Starfield's been left out to dry at The Game Awards—and even dedicated fans are 'not terribly surprised'

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Starfield's been left out to dry at The Game Awards—and even dedicated fans are 'not terribly surprised' - sh.itjust.works

Feel like this games gonna get the NMS treatment and be relatively playable maybe 3 years down the line…

As it stands the game has some merits (tons of planets, dungeons are compelling enough while you’re still seeing new ones) but it feels like the size of the world really caused the world design overall to suffer.

The sad part is that Microsoft pulled the original 2022 release to fix a lot of the bugs.

So really the updates have to be pretty impactful.

I’m still optimistic, because fallout 76 did finally get there!

It really got nowhere, and then started charging premium subscriptions to cover most of the mechanics that have sucked since day 1. Repair kits? You got em. You’re not constantly locked in the treadmill of deciding to do something and giving up halfway to go farm screws from office fans because your weapons have degraded to useless conditions. You pay to avoid bullshit like that.

Doesn’t sound like it got there, sounds like they might have improved their netcode, which was spaghetti to be perfectly honest so easy to have improved upon, and maybe the engine use for things not T-posing and floating around. I’m sure those bat fuckers are technically internally still dragons though.

I’m still optimistic, because fallout 76 did finally get there!

This is sarcasm, right?