Official Thread Starfield - 60FPS Coming to SX 15th May. Land Vehicles in the Works
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Not everything is rendered at once. Plus we don't know how landing on planet surface works. Is it seamless or are there loading screens, etc.
Twitter comments regarding Starfield (and pretty much anything else) starts to ruin the your imagination of what the game could be like. Yeah, it could suck, but why dwell on it. I'm not saying get all hyped, but isn't that why we watch announcements? Too much analyzing and fanboyish comments.
Apart from the atrocious low fps, the game looks sick and coming along better than I had expected. I have faith in this considering the fact that Bethesda RPG games have the biggest modding communities.
I personally think it's important to put just how long that Starfield has been in development into perspective, before comparing it to NMS.
That's a long time and I'm sure there's tons of expectations to be met the longer it's in development.
I mean it's a space game of course you're going to explore planets, mining materials has always been a part of Bethesda games and you sure as hell won't be using a pickaxe. Ship customization is a no brainer and outpost building is just carrying on from their last games.
I don't think they ripped off NMS but I also think it's silly to pretend that a game that has been in "pre production" that long hasn't taken influences from games that have come before it. I mean NMS was announced in 2013 and I'm sure Bethesda hadn't started the real work on Starfield until after that, they were still working on Fallout 4 at the time. That being said I think the laser mine thing is what got people talking the most which is a bit silly, I mean they could have just had no animation like a lot of games do (including their own) and been done with it.
Now Kotoku is saying Starfield maybe way too big. Lmao
A lot of people are saying that, how compelling can they really make 20 planets let alone over a thousand? most of them will have nothing on them or probably a lot of repeat things. It's always over promise and under deliver with Todd Howard but really most gaming companies do it when they talk about stuff like this, the reality never lives up to what people imagined it would be.
Every one of the PS guys he follows on Twitter.
Man. Wont lie I legit thought console wars were a thing of the past.
Ever since I’ve made my own money I’ve just owned all the consoles. Lol
Ever since I’ve made my own money I’ve just owned all the consoles. Lol
I'd imagine some planets would be inhabited. Some maybe colonies. Some just research outposts. Some have abandon vessels. All little POI just like in any fallout game. I'm sure there be space outposts; all typical space things. I never expected every planet to have a bustling city on it with each character having daily tasks they do.
Again, it's nice to imagine what a game like this can do and then just wait. However, these days, let's already decide for them and write a dozen articles on nothing but speculation.
Geez, I'm old, but I remember going to Babbage's and looking at a cover of a box and wondering what I could be playing. At most, you might have come across an article of said game coming out, but it had detailed information.
We just ruin things for ourselves many months before the game releases and is still under development, whether it's hyping it up or just crapping all over it.
Again, it's nice to imagine what a game like this can do and then just wait. However, these days, let's already decide for them and write a dozen articles on nothing but speculation.
Geez, I'm old, but I remember going to Babbage's and looking at a cover of a box and wondering what I could be playing. At most, you might have come across an article of said game coming out, but it had detailed information.
We just ruin things for ourselves many months before the game releases and is still under development, whether it's hyping it up or just crapping all over it.
My parents used to take me to the store and buy Atari 5200 games for me by us looking at the packaging. Those were the days. I had no idea there were developers, no idea what bugs were, nobody trolled, and I enjoyed everything I played.
It’s literally life and death threats now, even years before a game is released.
They were probably there back then too but at a lesser extent because you didn't know about it through social media. Sort of like Ignorance is bliss. If you didn't hear about it, it didn't happen sort of mentality.
The whole world's at your fingertips these days so information gets relayed so much quicker.
Yep. My older brother would take me to Electronics Boutique on Boxing day and buy me a couple games. Would spend hours just looking at box art trying to figure out which is the most interesting games to buy. Then get home and play them all day, sometimes all night.
Those were the days.
Watched the 4k version of the Starfield reveal and it looks bloody amazing. Really excited for this game, people saying it’s No Mans Skyrim, well that’s not a bad thing. Win win for me. Can’t wait.
I had similar experiences - I don't think I had any real agency in picking the Atari 2600 games I ended up getting (they were almost exclusively Christmas/Birthday gifts I think), I did get to get games for the NES later. By that time Nintendo Power had started up I think so occasionally I had an inkling of games coming, but I remember specifically the day we were walking through K-Mart and saw the box for Zelda 2 and was like, man, I got to get that. The high point for me was as a young adult when I was able to get games on my own with my own money and later on when I knew the folks at the local Gamestop well and would be in once or twice a month to pick up games I'd pre-ordered or to start scanning through used games. Good times.
While I think the games today are better than they were back in the day, I can say that I had more fun gaming back then. Sure, I didn't have online co-op or split screen. But I had REAL friends at my house (or at theirs), and we would take turns or play games that had two controllers together. I had a friend who had an Intellivision (I didn't) and a friend that had a Colecovision (I didn't). Not once did we talk about any system being better than the other. All three of our systems had different games, so what we did was...gasp....took turns and rode our bikes to each others house to play the different games.
Those days are LONG gone I am afraid. But my memories of that will live on.