• bunnyfc
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    687 months ago

    it’s like AAA games are only early access these days

    • @9cpluss@lemmy.world
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      187 months ago

      In two years they can get the award for “best ongoing game” then, just like Cyberpunk :D

      • @wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
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        67 months ago

        God, what a dick sucking award. Cyberpunk may be playable now, but it did fuck all to deserve that.

        Better games launched excellent and got better with age. Launching to get removed from online stores and taking years to reach playable is not the best ongoing anything.

        • @iheartneopets@lemm.ee
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          27 months ago

          It truly was a Great Gamer Gaslighting after that anime was released. Suddenly, cyberpunk was a work of art and everyone wanted to revisit it to see places from the anime. They hadn’t even done much to fix it yet at that point, and may even have still been dealing with legal stuff from all the stuff they promised that wasn’t in the game.

          The PR turn around with that game was wild to watch, it happened almost overnight. And Gamerz TM did it to themselves.

    • @Fades@lemmy.world
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      Thank corporate morons forcing devs to the door to meet ridiculous timelines, they don’t give a fuck if it’s ready or not.

      I’m a SWE and my manager would tell me shit like “even Apple pushed out the iPhone with some bugs”, “at some point you have to wrap it and ship it”, etc. Mgmt uses this bullshit to feel better about their (or their bosses) poorly balanced priorities and decisions.

      It’s all about announce early, bag as much interest and money as possible and then ship it regardless if it’s reached the definition of done or not (you better believe mgmt will throw those goalposts around as they see fit)

      Pre-ordering morons hold some blame here as well as they play right into the bullshit I’m talking about

    • @idiocracy@lemmy.zip
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      57 months ago

      why the surprise? as long as people keep buying they will try to squize more money for less effort.

  • @malchior@aussie.zone
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    467 months ago

    Glad to see they’re still improving it. When I get the Ultra Game of the Year Turbo Deluxe edition for $20 in years to come, I no doubt will enjoy it.

  • @ACardboardRaven@lemmy.ml
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    367 months ago

    oh boy, now i get to enjoy… basic features that should have been there at launch?

    seems this is a recurring thing nowadays. i pray to god fable 4 doesn’t suck the big one.

      • @thesmokingman@programming.dev
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        57 months ago

        Peter Molyneux is not involved with the project or studio so there’s actually a chance we might have both reasonable expectations and promises delivered. I had to google around to make sure; initially I was going to link some stuff about how trusting Molyneux is really dumb.

  • @ieightpi@lemmy.world
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    287 months ago

    Nakey Jakey recently did a super indepth video on what is wrong with Starfield. And suffice it to say, I’ve removed the game from my wishlist. There’s betterr games to spend my money on.

    • @WatTyler@lemmy.zip
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      107 months ago

      If you too have an unhealthy relationship with absurdly long video essays, I’d point you in the direction of PatricianTV’s Starfield analysis.

      • @saze@feddit.uk
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        17 months ago

        I desperately want to watch his 8 hour analysis of Starfield but am scared of the commitment.

        • @WatTyler@lemmy.zip
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          47 months ago

          Advice for consumption Patrician himself posted on his 24-hr Skyrim analysis:

          • Use the YouTube chapters.
          • Play it in the background or on a second monitor.
          • Don’t rely on YouTube accurately tracking your progress through the vid. Comment a timestamp to use as a bookmark instead.
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            37 months ago

            Commenting a timestamp is a nice way to get “engagement” for the algorithm.

      • @ieightpi@lemmy.world
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        107 months ago

        Maybe it’s time to just stop giving Bethesda money all together. Or until they start releasing games when they’re finished.

        Guess that could be said about any AAA company though

      • @wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
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        47 months ago

        Man, if they release a “pokemon emerald” version of starfield and slap a goty title on it, that just confirms the company only breathes in order to try and blow smoke up our asses

  • The Snark Urge
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    247 months ago

    Yeah yeah, wake me up when AI modders recreate Daggerfall in the ES6 engine.

  • Kaldo
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    167 months ago

    I’d say “i will pick it up on a sale in a year or two” but they’re just going to release the enhanced / special / anniversary / superspace edition down the line too, so why bother

  • @qooqie@lemmy.world
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    167 months ago

    The main feature I want is better optimization. It’s really not good still and I’ve played with the settings more than I wanted to

    • @Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
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      Last months patch did a lot for optimization, especially on the cpu and non amd gpu builds, seeing double digit gains.

    • @TheMinions@lemmy.world
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      67 months ago

      Honestly I let my Gamepass lapse and was considering re-upping it to play Starfield. And now I am for sure not going to re-up it for Starfield. Maybe I’ll visit it in a few years, but it sounds like not a great time from Nakey Jakey’s review on it.

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          Just the fact that the ship combat is awful AND you don’t get to fly your ship TO other planets makes this a pass for me.

  • @spiderkle@lemmy.ca
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    107 months ago

    It’s nice Bethesda wants to pull a Cyberpunk, but Starfield at it’s core just isn’t as good. I’m all for some redeeming updates though, because at least there would be something to come back to

  • Dem Bosain
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    87 months ago

    I haven’t bought Starfield, was waiting for sub-$25. If there are no mods, I’m lowering that to sub-$10.

    • @ieightpi@lemmy.world
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      47 months ago

      Seriously what a clusterfuck of a game this has been. I’m so happy I didn’t bite and buy it yet.