Oddbean new post about login | logout Btw I agree with many of the criticisms of #Starfield in the reviews I’ve read. My take: while Skyrim is a power fantasy - before you even leave the tutorial area you’re taught magic etc - Starfield is a pleb simulator. It dunks you on a planet that looks like a car park as a miner, and depending on the background you picked you probably can’t even sneak or lockpick. You’re given crappy weapons and set free with essentially no skills. I’ve really enjoyed it.. but it is a slow burn.
@f7d0478e "it totally hits its stride by hour 64"
@f7d0478e my challenge with the game is trying to understand why Bethesda doesn’t tell you more about the powers you have. It’s not that it takes ten hours to get good, you start with most of the powers you need (yes there’s a bit I won’t spoil in the middle) - but it takes ten hours to discover all the functionality you have because Bethesda decided to just let everyone find it on their own.
@f5341ce7 I haven’t done the main quest so I can’t comment
@f7d0478e I’m thinking of stuff that exists from the very beginning. All of: hand scanning, fast travel, ship combat, even outpost building. All of those seem to have additional functionality (or apply in places and ways you might not expect), and very little is exposed to the user. You just have to mess around and find out.
@f5341ce7 scanning is in the mine tutorial at the begging, as is ship combat. It also tells you to fast travel.
@f7d0478e I won’t belabor this further, I am aware the three action buttons are described. There are multiple levels to how each of these actions work which aren’t clear until you just fart around with them awhile.
@f5341ce7 I mean, I agree overall there’s a ton of disconnected systems that aren’t explained well. I think Skyrim sold so well as they really simplified the vision.. which FO4, FO76 and Starfield have swung in the opposite direction.
@f7d0478e and that's what i love about Starfield, if you tried doing the main quest - you'd stumbled upon space magic pretty quick :)
@d908aab1 it kinda misses the point though - it’s not just space magic. In Skyrim you can literally shoot fire out of your hands from the beginning, pick locks (it’s in the tutorial), stealth etc. In Starfield you.. feel like a pleb out the gate, and I imagine that put some people off.
145 hours into #Starfield. I've gone to a religious centre and they've cured me of being an introvert trait so I can adventure with companions now - Andreja is my new BFF. Paid off my mortgage so now I only have the Spaced trait left to resolve (more health on the ground that in space as I never acclimatised). Quite far into the main quest now, my crew are gradually becoming Constellation and my ship friends are now running farming and mining outposts I've built instead. https://cyberplace.social/system/media_attachments/files/111/133/086/494/185/046/original/925c048b08d81dd8.png
