Yeah, even ignoring the woke stuff, the game is absolutely dreadful to watch someone play.
There is NOTHING cinematic or visually engaging about the game.
The gunplay consists of bullet sponge enemies; the dialogue is atrociously dull; and there are no narrative hooks whatsoever for anyone watching.
There's no reason to care about any of the characters or outcomes; literally nothing happens in the game that viewers would care about.
So you're spot-on that Bethesda's own game was likely the biggest anathema for bringing in paying consumers. I skimmed some streams and never once saw anything remotely interesting happening.
its way worse than fallout4 at least there you could explore a connected world, had power armor and vats and more gore and mini nukes and the fallout lore. And the exploration was what carried Bethesda games that just isnt fun with the same few random generated things to do on 1000 planets which are empty. Then every named npc is unkillable so you cant even kill all these annoying ugly abominations they put in the game. Only thing fun was the ship building, but without real space exploration also pointless except for more storage.
Yeah, even ignoring the woke stuff, the game is absolutely dreadful to watch someone play.
I saw a stream on Youtube of a guy playing and he dozed off for a second, in the middle of combat. Starfield is an absolute chore to play and watching it is like having Ben Stein read your local phone book. It's the video game equivalent of trying to OD on Valium.
Yeah the AI is braindead for the most part and the shooting is extremely generic.
You don'\t have to utilise cover, and there are no leaning/peeking mechanics, plus the environments aren't designed for shootouts. So basically you're encouraged just to boost-jump and shoot at enemies ad nauseam. So every shootout basically looks and feels the same, and the guns aren't interesting enough to hold anyone's attention.
Halo: Combat Evolved from 2001 literally has better shooting mechanics and AI than Starfield.
Yeah, even ignoring the woke stuff, the game is absolutely dreadful to watch someone play.
There is NOTHING cinematic or visually engaging about the game.
The gunplay consists of bullet sponge enemies; the dialogue is atrociously dull; and there are no narrative hooks whatsoever for anyone watching.
There's no reason to care about any of the characters or outcomes; literally nothing happens in the game that viewers would care about.
So you're spot-on that Bethesda's own game was likely the biggest anathema for bringing in paying consumers. I skimmed some streams and never once saw anything remotely interesting happening.
So it's basically Fallout 4, only blander, somehow.
Whelp. I wish I could say I'm surprise, but that about tracks with what I was expecting.
its way worse than fallout4 at least there you could explore a connected world, had power armor and vats and more gore and mini nukes and the fallout lore. And the exploration was what carried Bethesda games that just isnt fun with the same few random generated things to do on 1000 planets which are empty. Then every named npc is unkillable so you cant even kill all these annoying ugly abominations they put in the game. Only thing fun was the ship building, but without real space exploration also pointless except for more storage.
I saw a stream on Youtube of a guy playing and he dozed off for a second, in the middle of combat. Starfield is an absolute chore to play and watching it is like having Ben Stein read your local phone book. It's the video game equivalent of trying to OD on Valium.
Yeah the AI is braindead for the most part and the shooting is extremely generic.
You don'\t have to utilise cover, and there are no leaning/peeking mechanics, plus the environments aren't designed for shootouts. So basically you're encouraged just to boost-jump and shoot at enemies ad nauseam. So every shootout basically looks and feels the same, and the guns aren't interesting enough to hold anyone's attention.
Halo: Combat Evolved from 2001 literally has better shooting mechanics and AI than Starfield.