Quad Damage

28 minutes ago, Substatic said:

Baldurs Gate 3, best on PC  

Starfield, flop of the forever 

resetera lems got so heated at that review, mods had to lock the review thread 

Baldur's Gate 3 has ruined Starfield for me

Bethesda's latest can't help but feel shallow by comparison.

On the face of it, Starfield's pitch is even more the stuff of childhood daydreams: an RPG where you can jump in a spaceship, fly anywhere in the galaxy, and set foot on hundreds of different planets. A hugely ambitious prospect—but if any studio has the resources and the experience to make something so enormous, it should be Bethesda. What we've got in Starfield, however, is an oddly bland and compromised version of that idea—and where Baldur's Gate 3 is a huge step forward, Starfield feels deeply stuck in the genre's past.

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It's disappointing compared to a revelatory experience like Baldur's Gate 3, but it's not even really living up to Bethesda's own standards either. 15 years ago, Fallout 3 had more interesting environments than this, full of computers to hack, turrets and robots to take control of, unique notes and audiologs to find, traps to subvert, and factions to side with. I've made fun of Bethesda's approach to environmental storytelling before (we should aspire to greater subtlety than two posed skeletons with a note next to them) but at least it was storytelling. Starfield is a world of repeating rooms full of angry bandits and randomised loot.

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It's not just a game set in a vacuum, it feels like it was created in one too—completely isolated from the last decade or more of RPG design, and not even in enough of a dialogue with Bethesda's own past games. What should be one of the most exciting games in years instead just feels behind the times, and at this point every encounter I have just makes me wish I was back in Faerûn.

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19 minutes ago, Substatic said:

 

 

Quad Damage's idol ladies and gentlemen:

 

 

 

substatics goty’s target audience ladies/her and gentlemen/him

https://www.thejimquisition.com/post/starfield-empty-spaces-review
 

“It’s the sheer lack of imagination that truly makes Starfield so sad to play. It’s a game that can’t envision doing anything other than regurgitating the same formula its predecessors beat to death, repeating not just the things that worked but every single mistake as well, regardless of any improvements the medium's seen since The Elder Scrolls IV was new.”

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“Starfield is, in a geographical sense, big, but its many worlds are desolate, populated by the same terrain features copied and pasted to such an extreme degree each new planet feels the same as the last and raw size means less than nothing. Repetitious NPCs bumble around with little more than a handful of catchphrases to offer, missions devolve into tiresome fetch quests, space travel requires menus to get around because the planets seen from your ship’s window might as well be jpegs, and every cave is the same.”

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“If you’re the kind of person who thinks videogames peaked with Fallout 3's launch version and they’ve required neither evolution nor improvement since, this game is absolutely for you. If you believe Bethesda doesn’t need to exhibit growth as an artistic outlet and hasn’t had to change a thing about the way it’s made games since 2008, I can safely say you’ll adore Starfield because it’s all that a Bethesda game has always been... and literally nothing more. 

Starfield is a shallow ocean, hiding its lack of creative ambition behind the physical size of a universe that’s minuscule where it counts.”

4/10 

you already did

7 hours ago, Goukosan said:

@Quad Damage

 

Bbbut most of them are worse than PS3/360  I swearz 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

where did i say switch has no decent ports?

16 minutes ago, Cooke said:

Uh no it doesn't. Looks closer to the Xbox one version. Unless you like the awful bloom lighting 

Um yes  it does.

Outside of Assassin's Creed 2, which doesn't translate particularly well in any version of the Ezio Collection, the Switch releases hold up for the most part. Still, the removal of depth of field, ambient occlusion, and other visual effects makes these Switch releases look rather clinical at times, sometimes comparing unfavourably to the Xbox 360 versions - surprising bearing in mind the age of the original games.

Revelations shores up the presentation with a post-process anti-aliasing technique, while AC2 and Brotherhood operate without anti-aliasing of any kind. This is a little odd, as the 2016 Ezio Collection used a post-process effect for all titles, and the original releases of Brotherhood and AC2 used 2x MSAA on Xbox 360

Unfortunately, there is one final oddity here, and that's the audio mix. Both the original game and Ezio Collection had a cinematic audio mix, with loud music and explosions, and comparatively quiet dialogue, with a mix that carried all these elements with a wide dynamic range. Some of the detail seems to have been lost here, and the dialogue is much louder in the mix in some scenes. The audio compression issues present in other Assassin's Creed games on Switch seem to have made a return here. Many scenes still sound fine, but others are noticeably degraded.

9 minutes ago, Cooke said:

Compared to Xbox one?

360. worse visuals and audio.

15 minutes ago, Cooke said:

A very unstable game that is poorly coded and runs like shit on all consoles. Once again this doesn't mean the switch is weaker.  A more powerful system doesn't magically make a bad game play better. It's an unsalvagble game like they say in the video. It would have to be rebuilt from the bottom up to fix it. 

assassins creed 2, brotherhood, and revelations

4 minutes ago, Cooke said:

Ok that's 1. Can you name more? Looks like that was just a shitty port job, was even worse on shield TV with higher clock speeds. Just compare that hot trash to the Crysis trilogy. Undoubtedly better than the PS3 versions. Or even Alien Isolation which is even better than the PS4 version. 

saints row 3

8 minutes ago, Cooke said:

Name one

resident evil 5

6 minutes ago, Cooke said:

Are there any PS3 ports on switch that are worse than the original?

yes, most of them.

10 minutes ago, FIREPOWER said:

Watch it launch and still be weaker than PS4. You MFs keep doing this shit to yourselves every gen. Nintendo hardware is ass and will always be ass, get used to it 

this. switch couldnt guarantee good ps3 gen ports - some were decent, many were not. wouldn’t be surprised at all if switch 2 gets bad ps4 ports.

11 minutes ago, sugarhigh said:

Discs are basically just a license key at this point. Next gen games could "ship" on a floppy disk.

xbox first party games definitely are, apparently. i can see xbox ditching physical since, well, xbox is dying.

1 hour ago, Spicalicious said:

I've been saying this for the past few years yet cows never believed me. 

youve been saying “it starts now”  for years ?  

17 minutes ago, Cooke said:

But how special? Like special? Or really special? 

like, seven special

35 minutes ago, Remij said:

Bang bang

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/starfield-is-the-starting-gun-for-first-party-xbox-games

Speaking at Gamescom, where the company has been showcasing the sci-fi RPG extensively, Xbox chief marketing officer Jerret West said the Bethesda game marks the start of a prolonged period of regular new Xbox exclusives.

"This is, in my mind, the doorway, almost like a starting gun, to what I think is going to be a multi-year relay race of first-party titles," West told us.

"I was sitting there watching the same [Starfield presentation] you were this morning and I was like… this is really the start of something that's going to then lead to Forza, then in 2024 as we go to Hellblade, and we think about Towerborne which is on the show floor, we think about Avowed, and we've got stories we haven't told yet as well, that are going to unfurl in 2024 and 2025.”

Xbox has struggled for consistency with its first-party titles over the last 18 months. 2022 featured few exclusive releases, while its most notable game so far this year, Redfall, was reviewed poorly. However, the firm’s summer showcase in June was received positively from the media.

West continued: "This very much feels like the starting gun for this relay pass that's going to take place over the next couple of years. So as a marketer, I'm super excited about that. And then if you layer in also, Game Pass and the third party relationships that we have... Our third party support that rolls into Game Pass – but also is just on our platform – is critically important too. So I think we are entering a period where this is the beginning of something that's going to be really special over the course of the next several years."

imagine ghostz when starfield 7’d