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[–] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Starfield doesn't feel unique really. There's probably thousands of decent space games out there already, No Man's Sky, Everspace, EVE, Elite Dangerous etc.

Like Fallout was unique and beautiful. There aren't any other third person post apocalyptic RPGs with as much style or substance as Fallout. Sure the game is janky but it can be forgiven because the style, story and atmosphere made up for it.

However, Starfield just feels like Skyrim in space which isn't enough of an upgrade to make things interesting. Most of the quests are just going over and back to talk to people. The NPCs feel weird and uncanny valley like, the planets are mostly boring and there are just far too many loading screens.

Nakey Jakeys video on this recently was a great summary of the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS2emKDlGmE

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Like Fallout was unique and beautiful. There aren’t any other third person post apocalyptic RPGs with as much style or substance as Fallout. Sure the game is janky but it can be forgiven because the style, story and atmosphere made up for it.

Metro?

However, Starfield just feels like Skyrim in space which isn’t enough of an upgrade to make things interesting. Most of the quests are just going over and back to talk to people. The NPCs feel weird and uncanny valley like, the planets are mostly boring and there are just far too many loading screens.

It would have been a lot better if it was just skyrim/fallout in space. They threw out everything that made their past games good, that they built their entire company on, and, i dont know.. seems like every time they had a choice in designing starfield they just intentionally made the wrong one at every turn.