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[MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences! (cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com)
submitted 1 year ago by quinten@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

For those who have pre-ordered it is already here, the rest have to wait a little longer. Starfield is finally here! Have you bought it, why or why not? If you've already played it, what do you think of it? We are very curious!

Discuss all things Starfield below!

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[-] Narte@lemmy.ml 86 points 1 year ago

Watched a streamer play for quite a while and my primary takeaway is that I wish Bethesda would just scrap their engine and start fresh.

It's got the same stiffness, gliding movement, butt-ugly NPC's, and just the general feel of 15 year old Bethesda RPGs. I expect I wouldn't be able to enjoy it for the same reason I struggled with fallout 4.

[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I respect the sentiment, so no disrespect to it; but in software, there’s often a lot of caution against throwing out too much code.

You often find certain modules and sections of code that really should be thrown out or overhauled. If you can convince the corporation to dedicate time to doing that, it can often, but not always, show its benefits.

Probably a lot of the popular games we still play use some old bases, but replace parts that don’t work well. I think Apex Legends is still technically using Source (HL2), they’ve just done a lot to it so it no longer looks anything like Half Life 2.

[-] arefx@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Okay but Bethesdas engine kinda sucks and source engine is still pretty good...... Why keep something if it's not very good, other than to save money of course.

I'm done paying anything above half off a Bethesda games since fallout 4/76 anyway, they were bad and awful.

[-] darkkite@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

we've never seen a source game at the scale of oblivion and have object permanence so you can't really compare the two.

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