Let’s rely on the modding community to fix our broken mess that’s riddled with game breaking bugs then release a patch 10 years later that breaks all mods.
Anon makes a wish
Submitted 1 month ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 1 month ago
XaetaCore@lemmy.neondystopia.world 1 month ago
at’s riddled with game breaking bugs then release a patc And refuse to move away from their ancient engine 💀
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
This is why I was so mad about Starfield, on its own merits it’s a perfectly mediocre game that I nearly enjoyed for about 15-20 hours, but the instant I booted it up I realized it was still on the same mf engine they used for Fallout 4. Whole game plays like a high quality F4 mod. I was mad as hell, that was the one thing I was actually somewhat excited for about Starfield was that the space setting and new IP might actually give them the opportunity to cook up a new game engine.
At this point I’m expecting to see ES6 come out on yet another further Frankensteined iteration of this crusty bitch and I’m just going to laugh about it. I’ve lost hope that it’ll get better and there’s a slim chance I might get pleasantly surprised.
Butterpaderp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Jokes on you, starfield has paid mods. They can’t even get that right now.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
We can also look at this from the other direction. The fact that they provided the tools to all of us, and let Fallout London be made and distributed is huge. You may not be grateful for that, but I am.
Has any other company done such a thing on that level? I really don’t know.
nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Stories is debatable now.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I mean, they stopped having good stories and worlds 10 years ago.
Greenbeard@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Weird how that only includes Fallout 76 and Starfield
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I forgot how old I am / what year it is.
So yeah, as VerilyFemme says, its actually worse.
Fallout 4’s story is awful.
The dialogue system, with basically 4 ways to say the same thing, with different emotional states?
Terrible.
The world is basically also not great… a few kind of neat world/lore ideas, a lot that suck and/or contradict previous canon in ways that are just stupid, tropey, or in some cases break significant chunks of the universe.
I honestly never even cared for Skyrim, I was hoping it would be more like Morrowind, instead it was even less like Morrowind than Oblivion, barely played it.
Fallout 3?
Well, story was kind of notorious for having to retcon itself in order to make post-endgame anything even possible, and of course your supermutant companion who could easily tank the radiation damage just won’t let you sever the thread of destiny or whatever.
It had some good spots, but also a fair deal of just not well thought out things: How in the hell does Lamplight cave just have an ongoing society of only children, thats been going on that way for nearly 200 years?
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
good stories: 20 years past
good worlds: 18 years past
just imo
U7826391786239@piefed.zip 1 month ago
remember when everyone was excited about 76 LOL
also diablo 4 LOL
also starfield LOL
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Well not too much for Starfield. Back when they announced it they were comments about how their engine isn’t good enough to pull off the things they were promising. It’s why I didn’t pre-order it.
U7826391786239@piefed.zip 1 month ago
i expected bethesda graphics and gameplay, which were always meh after skyrim
what i didn’t expect was the pointless boring in fact fucking tedious everything else involved in playing a video game– wtf is this fetch quest about talking trees? go talk to this guy, and then go talk to that guy, and then and then and then– what a fucking let-down.
don’t worry i learned my lesson. i’ll never buy another bethesda title unless a year has passed and it still has a minimum ‘very positive’ rating. maybe not even then. fuck bethesda
Jesus_666@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I got it as soon as I got a GPU that could comfortably run it… because it was bundled with said GPU. I did activate the key but never bothered to actually install it. Maybe later in case the handful of modders actually make something cool in there.
I was kinda interested before launch, hoping that this would be the game to finally force them to meaningfully overhaul the engine they’ve been carrying around since Morrowind (with some bugs dating back to then). Of course it wasn’t and of course they didn’t.
Tiresia@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Imagine needing reasons not to pre-order. I bet you pay more than €30 for games too…
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Starfield is the Song that Never Ends from Barney.
Monotonous, boring, annoying, loops back into itself, overstays its welcome, may potentially drive you insane with too much consistent exposure.
Damarus@feddit.org 1 month ago
Diablo is a Blizzard IP
U7826391786239@piefed.zip 1 month ago
true, and fuck blizzard too
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I remember being excited for Diablo 3 💀
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
They weren’t excited for Diablo 4 for the world and story, though.
affenlehrer@feddit.org 1 month ago
Ultima Online LOL
U7826391786239@piefed.zip 1 month ago
yes, as a huge ultima nerd, i was excited for UO. after spending hours barely being able to do anything because of my 386 PC and 14.4 dialup speed, and then getting killed because of all the lag and losing everything, i said i guess i don’t have the money to play this game, and left it
but that wasn’t bethesda– still origin at that point
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
UO was pretty popular and good up until EA bought Origin in 2004.
davidgro@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The monkey’s paw makes a shrug motion.
yakko@feddit.uk 1 month ago
That monkey’s paw crossed its fingers, they barely make games anymore.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’m picturing something like Thing.
tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
“best stories”
posted a full decade after fallout 4
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
i wish there was a company that made dogshit games
with some of the best worlds and stories everprole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I mean, I guess this is true if you’ve never read a book before…
The_Surviv0r@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yeah they should have read great hits like The Lusty Argonian Maid!
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It was always a pleasure to see that in Oblivion and Skyrim. Is that the only book in the series where you’ve met the writer in one of the games?
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I tried reading a book once, but the controls were too fiddly and my progress through the main quest was too slow.
Bonsoir@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
There was no repeatable sidequests too. Where’s the replayability?
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
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real_squids@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Probably helps that they got one of those worlds from another company
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 month ago
And when they let yet another company do a game in the series as a one-off, it became widely regarded as the best title in the series post Bethesda acquisition.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What game was that?
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
One of their games was made by another company entirely but now they’re making other worlds outside them
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Have you played many of their original settings? I thought they’d be different. They’re all passingly interesting but haven’t really stuck in my head quite the same way
Ging@anarchist.nexus 1 month ago
wait, which one?
mult@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The first Fallout game was made by Interplay and second one by Black Isle, Interplay’s in-house dev studio.
Broadfern@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Fallout