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Starfield, is it getting review bombed? (youtu.be)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Seems kind of like the game is just suffering from reactionaries, but I definitely don't put that much stock in critic reviews these days either.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's something I'd like to call "the Bethesda" bar. It's basically an industrial bar lower than most. Let's define what that means:

releasing the same game over and over
make games so buggy that a release with only a couple hundred of glitches is deemed "polished*
ignore progressive development for things like NPC AI
put all the money in marketing and hype
make the user think they're getting something new, rather than just another boilerplate game

I'm sure the story writers did some characters justice, but I won't be playing this game - especially since Bethesda claims it "can't run on older hardware", despite the fact that modders are proving them wrong.

The Betheada bar is a cancer upon the industry and I view it as consumer facing psy-ops, relying on brain-dead fanboys with nothing going on in their lives to squeal with glee as a new AAA-title is released to fill that void.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah yes the "everyone who likes something I don't like is a brainless zombie" argument, coming from someone who doesn't like Bethesda and hasn't even played the game.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the same game as the last several Bethesda games, no need to play it to criticize it.

But even watching a few streams and videos is really enough to see even the harsh criticisms are putting it mildly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's obviously vastly different in so many aspects. You realize that Fallout 4, their last mainline game, was 8 years ago?