Silverseren

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Silverseren,

This sounds perfectly Reddit.

I thought we came to the Fediverse to escape this bullshit.

Silverseren, (edited )

"if you just take it for what it is without thinking what you wanted it to be"

Why would I do that for any video game? With that mindset, you could claim any game is good, because you aren't actually engaging with its content on the level that it deserves.

Don't prop up bad games.

Silverseren,

"An honest conversation about Starfield needs to come from judging the game for what it is. And the game itself is … fine, I guess? A recent Kotaku article articulates in more detail how Starfield isn’t “humanity’s greatest achievement,” but it’s an enjoyable game and that’s fine. The menu system is extremely clunky and the aforementioned encumbrance issue is still there—all systems that haven’t changed in decades. Whether it’s deliveries or the fate of the galaxy, nobody else seems to do anything but you, the player. Just because these are hallmarks of past Bethesda games doesn’t mean that they get a free pass.

And herein lies the problem. Because Starfield is so similar to Bethesda’s previous offerings (for better or worse), Bethesda “fans” are pushing back against critiques of the game as a critique of all Bethesda properties. Looking at Sterling’s video about encumbrance again, the online defense of the game’s issues boils down to fans saying, “I can’t tell you why. I just do.” This is indicative of the lack of thought that Bethesda actively encourages in their games."

Yeah, that article does a good job at summing up the issues here. It really shows that maybe we need to have a broader conversation about how most past Bethesda games are worse in retrospect, actually. Starfield is helping to exemplify and point out that.

Silverseren,

Tia Nadiezja over in the comments there also has good points:

"Bethesda games get a pass on serious, game-breaking problems that would kill games from other companies. Skyrim still, a decade and more after its original release, two full remasters in, has more glitches and bugs than Mass Effect: Andromeda or Cyberpunk did at launch, and those bugs did serious damage to those games' reputation.

Throw in the horrific treatment of staff by Bethesda's management and the open transphobia they've displayed, and people should not be playing this bad game. Have some standards, folks!"

Silverseren,

Better? My point still stands.

Silverseren,

Seems a pretty well grounded review. The main storyline is boring as hell, especially in the beginning. Which is particularly the part where you don't want your game to be boring.

The procedural generation can be occasionally fun if you get lucky, but it routinely becomes boring as hell once more.

Add in the usual Bethesda bad game making jank and you're left with an incredibly underwhelming product for the length of time and money put into making it.

Silverseren,

Is this a cry for help? Do we need to get them some therapy?

Silverseren,

Does the latter part mean it won't be available to the broader public until October, since they will be focused on the elderly and such first?

Silverseren,

My roommates both have health difficulties that would put them at high risk if they contracted Covid. So the least I can do is make sure I am vaccinated and masked to reduce the risk of me contracting it and infecting them.

Because I'm not a terrible person that only thinks about myself.

Silverseren,

So Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 were kickass Bethesda games?

Silverseren,

Well made games get praised for being well made games and get the accolades and attention they deserve, at least on the AAA level.

If a AAA game isn't receiving that, then it's probably not a well made game.

Silverseren,

But those are their most recent offerings. I care more about the quality of what they produce now and not their glory days decades ago.

Silverseren,

All I "cherry picked" was their two most recent games that have actually been published in the past decade.

Silverseren,

Why do you assume they're going to issue a patch?

Silverseren,

A lot of the comments above are super creepy in how neutral they are on Rogan, who is well known to be a far right conspiracy crank who mostly platforms other cranks and super bigoted people and credulously spreads their claims as accurate.

He very rarely has actual decent people on and, frequently when he does so, tries to argue with them that they're wrong. Especially if they're scientists.

Silverseren,

Because it's left-wing and Rogan mainly appeals to far right conspiracy cranks?

Silverseren,

Oh, he got way more unhinged during and since Covid. That's when his conspiracy craziness took off for the stratosphere.

Silverseren,

He is "mainstream" in being known as a conspiracy crank. He claimed January 6th was a false flag: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/joe-rogan-january-6-false-flag-b2385733.html

He just generally pushes right wing misinformation whenever he gets a chance: https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-rogan-is-mainstreaming-right-wing-misinformation

Silverseren,

"He never confronts any of his guests. "

This is false as of the past year or two (post-Covid). Now whenever he has a scientist on, he'll argue and disagree with them, especially if the topic is Covid, vaccines, or climate change. He really likes the gish-gallop argument method where he spews a bunch of long since discredited claims on the topic.

Silverseren,

So go and listen to Matt Walsh then too? It's the same sort of right wing conspiracy crap pushing.

Silverseren,

Rogan doesn't consider them enemies, he considers them friends.

Silverseren,

And where would one go for a "normal or accurate response" then? Because it's common public knowledge that Rogan is a right wing misinformation and pseudoscience pusher. Especially since the beginning of the pandemic.

Silverseren,

Is that why Joe has been on an anti-trans kick for the past year alongside all the Republican fearmongering?

Beehaw on Lemmy: The long-term conundrum of staying here

Yesterday, you probably saw this informal post by one of our head admins (Chris Remington). This post lamented some of the difficulties we’re running into with the site at this point, and what the future might hold for us. This is a more formal post about those difficulties and the way we currently see things....

Silverseren,

I would think moving to a different platform would still entail it being a federated platform, right? So there would still be interaction from that platform with Lemmy and the Fediverse at large.

StarUI, a must-have mod to replace the bad inventory UI (www.nexusmods.com)

For anyone who hasn’t yet checked out the Nexus since the game’s release, an inventory UI replacement mod has already been out for some days. It gives you a way more compact and useful inventory interface with clickable columns that you can sort by, and most importantly the value per mass column. The most important item stat...

Silverseren,

And by standard, you mean bad outright. Bethesda doesn't get away with QOL improvements that every other major game company figured out years ago.

Silverseren,

Sadly, that percentage is probably better than a good number of doctors.

Silverseren,

"It’s just as polished as Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom."

Sorry, I can only laugh so much at such a pathetic claim.

Silverseren,

Yes, because the engine is trash.

Silverseren,

JFC, I constantly forget just how unhinged and detached from reality tankies are.

Silverseren,

Also, in what manner would personal drug use have anything to do with him being a rapist? Their attempted defense is irrelevant.

Silverseren,

Which is an explanation and that explanation, where you'd defend "family" even when they did do something wrong, if not horrific, rather than say they should face the consequences of their choices.

And that sort of defense is one where the person making it is just as evil as the person they're defending.

Silverseren,

So, the ship is a superfluous mechanic they shouldn't have bothered with?

Silverseren,

Shouldn't you be comparing to other current games in the genre, rather than past games of the company? Because if the game is better than their past games, but nothing close to current games in the genre, then that just means it's a bad game and their past games were worse.

Silverseren,

Why would he? Todd hates everyone who plays his games and cares only about separating money from pockets. Fallout 76 made that quite clear to everyone.

Silverseren,

The problem is people defending the games as perfect 10/10 GOTY. And just the general gamers who get super whiny and mad if anyone complains about anything in Starfield, saying that's just the "Bethesda genre".

Silverseren,

I like Skyrim and Fallout New Vegas, hate Fallout 3, 76, and Starfield. The former are not comparable to the latter.

Do younger people go home earlier now? Or go out less? Is it since COVID?

Someone asked a question about how frequently young people have time to socialize and it made me think about what people do with their evenings. I recently asked my son to go to a concert (free ticket to see a band i know he likes) and he declined because it was an hour away on a weeknight. If we invite our kids or niece/nephew...

Silverseren,

4 people I know right now are home sick with the new strain of Covid.

Silverseren,

"So many complaints I can just address as “it’s a bethesda space game, and this is what it’s supposed to be like”."

Why do you have such an incredibly low bar for Bethesda in particular? Demand better or you help make the entire video games industry worse.

Silverseren,

My concern is when I'm seeing streamers play games like Starfield and run into a ton of bugs, often game-breaking ones, but then go and praise the game to high heaven.

I just want a basement level of proper standards, that's all I'm asking for.

Silverseren,

That's precisely what I'm seeing with streams of the game. There's so many bugs and just bizarre design decisions, especially with the opening hour or so, but the streamers then claim it's a perfect game with no problems.

Silverseren,

A significant amount of the bugs do seem to be based on how long you've been playing and how far into the game you've gotten. The farther you get, the more bugs start appearing.

People have been reporting various bugs in a number of places. Here's one example: https://www.reddit.com/r/Starfield/comments/168i21o/psa_major_bug_do_not_board_enemy_ships_to_capture/

And a bunch of people bringing up various things here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Starfield/comments/166vco5/starfield_bugsissues/

Silverseren,

I was going to ask what the heck racism they're talking about, but I see from the comments here that it's about the Xi Pooh image, the one made by Chinese netizens against their own government.

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    Silverseren,

    Using female as a noun is both bizarre and cringe if we're not talking in a clinical setting. You would say "a woman's behind", not "a female's behind", unless you're a misogynistic Ferengi.

    Which I suppose is basically what incels are.

    Silverseren,

    So calling out tankies for their dictatorship support and defense of genocides made us the Nazis?

    Sure, Jan.

    Silverseren,

    I really don't understand why so many trans individuals state their alliance with tankies, when any government tankies support are totally fine with murdering them.

    They're okay with ragging on the US' problems against the LGBT+ community (and there are many such problems to rag on), but conveniently ignore things like gay and trans people being killed in droves in Chechnya.

    Silverseren,

    It's just f'ed up that economically left and economically right nation-states are in joint agreement of wanting all of us in the LGBT+ community to die.

    Silverseren,

    They're fine with the kids dying so long as the kids aren't gay.

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