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Starfield is now mostly negative in recent reviews (store.steampowered.com)
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[–] eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz 94 points 11 months ago (8 children)

I was incredibly tempted to pre-order Starfield. Everything about it should be right up my alley. I love Sci-fi, space and all things related. But I learned my lesson after pre-ordering Diablo 4. I decided to try out the pirated version shortly after release and was so disappointed and glad I didn’t buy it. I dropped it after a few hours and had no desire to play it after that.

Also coming into it straight after playing Baldur’s Gate 3 made it look so dated. The plastic doll looking NPC’s and animations, boring dialogue and writing. I’m not even that into fantasy/D&D type settings and BG3 drew me in for many hours.

I really hope someone makes a game as good as BG3 but set in space, similar to Mass Effect etc.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think BG3 is making a lot of normal quality games look really bad this year. Like putting a super model in a picture of normally okay people.

That said BG3's true innovation was literally just putting the work in. They didn't make anything truly new, they just did everything game developers have learned in the last 40 years to a very high standard.

[–] mamotromico@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago

The one thing I would argue that is a bit “new” is that they had a design paradigm similar to immersive sims on their systems, and that is not so common on these kind of top down rpg.

But yeah, the real “innovation” was just making an actually polished game.

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