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I think this is it. I enjoy making fun of the NPCs in starfield but mostly when I'm playing I don't notice them at all. I do have a few very pretty screenshots of the game. It's not perfect by any stretch but the scope is impressive and most of it really is pretty good

I'm not a fan of Bethesda's reliance on mods to do basic shit, like fix a broken UI and inventory management system, by honestly I also think this argument is overused. People pay for these games because they want to mod the shit out of them, it's like ninety percent of the appeal. Nobody is forcing modders to work on them, either. That argument can only stretch so far. For comparison, No Man's Sky is actively hostile to modding, and as a result I probably won't be going back to it despite loving it. They're not going to add the kind of content I want, they're likely never going to, and they're not letting anyone else do it either. I wish they'd allow free volunteers to finish off some of their 75%-of-the-way-to-greatness features.

With starfield, I'm excited for the mods, and the game is far from flawless goodness knows, but I've had a friggin good time and definitely got my money's worth on vanilla. Now I look forward to spicing it as I like.

The upper whites thing has led to some of the funniest memes I've seen in ages, not gonna complain about that one.

It's literally not possible to ride my bike home from work without going through traffic on one of the busiest streets. They force us into the car traffic and then portray us as getting in the way. It's infuriating

Assigned snake at birth, it's a yuan-ti thing

I fudge enemy stats all the time, or at least I used to. These days I play blades in the dark, and before that I no longer needed to fudge much after years of practice.

The argument about fudging usually presumes some sort of pity for injured players and creates a strawman out of that. I don't fudge hits or misses to save people, I fudge to keep the fight moving along. Six rounds of "your sword clatters against its scales but it seems to be holding up okay" gets old really fast. If the fight is taking too long I whip out some kind of tension ramping effect and drop the enemy hp. "Oh no, it dumps over a cauldron of acid! (But it only has 20 hp left not 60 because this is getting slow)"

It's perfectly reasonable to wait. Games only gonna get better.

I'd try not to read too much into the internet fuss. It's a better release than Bethesda's usual in most regards. I wound up sinking almost the entire weekend into it, haven't done that in ages. The games really fun. That said, it is only going to get better with time.

I'm playing starfield way too much. Every now and then I get a break to continue my Minecraft project with the kids. The internet keeps telling me I'm not supposed to be having fun with starfield but it's just not working, I'm really excited about the new capital ship I'm working on now.

I found it took a long time to really get rolling. On the other hand I'm 70 hours in now and keep finding more depth and things to do and mechanics I haven't even explored, it sometimes is a bit daunting how much there is to do in it.

!dda_discussion@cdda.social - we've got a micro-instance for our ultra-nichd foss roguelike, cataclysm: dark days ahead.

I'm not sure. It's a good game, but the fun you can have in it is more Minecraft style than Bethesda style. If you want that, then it's probably worth a try

Yeah. I'm agreeing with you I think, but my main gripe here is that even in the intro/tutorial moments they don't actually tutorial anything.