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Starfield gameplay revealed
- Thread starter Biosnake
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Haven't seen the demo yet since I'm at work, but looking at the comments it seems like it's super underwhelming lol.
Meh. I don't suspect gunplay is the reason people buy Bethesda games, and I don't really need Destiny shooting mechanics to enjoy the game.
this is my fear as well, I would have much rather preferred 10 massive and fully fleshed our world's to explore. Hope I am wrong but I feel there will probably be a tonne of repetitious content with 1000 worlds to explore.
Went from ok to great as the demo went on. The combat kind of just looked like more Fallout. Functional but not terribly exciting. Only interesting part was when those creatures did not attack. But I'm quite into all the hub world, building and spaceship stuff.
I hope the dialog system is more interesting than Fallout 4's and the story gives you more agency beyond playing factions. They didn't really go into that at all. Which gives me the impression that maybe there's something substantial in that area that they want to hold off showing for a future showcase. Or it's currently all WIP jankbuggy and they didn't have time to do an E3 thing about it.
I'm tentatively optimistic about the scope. Seems likely that these hundreds of worlds will be largely barren procedural nothing worlds. I'm not sold on "there's oodles of landmass" as a selling point. But it feels like if it's just something that's there in addition to the crafted locations, then that's fine I guess. The fact that you can go to that space mountain could add a sense of freedom. And it's possible that they'll manage to sprinkle some interesting worthwhile stuff around various planets. Or maybe they'll figure out some mechanic or design or atmosphere or something you can do out there that's enjoyable or engaging.
I hope the dialog system is more interesting than Fallout 4's and the story gives you more agency beyond playing factions. They didn't really go into that at all. Which gives me the impression that maybe there's something substantial in that area that they want to hold off showing for a future showcase. Or it's currently all WIP jankbuggy and they didn't have time to do an E3 thing about it.
I'm tentatively optimistic about the scope. Seems likely that these hundreds of worlds will be largely barren procedural nothing worlds. I'm not sold on "there's oodles of landmass" as a selling point. But it feels like if it's just something that's there in addition to the crafted locations, then that's fine I guess. The fact that you can go to that space mountain could add a sense of freedom. And it's possible that they'll manage to sprinkle some interesting worthwhile stuff around various planets. Or maybe they'll figure out some mechanic or design or atmosphere or something you can do out there that's enjoyable or engaging.
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The funny thing is that yes, it has that signature Bethesda feel, but it looks miles better and more ambitious than any Bethesda game ever made.
Many people decided they weren't going to like this game a long time ago.
i've got the 4k demo / trailer on my oled right now... seeing it like this makes me feel a lot better
It looked good. They got a year to clean up that frame rate. My favorite part was the ship customization
I don't think people really realize what planetary scale means. Even if it was one planet and they had hundreds of people toiling away for decades, the amount of procedural surface with nothing to see would round to 100%. Going from 1 to 1000 planets doesn't change that, though there's obviously a lot of extra work to give them all sufficiently unique biomes.
Oh yeah… I just realised what I was really hoping for was star wars meets skyrim and what we got was mass effect meets fallout… that's a little bit sad :(
Need someone to clear this question up: How does space travel work? Do you travel to different planets from a menu or can you actually fly there through quantum travel a la Star Citizen? Also is atmospheric entry in? Gotta rewatch the footage.
...so... any hopes they will be able to get to run this at 60 fps on XSX? Seems like it had issues with 30 in the presentation.
I have yet to play a current-gen game at anything but 60 fps (the one exception being that I'm playing the PS4 version of Elden Ring on my PS5 to obtain 60 fps).
I have yet to play a current-gen game at anything but 60 fps (the one exception being that I'm playing the PS4 version of Elden Ring on my PS5 to obtain 60 fps).
"damn, they modded guns and no man sky into skyrim. cool"
Cynicism aside, this looked mid. That framerate was fucked too.
Cynicism aside, this looked mid. That framerate was fucked too.
I bet this will have some insane mods.
There will 100% be mods for ship parts that let you build ships from every major sci-fi franchise.
Not sure how big your ship can get (probably not much bigger than the footage showed if you need to be able to land and do combat in it), but there's still plenty of iconic small to mid-sized ones you could fit in this game.
There will 100% be mods for ship parts that let you build ships from every major sci-fi franchise.
Not sure how big your ship can get (probably not much bigger than the footage showed if you need to be able to land and do combat in it), but there's still plenty of iconic small to mid-sized ones you could fit in this game.
- The Defiant from Star Trek or the Delta Flyer
- Millennium Falcon obviously, and a hundred other Star Wars ships
- The smaller Stargate pyramid ships
- The Red Dwarf Starbug
- GOTG Milano
Looked like Fallout 4 mostly, more so than I expected. Hopefully the people that excited for this are satisfied when it comes out though.
I'm actually ok with the idea o 1000 planets. Even if procedural and "barren".
To me, space is vast emptiness of interestingly barren planets and moons. I'm more than fine jumping from one to another every half hour just for the scenery and some resources.
I platinumed the OEM barebones original release of no man's sky. It was brilliant for the fact it embraced the exploration aspect of the nothingness of space.
To me, space is vast emptiness of interestingly barren planets and moons. I'm more than fine jumping from one to another every half hour just for the scenery and some resources.
I platinumed the OEM barebones original release of no man's sky. It was brilliant for the fact it embraced the exploration aspect of the nothingness of space.
Looks like something I'm going to play 3 years after the launch when it has had a number of mandatory Bethesda updates.
I did the same. TBH I'm more worried about the Series S being able to even run it at locked 30 based on that footage.
The game itself seems interesting, but boy that 30 fps milestone seems so far...
I will likely buy it, but no preorder for this one.
I will likely buy it, but no preorder for this one.
looks like the typical jank fest you get with bethesda games
...and I can't wait to get my hands on it
...and I can't wait to get my hands on it
Cool it's on Gamepass so I can try it anyways but nothing about this is interesting to me.
Fallout 4 sucked and this looks like that but with 1000+ planets.
Fallout 4 sucked and this looks like that but with 1000+ planets.
Dug through to find the stuff I'm interesting most in-
Alien creature combat:
Base-building:
Ship building:
Space combat clip:
Alien creature combat:
Base-building:
Ship building:
Space combat clip:
Or people can express how they think without feeling labelled? It's all subjective and you don't need to defend multi-billion dollar companies.
I wish they showed the takeoff and landing done manually from the cockpit. I'd hate to press a 'takeoff' or 'land' button and watch the sequence being automated. Landing anywhere I want would be integal part of my enjoyment, hopefully with partially destructible buildings. I'd gladly pay for repairs to have this freedom of manually trying things, failing and crashing. So, the question is, can I crash the damned ship or it has plot armor?
Seems to me that you can fly there but then you choose where on the planet you want to land (which can be anywhere) and then land in a cutscene.
Fingers crossed I can run this at 30fps on Steam Deck. With compromises it should be possible. Maybe.
Looked ok, was kinda underwhelming. Would've hit a lot harder if NMS didn't already exist, but I'm still looking forward to playing it.
