*S*T*A*R*F*I*E*L*D* / Starfield

Give them more time to hide another 500 boring seeds to track down as content

I didn't like that, I wasn't overly keen on a lot of the shrines and I hated the breaking weapons. The stamina system wasn't something I liked much either along with the lack of dungeons.

BOTW, currently, is scheduled within 12 months. It may slip, sure. So may this.
Why aren’t you going to answer MW2? You don’t think it’ll be a bigger selling game? You asked what bigger games were coming in the next year.

Why not? If it’s a major component of the game, and it is because it’s the primary combat interaction, then why shouldn’t we expect it to be excellent? They don’t “have” to do any of the things they’re putting in the game. They’re choosing the scale and scope, and where they commit resources, for the last 7 years.
You’ve got games such as Far Cry and Horizon that are juggling multiple designs, gameplay, systems, along with open world content, visuals, character interactions, and VO, etc, that aren’t struggling in the same way. They aren’t as large, no, but this also doesn’t have to be either. I’d wager you could shrink Starfield by 3/4s and it’d still have the same issues though.

Mostly this all just goes back to the janky-ass engine but dev is a game of balancing choices against resources.

None of this is to say the game won’t be entertaining, especially within the value system of GP. I expect it’ll get a lot of criticism but still be huge value for the price of entry.

Anyway, it is a bit unfair that people want Bethesda games to have better things than they currently have. It's not as if they're rolling in cash or anything.

I want Switch Pro + BOTW 2 next March.
Thanks, Nintendo.

I don't see a Switch pro happening at the moment with the current sales of the switch not slowing down and the current chip shortage. Perhaps maybe late 2023/early 2024.

I'd say either March 2023 because it hits the 6-year mark for both BotW and Switch, or Holidays 2023. Can't see a summer release for either, for some reason.

But anyway this a Starfield thread not a Nintendo and BotW one.

I am a bit curious if we'll see some difference with Microsoft as overlords. Bethesda seems mostly to have been left alone under Zenimax, but they didn't have huge budgets for their games. Who knows, they may even do some QA testing.

Yeah, I'm also sure I read that relatively Bethesda game studios isn't that big in raw staff numbers.

QA testing?! Please. It's Bethesda, the bad things about their games are good!

Oh ok, there's a few game-breaking bugs, but modders will fix those for free! Unless you're on console.

Wow, only 33 light years away, that's just down the road. I hope there's a service station on the way.

There's probably already a nude NPC mod for Starfield