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Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda DLCs of all time (lemmy.world)
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Starfield steam page for the DLC currently shows eight user review score of 41%, making this one of the worst Bethesda DLC's released of all time. This is so horribly, shockingly bad for Bethesda, because it shows as a gaming company, they are no longer capable of delivering a really good gaming experience as they had in the past. Some of the reviews sum up quite nicely what is wrong with this DLC....

Less content than any skyrim DLC. Less than The Fallout 4 story DLCs. Doesn't change of the complaints people had with the base game, writing is still at a 4th grade level.

Quick: If you are looking to buy my answer is no, you aren't missing much content. I was really hoping to enjoy this DLC. Took about 4 hours for the main story and maybe 2 more hours to 100% the achievements.

These two reviews I think really summed up what Starfield has become, $70 for an AAAA title that has extremely little buy-in from the community, horrifically low amount of replayability and can be breezed through easily. It's mind-boggling to see this

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[–] antithetical@lemmy.deedium.nl 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That was one of the things that really helped with the immersion for me in Witcher 3 and even Cyberpunk. You walk into a building, house, etc and the world outside just continued and was present. I'm still quite impressed with their engine and it is a bit sad that they'll be switching to UE5 for the next Witcher.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know! Red engine honestly is pretty great once they got the bugs worked out, I'm sad they're leaving it. It was extremely immersive, and there's definitely something about it that feels different.

[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Red engine was hitting its limits.

UE allows them to focus on gameplay and contents over building the core engine.

Think about cyberpunk? The engine was fine (if unoptimized) but the gameplay and contents were missing.

UE will allow them to focus on their missing skillset