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Starfield Slander - "Nasapunk" is offensively boring (hexbear.net)

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

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Starfield's art direction is painfully boring. I've ben watching friends play. It looks like a totally soulless, characterless distillation of every forgettable science fiction movie in the last 30 years. It sure does look NASA, and NASA doesn't have an artistic vision, they just slap shit together in whatever way won't explode. The menus, the costumes, the weapons, even the planets, just look painfully generic. Like congrats, Todd, you successfully executed the NASA part alright. There's no way you could have made more intensely bland, vague, inoffensive rendition of space. There's no "punk" anywhere to be seen, though.

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I can't believe they made this shit instead of TES Six. It's like every 2010s space show that got cancelled half way through the first season.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same deeper-sadness

That's one of the reasons why I like classic Trek. As a kid, watching a tv series that showed a better world, was really cool. Now "there is no escape" of the bleak capitalist future in media. Well, at least in the mainstream.

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

It's one of the things I really like about Eclipse Phase. There's a bleak hyper-capitalist future happening inside the orbit of the asteroid belt, but beyond the belt are countless small, loosely aligned pro-social socialist and anarchist habitats and communities. One of hte big setting conflicts is the post-capitalist hypercorps trying to use IP and DRM to prevent people from taking full advantage of the nanofabricators that can just build anything if you have schematics, while hackers and anarchists and information wants to be free people are trying to break the DRM to give people the ability to make whatever they need whenever they need it. It says "Yeah, a better future is possible, but you're going to have to fight for it.

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

This was the first time I heard of Eclipse Phase. Very interesting setting.

Shared it with my friends and we will play it, probably, in our next game session.

Thanks for the recommendation!