Starfield, Bethesda's Space RPG Spectacular

[Carrot of Truth]

Honestly? An HK G11 would have been and improvement and would not look out of place. The Freestar Lawgiver would have been better off as an energy weapon. Because wood does not conduct heat as well. It's why you have wood on the RPG-7. Anyway. The Lawgiver works by way of a revolver cylinder holding 6 bullets.

My thinking was replace that with a Fallout style fusion cell. It is also a cylinder thus making it an energy rifle. Viola an old west laser rifle.

But the big problem isn't the creation engine....it's the fact they had the brain fart to make it as open world and replayable as possible at the cost of gameplay and missions. Compare Starfield to Skyrim.

From what I understand Bethesda itself was hardly even involved with development and instead contracted most stuff out to a bunch of shitty companies.

 

[TheRejectionist]

From what I understand Bethesda itself was hardly even involved with development and instead contracted most stuff out to a bunch of shitty companies.

That would explain why meeting yourself in Starfield is much more interesting than gameplay.

 

[Agent23]

Starfield, more like Starfailed.

 

[Husky_Khan]

This is canon.

Remember to just puff, don't inhale.



People are smoking the T-Virus in Starfield.

 

[willdelve4beer]

This is canon.

Remember to just puff, don't inhale.



People are smoking the T-Virus in Starfield.

I was wondering what the hell those things were. They list as hookah charges (or something similar) and you can find them in employee areas of about half the various outposts you find outside the set-peice settlements.

Cigarettes and hookahs everywhere. Random combat drugs as well, but none of the old-line chemical intoxicants (for RL legal reasons, I'm guessing).

But the idea that folks everywhere are smoking dried zombie virus and that is why so many places seem abandoned when your character swings by makes a disturbing amount of sense.

 

[Typhonis]

They don't call them death sticks for nothing.

 

[willdelve4beer]

I've seen it written before, and it seems more true each time I play a session, but Starfield really strikes me as less a "AAA" game, and more as a full conversion mod of Skyrim. The only thing missing is Tamriel itself, orbiting some star out there, so you can visit with your shiny high tech armor and weapons to lord it over the primitive locals, blasting dragons with particle weapons and whatnot. I mean Bethesda and Microsoft certainly have the kind of deep pockets to fix it down the road, '76 proved that, at least. But releasing 'finished' games that are actually a few steps shy of being ready for UAT is... tawdry? tacky? Shoddy. That is it. It is a shoddy, shabby, half-assed approach for an industry with the kind of revenues that gaming pulls in nowadays.