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[-] Aidinthel@reddthat.com 11 points 1 year ago

The hype backlash was a serious issue for that game. People expected it to be something it never could have been.

[-] Lith@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago

It would be one thing if people were just overhyping things, but a lot of the outrage was over how much they just blatantly lied while marketing the game. They promised a lot of specific things and then released something that was aesthetically impressive but ultimately outdone in just about every other category by sometimes decades old games, and lacked all of the groundbreaking features they marketed.

Personally, even coming back to it much later and trying to enjoy it at face value with all of its updates, it still felt like a boring and shallow GTA clone with a neon glaze. That's not to mention the fact that it's still frustratingly buggy.

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah I think the same thing is happening with starfield as well. People expected skyrim x elite dangerous x the good parts of no man's sky and I think that just isn't realistic. That said I find starfield pretty meh in it's current state, I am waiting for the QOL mods to stabilize before I play much as I just ran into way too many issues.

[-] Fosheze@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I've seen a lot of people complain that "It's just fallout in space." And I'm just wondering what the hell they were expecting.

[-] mortrek@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

My biggest (not only) complaint so far is that entire planets have maybe 8 or 9 species of plants and animals. Hopefully biodiversity mods will pop up. It seems like a decent platform to build future content into.

[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Might be because they marketed it as such and then the devs failed to live up to the marketing.

I still laugh thinking about how it ran "surprisingly well" on PS4. Lmao

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