Yes, you can go up somebody and puch them inna face, rob 'em, tie them up and feed them to the crocs. I threw annoying sherriff from a cliff into the river. Do you have any idea how long I tried to get through the city checkpoint to pay the Nomad background story a revisit and give that sherriff a feedback on his manners? I'm no western fan but that was a quite perfect setting and an impeccable world building.
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yes, and I don't know why DEVS don't see this as key to any open world game they make, when the story is done, then what? and it's then all the background mechanics comes into play.
I think it's not so easy. Easier is making a story and have a crowd that doesn't have synched animations. As for SF - there is no one world, so there are compromises. I probably like the coherent worlds more, but SF is space and that makes up for a lot of shortcomings for me.
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I have a feeling they made a decision to rely on the modding community making the game what "people" want it to be in a moich bigger sense than the other games.
Almost like "let's make a foundation and let them expand on it".
Or they plan to release substantial DLC along the way.
Or both
Luckily, you don't need Astarion. I left him in camp for almost the entire campaign and I didn't miss him (or his "skills") even for a second. In D&D 5e you don't need a rouge to disarm traps or open locks anymore. Any character with a high enough dexterity can do it.
In Starfield, the characters are all "average". This means that there isn't one as cool as Karlach, but at the same time there is no one so annoying that I wanna kick him right out of the airlock and into the next sun either.
It's no secret that game studios have been releasing bare minimums to expand on it "when sales targets are met". Like how EA sold "season passes" without telling clearly what the season pass would entail. We can't have spoilers, can we? In the end it was cosmetic crap, a game mode and a couple heroes to play with. Minimum deliveries with minimum promises. Live service / online game is just the same - baseline product with a promise to improve the game. How long did it take Bioware to take down their roadmap targets with Anthem? They sell big and empty.I have a feeling they made a decision to rely on the modding community making the game what "people" want it to be in a moich bigger sense than the other games.
Almost like "let's make a foundation and let them expand on it".
Or they plan to release substantial DLC along the way.
Or both
SF is a good game in the base package. Lots of content already. And stellar travel is basically like NMS. If someone can tear the walls down in exploration it is essentially the same model.
Saw something with Karlach breaking the wall and asking the player stuff directly. That was pretty good actually.
My other half has him, I booted him right out of theThat's your own fault!
I started yet another new character. I just really enjoy the beginning phases of collecting and building up. I was getting bored with my high-level NG+8 character.
Anyway, when I landed on Kreet (the first planet you land on as part of the story), after killing the pirates as usual Vasco is telling me to jump to the Lodge. But I decided to stay on Kreet for a while, survey the planet to 100% and maybe run into something interesting.
I found a POI full of Spacers and spent quite some time there, whittling them down until the place was clear. I went around looting stuff and found a big cache of contraband.
Cool, I thought. I'll just pop by the Den on the way to the Lodge and sell this stuff. It'll be nice seed money for this play-thru.
Buuuut.... I forgot that at that stage of the story you are not allowed to jump anywhere but back to Jemison. So I was stuck. I could either dump the contraband, or jump anyway and take the consequences. I chose to jump
I wasn't entirely sure what would happen when I arrived with contraband -- maybe it would be something interesting. But all they did was fine me and take the stuff.
The survey data for Kreet was worth a good amount, though, and I had collected a lot of weapons to sell.
It was an amusing wrinkle.
So, how high would you climb looking for loot? (there was a nice weapon up there, it turned out)
Anyway, when I landed on Kreet (the first planet you land on as part of the story), after killing the pirates as usual Vasco is telling me to jump to the Lodge. But I decided to stay on Kreet for a while, survey the planet to 100% and maybe run into something interesting.
I found a POI full of Spacers and spent quite some time there, whittling them down until the place was clear. I went around looting stuff and found a big cache of contraband.
Cool, I thought. I'll just pop by the Den on the way to the Lodge and sell this stuff. It'll be nice seed money for this play-thru.
Buuuut.... I forgot that at that stage of the story you are not allowed to jump anywhere but back to Jemison. So I was stuck. I could either dump the contraband, or jump anyway and take the consequences. I chose to jump
I wasn't entirely sure what would happen when I arrived with contraband -- maybe it would be something interesting. But all they did was fine me and take the stuff.
The survey data for Kreet was worth a good amount, though, and I had collected a lot of weapons to sell.
It was an amusing wrinkle.
So, how high would you climb looking for loot? (there was a nice weapon up there, it turned out)
The watch towers are fairly regular fare. It's caves and mines I tend to avoid.So, how high would you climb looking for loot? (there was a nice weapon up there, it turned out)
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I climb these heights just for the looks.I started yet another new character. I just really enjoy the beginning phases of collecting and building up. I was getting bored with my high-level NG+8 character.
Anyway, when I landed on Kreet (the first planet you land on as part of the story), after killing the pirates as usual Vasco is telling me to jump to the Lodge. But I decided to stay on Kreet for a while, survey the planet to 100% and maybe run into something interesting.
I found a POI full of Spacers and spent quite some time there, whittling them down until the place was clear. I went around looting stuff and found a big cache of contraband.
Cool, I thought. I'll just pop by the Den on the way to the Lodge and sell this stuff. It'll be nice seed money for this play-thru.
Buuuut.... I forgot that at that stage of the story you are not allowed to jump anywhere but back to Jemison. So I was stuck. I could either dump the contraband, or jump anyway and take the consequences. I chose to jump
I wasn't entirely sure what would happen when I arrived with contraband -- maybe it would be something interesting. But all they did was fine me and take the stuff.
The survey data for Kreet was worth a good amount, though, and I had collected a lot of weapons to sell.
It was an amusing wrinkle.
So, how high would you climb looking for loot? (there was a nice weapon up there, it turned out)
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He can be annoying, but making the right choices seem to affect how annoying he is, for instance letting him become a vampire ascendant supposedly turns him into a right....well can't use the words here, but not a good person. He's reasonably well behaved in my group, he did go a bit overboard stabbing Cazador though, the first ten should have been plenty!
I decided early on that I was going to play right through the game with the first four I got into my first party, just like the old days with my friends around the table rolling dice, my next play through will probably feature some variation, but once you have played through all the areas and sub-quests that's really all there is, trying different characters, although granted some do actually give you access to quests you won't be able to get without them in your party, but hey, that's how it goes. Now back to Starfield. If they had flyable ships from orbit to ground I would probably play it, and maybe the modders can do that, but until then for me, well, it just doesn't count!
This would be more justifiable if there weren't as many potential issues with the core plot missions and they had the modding tools ready to go at launch.
The thief/rogue classes are one of the D&Disms that I'm least enamored with. The original game had no such class (it was just fighting-man, magic user, and priest) and settings usually rely on some fairly absurd contrivances to make them viable as a class unto themselves. Most D&D video games turn these up to 11; mechanical locks and traps everywhere, many of which cannot by bypassed by any other means (which would be utterly ridiculous in a tabletop game)...all of which seem to exist as little more than a backwards justification for a rogue-classed character. 5E did make this a bit easier, and BG3 in particular is usually careful to provide at least a couple of options, but the prevalence of traps that have little credible context is still extreme and there is still a lot of content cordoned off by locks.
Starfield and other vaguely recent Bethesda titles are even worse than most D&D cRPGs when it comes to locks.
Not a game developer I don't know how to code however the process of building a game can't be that different from building anything else, first you need an idea, then a drawing, find someone who can execute and finally money to make it happen, now that's how I imagine it, however my follow up question would be, do these people even play games? do they really find it great to make a mechanics that is used in a game by a lot as simple as possible? we need lock picking, how do we make it interesting? 2 min later and that's what they implement in the game? also we need people to be a pirate, a bounty hunter, and then the whole game mechanics around it is just not even there? When I saw the "combat Zones" in Elite the first time I was like holy smoke I'm in Tron, teleported into a phone game?? it was so disconnected from the main game in so many ways I just didn't understand why anyone approved it? if it was used as an in game nonlethal game you play to horn your skills, sure great but as a combat zone for conquering part of a planet not so much.
I liked the lockpicking in Skyrim. Khajiit good at paw skills.
Yeah it was not bad, I also like it in Kingdom Come.