There’s the problem. You bought a BSG rpg wanting it to not be a BSG rpg. They will always make this style of game. If you want a different style of game, they will disappoint you.

Ive been playing BSG rpgs since Morrowind, and so I got exactly what I was expecting, with some cool extra bits on top. And as such, I absolutely love it!

I played Outer Worlds and, I think I completed it. The setting got old and the plot… what was the plot again…? I’m like 90% sure I finished it but I couldn’t tell you what happened.

Contrast that to Starfield, I’ve completed two faction quest lines and they were both superb. They took unexpected twists and turns and were full of lore and interesting characters. The Crimsom Fleet quest line was epic, and payed off in just the right way for me (seriously the discovery at the end is 🤌). The Rjujin quest line was also great, and took such an unexpected turn from the initial thing of applying for an office job. Also the toy you get from the questine is really fun to play with, crazy that someone might play the whole game and miss it because they thought applying for a corp job would be boring.

At the moment I’m taking a break from story missions, and I’ve been taking pirate hunting bounties, and just exploring. I’ve found loads of random encounters and followed threads to some epic stuff. And I’ve still only just started the main quest line.

The game is so much deeper than Outer Worlds, while also being far broader. Also, Bethesda make open world games, if they had released something as stripped back and linear as OW, they pull have been torn apart for it, even more than they are now.

Oh man of I could customise a buggy as well, and have that buggy drove out of my customised ship, I’d be so bloody happy about that

I switched from playing on my 1440p monitor to my 4k TV the other day and all my old screenshots have a black box round them whe they come up in the menus now. I’m wondering if, when I switch back, my 4k shots will all be zoomed in…

But manual space travel would be even slower and honestly I think it would get old very quickly. I do understand the frustration, and if you were expecting it to work like NMS or Elite then yeah it’s going to be disappointing. But for me, that’s not the point of the game. I’ve had a ton of fun exploring randomly around, just jumping system to system and checking out random planets. The only part of space flight I’m actually that bothered about doing ‘realistically’ is ship to ship combat, and that works great, especially once you unlock the thrusters. If you manage to take out their engines by focusing fire you can disable them and board the ship, and take it as your own. Also the sidequests are great, I think the writing has improved from previous games. They often go in unexpected directions.

I’ve enjoyed seeing the initial backlash fade and turn around. I’m seeing a lot of posts on the subreddit saying stuff like “I initially made a bug complaint post but now I’m a few hours in and I was wrong, this game is amazing”

If you’re not enjoying the first few hours I implore you to stick with it a little longer.

The plumber was being silly with the cat

I’ll add the Discworld games. And Simon the Sorcerer!

You’re sitting g just around the minimum requirements for the game. You might want to try installing some performance mods, there’s some available already in the nexus I think, but there will be more coming soon

Yeah the lack of city maps is frustrating. So hard to find your way to certain places without a mission to go there.

Fair enough. I’m the kind of madlad that really enjoyed Fallout 4, although not as much as previous titles. I’d say this one beats FO4.

Oh, I don’t know that one!

Just in case you don’t know, CP2077 is great now, and set to get better when the dlc drops soon.

You do also get the first expansion thrown in

I woke up early and played 45 mins before i has to leave for work. I just did that dogfight as well. Work is sooooo slooooow today!

I think you mean Round the Twist, not Round the Bend. Was also an excellent show, loved it so much as a kid!

Knightmare was great!

Starfield early access hits tomorrow, I think it’s gonna be tricky to convince myself to also do my washing, shopping, etc. this weekend!

That’s really scummy. A lot ofnpeopke have been paying $45 a month ans been told they woukd get a new phone at the end of it. Now they just change their mind? How is that not breach of contract? Looks like a class action is needed here!

Can confirm it is, I went for it and now have SF preloaded 😁

Why is this downvoted? Just cos it’s an ad or should I not take this deal?

I spent so many hours building the bases in Fallout 4, especially once the mods got going!

So I’m looking forward to that, but I’m worried that the npc pathing will be bad again. They never used half the stuff I built cos they couldn’t find their way up stairs and things very well.