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The fact that nothing in Bethsoft games has any consequences is probably the biggest flaw for me. It makes their games predictable and boring in the long run.

Sponsored by Coinbase, hilarious. This is just embarrassing.

I dunno, that trailer looks weird. Near the end I expected this to be a generic 4 players COOP or looter / extraction shooter and was surprised when people called it an RPG.

I always lol when people claim the Ciri model was changed after the first trailer reveal.

The engine is totally fine. In fact, I really like it - always did. It's amazing to work with and the gameplay is not as bad as people make it out to be. They improved a lot in most areas, except maybe ai pathfinding and such. But that's not really the fault of the engine either. Starfield even has acutal ladders now! The only thing I always have issues with, is the quest design in their games. It is just terrible. You have all those cool ideas but then you dive into it and... yeah... why expect anything else than a linear corridor. Some quests have multiple ways of doing them in the way that you can be an ass or an ass kisser. The end result is - at best - just different loot rewards. There is one quest where you have to find a dude and collect money from him. You can shoot him and loot his weapon and stuff, or you pay the bill for him and he will gift you his weapon. Amazing. Yeah, sure, you will get negative reputation or whatever, but why would I care if literally nobody else in the game world does. Really, it's just sad. Funny thing is.. I was just thinking that a Starfield made by Obsidian probably wouldn't be that great either. They are so formulaic in their quest design by now, that it gets lame as well, just in the other direction. Guess the tl;dr is ... everything is so predictable. /Edit: Oh boy, I have more to complain about Generally I like how the settlements and outposts look, but... why is everything so small again? You have whole planets to work with!! Can you not make something like.. I don't know.. a farming planet, where everything you can see is just fields of crops? Unlike Fo3, there's actual farming and plantations now at least, but still.. why not scale it up? Work with what you have!!111

Well, they don't really need to focus on that a lot since they probably make more money from just selling "creations" by third party creators / modders. Not gonna lie, playing this game and seeing all the wasted potential makes me start dreaming up a smaller quest dlc as well. Something that is better than everything in the game right now (not really hard to do, truth told). The only issue is that Bethsoft pays like 20% ... yeah, **** off. Considering how expensive game dev is, and how big of a risk this is, since you have to put up with all cost first, this is terrible. Even Bohemia Interactive pays 50% - that's far more reasonable. However, it seems Bethsoft doesn't even release patches, since I have found issues in the game that people posted about back in the release days already. Again, this is just typical Bethesda. The moment they change game engine and mods aren't possible anymore, is when their company will die, since the community can't fix their bull**** anymore.

God damnit, Starfield is such a typical Bethesda product, it's not even funny. You look at the world and stuff and it really feels like this could be something. I really like the visual design and even the way the gameplay feels, with exception of annoying bullet sponge enemies. But then at the end of the day it's still just a Bethesda game -- wide as an ocean and deep as a puddle. There was a quest with some collector dude that started out really interesting. You had to get an artifact from him in whatever way you want... yeah, right. Either you shoot him dead or you shoot him until he gives up and let him live. Great choices. If this quest were in an Obsidian game, you just know you had at least 3 or 4 ways to deal with the situation. Now I had a quest where you have to get some super dangerous top secret data from an archive. All the time on the way to that point people kept telling me how I have to be on my best behavior, how I can only access the data I need, how I am NOT supposed to look at anything else... Well, guess what... Once I was in the archive, I had to press 3 buttons to open a door, walk down a corridor and basically press another button. THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE. You couldn't do anything else, even if you wanted to. There is no way not "to behave", there is no way to look up any other data. Nothing. It's a linear corridor. I swear, the writers must have a word budget of less than 250 words per NPC, otherwise I can't explain this crap. In the main story I had to talk to one person from each big religious faction about some mythical mumbo jumbo. How does that interaction look like? Player can ask 3 questions and the NPC replies with maybe 2 or 4 lines. End of it is you saying "Hm yes, now I understand everything" - meanwhile I'm sitting here like wtf did just happen. EVERYTHING in this game is like that. What's the point of a gazillion quests if all of them are like this. Please just scrap 50% of them and instead make everything else 50% bigger... At this point, the only good quests in the game are the ones that are (almost) unmarked and entirely localized in small areas. Where you don't constantly fast travel from one planet to the next to a point where you lose the sense of scale in the world, because everything is a black loading screen away anyways. Man, it's such a shame. This could be so good, but it's... Bethesda. It's the same crap every time with all of their games. This is why I stopped bothering with Fo4 and why I would have never even tried Starfield if it weren't included in Game Pass. Deep inside, I knew this is exactly what the game would be like, and I can already tell you now that TES6 will be exactly the same. /Edit: My companion just told me she is part of House Va'ruun. NO ****. Please, man, don't insult my intelligence. That was obvious from the very first moment. She even wears clothes that are like whatever the Va'ruun guys are wearing and now I was forced to act all surprised and what not. If at least my character could be like "yeah, I kinda expected that" ... but nope... "wow, you lied to me, this is so disrespectful." ... bruh, just stop.

LoversLab adult alien mods is the only way to play games. No. I just like the aesthetics. It feels very NASA. Also I like that robot companion from the beginning of the game. A lot of the writing is really cringe and bad, but occasionally you find a little gem that is interesting and you'll start to actually like that character. Also I like those big town locations that I have seen so far. They look really nice and do feel somewhat alive. Not as alive as Cyberpunk 2077, but still.. a lot better than in older Bethsoft games. I've installed a bunch of mods already that fix issues and change things I don't like. There are bugs that Bethsoft still didn't fix yet.. and they are in the game since release a couple years ago. This is just so typical Bethsoft. They release something and then move on, not bothering about it anymore, because "the community will fix it" ... just terrible practice all around.

Bros, I have an announcement to make. I have started playing Starfield and I know, this is madness. The writing is Bethsoft level dog poop as usual, the quest design is dog poop as well, it took me a while to get used to the weird visuals, but now it kinda clicked with me. There is a lot in this game that I don't like, pretty much everything I hated in Skyrim and Oblivion and especially Fo3 and 4 already, but still... Somehow I'm in it right now.

So Musk defeated all of his enemies and doesn't have to fear going to jail anymore, I guess.

Just finished the last of us season 2. I liked it, but man, that ending... and now we're waiting like 2 years or what for season 3? Modern tv show production schedules are so f'd.

I managed to watch 2 episodes of it and found it extremely generic and boring. Crazy they managed to get 3 seasons out of this.

I want a sequel to that The Rift episode from s1. IMO one of the best episodes and it carried everything a lot.

Thought the new season of Love Death Robots was better than the ones before. But it's still kinda at a point where you are like "ok" ... That music video episode was a nice idea, though.

I wonder if there will be less episodes about "huge waves of monsters attacking a small group of people" now, or if they keep doing that stuff.

Everything they don't like is woke or DEI.

Yeah, make hits more fatal and then scrap 75% of all enemies at all times. If it's still too easy, remove the auto-aim like in other games and you instantly have a more rewarding combat system. Wouldn't be mainstream enough, I guess. While we're talking about it, RDO has shown that R* had no idea who the hell their target audience for this game was. Rarely have I seen a potential great game being butchered so much with stupid ideas. Battle Royale game modes, fantasy bounty hunter armors, immense grind for gold to buy the actual cool stuff (or pay $$$ ofc) .... it's just sad. They thought the people who play GTAO would also play RDO, but they were very wrong and now it's dead.

It's so weird. I see that trailer and I'm thinking.. damn, this looks so good. But then I imagine R* gameplay on top of it, where in every single job you end up headshoting 100s of bad guys and I'm like.. meh.

My idea is to turn it into Trumps... uh.. summer home for the rest of his life.

Heritage Foundation (Project 2025 etc) is looking at Europe now: https://www.desmog.com/2025/03/14/heritage-foundation-project-2025-allies-mcc-ordo-iuris-discuss-dismantling-the-eu-european-union/

I never finished FF8... but more so because it felt like this game just didn't end. And every chapter started the same way, with one character being in a coma. But thinking about it now, I believe that I never fully understood the combat either. For example I had no idea how to fire the gunblade. And I probably never ever used a single limit break.

Way to make me dislike the Star Wars franchise even more.

Yes, limit break is necessary at that point. Enemies get so much hp, if you are capped at 9999, you'll die of old age before the fight ends. The story path is probably still ez, dunno (didn't progress much there since). But everything related to side content has sharply increased in difficulty.

Ah, I wouldn't say that I played the game wrong. It's just that the parrying mechanic is extremely important and up until the very late game you can easily ignore it. Technically I can still mostly ignore it and just dodge, but then a majority of the late game fights will become extremely tedious and long. You need to parry to break enemies faster and deal extra damage.

Germany has many safeguards for this. It is really hard to ban political parties and can't be done "just so" - even the NPD many years ago, was never banned. In the end, what they did was to stop the funding and the problem solved itself. Just keep that in mind when you read about banning parties.. it's not easy and it can't happen from one day to the next. It's taken extremely serious. That said, ofc I agree that removing the party in itself does not solve the issues that created it in the first place. In the end, it probably will cause the other big parties to once again sit on their asses and not doing anything substantial again. It's quite infuriating.