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remembering fallout 3's original ending where you could have a super mutant or ghoul immune to radiation tell you they werent going to go into the radiation chamber because it was your destiny to die
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Dec 10, 2023 15:25
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and the ghoul was brainwashed to obey any commands you gave him as long as you held his contract which made it make even less sense lol bethseda ftw
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Dec 10, 2023 15:26
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:starfield will kill off your most used companion for shock value and you cant avoid it which means if you use a companion for their useful skills you lose them for no reason and you cant get them back or replace them i believe bethseda thought this would be deep and meaningful and not annoying and pointless  Straight up weaponizing players' attachment to their companions...
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Dec 10, 2023 15:29
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:its tied to the companion you use the most in the game you have no choice except to know ahead of time and use another companion more so they die instead That is hilariously stupid.
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Dec 10, 2023 15:30
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:remembering fallout 3's original ending where you could have a super mutant or ghoul immune to radiation tell you they werent going to go into the radiation chamber because it was your destiny to die As awful as that was, I honestly think Starfield’s ending manages to be even worse because at least FO3’s was an ending. And not just a copy of you showing up to spout cryptic bullshit for five minutes in the most anticlimactic manner possible before telling you to go do Groundhog Day in an alternate universe.
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Dec 10, 2023 15:38
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:starfield will kill off your most used companion for shock value and you cant avoid it which means if you use a companion for their useful skills you lose them for no reason and you cant get them back or replace them i believe bethseda thought this would be deep and meaningful and not annoying and pointless And to again emphasize how little of a footprint Starfield has had on the consciousness, the first time I heard about this was when it was posted in the Sagas thread a few days ago lol
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Dec 10, 2023 15:38
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Alaois posted:And to again emphasize how little of a footprint Starfield has had on the consciousness, the first time I heard about this was when it was posted in the Sagas thread a few days ago lol that's also how i found out it doesn't have aliens
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Dec 10, 2023 15:42
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:starfield will kill off your most used companion for shock value and you cant avoid it which means if you use a companion for their useful skills you lose them for no reason and you cant get them back or replace them i believe bethseda thought this would be deep and meaningful and not annoying and pointless They should have done it like dragon’s dogma and expand it to any NPC so it’s like the rando shopkeeper you talked to the most getting killed off out of nowhere
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Dec 10, 2023 15:48
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Grassy Knowles posted:that's also how i found out it doesn't have aliens Wait what
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Dec 10, 2023 15:59
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Honestly my favourite stupid thing in Starfield is that somehow in hundreds of years of space exploration, no one has at any point bothered to study the life cycle of the heat leach. There's scientists and research stations all over the place but no one at any point has gone "maybe we should pay attention to these creatures that manage to infest basically every ship that goes anywhere and that are present in every colony we ever set up".
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Dec 10, 2023 16:06
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Shinji2015 posted:Wait what there are no intelligent aliens in starfield and alien creatures are uncommon you spend most of the game killing bandits from oblivion
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Dec 10, 2023 16:09
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The funniest part of starfield is that while the games moment to moment narrative is mostly a bad copy of The outer worlds with less humor and more unironic corporate sucking off the overall story is actually a bad copy of the outer wilds without any of the emotional depth. It's so loving bad lol
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Dec 10, 2023 16:11
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Wouldn’t Somerton have had to have actually made a film to be considered competition to a film studio? Also, how is it a conspiracy if Somerton actually did everything he was accused of doing? I can’t follow the logic of the argument.
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Dec 10, 2023 16:12
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Like starfields ending and ng+ are just a less interesting and meaningful version of One of Dragon's Dogma's endings.
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Dec 10, 2023 16:13
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there are good ideas in starfield and if bethseda were more competent they could have made a cool hard sci-fi game but instead they just made oblivion in space somehow managing to regress from skyrim and fallout 3 and 4
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Dec 10, 2023 16:21
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the coffin/somerton thing is weird cause hes breathelssly talking about how his Queer Identity Has Been Erased when nobody in any of those videos did that calling him a misogynist isnt saying he isnt gay
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Dec 10, 2023 16:25
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I AM GRANDO posted:Wouldn’t Somerton have had to have actually made a film to be considered competition to a film studio? I mean, sure, he did all those things. But you didn't have to make it public. You didn't have to shame poor Jimmy. Now where will people spend their dollars to support THE queer creator? B33rChiller fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Dec 10, 2023 |
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Dec 10, 2023 16:30
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There was one point I finally came across something truly interesting in Starfield, the space ship with the hosed up gravity. You know, the part they nicked from Prey 2017. I started to think about Prey more while playing the game and while they're very different in a lot of ways, they still fell from the same Looking Glass tree and have some commonality, so it isn't too much a stretch to make some comparisons. Crafting is far more visceral in Prey, the way the recycler works feels like it's actually doing stuff. The way zero-G is handled, which made me realize that you can't even get out of your loving ship in Starfield. The variety of enemy encounters, Prey isn't even that strong here yet it's based on a single space station while Starfield tries to do a universe and still comes off worse. Then I just played Prey again, huh, it looks better too, huh, this all looks a little bit "NASA punk" but with a distinctive art deco twist that gives it more personality. Almost every computer you interact with is done so within the environment itself, which would sound like an achievement if Doom 3 hadn't done it over 10 years earlier, nonetheless it's 2023 and Bethesda still use Flash for their UI, but overlays only, everything in the environment is a prop. Prey isn't faultless. Loading screens are a pain, though at least the spaces you move through are unique and interesting. Also something something the ending, but I thought that was fine. Bethesda made an open world Prey 2017 except the enemies are boring humans and every choice they made was wrong. SCheeseman fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Dec 10, 2023 |
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Dec 10, 2023 16:30
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the truth of the matter is queer people can be assholes too and it doesnt make them any less queer
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Dec 10, 2023 16:31
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ultimately these people understand Queer as a vague monolith of people who all disagree them so they see this as someone being cast out of the community and not just an rear end in a top hat thath appened to be gay
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Dec 10, 2023 16:37
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the best space simulator/exploration game remains Noctis IV CE, a solo game made by a reclusive italian furry
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Dec 10, 2023 16:39
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OneMoreTime posted:I’ve been researching this nonsense for a podcast and I like how Genvid’s whole thing they doing is trying to create this weird massively multiplayer live event thing that will one day plug into the Metaverse and the best they can accomplish is basically Telltale’s The Walking Dead except your choices don’t matter with writing and acting so bad that those AI accusations almost come off as a compliment. 1) They barely put any thought into the "wrong choices" dialogue 2) The wrong choices have to eventually force the story back to the "right choices" It was making me think of that dumb Netflix Resident Evil live action thing where the parallel narrative seemed to be mostly as a set of jingly keys to cover up that neither story goes very far very fast, but in this case try and make the watcher forget that they voted for "don't help" and after not helping two switches later they help anyway. As someone watching the recaps who doesn't even know what they're voting on, this has become obvious; I can only imagine how blatant it is to the people actually voting. Grassy Knowles posted:My conspiracy theory: people who were plagiarized by a hateful moron talked to each other. Or looking at it the other more rational way, one of the hindsight red flags people brought up was how completely disconnected he was from every other creator in a similar sphere. While I'm sure a lot of the cross-involvement is some amount of craven cross-promotion, that complete disconnect isn't a sign of some conspiracy on the "creator-sphere", it's a sign the person doesn't want anyone else who will catch on looking too closely.
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Dec 10, 2023 17:06
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Endorph posted:ultimately these people understand Queer as a vague monolith of people who all disagree them so they see this as someone being cast out of the community and not just an rear end in a top hat thath appened to be gay They're right, this is me: 
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Dec 10, 2023 17:07
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Endorph posted:the coffin/somerton thing is weird cause hes breathelssly talking about how his Queer Identity Has Been Erased when nobody in any of those videos did that the closest thing to Gay Erasure i've seen on Somerton are the tongue in cheek references to him plagiarizing the Bisexual Lighting anyway i'm not gonna pretend i saw Somerton's plagiarism coming but i was thinking "i bet he's gonna claim this is a muckraking hit on him by Big Nebula"
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Dec 10, 2023 17:09
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turning a big dial taht says "hating women” on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right
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Dec 10, 2023 17:14
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:The real hilarity would be if Starfield retroactively makes TOW look better in comparison That is the joke, yes.
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Dec 10, 2023 17:14
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:starfield will kill off your most used companion for shock value and you cant avoid it which means if you use a companion for their useful skills you lose them for no reason and you cant get them back or replace them i believe bethseda thought this would be deep and meaningful and not annoying and pointless Ah, so the writers remembered that one mission from Mass Effect 1 but completely misunderstood it.
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Dec 10, 2023 17:16
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Grassy Knowles posted:My conspiracy theory: people who were plagiarized by a hateful moron talked to each other. Inspector Gesicht posted:They do know you don't need the consent and express permission of the guilty party when publishing an expose on them? Hbomb had legal assistance to cover his arse but he was never obliged to speak to any of the plagiarists.
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Dec 10, 2023 17:18
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MonsieurChoc posted:That is the joke, yes. I mean in an actual, not a joke, "people showing up on youtube with Were We Too Harsh On The Outer Worlds retrospectives" all of a sudden after playing starfield
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Dec 10, 2023 17:29
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I AM GRANDO posted:turning a big dial taht says "hating women” on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right Plagiarist! https://twitter.com/dril/status/841892608788041732?lang=en
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Dec 10, 2023 17:34
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Garrand posted:Assuming this isn't actually from the video as it's just too stupid, but while bored and trawling through a twitter search for "somerton" I found some peter coffin fans/viewers trying to spin a conspiracy about how HBomb's taking down of Somerton was ordered from Nebula execs because they were...jealous I guess of Somerton's crowdfunding of the movie studio thing and wanted to take out 'competition'. Nebula executive, watching Somerton's Attack on Titan video over steepled hands. He presses a button. "Unleash the Hbomberguy."
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Dec 10, 2023 17:35
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I skipped around through one of Coffin’s braindead gibberish videos and their basic argument is: everything is the fault of systemic problems, so you should never hold an individual accountable for doing something unethical and you especially shouldn’t criticize them online for It was accompanied by this thumbnail: 
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Dec 10, 2023 17:36
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Purely anecdotal but like 3-4 of my friends or friends of friends started playing outer worlds again after they were done with starfield
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Dec 10, 2023 17:36
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:its tied to the companion you use the most in the game you have no choice except to know ahead of time and use another companion more so they die instead You don't have to make things up to make Starfield look bad, it has enough real issues. You get a choice between your two most used companions(counted by friendship points), it the standard and way overdone videogame choice.
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Dec 10, 2023 17:36
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Hel posted:You don't have to make things up to make Starfield look bad, it has enough real issues. You get a choice between your two most used companions(counted by friendship points), it the standard and way overdone videogame choice. This doesn’t sound meaningfully different from what 16bbh explained
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Dec 10, 2023 17:40
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Bakeneko posted:I skipped around through one of Coffin’s braindead gibberish videos and their basic argument is: everything is the fault of systemic problems, so you should never hold an individual accountable for doing something unethical and you especially shouldn’t criticize them online for I'm not going to watch the video but I have to assume he ends it by saying ".... but if HBomb's video is problematic that's also the fault of systemic problems so we can't hold him accountable either" right? ..... right??
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Dec 10, 2023 17:41
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Grassy Knowles posted:This doesn’t sound meaningfully different from what 16bbh explained it sounds exactly the same, in fact
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Dec 10, 2023 17:42
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it sounds worse, actually
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Dec 10, 2023 17:43
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won't that lead to players putting in extra time / hearts / buddy points with a companion they don't like so they can sacrifice them later
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Dec 10, 2023 17:48
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SexyBlindfold posted:won't that lead to players Doesn’t seem like it
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Dec 10, 2023 17:50
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