1. Are you AI/bot?
2. Wall of text = incomprehensible, would not read/5.
3. It’s rarely about how good the devices are, but how much they cost + Apple’s two-faced moral model that makes people oppose/reject it.

Ah, I see. You’d want more diversity or substance to the dungeons, not length, or puzzles.

Would you exchange it for less dungeons? I mean, smaller number of them, but each distinctive?

And if so, how would you predict it’d change the dynamics of the game? Because now dungeons are pretty much “loot trips”, or locations required to solve some quests only. You know, "Oh, I need me some good weaponry, I’m gonna raid a few tombs and see where it’s going to get me.

(Asking as a worldbuilder).

What would you require of plain, simple dungeons?

I honestly don’t get it.

What we’re seeing in Bethesda’s design are more and more vibrant worlds - modern NPCs walk around, sit on whatever benches they see, react to day/night cycles, use the objects around them, comment on how you’re looking, what you’re wearing (or not), hear about your exploits. Not every NPC is ready to break to you his sad story worth a doctorate in psychology, but which one does?

Even in games one may consider deep you will still find shopkeepers with same lines, or NPCs standing there, in the same spot, no matter whether it rains or not, ready to give you what is essentially a FedEx quest, no matter how many sentences they are going to express it with. You can break a fight in many deep games, and nobody around will mind it - attack a villager in Skyrim and guards and other denizens won’t take this shit kindly.

Heck, the lore is vast, even since Daggerfall or Morrowind you had in-game books to find and read, stories to pursue, myths and legends to learn.

The style, the tone, the predictability are things that definitely might use more attention, but I definitely wouldn’t call it a shallow design.

Only one hour?

HEATHEN! PHILISTINE! 😉

OSIRIS is pretty much what you described, Starbourne 2 I know only from gameplays on YT, but I’m planning to try it “later”. 😉

In the meantime, I already think about spaceships I’m gonna build in Starfield.

The entire showerthought must be in the title

Your question belongs more to Ask Lemmy or No Stupid Questions I think.

In addition: what appeared earlier on this planet? Kids or cartoons?

I prefer Fallout: Tactics to vanilla F:NV.

If not for DLCs that offer something wildly different in their own separate maps, I’d call it the worst Fallout game I’ve been playing…

I don’t get that “shallow” part.

In Bethesda’s worlds there’s always something going on, something new to discover, something new to learn… Providing you put an effort to pursue that. These games don’t force themselves upon the player, they leave helluva room for breathing, caring about whatever small goals you may set upon yourself, but that’s not “bad”, isn’t it?

I never understood the hate Bethesda’s open world sandboxes get. Give them a few months of time for patching & modding and they become rock-solid games to enjoy for decades. I don’t expect Starfield to be anything less and I hope it will be far more than that.

By the way… OSIRIS: New Dawn and SpaceBourne 2 - have you tried either?

time will tell

So we can agree that we’re discussing and juxtaposing against each other very vague things, that might as well turn out to be completely false?

Extinction event level but not really, (…)

Much like the predicted scenario of allegedly upcoming climate disaster, correct?

I never said Toba didn’t happen.

I never said you did.

We’re just debating the degree it affected the entire species

We’re not.

We’re on the way to acknowledge the fact that the mankind withstood “extinction level” events in the past.

Multiple times.

You should read the entire article.

I’m glad YOU did. This way you can learn that there were “extinction level” events in Mankind’s history.

And we survived it.

I mean, the history of the planet involves mass extinction events when 95% of species died off so… not really?

And yet, life is still abundant, diverse and thriving. Isn’t it?

human extinction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

Same here. People often complain on Jackson. As far as I’m concerned, the man did pretty good job given how massive the challenge of Tolkien’s adaptation was.

When I hear that people complain on Hobbit’s length and making it a trilogy, I like to joke, that it’s not a problem. the problem is that Jackson didn’t have budget, vision and time to make each part of LotR a trilogy. 😉

I agree. Ditto for Hobbit. As an example: all those scenes where characters just walk and advertise New Zealand’s landscape are important to understand just how much the road was taken, how much of an effort it was and how beautiful the world is, thus worth saving.

This is wrong. So very wrong. “Stop flying as much”? Dude, the majority of people that I know didn’t fly airplane a single time in their lives. Small percentage flew perhaps a few times in their decades-long lives.

The lists misses more reasonable things:

• ditch whatever modern “high energy demand” fad there is, be it bitcoin mining or electric car
• spend less time on activities that rely on energy consumption, be it online browsing, or playing high-demand video games
• vote for whatever party there is, that wants to build nuclear power plants and postulate to bring cheap energy to every household
• vote for whatever party plans to do something about urban infrastructure, so that mass transit and bikes become plausible alternative to a car
• as much as possible avoid Chinese stuff, avoid enterprises that outsource their work to China, yes it means skipping yet another iCrap announced
• do not exchange hardware/electronic/digital devices that often, ffs the cpu/gpu/memory values do not matter that much
• don’t change your diet, but consider improving it - eat less, waste less, do not overindulge on delicacies
• learn as much as you can about things that reduce your reliance on the society and the products/services it provides

…and as usual, the Mankind survives, adjusting to new reality, be it its own mistakes, or natural disasters.

Life finds the way…