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Omnicarus posted:If you had to pick between Starfield or BG3, which? Baldur's Gate 3 by a country mile. I had more fun exploring, more fun in combat, found the writing to be more engaging and I think it looks better. It came out of nowhere to probably be my favorite game of the year in a year packed with loving amazing games. I can't recommend it enough.
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VanillaGorilla posted:Strongly suggest doing the Lair of the Mantis quest as soon as you find it. It’s a cool story but you also get a rad ship at the end. how do you get past the laser turret tunnel? theres a master lvl hack there which i cant do yet, is there another way?
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Sep 1, 2023 20:35
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Omnicarus posted:If you had to pick between Starfield or BG3, which? BG3BG3BG3
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Sep 1, 2023 20:35
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Bad Purchase posted:oh interesting Unormal posted:im having fun reading this post lmao the usual mediocre game defenders are here don't let us in suspense, share your fun experiences in starfield, we're all ears 
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Sep 1, 2023 20:35
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ImpAtom posted:It is genuinely pretty funny how you can just play as knowing loving nothing. I was really expecting the terror morph to be the boss of that little research station but I guess... later?!
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Sep 1, 2023 20:36
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Das Butterbrot posted:iirc STALKER works like that if you third person in stalker your character gets a little bit taller and you can't fit through some passages stalker owns
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Sep 1, 2023 20:38
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HDR is completely broken for this game makes blacks look like greys on my OLED screenOmnicarus posted:If you had to pick between Starfield or BG3, which? BG3 and it's not close. Starfield is a good game, but in this state it's not on the same tier. mA fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Sep 1, 2023 |
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Sep 1, 2023 20:39
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Wait if we have the solar system in the game, why the gently caress has no one gone to Uranus yet Or is that too low brow for Bethesda
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Sep 1, 2023 20:39
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Omnicarus posted:If you had to pick between Starfield or BG3, which? BG3 is actually good, so play that one
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Sep 1, 2023 20:40
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Omnicarus posted:If you had to pick between Starfield or BG3, which? I'd say they're very different games and hard to compare.
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Sep 1, 2023 20:40
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Zlodo posted:I've noticed that when people really have fun in a game they don't say "I'm having fun", instead they recount various fun anecdotes that happened to them in the game Lot of this when Cyberpunk launched as well. "I'm having a blast!" 
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Sep 1, 2023 20:40
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Zlodo posted:lmao the usual mediocre game defenders are here It was pretty funny when I walk in on barret telling some pirates about the unicorn he met. The pirate is like "ok yeah, and king Arthur was riding it?" I let those pirates live because they were respectful. I also walked some stupid miner over to the middle of nowhere and was really annoyed at first because it was a long walk, but his little lines during the walk sort of made up for it. "Wow I shouldn't have parked so far away. Fortunately you won't have to walk back- uhhh I mean because we will fly back. In my space ship." That guy died. Its a decent game so far.
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Sep 1, 2023 20:40
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Play posted:The UI is horrendous. Honestly it looks like something I would make in illustrator, and I suck dirty rear end at illustrator so I only do basic flat shapes. I'm also not really feeling it. The story just throws you into it, some random dude just says "lol here's my robot and a spaceship because you touched a funny piece of metal, have fun!" But not even nitpicking stuff like that, just kludging through the menus that are all form over function, it somehow manages to feel less deep than No Man's Sky in its exploration and that game is procedurally generated sameness over and over again Not to just be a complainer, the shooty bits don't feel completely terrible, but it's the usual RPG style bullshit where the combat doesn't even become interesting until you're level 10 and have some perks actually invested. Wait, I'm just complaining again... There's truly some stuff to like, but it feels like the game also works against you in many ways 
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Sep 1, 2023 20:42
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SHISHKABOB posted:I was really expecting the terror morph to be the boss of that little research station but I guess... later?! You didn't kill it? I just shot it until it died.
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Sep 1, 2023 20:44
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Dramicus posted:You didn't kill it? I just shot it until it died. I didn't even see it. Where was it.
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Sep 1, 2023 20:45
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mA posted:I generally like Bethesda jank RPGs and I have over 10 hours in. In this state, it's a 7/10 for me--good and sometimes great. I think future mods will probably make it a bit better. I pulled myself away from BG3 to play this, and If I had to do it again, I would have just waited for game pass release. what's a game pass?
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Sep 1, 2023 20:47
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SHISHKABOB posted:I didn't even see it. Where was it. I turned on the scanners and then it popped out of the ground.
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Sep 1, 2023 20:48
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SHISHKABOB posted:I didn't even see it. Where was it. same, kept expecting it to jump out but it never did 
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SHISHKABOB posted:I was really expecting the terror morph to be the boss of that little research station but I guess... later?! its scuttling about on kreet.
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Sep 1, 2023 20:49
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Zlodo posted:lmao the usual mediocre game defenders are here sorry that people are declaring the game is fun in this, a thread devoted to discussing the game and our feelings about it, rather than adhering to your weird standard that you have invented, in your head I just spent about two hours exploring New Atlantis and talking to people and poking my nose into places and talking to random shopkeepers. I haven't enjoyed just exploring a place in a Bethesda game this much since Vivec City. Is it perfect? gently caress no. Too many loading screens, no way to tell if someone is Citizen or Actual Character without getting close, and they should have used procgen to fill out whole skyscrapers with apartments like in Shadows of Doubt. But it's fun as hell. I spent all my money on random shopping for the purposes of fashion and being a gourmand and now I have picked up some missions to do and stop being flat broke. Idk the game has flaws that will stop it ever being a 10/10 or a BG3-killer or anything even under the best possible circumstances (Someone needs fired over the UX decisions) but the people who are positively gleeful about the game being bad, and ignoring all the people saying "It's good, actually" because they want to be gleeful about other people being disappointed instead of having fun, are very weird. Not a new phenomenon, but still weird.
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Sep 1, 2023 20:50
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no man's sky has totally broken my brain, every time i get to a new system in starfield, i am landing on every planet and scanning every mineral, creature and plant on all of them before moving on to a new sysyem help
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Sep 1, 2023 20:50
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Omnicarus posted:If you had to pick between Starfield or BG3, which? BG3 its not even close
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Dramicus posted:I turned on the scanners and then it popped out of the ground. I must have walked right past that.
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Macichne Leainig posted:I'm also not really feeling it. The story just throws you into it, some random dude just says "lol here's my robot and a spaceship because you touched a funny piece of metal, have fun!" the real issue with the beginning is how short and anticlimactic it is, and when the constellation guy shows up there's really no option to just say "yeah, no thanks, you're crazy. see ya." even if you act reluctant, the only convincing they do is one line saying something along the lines of "well, you see, you're part of this now too bad". they should've had some other reason to make it so joining them was your only option, like maybe the visions leave you in some weakened state that they offer to cure for you, or some reason you need their help. it's just lazy the way it's written. they might as well have just had an opening cutscene and you're already working for constellation when you start. they already basically have that backstory for you, it's just a mining company instead.
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:no man's sky has totally broken my brain, every time i get to a new system in starfield, i am landing on every planet and scanning every mineral, creature and plant on all of them before moving on to a new sysyem You get little survey data notes I think when you 100% a planet so I think you can just sell them for cash.
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Sep 1, 2023 20:51
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Bad Purchase posted:the real issue with the beginning is how short and anticlimactic it is, and when the constellation guy shows up there's really no option to just say "yeah, no thanks, you're crazy. see ya." I like having the mining opening sequence actually. I even love that I picked the Industrialist trait for my character and they gave me poo poo for becoming rich, and then purportedly losing it all because I ended up a loser rear end miner again. But yeah you still have to have quite some suspension of disbelief for some of the plot in the first few hours it seems?
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Sep 1, 2023 20:52
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The companions really need to shut up about me picking poo poo up. I don't care if they think I have too much.
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Sep 1, 2023 20:52
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Good news, the Levitation Act has been repealed. This guy just floated right up when I approached. 
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Sep 1, 2023 20:54
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Zlodo posted:lmao the usual mediocre game defenders are here what are you trying to accomplish
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Sep 1, 2023 20:54
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i don't think it's surprising that people are defensive when you have a bunch of weirdos who treat playing a bethesda game as a Video Games Crime
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Sep 1, 2023 20:55
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Chillmatic posted:Lot of this when Cyberpunk launched as well. Sharing anecdotes about things that happened in games is p lame tho Like, that's not something I'm likely to do in any situation no matter how much I'm loving a game. Games don't get in my feelings like that, I either enjoy playing them or I don't. Macichne Leainig posted:I'm also not really feeling it. The story just throws you into it, some random dude just says "lol here's my robot and a spaceship because you touched a funny piece of metal, have fun!" Yeah you do a good job summing it up. That being said, I'm really hoping that once I break out of the intro mission pattern, fill out my skills a bit, start upgrading guns and suits reliably and get off the beaten path it'll be better. But I'm not super confident that will be the case. We'll see. it seems a bit stuck between what it wanted. Like the worst parts of both fallout 4 and that procgen space game mashed together, with a terrible UI put on top. That makes it sound worse than it is though, really it's just 'bleh'. At least so far.
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Sep 1, 2023 20:56
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Bad Purchase posted:the real issue with the beginning is how short and anticlimactic it is, and when the constellation guy shows up there's really no option to just say "yeah, no thanks, you're crazy. see ya."
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Sep 1, 2023 20:56
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you must admit starfield is bad and bethesda doesn't know how to design a game at all.
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Sep 1, 2023 20:57
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 I guess Mercury is technically the best place to get a tan.
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Dramicus posted:The companions really need to shut up about me picking poo poo up. I don't care if they think I have too much. it took me waaaayyy too long to realize that being overburdened would lower your O2 levels when moving around. Kept thinking that my suit was running out of O2 and so i sprinted through every enemy, trying to get to the end of the first dungeon and getting mad that i never had enough time before my person ran out of air and suffocated when it finally clicked that O2 = stamina, i felt very silly
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Omnicarus posted:If you had to pick between Starfield or BG3, which? Play Starfield first on Gamepass. It's a fun little game if you don't have any great expectations. Then go all in on BG3. Baldur's Gate will completely ruin Starfield for you, the writing, quest design, locations, reactivity of the world, characters and especially (!!) the voice acting are so, so much better that going to Starfield from BG3 feels like taking a header into an inflatable kiddie pool after swimming in the pacific. Edit: One positive thing about Starfield, I really like the "spaciness" of the music. Just hanging out in the game with the music playing is pretty relaxing. Popelmon fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Sep 1, 2023 |
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Sep 1, 2023 20:58
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Popelmon posted:Play Starfield first on Gamepass. It's a fun little game if you don't have any great expectations. Then go all in on BG3. Baldur's Gate will completely ruin Starfield for you, the writing, quest design, locations, reactivity of the world, characters and especially (!!) the voice acting are so, so much better that going to Starfield from BG3 feels like taking a header into an inflatable kiddie pool after swimming in the pacific. Agreed - do this if you haven't played either game.
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Sep 1, 2023 21:01
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Cool that the game crashes to Home Screen any time I fast travel to my home planet.
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Rando ship landed close-ish, went over there and shot all the baddies in the face, then took the ship to a space port and streamlined it down, selling all the excess. Had some fun, got a new spaceship, and made a lotta credits all at once. I just need to find some good vendors to sell all the spacesuits and guns, wanna be a space billionaire. Omnicarus posted:If you had to pick between Starfield or BG3, which? BG3 is great, deep, reactive CRPG. Starfield is a space themed looter shooter. BG3 is definitely the "better" game but I like both for different reasons.
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