I just realized the absurdity of mankind exploring the galaxy, and yet still using disposable plastic and styrofoam.
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Yup. It’s why the aliens, if they’re real, will never allow humans to leave this planet.
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i get bored thinking about playing this game
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IGN gave it a 7/10, which was wildly controversial of course, but it has been hilarious hearing them point out all the game’s obvious flaws and things they didn’t like while still having to remind everyone that they did like it they just didn’t think it was that great.
This is the power of corporate marketing and the hype machine. Someone can give a middling game an appropriate score like that and then have to go up against armies of fanboys mad that they’re dragging the metacritic score down for a game they already decided they were going to love before they ever played it.
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the roleplaying opportunites in this game are Fuckin Limitless. if you want to be a criminal and join a street gang, two quests in they get pressganged into the police force(??) and you get kicked out. if you want to smuggle contraband and get caught doing it, you immediately get pressganged into a different set of space cops. the only way to join the space pirates is by becoming a cop and infiltrating them as an undercover. the only NPC companion who doesn’t care about crime is the Adoring Fan from Oblivion, who doesn’t consider anything you do criminal
todd howard made a game where you can pick your pronouns but everyone is assigned cop at birth
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we’ve gone from your dad mildly scolding you in fallout 3 for nuking a town of people to you not being able to do anything that would make your dad disappointed in you
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You can buy a house and get a mortgage and if you chose to start the game with your parents alive (oddly it gives you the choice to play with parents alive vs dead lol) you have to send them 2% of your weekly income.
Everyone is a cop.
All your companions scold you for doing anything slightly immoral.
Who is this game for? What was the target audience they had in mind while making all this? Is it just themselves?
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Also the house mortgage is a complete fantasy because you only have to make payments when you visit it, lol
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People are literally buying a video game house and then grinding out a bunch of pretend work to make enough money to pay off their pretend mortgage as soon as possible.
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Can you pick your parents’ pronouns
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This is maybe the most boring game I’ve played in recent memory
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finally the most Bethesda Maryland Bethesda game
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animal crossing
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my brother LOVES bethesda games like he puts endless hours into all of em since morrowind, he is usually really uncritical about the games but this morning i texted ‘hey is it just me or is starfield really boring’ and he had to CALL ME to tell me all the things hes doing to make it not boring like ‘i have a helmet that makes me invisible when i crouch’ and ended up going 'wow yeah it is kinda boring huh?"
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whenever i picture this game my mind goes to the astronaut at the end of 2001, sitting in a simulated hotel room until he becomes old
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I have to admit this is really cool though. Someone stuck 20,000 potatoes in a room.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoBestFriendsPlay/comments/16ajbvo/starfields_potato_physics_are_onpoint/
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20 years from now a lot of people will be looking back and reminiscing with each other asking things like “What was your potato room moment in Starfield?”
“I built a giant space ship and filled every room of it to the top with coffee mugs. Frame rate was in the single digits but it was so worth it.”
“I made it my personal mission to collect every roll of toilet paper in the galaxy.”
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what if hollow man’s calves were really tight
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I’m on mushrooms and after typing that I couldn’t remember who played hollow man and I briefly got excited thinking it might’ve been Michael Keaton but then it hit me and I said aloud Ugh Kevin Bacon
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in morrowind i was the pants bandit and stole everyones pants and hid them all in a cave that i made my hideout
is everyone being a cop relevant to the world? like is it a fascist society or something?
i watched someone play last night and they started talking to kids cops who rat on smugglers and shit, i wanted to kick the shit out of those kids so bad
also i heard someone say “what happened to the customer is always right??” dude we dropped that shit over a decade ago, we’re not going to keep saying that in the year 3000 or whenever this is set
anyway this seems to have the same problem as fallout where it focuses on all the shitty things about elder scrolls instead of the stuff that makes them a janky paradise of fun
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