Comment on Is it just me or is Starfield kinda meh?
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I feel like there not being a single large map derives a bit from that BGS feel. In Skyrim if you need to go somewhere new you might trek across the map for a few minutes, and on the way come across a few random encounters and interesting places. In Starfield you teleport most of the way, and if you want to come across random encounters outside your ship you have to go out of your way or do some specific quests.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Yeah, this is my feeling as well. It makes it feel like a few disconnected locations, not one shared universe. If we could get into out ship and fly places without just teleporting there from the map that’d go a long way to fixing things. Maybe also make things happening in space to make it feel alive. As it is, the space stuff is mostly just another loading screen on top of the other loading screens. It doesn’t play a role in the rest of the game and just serves to disconnect us (rather than connect as it’s supposed to) from the world we’re in.