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Bethesda Is Responding to Negative Reviews of Starfield on Steam (www.ign.com)

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

A bigger open world just means less interesting things to do. This is how I've seen Starfield described.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Bethesda games are always boring trash. The real game won't even appear for another year or two at least (after the modders have finished fixing all the bugs, the horrible writing, the design flaws).

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Bethesda games are always boring trash.

Compared to the average game? I don't agree. Compared to entirely exceptional games like Fallout: NV, yeah. But you don't have many options if you enjoy open world fps RPGs, and Bethesda games are sometimes the only passable option. I mean, I'd take Starfield over Elden Ring any day, because of personal preference, not because it's a better game- but my own preference means I also couldn't say it's a worse game.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

But you don’t have many options if you enjoy open world fps RPGs, and Bethesda games are sometimes the only passable option.

This is only true if it's literally true that it has to be "first person". There are, in my opinion, way too many 3rd person semi-RPGs with a vast, open world that are very similar to Bethesda games. It has gotten to the point with me where there are only so many games like this I'll even play, because they're huge time drains and they come across as basically the same game with a different skin or setting.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

3rd person semi-RPGs with a vast, open world that are very similar to Bethesda games

With the "charm" of Bethesda game(that I don't really know how exactly to describe) the only other recent games I can think of are Outer Worlds and Cyberpunk.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think that may be right for first person only, but many games that are largely played in third person fit the bill to me: Witcher 3, Elden Ring, Horizon, and even the latest Zelda games to an extent.

I know I'm leaving many other titles out here too, I'm just listing ones I've personally played.

No Man's Sky is even close to being on the list IMO but it's not quite RPG enough to fit in the same category.

Players are really kinda spoiled for choice when it comes to large, open world games with quasi RPG elements.

I've personally grown kinda sick of the genre.

There's standouts of course (I actually think all the ones I listed are pretty excellent), but all of them require hundreds of hours to complete and I'm just sick of the same game type after a while.

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