Marduke_036
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Starfield, the "final frontier" where no developer dared to finish, in other terms, Starfield is a rush job project that needs one year to bake in the oven in which ends up being an average game. I don't know how to tell you if you're going to like it or not, some people likes it and others don't, if you like it, cool. In my case i will tell you my point where ever since i was a kid i followed all sorts of media containing SciFi stuff, and im sometimes biased on it, but i will tell you what is good about the game first in which im around 100 hours.
Graphics and sound are great, not the best but like other space games you will receive your share of eye candy exploring the cosmos. The game at least gives you a lot of stuff to do even so half of the quests can be somewhat repetitive or just average but one thing for sure some side quests are way better than most of the main quest of the campaign. And combat mechanics meaning as in you, you will find it familiar like in other first \ third person shooter from bethesda.
Now to the somewhat bad part, yes... the game is riddled with bugs, as each player have seen its share and most of them have different scenarios in what bugs they have witnessed, more or less.
The Combat AI for the NPC's specially in ground combat are bad and way to easy, along the game you have to set the difficulty up to very hard to even recieve some challenge but at least space is more challenging until you get the hang of it in which space battles are ok, not much to say in that part... but returning to the ground combat aspect, as in my play-through , when i had the means to travel, i was traveling systems and combating NPC's 30 or more levels higher than me and i always managed to get the upper-hand in which the only good part of me being level 15 and the NPC level 50 or beyond was good to farm them for better items and i manage to get better weapons in which made easier to kill hostiles through out the main quest, and up to a point where being a low level i managed to go to the planet where the last mission is at, fun but the best way to get out of it was that, to ramdom stuff and finish the game whenever you wanted.
Now, lets talks about the Scifi elements of the game, yes, there is, cant complain, but is mostly generic, yes there is space exploration to the limits of the game, space battles, and Dragonborn slash Spaceborn powers, yeah, its a reskin of the temples where you get super powers in skyrim. But overall, another game falls in to the generic, uninspired scifi writing that is plaguing many games in which the slap some artifacts and wala, you got a "grand" secrets of the universe. The powers are useless in which I only gathered three of them since they don't really help you and later on I finished the game, and acquiring them just falls flat, you get to this temple, activate the rings by touching to energy particles, repeat until you acquire them and you're spawned back outside, and done.
And now to the ugly, the story but at least the story is average in which the scifi elements do suffer like i described before, but what brings it down is the dialogues, they are bad, they are awful and this is Bethesda once again setting one dude according to the credits to write the entire game but there are moments where it doesn't fit to the current situation, sometimes you are just a child, stupid , flirting/romance is all over the place, and there is this part when you meet for the first time one of the main antagonist, the hunter, and escape to the lodge, you literally become a little kid, when you arrive to the base, your dialogue sounds like you're running to your parents crying because some other kid in the neighborhood hit you.
Bethesda standards are in the ground in this one, to think and it looks like many of the old staff don't work with them any more, in which puts the next elder scrolls at risk to receive mediocre content specially in the story department, we saw quality drop in fallout 4 even so is still famous on things you can do outside of the main content of the game in which they tried to exploit the sand box part and do a bad job with fallout 76 in which they tried to do the cash grab at first with the "sandbox" experience in an empty map until they had to actually gather everyone and finish the game and once more they do that in starfield.
Graphics and sound are great, not the best but like other space games you will receive your share of eye candy exploring the cosmos. The game at least gives you a lot of stuff to do even so half of the quests can be somewhat repetitive or just average but one thing for sure some side quests are way better than most of the main quest of the campaign. And combat mechanics meaning as in you, you will find it familiar like in other first \ third person shooter from bethesda.
Now to the somewhat bad part, yes... the game is riddled with bugs, as each player have seen its share and most of them have different scenarios in what bugs they have witnessed, more or less.
The Combat AI for the NPC's specially in ground combat are bad and way to easy, along the game you have to set the difficulty up to very hard to even recieve some challenge but at least space is more challenging until you get the hang of it in which space battles are ok, not much to say in that part... but returning to the ground combat aspect, as in my play-through , when i had the means to travel, i was traveling systems and combating NPC's 30 or more levels higher than me and i always managed to get the upper-hand in which the only good part of me being level 15 and the NPC level 50 or beyond was good to farm them for better items and i manage to get better weapons in which made easier to kill hostiles through out the main quest, and up to a point where being a low level i managed to go to the planet where the last mission is at, fun but the best way to get out of it was that, to ramdom stuff and finish the game whenever you wanted.
Now, lets talks about the Scifi elements of the game, yes, there is, cant complain, but is mostly generic, yes there is space exploration to the limits of the game, space battles, and Dragonborn slash Spaceborn powers, yeah, its a reskin of the temples where you get super powers in skyrim. But overall, another game falls in to the generic, uninspired scifi writing that is plaguing many games in which the slap some artifacts and wala, you got a "grand" secrets of the universe. The powers are useless in which I only gathered three of them since they don't really help you and later on I finished the game, and acquiring them just falls flat, you get to this temple, activate the rings by touching to energy particles, repeat until you acquire them and you're spawned back outside, and done.
And now to the ugly, the story but at least the story is average in which the scifi elements do suffer like i described before, but what brings it down is the dialogues, they are bad, they are awful and this is Bethesda once again setting one dude according to the credits to write the entire game but there are moments where it doesn't fit to the current situation, sometimes you are just a child, stupid , flirting/romance is all over the place, and there is this part when you meet for the first time one of the main antagonist, the hunter, and escape to the lodge, you literally become a little kid, when you arrive to the base, your dialogue sounds like you're running to your parents crying because some other kid in the neighborhood hit you.
Bethesda standards are in the ground in this one, to think and it looks like many of the old staff don't work with them any more, in which puts the next elder scrolls at risk to receive mediocre content specially in the story department, we saw quality drop in fallout 4 even so is still famous on things you can do outside of the main content of the game in which they tried to exploit the sand box part and do a bad job with fallout 76 in which they tried to do the cash grab at first with the "sandbox" experience in an empty map until they had to actually gather everyone and finish the game and once more they do that in starfield.
Taking it to the past, we meet Winston back when he was younger and how he has to deal with the underworld in the seventies while trying to save his brother and how guessing how it will be, how he will climb to the top where he is at now as the manager of the continental. We do get shown the world of john wick but not improving on what the movies shows us. Ive seen all four of the movies, and to compare to them, even the movies are great on their own even with its many flaws, extreme simple plots and giving us a small dip in to the lore of the underworld of how the world functions in which we have one side that is the normal living day we all live and outside of the normal we got the underworld in which we have this underworld enterprise of mafia that fallows a code and is done up front, as to how half of the underworld is involved and even the authorities knows about it and they know where and where they can intervene and they shouldn't... like in example when the cop visits Wick due to a noise complaint in the first movie, the cops knew who he was and they knew that he was part of that world in which the cop didn't arrest him nor question him even looking at the dead body in the background and asks, are you back and wick was vague about it not knowing if he was back or it was just a bump in the road, the whole collection movies is an exagerated representation of a criminal fantasy world where things are presented in an exaggerated way with fines, rules, etiquette and one drink could cost you 500 to 1000 and probably 2000 dollars if the coins used were gold and if they were up to one ounce in weight comparing it to today's price of gold. Entertaining but the show doesn't improve it, Here is why...
Lets start with the good stuff, yes, there is plenty of good action, but half of it shows some of the cast were rushed through rehearsals even you could excuse some of them on its each characters style on how they handle a gun but it shows they didnt know how to handle a gun or handle themselves even moments the characters looked like goofs or funny looking handling one. The world is presented nicely and we get to see some of the inner working of how the world works.
The story is a mixed bag of things, as it showed we got four writers in the show that doesnt have a history of projects that show the experience on portraying a good story for the show and no involvement on the other works of the franchise in which reflects why it doesn't improve the movies. All random stuff happening, they didnt knew where to go with the story even we know where it is going, is like Star Wars Rogue One, we know where it ends and is the destruction of the death star, there are moments that didnt give in on the risk or living in that world or moments of putting the characters on the edge or the risk for their lives, half of the dialogue were just fillers. The best characters, even they were vague in the show were characters shown only for minutes, like in example would be nice to see Mel Gibson to have more time and see his character become this monster that had his world under his thumb and we have seen him in other movies that he can show his bad side, even the twins were more interesting even so they looked awkwardly weird and never talked. As to Winston, it was neat to see him but having more time in the show even comparing to others who had less time, they never took advantage of their characters and never brought more of them and instead we get the fillers that i described of stupid dialogues.
The first episode time running about one hour and twenty minutes, the show fails to present more of the world, more of the characters, also sets other characters that are somewhat not needed and just there to prove a point of the show, they are presented somewhat useless in the sense of an actual function to grow the story and not because they are incompetent, for example we have the female cop in which she is looking in to the world and investigating different sets of incidents in which the underworld slash intercontinental slash the high chair slash the rest... are involved , they just place her there, she investigates, she has a fit of her awful boss and when she got the chance of entering the famous intercontinental building, she gets a glimpse of what and how it is, a place not for her, sees most of the people armed and the economy is different and the end. Also the show adds other stupid fillers in which up to this date seeing for the last three decades and i ask myself as of why my generation, the past and the next generation of people involved in writing have to add things that are sexual, i mean its nice to see some skin and eye candy from time to time for just a few minutes but most of the time its a filler of scenes that doesnt add anything to the story and this is usually a crutch used when you know part of your show isnt that good in which you push to attract more viewers hoping for ratings in another way, and knowing that the movies didn't depend on this why add it.
We will see where it goes, its first episode doesn't impress nor improve on what we already got, is good and bad making it just a plain average show. If you enjoy it, good.
Lets start with the good stuff, yes, there is plenty of good action, but half of it shows some of the cast were rushed through rehearsals even you could excuse some of them on its each characters style on how they handle a gun but it shows they didnt know how to handle a gun or handle themselves even moments the characters looked like goofs or funny looking handling one. The world is presented nicely and we get to see some of the inner working of how the world works.
The story is a mixed bag of things, as it showed we got four writers in the show that doesnt have a history of projects that show the experience on portraying a good story for the show and no involvement on the other works of the franchise in which reflects why it doesn't improve the movies. All random stuff happening, they didnt knew where to go with the story even we know where it is going, is like Star Wars Rogue One, we know where it ends and is the destruction of the death star, there are moments that didnt give in on the risk or living in that world or moments of putting the characters on the edge or the risk for their lives, half of the dialogue were just fillers. The best characters, even they were vague in the show were characters shown only for minutes, like in example would be nice to see Mel Gibson to have more time and see his character become this monster that had his world under his thumb and we have seen him in other movies that he can show his bad side, even the twins were more interesting even so they looked awkwardly weird and never talked. As to Winston, it was neat to see him but having more time in the show even comparing to others who had less time, they never took advantage of their characters and never brought more of them and instead we get the fillers that i described of stupid dialogues.
The first episode time running about one hour and twenty minutes, the show fails to present more of the world, more of the characters, also sets other characters that are somewhat not needed and just there to prove a point of the show, they are presented somewhat useless in the sense of an actual function to grow the story and not because they are incompetent, for example we have the female cop in which she is looking in to the world and investigating different sets of incidents in which the underworld slash intercontinental slash the high chair slash the rest... are involved , they just place her there, she investigates, she has a fit of her awful boss and when she got the chance of entering the famous intercontinental building, she gets a glimpse of what and how it is, a place not for her, sees most of the people armed and the economy is different and the end. Also the show adds other stupid fillers in which up to this date seeing for the last three decades and i ask myself as of why my generation, the past and the next generation of people involved in writing have to add things that are sexual, i mean its nice to see some skin and eye candy from time to time for just a few minutes but most of the time its a filler of scenes that doesnt add anything to the story and this is usually a crutch used when you know part of your show isnt that good in which you push to attract more viewers hoping for ratings in another way, and knowing that the movies didn't depend on this why add it.
We will see where it goes, its first episode doesn't impress nor improve on what we already got, is good and bad making it just a plain average show. If you enjoy it, good.
If you've been around watching standup comedies from many, you can fallow a path that their acts becomes stories of their lives. Another famous example is and may he rest in peace is Robin Williams as his shows he told his life with a comedic twist, drug problems and health problems in his past, social stuff, his family, world events. Same as any comedian, like here with Dave. He started to tell a few stories, things he have seen during the last years until he lands on the story about the LGBTQ... comunity. As he jokes about everybody but groups hate that stuff but like i have witnessed, like he did and many people, ... groups arent there for your well being, they care for the flash and show but you can go F your self. Like the story of a person that he met that was a comedian and got to open for one of his shows, he joked that that person bombed the opening act but when the comedian was not trying and more relaxed and when someone at the crowd tried to pull some sort of insult the comedian came back with a joke that threw the roof of the place but the tragedy of that person is she killed herself. Because she just ahad another opinion and the world, specially those who claim to be the same as her turned their backs at her and betrayed her.
Heres a tip for those people that need something in their lives, trans, gays, lesbians, men, women, anyone.... at the end of the road you're still human beings, you dont need a group to represent you because they have done nothing for you, you dont need no one to accept who you are because the only person that accepts you is yourself first and next are real friends that dont ask anything in return for you to be someone, just be yourself, also friends respect other people opinions and the only thing good could happen is a constructive discussion of the situation because what people did in social media to her, they beat and punch down the living hell out of her in a non-literal sense and made a world that she felt she wasn't accepted..
Heres a tip for those people that need something in their lives, trans, gays, lesbians, men, women, anyone.... at the end of the road you're still human beings, you dont need a group to represent you because they have done nothing for you, you dont need no one to accept who you are because the only person that accepts you is yourself first and next are real friends that dont ask anything in return for you to be someone, just be yourself, also friends respect other people opinions and the only thing good could happen is a constructive discussion of the situation because what people did in social media to her, they beat and punch down the living hell out of her in a non-literal sense and made a world that she felt she wasn't accepted..