• Bleeping Lobster@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    My initial response is prob as sarcastic as the others but a thought just occurred to me.

    Skyrim, v1. The og release, before all the mods and bug fixes.

    Undoubtedly still a better game than Star field. But was it the Skyrim we revere today? Will Starfield be transformed into something fun over the next decade?

    What am I on about. Almost certainly not lol.

    • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Skyrim was fun which is why its endured. Starfield is unfortunately fundamentally a bit boring and feels dated - they didn’t learn from the RPGs that came after Skyrim and moved things forward (Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 spring to mind).

      I doubt it’ll be fixed. Its not like No Man’s Sky -the developers only game and their number one priority. I think well get the usual small DLCs and Bethesda moves on to its next big project.

      I hope they learn from Starfield and make the next elder scrolls something special.

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          5 months ago

          To me it actually felt like a regression.

          One of my favorite things in skyrim/oblivion/fallout 4 was environmental storytelling, and this just has none.

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            5 months ago

            This should be bread and butter of immersive gameplay. Show, don’t tell. If I want a 1.5k word info dump I’ll go to one of my stories on royalroad. Letting me make my own narrative will be more enjoyable for me 95% of the time.

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        5 months ago

        So maybe I haven’t played enough of Witcher 3 to understand your comment from that perspective, but how did Cyberpunk 2077 move RPGs forward? I found it lacking when compared to Skyrim/Fallout 3/Fallout NV?

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      5 months ago

      Other than being super broken, it’s still the same game at its core, minus the DLC content and the graphical updates (and the paid mod store).

      I think the only non-MMO that was completely transformed over time with patches I can think of is No Man’s Sky

    • SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      That’s a stupid take. Skyrim 1.0 was essentially the same game as it is today.