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[–] Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I got it for “free” with my new cpu purchase. I played about 5 hours. It was a total slog. Put it down and have zero regrets. Bethesda has been making some very boring games lately imo.

[–] Case@unilem.org 6 points 1 year ago

I bought after it released.

So far I've seen a lot of Bethesda typical bugs, but nothing game breaking yet.

Yes the first few hours of a play through are a slog, after it opens up more it becomes much more enjoyable. A live another life type mod would make me immensely happy.

That being said, Bethesda does a good job of making a platform for modding, and thats the KEY thing that keeps me buying, and playing again and again, Bethesda games.

For that reason ESO just never had the magic to me, I understand a lot of mods found for single player games would be highly unbalanced and its not an option for an MMO. That said, without mods Bethesda games are lackluster and I quickly lost interest despite trying to enjoy it a few times. I like MMOs too, don't get me wrong, I'm not someone who only plays shooters being introduced to an MMO.

I'm excited to see what the modding community can do once the tools are released in 2024.

[–] rosymind@leminal.space 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Skyrim was one of my favorite games for several years.

I tried watching my husband play Starfield but I kept zoning out, using my phone, or getting up to do something else. I'd rather do laundry. Starfield is boring A.F to watch, and I have zero interest in playing it

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think Skyrim is also boring to watch, they're definitely better to play

[–] rosymind@leminal.space 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair point on Skyrim being more fun to play than to watch. I agree. And if you like Starfield as it is- then so be it! I'm not trying to shit on anyone's enjoyment of the game

BUT...my husband likes to try to optimize everything. So we'll spend time looking at different aspects- some of the graphics just infuriated me. Some things looked so amazing, but others... meh or... wtf. The facial expressions are way behind the times, and everything he showed me seemed lacking in one way or another. Like that Aurora nightclub. The NPC's are talking about what an amazing experience they are having, meanwhile it's like 15 of them badly dancing or just standing around. They certainly didn't look like they were having fun and they moved around like a group of homeless methheads

He ended up playing some more of the game once I went to bed, and then conceeded that it's lack-luster and moved on to something else

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I got about 150 hours in, did all the side quests I could find, went through NG+ did almost all the things needed to ng+ again but now I'm just like... Meh why?

I'm sure it'll be a great game for modders, there's already a good bit that help with some of the basics (UI, beth wtf) so I got pretty good moneys worth from the game and here's to hoping I can take many more trips in like FO4 and Skyrim with mods to vastly improve things :)

On the Aurora thing, I mean... You ever been in a club with people on Molly? They look out of their minds so... Doesn't seem too far off lmao

Bout to start a fresh run on New Vegas, been many many years so I'm excited :D

[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same got it free with my 7800x3d, played it for 15 minutes saw it ran like dog shit even on that CPU with a RTX 4090 and said fuck this.

Cyberpunk 2.0 has been incredible though