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Prediction: Starfield is going to a massive blunder and people are going to be unhappy (news.yahoo.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I will come back to this post in September to see if I was right lol

Biggest concerning signs:

  1. 30 FPS lock on xbox, there's no way to spin that positively, absolute fail

  2. Predatory pre-order bonus skins to get people to buy before they know what they're actually going to experience (buggy shitshow)

  3. Countless attempts to hype up the game and huge random assurances from the devs

  4. Preemptively admitting the game has jank and trying to make it seem okay lol

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/starfield-has-that-bethesda-rpg-jank-and-i-couldnt-be-happier/ar-AA1cGkxv

At least the bugs will be absolutely hilarious I think.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (11 children)
  1. 30 fps lock is not a bad thing for a not action heavy rpg, many games already did and prove that if you do it properly it's not that bad.
  2. you don't have to do the pre-order no one is forcing you to pre-order. They set a FOMO flag on the pitfall if you go ahead and fall then it's your issue.
  3. every big budget game hypes their game, they have to cause marketing money sometimes exceeds the development cost.(depending on the audience reach results, they usually don't spend marketing money like idiots.)
  4. if it doesn't pull a cyberpunk then I think it would be fine.

my predictions:

  1. at best it would be a space new vegas, At worst a space warp simulator cause loading or procedurally generate stuff for the system you are in takes time. And then it's full of copy paste settlements where 95% of the planet is not even worth visiting, you just scan locate settlement, land near by do your space fetching and then move on.
  2. it would be some interesting landscapes probably from AI generated ideas so main location won't feel too repetitive.(so do a planet with just one biome, except story relevant planets.)
  3. space combat is probably gonna suck or forced cinematic thing(force you to land somewhere, get ship taken away, etc. )
  4. many startrek/starwars "inspirations" for factions.
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Is this a sign though that games are going to start heading in the direction of 30 fps again? I remember last gen earlier titles would be 60 fps with the cross platform approach, but gradually it became rarer until 30 fps became the norm again with 60 becoming more of an outlier.

[–] stankmut 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It was always going to happen. Even most games that offer a '60 fps' performance mode are mostly targeting 30 fps, with the performance mode being an afterthought. They cut back resolution and tons of graphic settings and half the time don't even hit 60. Like Jedi Survivor ran great in Quality mode with nearly no fps drops throughout the entire game (excluding one small area) while the performance mode had tons of issues.

Do not, my friends, become addicted to 60 fps. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Reading this comment in 120 fps. Whoops.

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