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• Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Personally, I didn’t like it. A think a lot of it comes down to two things: Do you care about the writing and the world they’ve built? If so, how critical of it are you (or alternatively, have you seen the sci-fi tropes done well).

  Starfield has some really bad world building. In particular, it doesn’t understand why we use sci-fi, and why it’s tropes are interesting. it’s to create an anologue of our world and to break it down, criticize, and point out it’s flaws and ways to fix them.

  Starfield is the least critical writing I’ve ever seen I think. The Earth is destroyed, and instead of using this to discuss us destroying the planet right now, it’s just some technobable that has no parallels. Also, when fleeing Earth, they don’t try to solve issues. They just set up new corporations doing the exact same stuff in other places. When the game presents a problem where taking down a CEO would be one of the best possible outcomes, it isn’t an option. Literally everything you do in the game is maintaining the status-quo of the modern world, despite it being the source of so many issues in the game. You can’t change anything and no one wants to either.

  Starfield doesn’t understand sci-fi. Fallout does a better job as a sci-fi series than Starfield does. If you’re still interested, the gameplay is also slow and boring and there’s almost no interesting stories or characters. Continue if you want, but I regret spending time on it for the price of $0.

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  • hark@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also, when fleeing Earth, they don’t try to solve issues. They just set up new corporations doing the exact same stuff in other places. When the game presents a problem where taking down a CEO would be one of the best possible outcomes, it isn’t an option. Literally everything you do in the game is maintaining the status-quo of the modern world, despite it being the source of so many issues in the game. You can’t change anything and no one wants to either.

    That sounds pretty realistic to me. I’m not sure if it’s intentional, but this counts as a commentary on our social situation. Probably doesn’t make for a compelling game, though.

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If it were commentary, they’d talk about it. It just is, and it can’t change. They just copied what they know without considering why.

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• Arbiter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I enjoyed it.

  The criticisms are valid, but I still think it was a fun time.

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• neatobuilds@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Depends if you like starfield

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