• excitingburp@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Starfield is actually a great framework for a video game

    It really isn’t, that’s 99% of the problem. It’s basically a mod for Skyrim with some additional tech.

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        8 months ago

        Not at all. Skyrim was a groundbreaking game, for 2012, that occurred in a few small regions from several planets/planes. The praise ends there, though. If Skyrim came out as a new release in 2024, even with the remaster work and all the DLCs, I wouldn’t have nice words to say about it either. It has been more than a decade.

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        8 months ago

        well skyrim was good in 2012, kinda hard to say it can stand toe to toe with modern titles (without mods obviously)

        • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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          8 months ago

          I mean… It can in the fun department. It can’t compete on looks, technical stability, or smoothness of feel as modern shit… But it still has a certain something that nothing else captures and keeps me coming back every couple years to play through again.

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            8 months ago

            well, different strokes for different folks. could just be i like different kinds of games now - it has been a long time and my tastes have definitely changed. most of the appeal of skyrim for me is just that i love games you can mod the shit out of lol

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              8 months ago

              Video games are definitely a different strokes, different folks type thing. I “play through” (never done the main quest) of vanilla skyrim ever few years. I wouldn’t even know how to download a mod for it and I still love it all these years later.