r/XboxSeriesX • u/Turbostrider27 • Dec 04 '23

Xbox wants Starfield to have the 12-year staying power of Skyrim Discussion

https://www.pcgamesn.com/starfield/popular-like-skyrim
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u/glenninator Dec 04 '23

It needs more content. It’s simple. It’s in space, show us aliens. Sci fi experiments and goop. Picture fallout but in space. Bring us that. Game is too tame, just fighting humans in space is boring.

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u/DookieHoused Dec 04 '23

I personally hope they stay away from aliens. It’s not realistic and there’s lots of stuff they can do without that.

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u/SwimmingInCircles_ Dec 04 '23

Multiverse travel and whatever the hell them shouts are is more realistic to you than aliens?

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u/DookieHoused Dec 04 '23

Maybe not the multiverse Unity thing but grav drives and such, yes

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

Having lots of alien life on all the planets but no intelligent life is actually unrealistic

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u/tvnguska Dec 04 '23

Is it??? Idk man looking at earth alone tells me that that is very realistic.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

The odds of more than 1 race per planet developing to the "intelligent" stage would probably be extremely low, but on planets where there's life in abundance it would make sense to have some of them foster intelligent life. So yeah, I think it's unrealistic.

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u/tvnguska Dec 04 '23

Well theres 1.7 million know life forms on earth and only 1 that can fix a spare tire. Most planets in our settled systems are not Goldilocks planets like earth. That with most planets missing key components for what we know as necessary for life.

So if this game covered andromeda too, then yeah maybe that’s realistic. But it covered a small corner of our own galaxy near our earth.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

Well I already think it's a little dumb to have what, 5-15 types of animals per planet but I get that's a game limitation.

I agree with what you are saying, but then they shouldn't have made creatures that abundent (abundent in the way of having them over so many planets/moons)

It just seems weird to me that they clearly want to give the impression the universe is teeming with life, but it's all simple and none of it is intelligent.

Doesn't make sense

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u/tvnguska Dec 04 '23

I also see what you’re saying but I don’t think making a game that is more realistic in terms of how life would be like on other planets is a bad thing. Like earth is FILLED with life but only 1 species is intelligent. earth is the best planet around us for 100’s of light years!! Starfield takes place in a space of 50 light years! Does that make starfield good? Not necessarily, it’s just a decision they made.

We have so many games with alien life and intelligent alien life. I think it’s ok to have a space centric game that has more in common with Interstellar than Star Wars.

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u/Muha8159 Dec 04 '23

There's lot of intelligent life on earth. What are you talking about.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

How are grav drives that break physics more realistic than alternate biology?

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u/DookieHoused Dec 04 '23

I didn’t say that. I said alternate intelligent life within the tiny grain of sand of the milky way galaxy that is featured in the game.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

So literal physics defying grav drives are more possible than something that can literally possible happen?? It's clear you've got some weird notions of the world.

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u/DookieHoused Dec 04 '23

Just because humans haven’t been able to work out the physics yet doesn’t mean it’s not possible. Keep in mind in the game it’s given to us by people from another universe. We’re only 140 years past the invention of the automobile.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

No it's literally not possible. Travelling faster than light would blueshift all visible light in the universe to infinity and fry you in less than a second. Even if you built the machine nothing is surviving the journey. But somehow this is more probable for you than other intelligent lifeforms lol? We still find new species on the bottom of earths ocean and yet you think we know for certain the galaxy is empty... The only thing we know for certain is ftl travel is impossible.

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u/DookieHoused Dec 04 '23

Youre saying that aliens visiting this tiny portion of the milky way galaxy is probable in the next couple hundred years while also saying the technology they’d have to use to do so is impossible

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23 edited Dec 04 '23

Youre saying that aliens visiting this tiny portion

Already throwing in strawmans. When did I say anything about aliens travelling here? I'm talking about us discovering aliens ALREADY in the GALAXY. Your entire rebuttal rested on changing the goalpost its sad really.

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u/DookieHoused Dec 04 '23

The game doesn’t occur in the galaxy. It occurs in an area of 100 stars out of a possible 400 billion in the galaxy. There is alien life in the game, but not intelligent. The odds of other intelligent life being in this part of the galaxy is looowwwwww and if there was we’d probably already gotten some sign by now. They would have to travel here and that travel would need to involve faster than light travel.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

You get hung up on one word I said and think it makes some sort of point. It doesn't. You still mischaracterized my argument. Your rebuttal is still invalid. The probabilty of us finding intelligent life in the universe is higher than the chance of faster than light travel. You know how I know this? Because faster than light travel is factually impossible. Zero percent chance of happening. You're disagree with every expert in every scientific field arguing otherwise.

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