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Anon is disillusioned about Starfield (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@lemmy.ml

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[–] kromem@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really don't understand how they green lit that design choice.

It was like Ubisoft towers on crack.

"Let's take the least interesting gameplay mechanic possible, and then gate one of the only interesting mechanics behind it. And then let's also make it take a few minutes of jetpacking around a barren planet to get there beforehand, to really jazz it up."

Todd: "Yes, exactly! See that temple over there? Your can go there. And go there. And go there again. And again. And again. And again. Again. Again. Again."

Devs look at each other...

"Is Toddbot broken or is this good gameplay design? Kenny, are you writing this shit down?"

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can believe that one of them played the little temple minigame once and thought it was cool, but unless they're literal space aliens, I cannot imagine the thought of doing that for eight hours even crossed their mind.