Comment on Ex-Starfield dev dubs RPG’s design the “antithesis” of Fallout 4, admitting getting “lost” within the huge sci-fi game

MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Purkeypile explained that Starfield’s main city, New Atlantis, was the “antithesis” of Fallout 4’s Diamond City.

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  “I didn’t work that much on that city,” Purkeypile explained. “I worked on Akila and Neon a fair amount, but New Atlantis, I wasn’t really involved in that much. But I got lost in that all the time when I tried to play the game too it’s so big and Diamond City, you can see, is kind of like the antithesis of that like sprawling city thing.”

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s a good point tho, DC is compact and designed that way with a solid lore reason.

    NA should be more spread out lore wise, and it is.

    The big mistake was having the navigation patching direct you to fast travel station to move about the same map. So if you tried to walk places in NA, it was likely to make you walk to the closest fast travel point. Which prevents players from learning the map and getting lost when they realize what’s happening and don’t want the loading screen for fast travel.

    Like, I agree with the guy, but it’s not a design problem, it’s a pathing problem.

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  • Yokozuna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wait… his name is actually Purkeypile? I remember playing through fallout 4 once and I looked through the list of names Codsworth recognized… and Purkeypile was one of them. I named my character that and made him the most dapper man in the wasteland “Missta Purkeypile…”

    I wonder if they put that in there because of him.

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