and I am really not impressed. I don’t want to know more about the story, don’t want to build a spaceship that I can fast travel with, don’t want to explore the universe.

What are your thoughts?

80 points

It looks like Skyrim in space and I don’t really get why anyone was expecting something else

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But Skyrim is beautiful even with its older graphics and has an interesting world to explore. Grey space metal structures on grey planets just aren’t interesting. Also even more so if the story starts with “you touched a weird rock”, don’t know why but here have my spaceship.

In Skyrim you’re waking up going to be executed next moment there’s a dragon attack.

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47 points

I mean id argue Skyrim isnt that great to look at either, given its a continent full of tombs and snow due to its climate. Its just gray and white.

Both Morrowwind and Oblivion had more interesting places to look at than skyrim did.

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20 points

I disagree, skyrim had beautiful nature, landscape and skies.

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32 points

Right? There was this one guy on Lemmy the other day expecting the game to be like Freelancer… Like, dude, it’s Fallout with a space suit, we’ve known that for years now. I feel like gamers always have the most stupid and unrealistic expectations imaginable.

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4 points

Freelancer

“We don’t own this place but we have an understanding with the people who do.”

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I mean, yeah, if you aren’t into the core elements of a game you probably won’t be interested in the game. It’s like say, “I’m not impressed with the new Mario game. I don’t want to do platforming, and I don’t care about powerups or collecting things.”

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Yeah, lot of people are upset that Bethesda released a Bethesda game.

“Why is this like Skyrim in space and not like completely different studios style?”

Well, probably because Bethesda made the game and not the other studio…

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19 points

A surprising percentage of gamers seem to think that any new AAA title game is catered to them and rather than understand it was made for other people, they complain about how bad it is.

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6 points

fair

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37 points

People are getting pretty spicy with the responses. OP was just underwhelmed by a game getting a lot of hype. Like lots of people are going to like it, but not everyone. I think theyre just trying to generate discussion, not say “everyone who likes starfield is an CHUMP!!” or something.

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haha thanks yeah I just shared my thoughts, but this is the internet after all ;)

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Personally I’m excited to see what the mod landscape is going to look like in a year. As with most Bethesda games, I couldn’t care much less about the game itself outside of that key feature.

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I’m in the same boat. I play Bethesda games for the experiences the modders create. This will be a steal in a few years for $30

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Imagine being a company known for creating games that are a steal when they are 50% off a few years after release.

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I don’t think Todd Howard is too worried about it given all the free labor his games get

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Same, I am waiting for this. I can only imagine the mods, it’s pretty exciting honestly. (But also because I am too cheap for any $70 game)

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Plus then you can get all the expansions bundled together as Special Edition.

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36 points

Sounds like you simply don’t like science fiction video games then. Thanks for letting us know. I’m gonna go play some Starfield now.

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55 points

what lol — he doesn’t like starfield so that immediately means he doesn’t like science fiction games??

I’m a huge scifi and fantasy fan and I refunded starfield after 4-5 hrs

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22 points

Well I (not OP) would love me some actual Mass Effect 4, for example. Not really excited for a sci-fi Bethesda RPG though.

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10 points

I love death stranding for example.

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