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You're thinking about the game. Think instead about what it does to the world. Forget about creating bases or relationships or building status with factions for anything for future content, it kills your character in THAT UNIVERSE FOREVER. YOU'RE DEAD. In fact, from your perspective, IT KILLS...

I haven't finished the main quest but I have thoughts, having finally spoiled it for myself after 200+ hours of playing the game: So NG+ mechanic effectively kills the Starfield Universe narratively. It should have been an option, something tucked off to the side in a hidden quest that you...

I have had a thing where I with the new AMD drivers and the new Starfield update patch I not only have to delete the Pipeline.cache but also have to clear the DX cache or I start getting random crashes to desktop, without any kind of driver timeout/ windows event viewer/Game log recording the...

The only time I have died outside space combat at level 4 when level 14 bounty hunters showed up as part of the Wanted trait (hence my wanting to redo traits, I wasn't ready to do space combat and was getting those missions every 5-10 jumps) was recently on a quest on a level 55 planet "Project...

That's a good point. I haven't done any console commands except to try to redo the character creation to reset the Traits after playing for 7-8 levels; I didn't want to start over. I didn't get any of the traits I wanted, it just killed the one I had already picked /shrug. One of the main...

It's Skyrim but different, with different worlds rather than one continuous world and a bunch of different environments and conditions and low gravity and creatures and if a team in Sweden could make it two years, they would have done so already. The game is fun but has tons of issues and is...

Just to be clear, because the headline of the article isn't , the Sarah Voice actress is on the right looking like exactly Andreja and the Andreja Voice actress is on the Left, looking so much like Sarah. Also, the Andreja voice actress is American. Now I wish to reverse my choices. Sarah...

This was something I thought as well early on: Mass Effect did a much better job of presenting a large space-faring but we are seeing the tension between Skyrim-in-space "Open World" and Mass Effect very clear closed zones. The conceit, however, is just to accept that there is more there; The...

I think I said this very thing on the cusp of release; when the debate was raging about the play testing and balance and longevity of the game, I said we should play it as long as it is fun and stop when it isn't. What became clear was Blizzard design efforts to make the game take longer, have...

1st Cav outfit you can take from the Mercs in the Freestar Ranger questline has 5% reload and 25 Phys Def., Also looks great.

[Insert National Lampoon's Vacation joke about Asteroids] I was going to Simulator my way to Piloting rank 4 tonight but I get its those bounties/Ranger targets unlucky night instead. We did this earlier in the thread so not to repeat myself: It's not so much about having gay options in...

No respec, which I think they justify because there is no level cap. Fake Edit: I see you and others found this out already. The only good thing about using the Lodge is it lets me work on my weight lifting challenge by loading up resources and then sprinting back to the Lodge super over burdened.

I had this a similar-ish experience in "Deserted Science Facility/Lab": Robots say humans are not welcome and they are going to attack/terminate. I think, "well, ok, if you are going aggro, no time like the present." I kill them all. Andreja gets SUPER pissed and aggressive, wants to leave, I...

The "git gud" part is learning the UI, which re-uses the tap/long press combos controls intended for limited buttons on controllers remapped directly on PC, for actions we haven't needed before in a Bethesda game. It's been a long time since I have seen a game so divisive in its reception, with...

I just had a shocking/jump scare moment on a Constellation member personal story quest:

The 4Chan reminds me a little of the Greg Bear sequel to the "Forge of God", "Anvil of Stars" Spoilers for the Forge of God in the summary for Anvil of Stars: Both of these books are great, short for 2023 reads (less than 500 pages) Anvil came out in 1992. Summary:

I get what you are saying about Ender's Game but I always read the tone and the ending as a soldier's regret, rather than Progressive/liberal/SJW/Marxist one. I was young when I read it and have never revisited it, so that may have been my 14 year old interpretation. Cool personal thing about...

I hadn't heard this but Ut mentioned that spaceflight had been redone; perhaps that is why there aren't those things, which are pretty common in Eve Online (which one would expect, given its entirely ship driven). Perhaps they just decided to hold off on the Ship stuff for an expansion and...

I just skimmed the thread but the big allure of "Fast Car" in the late 80's was the killer bass line; we used it to test out our 12" and 15" subs and amps. I still remember not how the music sounded (although really who can forget) but the sound it caused the metal in the doors and trunks of...

Yeah, my mental issues. My reading comprehension issues. Nothing you wrote bears anything but a passing semblance to what I wrote but I get it, man. Who has time to read? YOU'RE ANGRY. About what, I am not sure. ELDEN RING TOTALLY NEW AND NOT LIKE OTHER SOULSBORNE GAMES. Got you, bro...

This sounds like it will be an entirely new experience when Phantom Liberty hits, and I am down for it. Its been a long time since I have played; On the PS5, I was right at the end before the long wait and Johnny made his choice to not make a choice; I am going to start a brand new game on the...

My biggest surprise and chaffing comes from the Oblivion? skill system; I much preferred the Skyrim system of getting experience by doing/using skills, and when you got 10 skill points you leveled. With that system, if you want to level your stealth, you used sneak; your two handed weapons, you...

Yeah, my inability to communicate, because I didn't think I need to write a dissertation to convey the point that DIGITAL FOUNDRY was trying to make. The point is that it isn't "boring and generic" at least in my estimation. HERE'S THE STRAWMAN. "At least there's more of it" No, that isn't...

That's not my argument at all so don't strawman me here. It's their *design language*; its a BGS game, its going to share a lot of features and design choices with their previous games. Why wouldn't it? They have made some of the most popular games of all time. It's not low effort, its their...

The DF guys made this point: Whereas Skyrim or Fallout were limited to a single Kingdom or type of terrain, this has a bunch of different environments. In no way can you classify this as "low effort" FFS: It's a Bethesda game, with all of benefits and limitations that come with their design...

Its the way its presented, it very much comes off to me as Trans allegory, even though its not directly presented that way literally verbatim in the game. Here is a rundown showing Az's rant in context with the proper timeline and the dialogue as he experienced it from his stream. "Pronouns"...

I admittedly haven't played the quest but if you watch the clip, the way it is presented, it is completely playing into the Trans experience. There is little room left for any other interpretation. Well, the galaxy is mapped out but I get what you are trying to say, and making players do...

That's not really what the rant is about at all, "just pronouns" but congrats for being completely 2023 about it, you missed the bit about the encounter in the game about Trans allegory ("I'm a female clone of a man" really? That just makes you a female.) and about they have two different walks...

They somehow seriously underestimated the learning curve on what this game requires the player to know and how much they are tell you. In previous games, Fallout/Skyrim, those games were sequels, so there was an already established convention of how to do things, what systems did what, what...

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I think Ut is right, either this is AI script tested or the whole QA dept needs to be fired, FFS. How many people have shader issues? Lots of people with the same quest person not talking. In the Empty Nest (and the Empty Nest/Akila only; fine everywhere else); my shaders go berzerk with yellow...

Faces are so much better its astounding. Go back and refresh yourself see what Skyrim faces looked like, much less Fallout 3. Watch the Digital Foundry review; They talk about how the game never uses very much vram, even on ultra settings on cards like the 4090/7900 XT or XTX with 20GB or more...

So folks talking about the first dozen hours effectively being a tutorial are scarily coming true. I finished with the Nova shipyards and it let me fast travel not just back to Jemison and New Atlantis but straight to the Constellation Lodge. OK? There is a sense of vastness about space that...

Holy fuck the amount of BS negativity here. While I have a fair number of things I would criticize about the game, its not a flying simulation; its an RPG game in Sci-Fi setting where you can fly space ships. Is this just counter-hype? Not just Brodhi, I mean everyone who feeding the...

My Premium Steam version says the 6th; my game pass PC version with the premium upgrade is counting down until tomorrow.

Mass Effect 1 with the Galaxy map and driving around with Mako was amazing; all the hints of previous cycles and older civilizations, and these incredible unseen things in the past gave the galaxy a since of scale. The whole every 50,000 years thing was weirdly short, even on a human scale, in...

It only has to last until Thursday.

Not in my experience it isn't. Post edited. Thanks!

That would have been awesome to have him in it. He needs to be in more stuff other than The Boys. Shame we never got a Dredd 2. Whatever they are using for the Anti-Cheat/DRM is bullshit; I spent two+ hours fighting with my Trend Micro AV to get it to work, eventually found a way around it...