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"Starfield's lead quest designer had 'absolutely no time' and had to hit the 'panic button' so the game would have a satisfying final quest" (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 8 months ago by A_Random_Idiot to c/[email protected]

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""We were finally at a state in the project where we could play through the whole [game]. And it became very clear that we were missing the large final location that was going to tie the story together and have a satisfying action-filled payoff," Shen said. "I was both implementing the main quest and leading the quest design team, so I had absolutely no time. The entire quest design team was already overbooked.""

The quest design team being overbooked and not having time certainly explains a lot.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I would love to see like 3 or 4 main quests, like a choose your own adventure. Sounds like I am being very overoptimistic though.

[–] adam_y 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Stop demanding replay ability and meaningful choice. You are ruining modern gaming!

Enjoy your radiant quests and feel satisfied fetching stuff and killing stuff endlessly.

... Seriously, there was a thing that bothered me about playing Space Invaders in the arcades and it was the fact that no matter how good you got the ending was always either your inevitable death or the fact that you just stopped playing.

This game felt so familiar.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My comment was bad and I feel bad. I know what I did.

[–] adam_y 4 points 8 months ago

No, seriously, you were bang on. That would have been brilliant. Meaningful choice and agency would have made that game great.

You did good. I just wish Bethesda employed you. Even on a casual basis.

[–] GrymEdm 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Bethesda probably got a big shock with Starfield (although I'm assured it still made a lot of money). My hopeful guess is that more carefully crafted expansions/updates + community mods will make the game great in a few years with features that improve replayability like branching quests. I'm putting off buying until then though.