Starfield: Pay $60 to get nagged at by women and homosexuals (apparently)
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Synthetic man did a review where he went on several shooting sprees. Just about anyone you would like to shoot is somehow "essential" and thus unkillable.
I mean, it is a Bethesda game. You haven't been able to really do that since Morrowind.
It's one major difference between Fallout 3 and New Vegas as well. The latter only has one unkillable main quest character (Yes Man) in the entire game, and that's because he's designed to be the catch-all fallback option if you fuck up every other questline.
Skyrim fallout4 you maybe had 10 npcs which are immortal, in Starfield its almost every named npc.
I can't compare to Starfield, having not played it, but Skyrim has a whole pile of NPCs who are immortal for some or all of the game. And for FO4, while it is a bit better than Skyrim, someone went and made a mod to remove essential status
But that says "Marked as unessential (if applicable)", havent played skyrim in a while but usually only the Jarls, Guildquestlines and Mainstory npcs were immortal and some could even lose that status once they werent relevant anymore. You still had like 60% named npcs like merchants you could just kill. In Starfield the most basic unimportant merchant in the corner of the map is immortal.
Starfield makes it a lot worse to the point where you have a guy telling you he wants to kill you but if you shoot him he is esential.
They aren't just unkillable.
Bullets fucking phase through them like they have King Crimson.
Essential flags can be switched off from the console. Well, that's what I learned in Skyrim.