Bethesda's latest can't help but feel shallow by comparison.
    • Naz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      Sam Coe: “Y’know, captain, I’ve been thinking, I’ve been talking about myself for a long time, but I’ve never really asked you about yourself. It seems to me that you’re a mute of some kind, and everyone just talks AT you, rather than TO you. So I’ve got to ask you, how does a Chef like yourself end up working for a mining company on Narion?”

      [Camera turns 180° degrees to face the player like in BG3]

      • My name’s FuntyMcCraiger and I used to run a restaurant before we ran into hard times.

      You know, mining is a lot like cooking. I like mining rocks.

      • That’s none of your business. After being mute for 80 hours, I’ve decided to have good dialogue and good writing because they paid their writers a living wage.

      • Shut the fuck up, Sam Coe.

      • Can you smell what the FuntyMcCraiger is cooking?

      • Show Item [Opens Inventory]

      • Flip Sam The Bird.

  • Darkard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    182·
    2 years ago

    Bg3 I think really has shown us what is achievable in today’s games. The branching and intricate story around the Prisim you retrieve at the start of BG3 (without going into spoilers) and the repeated revelations about it and how to can change the direction of the story. Even the companion stories that feed seamlessly into the main plot.

    My playtime in starfield is limited at the moment but I’ve been picking along a quest line for a company doing some corporate espionage stuff. But every mission has felt so lackluster. The first mission to “infiltrate” a rival company office and plant a virus. I expected to be putting my stealth skill to the test and breaking into thier server room, dodging the cameras and guards. But what I actually did is walk unimpeded into thier 2 room office space past the reciption desk and though the security checkpoint, squat next to a computer in a cubicle, do the hacking mini game (which is the same as the lockpick one! A downgrade from fallout) click a button and then walk out. I didn’t even have to convince anyone I should be there or even hide my presence.

    The following missions were equally uneventful. Run to a “secure” place unopposed, squat, click the gizmo, run back. In one I had to wear a suit, which the vendor in the same building would sell me, and the game even told me that.

    Such a stark change from even the simple quest path to out kargha in the druid grove as a wrong 'un in BG3

  • Cabeza2000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    183·
    2 years ago

    BG3 is critically acclaimed and on path to win every GOTY award this year. Taking this into consideration any game compared against BG3 may look lackluster, not just Starfield.

    I didn’t play these games yet but I did play The Outer Worlds and it was acceptable to me. If Starfield is a game along the same lines then I am OK with that.

    • Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      114·
      2 years ago

      Hogwarts Legacy was a very solid title with very memorable characters, story and wow what a detailed fun world. Have not played BG3 yet so cannot compare, but Hogwarts is my GOTY so far.

      • seejur@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        2 years ago

        Just finished Hogwarts yesterday for the first time. I absolutely love the world building, but I found the story a bit lacking. In my mind I ended up siding with Ranrok, in his quest to free the goblins, Sebastian (Solomon was an asshole thorough and through), and the ending was pretty vanilla. Also the whole idea in the ending of keeping the ancient power secret makes no sense: the same implications could be made100% for normal magic

  • Zeusbottom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    121·
    2 years ago

    “You found a piece of metal. Take my spaceship and I’ll take your miserable mining job” wait what?

  • Shurimal@kbin.social
    78·
    2 years ago

    Well, one is a linear, turn-based, 3rd person party cRPG.

    The other is open world, real-time, 1st person with optional followers, sandbox action-RPG with space shooter elements.

    Utterly different animals and any comparison is as invalid as comparing BG3 to Elite, DCS or RaceRoom. I’ve no interest at all in BG3 because turn-based party RPG-s are not really my jam. And I’ve never cared much about story-telling, either. I like good worldbuilding, sandboxing, looting, crafting, trying different builds, doing whatever the hell I like at any moment while completely forgetting that something called “main quest” exists, getting technical and modding the crap out of a game and this is where Bethesda shines.

    • Apollo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      163·
      2 years ago

      Starfield has good worldbuilding? “Pick your flavour of capitalist”, such worldbuild much wow.

      • Shurimal@kbin.social
        31·
        2 years ago

        Generally the term cRPG is used for specifically tabletop RPG-s adapted to digital realm. Action RPG-s take those classical RPG concepts and adapt them to a first- or third-person action game—basically Doom with leveling systems.