It’s insane that anyone even bought starfield to begin with. Did people not play the last 5 Bethesda games? The absolute best among them barely gets to mid without a full day of installing mods. The last one was such a shameless scam that it might literally be unprecedented in the mainstream industry.
What were the last 5 Bethesda games? I haven’t played one since DOOM and Eternal, which I thought were both pretty rad. Come to think of it, I think the next one I play is going to be the new DOOM.
fallout 76, fallout 4, Skyrim (only counting it once), fallout 3, and oblivion. Bethesda game studios had nothing to do with doom, Bethesda softworks merely published it.
All of them are generally bad in their own special way, but special mentions go to oblivion for inventing shitty micro transactions (horse armor) and 76 for being the single biggest trainwreck in the industry since E.T.
I took a good look at Skyrim’s Creation Club content after getting the latest release on Steam. I will, in an extremely polite manner, just say that it was underwhelming. I could accept paid mods if it was passion projects of people making DLC-sized content, such as Beyond Reach or Enderal. But that’s obviously not what this is all about. It’s just about further privatizing and exploiting whatever spaces of free community efforts do exist in an increasingly commodified world.
I am not as worried about this particular DLC because, by all accounts, it is just more Elden Ring, so if you like Elden Ring you’ll like this.
But the number of times I’ve seen games reviewed with 10/10, 5 stars, highly recommend, etc., only for there to be a day 1 patch that makes it a lot more grindy, filling it with MTX and season passes…what can it be called other than a bait and switch?
I love these games. They’re the perfect blend of old and new design. They put gameplay first, and then write the story around the game. They’re like the modern equivalent to Castlevania for me.
It’s true. I still routinely go back to the first Dark Souls and remember the amount of time I dumped into it trying to keep progressing. The amount of times I’d die and then test out a new strategy on something as simple as dispatching 5 enemies in a series of hallways, or going down the rabbit hole on boss fight strategies. I have the hardcover guide for the first DS game and it’s amazing. It’s weird how the brutality of those games can also be something you get peace from. Souls games are still among the few that I can truly disconnect with and be completely pulled in. Just talking about it makes me want to start a new character.
Impressive. Last game I had hours like that in was Dark Souls 2 round 10 years ago. I am shortly going to break my first 200 hours for Elden Ring though, the DLC will send me over the breakpoint pretty comfortably. Then I get to start my second character for real, now that I have all the content for them to explore.
Eh, I don’t love IGN but it seems like at this point nothing they do makes people happy. I remember when they gave Starfield a 7 people rioted lol, even tho the score was entirely deserved.
There’s an extension for YouTube dislikes if you’re curious. That video got slammed with them.
Granted, people eventually agreed that the game was pretty mediocre. But at the time the only people that had played it were the diehards that paid extra for early access, and they were livid.
Were people angry because it was low or high? I’d give it a lower score personally, though I’ve still seen some people argue it’s a perfect game
I’d say it deserves a perfectly mediocre 5. Everything it does is better in other games, and the one thing it’s supposed to do (exploration) is better in their other games. I live sci-fi so I was willing to overlook a lot of issues, but I think the biggest letdown is that the sci-fi stories it tells are boring as hell and don’t actually make use of the genre. If they really wanted to make a sci-fi game they should have been ready to tell interesting sci-fi stories. Instead they gave up all the strengths of their other games to tell uninteresting stories.
Totally agree, tbh I even felt 7 was a bit too high. But people were pissed that it was that low.
Dunkey actually made a great video showing how any game that gets below an 8 gets slammed, regardless of the title. Was kind of funny tbh, albeit a little sad.
I have a character sitting at the table at the end of the game before starting up another round of Ng+, will that work for the DLC? Or does it have to be before the fire giant?
Yeah. I’m just hoping there isn’t a cut off after you have completed other parts of the story. Guess I’ll find out in a day and a half. Worse comes to worse I beeline it in a new run.
No, I don’t think they have, but I wouldn’t put it past them. I remember being trapped in the sewers in Dark Souls after I got petrified and permanently lost a chunk of my life total. I just restarted the game because there was no way for me to get back out with such low total life.
That’s not the game locking you out of stuff, that’s you being stuck in a portion of the game. Totally different. ER did that too, with the trap teleport chests. Usually you have to fight your way out. If you’re underleveled, it’s going to be an ordeal, but it is doable.
In most soulslike games, you can usually sprint through most areas without ever fighting common enemies. I don’t recall any teleport in ER that you can’t just escape from.
I watched a couple of prep videos from people who played the 3 hour demo and they said just have a dude who’s beaten the game but hasn’t moved to journey 2.
I have a few in that state already, but I’m also wondering if there is a cut off trigger. Like if the final boss is dead, can I still go into the DLC? Or even if I can, if there are new ending conditions to change the ending can I obtain them? Technically I’ve already committed to an ending and seen the credits roll; I just haven’t moved to J2 at the Roundtable.
Yeah. I ran through every main ending with the same character, and I think this last one was the Age of Stars ending. I don’t mind starting up a new journey to get to the DLC, I’d just rather get it out of the way so I can just straight into it when it releases. Thursday is my day off, and I’d rather not waste all of the time I have to play on rehashing the old stuff.
If you can beat Mogh at a low level, it only takes like an hour of play going straight for the medal (via Varre’s quest; assuming you just invade 3 times and exit instead of going to Altus to kill whats-his-face) to teleport to his palace. But of course, you do have to kill Mogh, so that’s where it’s gonna eat up time from a fresh toon if you’re not super good at the game. Grabbing a good weapon, some rocks and maybe grinding the red dudes or the bird.
The original I assume? TS2 and I think also Future Perfect have been backwards compatible on Xbox for a while. Unless PlayStation is just finally deciding to start working on backwards compatibility again.
Fallout 3 and 4 ended up being really great games after Bethesda got ahold of the IP. Can’t say the next one will be that way considering Microsoft got their hands on the studio reins.
I never played 1 or 2, and from the gameplay I have seen they’re very different games. And since they’re much older, I don’t have the nostalgia factor making me want to go back to them, so the graphics and game play are a bit of a turn off for me.
He wasn’t working on it, and was invited to play-test what they had. He said he thought it would take 18 months to finish when they asked him, which is what the person who asked him also thought, and anything longer than 6 months ment it would be cancelled.
It’s like when someone asks you if the soup they are making is too salty, you say yes, and they pour it down the drain. You’re not the person who threw it away.
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