Comment on Is it just me or is Starfield kinda meh?
Stillhart@lemm.ee 1 year agothere doesn’t seem to be a lot of narrative freedom in the quests
I’ve been playing more since I originally posted this and I’m enjoying myself more but the game still feels pretty meh. But this point above I think is the biggest sin the game commits. It’s an RPG but it doesn’t really feel like my decisions effect anything other than my companion’s view of me. I don’t think there are branching storylines or anything like that.
Hate to do it, but gonna compare to Cyberpunk again. In Cyberpunk, there are multiple ways to solve quests and multiple endings with multiple endings! BG3, of course, also has branching quests that effect the state of the world. The lack of a feeling of agency in this game feels like the biggest fault.
I can get used to the loading screens EVERYWHERE (a loading screen to enter a tiny store? really??), the weak gunplay, the watered down mechanics and wide but shallow world. But this game is an RPG first and if the RPG mechanics are bad, what is left??
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I haven’t played CP2077, but I may have been spoiled by the characters and autonomy in BG3. The writing and choices are just so stellar in that game, it set a new standard. I remember in BG3 being so appalled by one NPC that I decided to just kill them instead of taking any of the games multiple dialogue routes to handle them and there were unique consequences and dialogue lines for taking that course of action!
A lot of the story telling in Starfield just doesn’t hold up to scrutiny if you look at it too closely and you have to closely follow the set paths or else it kinda breaks. Really disappointing in that aspect. Maybe if it had released prior to BG3, it wouldn’t seem so unpolished.