Try hiring competent people next time instead
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They all are since they stopped being top-down, the controls are utter dogshit and always have been. I have no idea how or why it ever got popular, playing it feels painful
If I wanted a diverse future in the Universe, I'd play Mass Effect (except andromeda), Star Wars/Trek because that has actual diversity in cultures due to Aliens than just attention seeking.
I'd rather have the hot alien blue chicks that make me question if they ARE hot alien blue chicks or some Cuthullu lifeform manipulating my mind to see them as hot than oh look different colour hair, so diverse...
You're just shit writers, so shit you outsourced to Sweet Baby and are now defensive because everyone knows that they can do a better job.
I've been thinking of playing Mass Effect again. Good shit.
If only they were able to stick the landing
True, if they went with that supposed Dark Matter story than the colour coding at the end it would've been a million times better.
You can tell they actually put effort into 1-3 writing since you get background conversations all the time like the one I mentioned
Even the Citidel dlc has it where if you walk around you hear characters talking about the multiplayer.
hip-firing sniper rifles with max impact mods sending enemies into the stratosphere was so fun. mass effect 2 was bad like all theme park games are bad: polished but stupid and boring. I pretend the rest do not even exist. The first held so much promise for a real RPG in space. Mako and planets could have been pumped up with more complexity for excellent RPG campaigns.
but what we got instead was weak cover shooter with the RPG stripped out and retarded progressive stories written by children.
oh well
It's "ROLE playing game" not "ROLL playing game". ME2 is more of an RPG than ME1. Now it's been years since I've played either, but I don't remember a single decision in 1 that wasn't just advance the story or advance the story but special. There is no Role to play. At least in 2 there are decisions to be made on who lives or who dies, who to recruit and who to get loyalty for.
Collecting +1's is not an RPG.
Yes! I’d love a diverse sci fi gaming meaning lots of ET
I want my tech projects managed by old white dudes, and staffed by young white and Asian men. As God intended, dangnabit.
Also, the cope is real. I don't hate Starfield like some people seem to, but a lot of the characters are quite ugly, and the game does certainly have many flaws. If that's "hope," I don't want the world these people want. But I already knew that. Really, though, if they're trying to hold up Starfield as their success...yikes.
It's telling that his view of diversity is mixing up all the world's ethnicities to generate random mud creatures that make Oblivion's characters look beautiful in comparison.
I deleted it but may download again one day. I was expecting Skyrim in space but it was never advertised that way. It is hard to unsee the DEI
Yeah, the DEI was pretty bad. Not the worst, not even particularly concentrated...but fucking everywhere. I didn't beat you around the face with it for the most part, but it coated you in it throughout.
One of my big complaints, as were many people's, was the blandness. Hopefully mods will flesh it out a bit (hahaha, Bethesda meme true again), especially when it comes to crafting. Looting was very lackluster as, at least in my playstyle, I just ended up crafting pretty much the exact same gun on different frames over and over. Take a gun, make it semi-auto, make it do more damage, etc. Pew pew pew, kill everyone.
For a game that spent so long in development, the balance is wonky, and it's not very fleshed out.
I just assume that's why the game is shit.
Next time just hire a bunch of white guys.
White guys, cheesecake pinups in the cubes and bring back smoking on the job.
I dunno much about his past, but he's been getting blown the fuck out for a few months now. He was either the lead writer or producer, I don't recall which, but he was identified as a problem by Youtube reviewers with hundreds of thousands (maybe millions at this point) views. So, he might be trying to go all-in on prog shit to protect him from the responsibility of leading a $200 million, seven year flop.
I think Starfield probably made a decent profit, but it won’t have the legs that Skyrim or even Fallout 4 had. High level financial analysts will view Starfield as an enormous failure because they see the whole picture. Your average bethesda/Xbox fanboy, on the other hand…
When you have modders not even bothering with Starfield because it's too boring, you know you have a problem.
Talk about a self own.
I didn't know anything about starfield but I have game pass so I downloaded it to try.
Then I saw quotes like this and deleted the game without ever trying it.
It’s a Bethesda game, you’ve played one you’ve played them all
You aren't missing much. The story is bland. The environment is empty. The gameplay is Bethesda.
The future = a chronological frame of reference.
The hope that white men are extinct is just a personal fetish, it has nothing to do with time. Fuckin' freaks are always trying to ruin the best language with their illiterate attempts at sounding deep to a 12 year old.
When I was plying it was hard to unsee all of the DEI
Everyone was a fag
If by “diverse” you mean “dogshit” then yes, it is very diverse
Remember kids: diversity is divisive!
So you chose a wide array of all sorts of dysfunctional people and invited them to bring all their issues with them to add to your project, pleasing nobody. Well done.
diversity produced slop not even the modders want to fix.
I remember seeing a post on 4chan saying that a lot of the game's development was outsourced to foreign companies and it takes a whole 45 mins to list them out in the credits, so he's not wrong it is a diverse "team" and it shows. Hence why the gameplay and universe FUCKING SUCK.
To bad no diversity was placed into the game play. It's filled with empty planets and the same 10 locations on those empty planets. And once you get to around level 30, the game is just easy street.
All this tells me is that we need to oppress or remove the problem elements now before they make my cool sci-fi future worse.
Well, makes sense they produced a brown turd.
Fucking Emil, passing the blame for his own fuckups onto others.
You should have put in more weirdly positioned corpses (sItUaTiOnAl StOrYtElLiNg!!!) into the game. That would have totally saved it, you fucking loser!
It's nice that it's a culturally diverse group.
Shame that it turned out to be a buggy mess that barely has a plot, and the thinnest excuse of a gameplay loop you've ever produced.
You need to collect things to make things and upgrade things, but there's barely any storage for the thing you collect, so your ship winds up being a junk freighter with stuff littered everywhere.
The vast majority of the quests you're sent on are radiant quests from Skyrim. Go to X, kill X amount of Y, return. Or you just play radio dispatch the hard way and are told to talk to X on planet Y, then return to planet Z to get more of the riveting conversation and return to planet Y, that definitely can't be done over the radio, or a communication network of some kind.
It's just a slog to play.
The entire object lesson here is that it is, in fact, not nice that the dev team was textbook diverse. The correlation between diverse dev team and bad game is too strong to ignore at this point. Truth is a studio can only arrive at diversity by hiring under qualified and untalented devs, and a team that is full up on incompetent devs can’t make a good game. That’s the Darwinian reality we live in.
I was being sarcastic. The game is very boring, and it being diverse in game doesn't matter. It doesn't matter that the devs skin color is like a handful of skittles, if the game sucks.
The next thing is going to be even worse. They cannot course correct now. They've shown that they're doing the business version of phoning it in and letting the diverse people have a crack at it, because they know no one's going to want it.
At least, that was my thought about all this at first. I thought were smart. I thought they were doing a little test "See, the things you made were god awful, we're never going to let you make something here again" That's sadly not the case.
They'll never be able to top what they've already given us for decades in terms of diversity. Talking cats and lizards in human shape. That's about as diverse as you can possibly get for a fantasy game of their own design.
Have you played Starfield by the way? It's even worse playing it than watching someone play it. My final month of game pass allowed me to try it for free. And it was disappointing. The more I played, the more samey it was. Every new hour was the previous hour, but on a new, and yet identical planet. These rocks were just tan instead of gray. Shit was still forever apart and the same half dozen at best recycled habitat assets.
The only new thing, at least to a Bethesda game was ship flying, and how you gained your definitely not shout powers and magic abilities. And ship flying was added in a way that just made it a loading zone fest. Between you and the next destination is at least 3 loading zones, and at least a kilometer hike. Riveting gameplay.
If they were sending you to a habitat pod, you knew it was one of two. Same for caves, same for research stations. It was either A or B. I think I saw a third once, but it might've been B, but going through it backwards.
Getting your powers meant flying through a hoop, skipping a dialogue scene, and then fighting the same helmeted person you fought the last time. Each and every time. Most of the powers were useless, too. Like 4 semi decent ones, one okayish one, and the rest were useless.
My point being, even getting it for free felt like too much. They spent all that time and money on it, and it felt like they began working on it maybe a year ago, at best.
Knowing how AAA games made, not that this should qualify, but knowing how they're made, and how much goes into them, this is the biggest wake up call they've had. They were running around forums gaslighting people on how good it was. Do not believe your eyes and ears.
I think the MS buyout came at the perfect time for them. Had they been bought after Starfield came out, they could have got the studio way cheaper, or have been smarter about not buying them.
I watched a bunch of streams, which is my standard operating procedure whenever I’m considering a new game. Literally nothing about Starfield looked fun. The woke shit on top of that bland and boring experience made it an easy pass. And I’m someone who put hundreds of hours into Skyrim, Oblivion, Fallout 3, etc. I actually think Starfield is unbelievably bad. It’s hard to even fathom how they could drop the ball so badly.
It's actually worse than that. I genuinely gave it a fair chance. I thought maybe it does get better like they say it does. I think those people were paid, because there's bad takes, and then there's that.
Every potential it had, it squandered. There's no fun to be had in the game. The tiny little 'ooh neat' moments are so few that the rest of the game cannot possibly make up for it. If they gave this game another 3 or 4 years, and took out all the useless NPCs that don't even act human, then maybe they'd have something. But that's a hypothetical best situation, so I can't focus on that.
I'm actually more concerned for Bethesda now than I was before. I had thought that they'd have a fun new series for fans to enjoy. But you can't have fun with it unless you rationalize every single penny spent on it and force yourself to find something you like about it.
You know how Skyrim and Oblivion lines got meme'd to death because they happened a lot? Stop right there criminal scum and arrow in the knee? I'd gladly go back to that over hearing the same 3 affirmative action lines over and over.
And that's not fun at all.
I regret even playing this for free. Hell, even the final month of gamepass for me was free, and it felt like I overpaid for this.
Y'know that meme from a certain mongolian basket weaving forum that starts the first panel off with a stickman squatting over a plate about to take a dump?
The guy just trying to have a nice meal says "What the hell why are you shitting on my plate?"
The squatting guy says "How do you know it's shit, it's not even out yet"
That's Bethesda now. They've become the butt from which only shit can be produced.
But did you hear the laser in the knee self referential joke in Starfield? The game is just a lot of empty. Even the "cities" are empty as fuck. It's one thing for Whiterun to be kinda small given the environment but New Atlantis is three towers and under 100 people.
Isn't the main issue is that the game's writing is dogshit? I think only one dude wrote that.
I mean, I'll give him the barest credit for actually acknowledging the opposite side instead of just the "diverse" elements. Its rare enough for them to even see having cis men is a diverse piece.
But we all know that's just him not being 110% up on his verbage, and what he meant was "we got all the minority check boxes, praise us!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ratSyYAEzHA