r/XboxSeriesX • u/Turbostrider27 • Nov 20 '23

Starfield is still being worked on by 250 Bethesda devs Discussion

https://www.pcgamesn.com/starfield/bethesda-team
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u/MLG_Obardo Founder Nov 20 '23

This level of support would have been amazing for Skyrim. Starfield seems to be missing some fundamental BGS magic that I don’t know if they’re going to be able to fix at this stage but I am excited to see what they can do

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '23

I think the magic is missing because they let procedural generation do all the work. There's no magic because humans didn't create most of the worlds.

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u/Any-Newspaper1922 Nov 20 '23

The writing is ass too. Maybe they let an ai do that too

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u/DocFreezer Nov 20 '23

The persuasion mini game is sooooo bad

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u/Any-Newspaper1922 Nov 21 '23

It really is. The hilarity of people doing a complete 180 just randomly.

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u/MLG_Obardo Founder Nov 20 '23

Maybe…I think that’s a key puzzle piece. You don’t randomly discover a great hand crafted quest, that’s for sure. And it feels like you are constantly seeing the seams of the game.

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u/Happy-Viper Nov 20 '23

Ah, it’s not even just that. There’s like a third as many companions as fallout and they’re all worse.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '23

Yeah the design choices they made were just odd. Its cheesy, not in a good way. The NASA Punk style basically just is an excuse to make boring looking things and characters.

I'm just sad.

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u/Happy-Viper Nov 20 '23

Aye, a feeling of vague sadness is what hit me too when I played it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '23

I remember stepping out into skyrim and being filled with excitement. You step onto new Atlantis and it's like "no way this their "biggest city ever"

There's more life and character in the tavern in whiterun than all of New Atlantis.

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u/flirtmcdudes Nov 20 '23

I think the magic is missing because they let procedural generation do all the work.

I mean, did they? every planet had the same exact handful of bases and outposts.... honestly it just feels like laziness. Like they thought they could get away with just a bunch of empty planets and the community would be ok with it.

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u/captainvideoblaster Nov 20 '23

This. They essentially had two options: smaller world with hand crafted content or near infinite world with procedural content. However they chose worst of the both choices and made a third option: large world with some handcrafted content. There should have been MORE procedural content instead copy pasting the handcrafted stuff everywhere.

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u/Muha8159 Nov 20 '23

That's what the procedural generation did. It copy and pastes things in different places.

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u/Tea-Mental Nov 20 '23

Yeah, it's missing the magic of it not being 2008 any more 🧙

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u/MLG_Obardo Founder Nov 20 '23

Fallout 4 came out in 2015

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u/lovestosplooge95 Dec 02 '23

Yup, dated at release as well.