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Pointing out how much of a flop Starfield has been is beating a dead horse at this point, but it’s a horse that deserves a beating after how dismissive the fanboys were at launch.
“YoU jUsT hAvEn’T PlAyEd It EnOuGh”, turns out they were the ones who hadn’t played it enough to realise how repetitive it is.
The horse in question.
Clearly that guy can take a beating still, with that gorgeous armor. Not even a dent!
Looks incredibly impractical for walking through tall grass tbh
What are you talking about? It's like a built-in scythe.
Can now the lawn as he runs
The only thing we managed to beat was its shadow
Younger gamers have no idea that this was the moment where we failed to safeguard their future.
As someone who didn't use the Internet at all for a month after it released to enjoy it without moany Internet people to try and ruin my fun, discourse about this game online that I have seem has been like 90% against it.
Do you all not get tired being so relentlessly negative about these games? I swear it's only the angriest redditors that came over here because it's so demoralising seeing constant lies and exaggerations from Bethesda hate fanatics.
Sure call me a fanboy, I'd rather be obsessively enjoying something than whatever the hell you all like to do
I literally went into it with a positive attitude, ready to accept it for what it was, and tried to focus on the the good parts of the game, of which there are many.
I'm already done playing because it's repetitive and doesn't have the same feel of exploration that Skyrim, Oblivion, and Morrowind had, mostly because of the overreliance on fast travel between planets.
Objectively, it's not a terrible game. The problem is that even those of us who gave it an honest shot have to be honest with ourselves and admit it isn't good either. It's just middling, which is fine. A lot of games are kind of just meh and that's okay. Some of those games are deeply loved by a small set of passionate players, and that's okay, too.
Further, it came out two weeks after a game that shoved a hot firebrand under the ass of every video game developer because of how quality the game was. Bethesda couldn't have released at a worse time, and I think there's more negativity due to that, because now gamers can say "I know what I've been missing." They have something that is way above middling, fucking fantastic really, to compare it to.
Is that comparison fair? Honestly, yes, because Baldurs Gate 3 isn't doing anything groundbreaking other than bringing CRPGs back to their roots. Anyone who played Baldurs Gate, Baldurs Gate II or the original Fallout would understand this, because BG3 really mimics the style of those games while also bringing the graphics into the modern era. If anything it's a return to form for the industry, and now people are simply going to demand that level of detail in their fictional worlds.
Finally, Bethesda has always had shitty writers, so there's that. They always fixed it by making the world you existed within engaging to interact with. Starfield is sadly just not that engaging, and thus the bad writing really shines through.
As if we're not fanboying over and obsessively enjoying other games instead.
All the endless Baldurs Gate 3 memes couldn't be because people enjoy it could it?? /s
You're a fan boy =) seriously thou, other people are disappointed. If you like it good for you but other people are entitled to their opinions as well
I’d say you’ve seen 90% hate because you weren’t there for the first week. I’m not saying all people who enjoy it are fanboys, it’s people who were telling other people they were just playing it wrong when it first came out.
Either way, if you enjoy the game then good for you, you don’t need my permission and are best just looking past other people’s criticisms if you like it.