that club tonight I would be like “this place is lame and dead.”
For one, it’s the most incredibly sex-less club I’ve ever seen in my life. If you’re gonna have dancers on a stage in your space bar can you try to make it at least slightly sexy?
Mass Effect 1 had a better nightclub and it’s not even very good and that game came out like 15 years ago.
I’m not even sure if making the Starfield club superficially hornier would actually help that much if nothing else was changed about it, not at this point, considering how bleak and bland the setting is to the point of being its own meme.
Exactly. This is supposed to be a club in the grittiest, most drug addled city in the known universe and they offer dancers in funny neon hats? Wtf
It’s why I fucking love The Expanse. The Belters feel absolutely distinct, with a unique culture and language that would develop from being exploited, poor, and forced to work in space without any support. It’s one of the few sci-fi series to actually have a thought about what culture would look like in space and how even the (relatively, in scifi terms) short distance between Earth and Ceres would still contribute to massive social changes.
neon was such a disappointment in general