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Kolanaki, to games in Starfield dev says some of the space RPG's "planets are empty by design - but that's not boring"
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The only way empty, barren planets are not boring is if you put some gameplay on them that’s not boring.

Starfield doesn’t do that. Even if you’re into geology, collecting fake rocks in a game isn’t that interesting.

Globulart, (edited ) to games in Starfield dev says some of the space RPG's "planets are empty by design - but that's not boring"

Having lots of empty planets is realistic to be fair, but realism is unfortunately boring a lot of the time.

Personally I’m a big fan of the game but I’ve been pining for a Bethesda game for a long time and I will always enjoy a fetch quest where I have to kill bandits. I totally understand the criticism (although I do think it’s slightly blown out of proportion because it’s Bethesda).

Overall, the game is good. It’s not great (yet, anyway) but I’m 30ish hours in and I feel like I’m 10hrs in. The quest line I focused on after getting my bearings seems to be one of the better ones and while I prefer exploring in a skyrim/fallout way I have had plenty of fun just dropping by random planets to see what I can find. It’s at least very obvious which planets are boring before you even land on them. Ultimately in real life I think we can be pretty confident that the vast majority of planets and solar systems would be boring as fuck. Starfield needs some aspect of realism so having one or 2 planets or moons/stations per system that are actually worth visiting is a good call in my opinion.

sheogorath,

Starfield felt much bigger for me when I didn’t use fast travel. I used to play Elite extensively so needing to walk back to my ship and take off and then needing to plot a course to my destination makes it feel larger. I agree with you on the you’ve felt that you’re only 10 hours in and then when you checked your playtime you’re already 30 hours in.

In my case I just played a couple of faction quests and I’m already 60 hours in. Coming from Armored Core 6 I just basically spent most of my time building ships.

otter, to world in Mother is arrested in Bangladesh after son in the U.S. criticizes government online

This is specific to journalists, but it’s relevant:

en.wikipedia.org/…/Freedom_of_the_press_in_Bangla…

Pulled one example:

In March, 2023, Awami League’s armed cadres, loyal to Sheikh Hasina beaten the brother of Al-Jazeera I-Unit journalist Zulkarnain Saer Khan in front of his home in Dhaka. The attacker, while attacking, said, “Your brother writes against the prime minister, against the government? He’s a journalist? Now you’ll see.”[19] Zulkarnain Saer Khan exposed the corruption of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the Al-Jazeera documentary All the Prime Minister’s Men in 2022 and led an investigation against Sheikh Hasina’s close aide Abdus Sobhan Golap’s corruption who secretly bought nine properties of 4 million USD in the New York.

I remember this from when I was looking up a few places that surprised me when going through the Press Freedom Index. It might just be because I’m not familiar with these places, and it speaks to the assumptions we might make, but I was surprised to see a few countries so far down the list / below other ones.

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