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Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda DLCs of all time (lemmy.world)

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Starfield steam page for the DLC currently shows eight user review score of 41%, making this one of the worst Bethesda DLC's released of all time. This is so horribly, shockingly bad for Bethesda, because it shows as a gaming company, they are no longer capable of delivering a really good gaming experience as they had in the past. Some of the reviews sum up quite nicely what is wrong with this DLC....

Less content than any skyrim DLC. Less than The Fallout 4 story DLCs. Doesn't change of the complaints people had with the base game, writing is still at a 4th grade level.

Quick: If you are looking to buy my answer is no, you aren't missing much content. I was really hoping to enjoy this DLC. Took about 4 hours for the main story and maybe 2 more hours to 100% the achievements.

These two reviews I think really summed up what Starfield has become, $70 for an AAAA title that has extremely little buy-in from the community, horrifically low amount of replayability and can be breezed through easily. It's mind-boggling to see this

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[-] Soup@lemmy.cafe 33 points 2 months ago

This makes me feel better about them being exclusive to Microsoft now. I’m not missing anything at all.

[-] EnderMB@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Well...except the next installations of Fallout and Elder Scrolls. Let's be honest, that's what Microsoft were really buying, and neither are anywhere near a release.

[-] djsoren19@yiffit.net 1 points 2 months ago

Neither of which will matter.

Bethesda's game design is just too old. Playing Starfield felt like playing an RPG from a decade ago. Bethesda just got complacent from back when they were one of the only companies that could seriously do an open-world RPG, now we have CD Projekt-Red and FromSoftware with wildly different, significantly more innovative gameplay experiences. Hell, even other AAA devs like Capcom have been able to outperform in the open world space, Dragon's Dogma 2 was a ton of fun.

[-] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

now we have CD Projekt-Red

Holy fuck gamers really do have the worst memories. Cyberpunk is still a shit game after 4 fucking years of patches. CDPR has like 5 titles and one of them is pretty good. FromSoftware has a legacy of bangers a mile long. These 2 companies aren't even in the same wheelhouse.

[-] OozingPositron@feddit.cl 1 points 2 months ago

Can Cyberpunk even be considered an RPG? Lmao.

[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Why not? You have different builds and choices affect your ending and quest outcomes, what more do you want?

[-] djsoren19@yiffit.net 1 points 2 months ago

Cyberpunk is very much not a shit game, it's a pretty good RPG with a great variety of character builds and fantastic writing. The devs did an absurd amount of work in order to make the gameplay significantly more fun. I'd also make the argument that Witcher 2 is a really good game, and is what popularized the series enough for Witcher 3 to be such a colossally known hit. The two companies make very different RPGs to one another, for sure, but you're just being a contrarian if you think the pedigree of the two companies is vastly different.

[-] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee -5 points 2 months ago

but you're just being a contrarian if you think the pedigree of the two companies is vastly different.

Even if we ignore all the other bootlicking and fanboying in the above comment, this statement alone is completely absurd. FromSoftware has developed over 50 games and CDPR has...4? Maybe 10 if you count mobile trash? By the year 2000 FromSoftware had released more successful games than CDPR has released total, good or bad, to date.

It's no wonder that cyberpunk is such a piece of garbage really when you realize every other game CDPR ever developed has "the witcher" somewhere in the title.