Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer

• Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It failed because it was boring.

  It famously had people saying “once you get past the first 12 hours, it gets good” it had nothing to do with the setting. The sci-fi setting was literally what drew people to play it in the first place…

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• HalfSalesman@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve not gotten around to trying it yet, I’ve already got like 6-7 games on my plate ATM on various devices. I actually suspect I wont hate it but I hear its pretty meh.

  Hopefully Bethesda can turn it around with DLC/updates though. I hear modding is still in its infancy too so maybe we’ll get something in that area down the road too.

  Also I figure if I wait hopefully Starfield will get a VR edition (or maybe a mod) and that might be when I really want to jump in.

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• pyre@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  fucking lol.

  • terrible game design
  • zero game direction
  • nonsensical script
  • not even 2 dimensional characters
  • incredibly unlikeable companions
  • bad dialog
  • fallout 4 style fake choices and railroading, only one way to complete most quests,
  • open world" that requires fast travel, completely undercutting exploration
  • immersion breaking loading screens for literally everything, even following cutscenes which aren’t used for bg loading for some reason
  • spaceship fantasy that barely makes use of the spaceship, it’s just a toy you can decorate but can’t properly pilot, space combat is horrendously bad even though other games nailed it in the fucking 90s
  • planet exploration fantasy that breaks planets into tiny chunks even though no man’s sky existed for years
  • open world fantasy where discovery is undercut by the fact that the same assets are reused over and over. like not even texture and models randomized to have some variation, but entire buildings copied including the placement of objects inside.
  • classic Bethesda style afraid to lock the player out of anything approach that means you have no choices to make, just get through everything in the order you like … be a cop and a thief and a merchant and a cultist and a garbage man why not
  • vast space fantasy with a gazillion planets yet you are the center of everything
  • scifi universe that doesn’t have means of long distance communication for some reason, needing you to go back and forth between planets just to relay messages

  i can go on but got bored.

  the fact that you claim that the only problem starfield had was it’s scifi setting when massively successful scifi games like cyberpunk, deus ex, half life, nier, mass effect etc exist just proves you know nothing about video games.

  and more specifically your seem to have no idea what people want from rpgs if you even consider starfield to be one worth mentioning, let alone an exemplary one.

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