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Bethesda intended Starfield to be more violent, including 'meat caps' for beheaded astronauts, but the gore was toned down for technical reasons and because it 'didn't fit thematically' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

Adding gore to this game would be like shaking a bit of pepper on stale wonder bread

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Still wouldn't make it any less bland and generic IMO. Gore wasn't the issue.

[–] Screen_Shatter 11 points 4 days ago

I agree, but also wonder how many other things were toned down or trimmed out for reasons like this. Keep trimming to appease everyone and you'll please no one.

To steal a line from Bob's Burgers, if this game's personality was a spice it would be flour.

[–] mrfriki 7 points 4 days ago

The gore itself is how much boring the game is.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Probably for the better, though the general spacesuits as armor theme doesn't make the slightest bit of sense either.

I really wish one of the devs would come out and talk why they a-ok'd the RNG to be a single pass with nothing between POIs - also generated without a single thought about anything since, to me, that's the third biggest letdown of the game (the first is the universe/setting, the second is the main story, )