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"Starfield's lead quest designer had 'absolutely no time' and had to hit the 'panic button' so the game would have a satisfying final quest" (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 7 months ago by A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world to c/starfield@lemmy.zip

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""We were finally at a state in the project where we could play through the whole [game]. And it became very clear that we were missing the large final location that was going to tie the story together and have a satisfying action-filled payoff," Shen said. "I was both implementing the main quest and leading the quest design team, so I had absolutely no time. The entire quest design team was already overbooked.""

The quest design team being overbooked and not having time certainly explains a lot.

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[–] AreaKode@lemmy.world 43 points 7 months ago (10 children)

That was the satisfying ending? The ending was stupid. I had to ask to make sure that really was the ending. And now, I just get to keep going? What a ripoff.

[–] Ashtear@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Am I the only one that liked the ending? Maybe I just set the bar low after the endings in Fallout 3, 4, and Skyrim, but I thought it was well above any of those three. I felt like the game book-ended well: solid start and finish.

Almost everything else in between? Yeah, they obviously didn't flesh out the story much.

[–] blind_piper@mastodon.online 0 points 7 months ago

@Ashtear @AreaKode No, but while I enjoyed it, I did wonder what the point of the flashbacks was. If (with our eyes opened to the Starborn) we had hit those flashbacks and could see we were being watched by the Pilgrim or something, that would have been interesting. If our dialogue choices with Vlad had some impact on the next or maybe second next NG+, that would have been cool.

The flashbacks felt like padding to me because they were, it turns out.

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