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Even Starfield fans can't fathom why it won most innovative gameplay in 2023's Steam awards (archive.is)
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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Starfield is innovated in that it took me almost 18 hours of on and off game play over a couple months before I was actually interested in it enough to actually think about it. By that point I would have normally just tossed it over to the mothball drive and never thought about it again

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Same, but I also I spent an additional week obsessively installing and trying different mods, until I finally came to the conclusion that none of them would actually make the game fun to play.

[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

With no creation kit, the mods are super limited. I'm guessing once that releases, there will be a lot more options that might make it worth a replay. I'd like to see something that makes building outposts worthwhile, and maybe some companions that aren't all the same personality. That said, if I ever do replay it, it'll be in a few years. It wasn't interesting enough to want to jump right back in.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Oh I didn't know that. Explains why most of the current mods do little more than improve the dated graphics. I'll give the game a second chance once it gets mods like this:

  1. An off-road vehicle mod
  2. A spaceship overhaul mod that eliminates the cutscenes. Actually be able to take off and land the ship yourself, and replace fast travel with a proper warp drive. Owning and maintaining a ship should be more fun overall. There should be a pre-flight checklist and more parts to replace/upgrade/maintain, as a start.
  3. A mod that adds more cities and towns to all these barren planets.
  4. A story overhaul mod. Every single quest and line of dialog should be replaced with something that is actually interesting to play. This will obviously take many years – at least 5 – if not a decade or more. That's the main issue with this game. The story is the most boring thing to ever come out of a Bethesda product.
[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah I think what you're looking for is just a different game. The copy and paste buildings are a huge issue that definitely deserves a fix, but the space stuff you want is kind of a different genre.