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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Surprise twist on an old comic chefs-kiss

[–] moonsnotreal@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Am I the only one who noticed the gun animations are just the fallout 4 ones? Like the pistols use exactly the same animations. I know because I played hundreds of hours of 4.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, you don't always have to reinvent the wheel: if 4 achieved realistic-feeling energy weapon animations, why fix what isn't broken? Third folksy saying.

[–] CordanWraith@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Elden Ring for example has tons of DS3 animations. It's just more sensible to use the existing ones rather than completely remaking the same thing.

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[–] Sinister@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Damn starfield is bad? With its premise being Another basic america glass towers neolib united federation in space, while also made by bethesda? Who could have known.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Yes but this game is political because it lets you pick pronouns. Give me back my wholesome, unpolitical, giant stars and stripes robot spouting anticommunist catchphrases, Bethesda game!

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

The game has incredibly bad performance issues and dogshit politics.

For a game they've dubbed "Nasa punk". There's no punk at all. It's 98% corporate fantasy wish fulfillment for musk-brained techbros and 2% punk. The criticism of capitalism is so paper thin that you can barely notice its presence anywhere at all.

The space pirates use guns with anarchist symbols on them and say anarchist slogans but are clearly not anarchists in ideology and instead are straight up thugs and raiders.

The UC military is presented as real professionals, which is not really correct. If they accurately represented the US military that they're based off of then they'd being jarheads, except for the recruiters and media where the professional show is put on. This is fantasy wish fulfilment at best, or propaganda at worst.

There is no bigotry, patriarchy, etc in this universe and it's absolutely absurd. The universe would have these, capitalism provides an incentive to exploit. Marginalised people are the easiest to exploit. Capitalism has an incentive not to solve marginalised people's problems fully and the further away you get from states enforcing laws to try and mitigate these problems the bigger they would get. So in space and because of the colony wars these issues would have gone through the roof.

It is bizarre that there are wars occurring and yet there are no space refugees anywhere? Where are they? Also there's no homeless people which is fucking weird again. Also no slums or self-constructed accomodation on the periphery of the cities which really ought to exist given that the player can do just that. It's all so idealised to a ridiculous extent.

Everyone doesn't have the money for a starship, there is one absurd mission where you apply for an admin assistant job. You're expected to fly into space and to a space station with your own starship to apply for an administration and assistant job? There should be a private shuttle company that people use to taxi around space for things like this.

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In short, the politics are dogshit and the performance is bad. But, the gameplay is good if you like other bethesda titles it plays just like them. Additionally, I think it's probably the strongest ever game they've released for modding.. And probably their best title since Oblivion (not counting New Vegas which they didn't make).

[–] ErinCrush@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Stop complaining. Play it if you want, don't if you don't want to. People just like to be popular and liked. Everyone bandwagoned on Baldurs Gate being good but I can't think of a type of game I hate more than that. Now everyone is bandwagoning on this because A- they don't have an Xbox or a PC, or B- they want to be cool and alternative.

I mean come on, last week everyone was saying "omg Baldurs Gate has no microtransactions! Roleplaying! GOTY!" And now with Xbox/Bethesda making a game just like that, you guys instantly roast it for being......a Bethesda game.

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[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its like the 3d version of starbound

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[–] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cmon guys stop being mean to Todd

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[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Me as fuck. Though I just keep it to myself instead of trying to ruin my friends' enjoyment.

[–] K0W4LSK1@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Ha you got me with that last panel

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