• yoink [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      I’m about 20 hours in and enjoying it immensely, for what it’s worth

      I think a lot of people had expectations way too high for it, expecting to have a life replacement ala Star Citizen - I didn’t follow any of the marketing, and I’m genuinely enjoying the story and the atmosphere a tonne

      It is very Scifi Fallout (love to pick up trinkets) and imo it’s come out really well

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      1 year ago

      No it’s just another video game. The core competency of this developer is dialogue interaction or dialogue puzzles that help create a sense of immersion in a world with lots of RPG mechanics. It is more or less in line with their previous games. There are quite a few tacked on features.

      There’s so much media coverage of video games these days I think it makes it hard to just have them stand on their own merits without having every detail examined and compared across every game that has ever released. People who are spending the money on video games as entertainment will be entertained, but this isn’t a genre defining product and it isn’t a flop either.

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      No nor is it “buggy” by any real stretch.

      People like to shit on every Bethesda game since they don’t like their brand of RPG. For them roll playing means you can do whatever the fuck you want. Do you want to go off and kill every person in sight, well it’s a bethesda RPG so yeah go for it. Do you want to go into people houses at night and steal all their food and mess up the place? go for it. Do you want to… etc. Hell this idea runs so deeply, there’s a mechanic in oblivion I beat you didn’t know existed, goblin warfare. It’s real, it’s just also buggy.

      Yeah it’s another bethesda RPG, now with space. I’ve been having a blast with the game so far.

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      1 year ago

      Only watched like 2 hours of gameplay footage but seems to have learned from the mistakes of Fallout 4 while keeping the fun stuff like legendary items and weapon customization. If you like Bethesda games and sci-fi I think you’ll love it.

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      1 year ago

      At least I thought so. Refunded after 10 hours on Steam.
      Did not feel like a game from 2023. Did not want to pay that much for that quality.