I’ll probably get it around thanksgiving. I was watching the HeelzvsBabyface livestream that got so much attention. I avoided arguing with the trolls in his comment section otherwise I’d still be on there with the people who said everyone has pronouns or that pronouns are welcoming.
I know some say to just roll your eyes and continue but this acknowledgment of a tiny percentage of delusional people is beyond idiotic.
I’ve also heard that they really hammer THE MESSAGE and there is the usual “representation”
I feel kinda bad because I know there are female gamers and I have some nieces who play games (granted they are games you would expect girls to play) but this almost decade long push for more women in gaming is beyond annoying. As well as the “everything has to appeal to everyone” marketing idea.
Like I said I’ll probably buy it around thanksgiving and there will be cool mods I’d imagine. I’m still playing heavily modded Skyrim and can’t wait for the oblivion mod.
Next up is Elder Scrolls 6
After 40 hrs in the last 4 days.. travelling is slightly better after you explored an area. You can directly fast travel somewhere and skip the take off cutscene, loading, setting course, spooling grav drive, cutscene of warp speed, appear in orbit, clicking on planet surface, loading, cutscene of landing, loading to exit spacecraft. After you discover an area.. so i can go from another system and fast travel to the outside of lodge with 1 loading screen...
Followers are super glitchy. Sam Coe, if he is with me and we are talking to a 3rd npc, he butts in. But when he does 75% of the time he is talking from 50feet away or behind a box or wall. Sarah.. that bitch dissapears from a fight 75% of the time.
Game still runs like shit. Its very cpu bound. You need a very current cpu to run it above 60fps at ALL times because at least 2 cities.. most people getting 45-50 fps at 1080p. My gpu is a 4080 and it barely 45% of its ability and only uses around 7gb of vram out of 16gb. You need a high thier 13th gen intel cpu or a 7800x3d amd cpu.. but someone claims that fast bandwith ram is also important (which is correlated to cpu). Cities look crappy, graphically, but also runs like crap. Landscapes of planets look cool and pretty, it is more "atmospheric" compared to cities. but that is also because not much happens there. I also finally played enough to run into planets with green vegetation and some water.
Game is filled with ugly ass black/brown/asian people. Like butt ugly. Fat too. Still no exotic humanoid intelligent aliens.. still no exotic planets where human population have an unusual demographic for some historical or scientific reason.. like no planet that is all kids, no planet where its all amazonian buff women that kills you by snu snu, no planet where its all just one race. Its always the same demographic mix. Im asian.. super offended all asian females look like dog shit in western games. I think you are black, im sure you know what i mean. Western game devs often make black females look ugly. Well.. i guess all females look like dog water. Most random black npcs look like god damn gorillas lol. The supporting female black npcs is okay, like Noel. Basically, no space babes.
Followers talk too fucking much. They talk about their feelings for 10 minutes every 10 to 30 minutes.. i also have zero desire to be around any follower or the constellation group. Seems all the hot 18 to 25 year old people are dead.
Almost no gore at all. You cant seem to dismember enemies. Not much blood. Only blood ive seen was one scene that had a npc said.. "its bad up here... so much blood" but when i got there, there was no blood at all. But then i went back to the other quest area, this npc had a pool of blood under it.. but strangely, the npc itself wasnt bloody. Its a rated T game...
Speaking of rated T not even space brothels with these ugly ass npcs. Like a red light district. There is a city that is cyberpunk like. Cyberpunk and seedy red light go hand and hand. Closest thing to redlight was a club with 3 faggots and 1 female dancing in some weird clothes.
Combat is nothing special.. animations of weapons is basic. Nothing cool like from the game killing floor were each weapon has multiple reloading, idle, selecting and deselecting animations.
And lastly.. super predictable. Its skyrim and fallout in space. If you play both, its like 85% of the story. Literally... you are the "starborn". You look for abilities like shouts in skyrim lol. You are the one. Funny thing is tes6, which comes out either in 2025 or 2028 will become starfield, but with magic! Lol.
Especially since they use that bug-eyed whore, Debra Wilson, as the basis for most of them.
I think they have a real problem with attractive people. I always say that I see normal/fat/ugly people everyday so as an escape it is nice to have more attractive people.
Three primary questions, considering you've played a bunch. Is it fun? How's exploration feel, especially compared to past games like Fallout or Skyrim? How bad/intrusive is THE MESSAGE? Thanks!
Now that's just unforgivable.
It's not just games, they do it for movies too. It's really messed up. They're so scared of beauty that, even in their alleged quest for "representation," they make most minorities look like fucking mutants. There's occasionally attractive blacks and Asians in movies/TV, but it seems like more often, especially if they're race swapping, they have to add that little extra bit of insult and just pick people who look like absolute genetic rejects. Such equality, such respect. "We love minorities, we just hate beauty more," they seem to be saying. Not that they even love minorities, but that's a separate topic.
That's kind of jarring. As is taking some corpse's spacesuit, but they're still left with it. As weird as stripping your dead enemies felt sometimes in past games, it looks weirder taking their armor and not changing their appearance. Such a weird choice.
yeah, they kept it to a minimum. in fallout 4, you had meat bags. in skyrim you had skeletons and body parts everywhere.
It's nice that you brought up the "rated T" aspect. I've seen the hints of that in other videos and reviews, but among all the complaints people have nobody seems to care about that one. It gives of the feel of a focus-group-driven, sanitized - I don't want to say kid friendly but what passes for kid friendly today - corporate product. Like a PG13 Disney movie made for teens.
I know it was a different company but this is such a far cry from the original Fallout games made in the fucking 1990s which were full of (2D) ultra-violence, sex, slavery, and bad language. Come to think of it, even Fallout 3 contained more racy content than this. Is this what "your game on ESG" looks like?
Yeah... they didnt take many risks making this game in terms of story/content. Its all very vanilla and non personal. Dont think there is anything remotely offensive, like they ran the story and dialogue through the ethics department dozens of time.
Its basically a marvel movie script where you can decide to be good or evil. And if you choose evil, its just not too evil lol.