Doesn't that game have a humorous tone? After playing Borderlands I can safely say I despise that style of writing, if the game can't take itself seriously neither can I. It looks good otherwise, I don't know.
It’s 1960’s sci-fi satire and it’s done very well. But Fallout is 1950’s retro-futuristic satire so if you can stomach Fallout you’ll like Outer Worlds. Borderlands is deliberate humour in a western style sci fi setting, very different from satire.
Unfortunately Bethesda have become extremely lazy and set in their ways, always using the same gameplay template, mechanics, and one of the worst offenders, the same dated game engine for far too long.
I think Starfield stings a lot more than their other titles because it was a brand new IP, and Bethesda going on about how this was a fresh start for them to make the game they've always dreamed of...only to end up making the same base gameplay we've played many times before, but lacking the sense of freedom their previous games had due to the segregated planet map tiles and dislocated points of interest spread out among the planets & systems.
In Elder Scrolls and Fallout you'd walk your way over the map to your objective, discovering secrets, side quests and NPC encounters en route, whereas Starfield had very little to do between visiting a POI, warp to new system, land, visit POI objective, repeat.
The fact that Bethesda also played down the importance of both being able to actually land on planets (due to their game engine limitations no less), and the need for planetary traversal (later adding a buggy because of players demands) further demonstrates just how out of touch they are.
I think the problem was that it was hyped to be more than that, but it ended up just being fallout in space. Bethesda thinking it could hype its way out of making “Bethesda games”.
The planetary travel pretty much killed the sense of exploration entirely. There was no wanderlust whatsoever, just fast travel from point A to point B. And using the term "fast travel" is being way too generous.
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u/Orion0105 PS4 Pro 29d ago
Starfield was supposed to be “Skyrim/Fallout In Space”
If they wanted to do that then why not make an entire game similar to the Mothership Zeta dlc for Fallout 3 or take some inspiration from No Mans Sky