My guy that's not how textures work. The point of a higher resolution texture is that when you get really close to it in the environment, it doesn't look like dryer lint. The resolution of your screen is not relevant.
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OS Neutral StarField (Bethesda 2023, Spoilers)
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It's a "svelte" 100.2 GB on Xbox Series X. Still smaller than Halo MCC collection at the moment surprisingly. Although maybe a day one patch will bump the size.
I am trying so hard to get excited for Starfield, but I think I might just get Armored Core VI instead and forget about Bethesda for now. I have a friend who is so hyped for this title, and to me it just looks like Elder Scrolls or Fallout but INNNNN SPAAAAAAAACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just can't anymore with these guys I don't think. There was a time when I bought Bethesda titles sight unseen, but I'm waiting for reviews on this one. I still have an incredibly bad taste in my mouth in general from Skyrim.
I just can't anymore with these guys I don't think. There was a time when I bought Bethesda titles sight unseen, but I'm waiting for reviews on this one. I still have an incredibly bad taste in my mouth in general from Skyrim.
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BEWARE EVERYONE! FOR THE GAME HAS LEAKED
Someone stole a pallet of copies of Starfield and flipped them online. Spoilers are getting posted online so take heed. Best to mute any words related to Starfield to avoid getting spoiled, as I have a feeling we're gonna get a repeat of the Boston Salt Party.
Someone stole a pallet of copies of Starfield and flipped them online. Spoilers are getting posted online so take heed. Best to mute any words related to Starfield to avoid getting spoiled, as I have a feeling we're gonna get a repeat of the Boston Salt Party.
With the knowledge that there are different preferences in choice escapism, Skyrim and Fallout 4 are two games in my cherished category.
You can't watch people play a Bethesda RPG to get an idea of them. You have to play them. Bethesda RPGs have a magic to them that is difficult to explain in words or in a video. The reason they have had such longevity is because of one simple word: Freedom. Bethesda RPGs are giant massive sandboxes where you are plopped in and the game tells you to just do whatever you want, and at a technical level even let you break the game should you so choose to complete tasks like climbing up a mountain to see what's up there, and then discovering there's an artifact there and you pick it up and suddenly you found a questline and story of said item. (I still have PTSD of that damn Beacon)
Not just from gameplay design, but the fact the game's completely open with player modifications where you can just change the game how you see fit, adding new locations, new items, new enemies, or just doing whatever. One such mod was a massive player made expansion to Skyrim that was so big, Bethesda hired the person who made the mod on the spot. You forge your own adventure in a Bethesda RPG, play how you want to play...even if what you want to be is a zero intelligence character who specced everything in strength so he can kill people by just punching them once, and even then having zero intelligence unlocks new options in gameplay you wouldn't normally get.
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Fallout 4 I can get on board with. I really liked that game, other than it just kind of ended and I felt like I was out of stuff to do.With the knowledge that there are different preferences in choice escapism, Skyrim and Fallout 4 are two games in my cherished category.
I think the problem I have with Bethesda (referring to my previous commments) is that I don't trust them to not just give me the same game YET AGAIN. Going from Morrowind to Oblivion to Skyrim to Fallout 3/4, I just feel like I keep getting the same character models, voice actors, missions, and graphics over and over and over. One of the main things that constantly took me out of the story in Skyrim was the fact that every guard and NPC shopkeeper from every town was the same as the last one except with a mustache or different hairstyle.
I'm starting to feel a little bit of this toward From as well. I'm having a blast playing Elden Ring, but I've seen all these bosses, locales, arenas, and level designs before in other From games.
I have been digging around a lot on Starfield, and I feel like Bethesda is about to give me the same game AGAIN. I will probably end up playing it, but this is not one of the games I am going to be installing on day one.
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You misunderstood me (and in this case, yes I can). I’ve played Oblivion, I know Bethesda’s style. My comment was not about the gameplay, but on the subject. That’s why I am interested in Starfield where I was not in Fallout 4.
Fallout 4 made a lot of decisions that deviated from the series. I treat that game more as an immersive sim than an RPG because of it. It's not a bad game far from it and has it's moments, but I'm so used to New Vegas that moving to 4 was a visible downgrade.
But I think the one thing it shouldn't have done was having your character fully voiced. That was a mistake that I'm glad they got rid of in Starfield going back to the original dialogue trees. Having your character voiced takes away from the immersion since you can't imagine how your character says lines of dialogue, and it means dialogue options have to be scaled back so the main character has less they need to say. But worst of all, is it limits mods since mod makers when adding new dialogue have to put into account the voiced character. Modders had to use Youtube Poop style sentence mixing to add new lines of dialogue for the player character, but even that wasn't enough.
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Or Nuka Rum. Where's my rum TODD?!
Not like I could get the collector's edition anyway as it sold out instantly, and even if I did, what the hell would I do with this watch?
Yeah it's a cool novelty having a Starfield themed watch, but...I own an Apple Watch that does everything it does and more.
Honestly it's more proof that I wish Apple would allow third party watchfaces
I don't think you're really understanding where I'm doing with this. I don't mean whether it's an RPG, shooter, etc.; I mean that it's fantasy themed. That's one of my least-favorite motifs in gaming.
Fantasy themed? I do not follow. Elder Scrolls is the fantasy series. Fallout is a retro futuristic world destroyed by nuclear war, and Starfield is an exploration adventure in space.
Whoops, I was thinking of Skyrim, but my point still applies: I am not interested in the main theme of the Fallout series either. Yes, I know what TES, Fallout, and Starfield are: please don’t consider it your mission to try and sell any of them to me.
So you like Skyrim and Fallout4, yes? Looking for a good spoiler free report.
So you like Skyrim and Fallout4, yes? Looking for a good spoiler free report.
Skyrim yes, Fallout 4 no. I wasn't a big fan of 4 since Bethesda cut so many of the RPG mechanics out in that entry, and giving your character a voice was a big mistake that I'm so glad they walked back on for Starfield. I got bored of 4 that I just went back to New Vegas to cheer me up.
The reason I bought Starfield and why I really want to play it is for something I love very very much: Zero Gravity Combat. I used to play this multiplayer game a long time ago that sadly shut down called Shattered Horizon, which was a multiplayer arena shooter taking place completely outside in space. Everyone doing EVAs shooting each other, with your shots actually pushing you back, the degrees of movement you had, it was so fun.
After the game shut down the other zero gravity space FPS was Space Junkies, a VR game...by Ubisoft...yeah you can guess what happened to that game. But besides that was a better game: Prey 2017 by Arkane Studios which was my favorite game of the PS4 generation besides Persona 5 obviously. Prey 2017 though was not an FPS but was an immersive sim, so gunplay was not a heavy focus, but it did have moments where you fought Typhon monsters in zero g inside and outside the station and you were effected by Newton's Third Law. Then after that...nothing...nothing for years...
...until now. I was gonna wait on Starfield, but watching the Starfield Direct, they show off yes there's lots of moments in zero g, and yes, you can do combat in zero g, and in zero g kinect weapons effect Newton's Third Law. The moment I saw that, I immediately preordered the Premium Edition. Zero G gunfights are my thing and wish that more games did them, because you have so much freedom in what directions you can go, and it's so cool to just have a floating shootout in space. And as an added bonus I recently learned Id Software was helping Bethesda with the shooting mechanics, which has me even more excited because Doom 2016 and Eternal kicked ass.
So I say again: Why isn't it Friday yet TODD?!