• @Blamemeta@lemmy.world
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    242 years ago

    Its more than that. Its bland. Fucking Skyrim had more going for it than neon. Tavern wenches shows more skin than Neon Workers. People actually bleed in skyrim. Drugs even, I think skooma has better writing tham Aurora.

    SF is just corporate.

    • Eochaid
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      192 years ago

      Tavern wenches shows more skin than Neon Workers.

      The fuck?

      People actually bleed in skyrim. Drugs even, I think skooma has better writing tham Aurora.

      Uh huh…

      SF is just corporate.

      Or…maybe just going for a different tone that doesn’t fit your dark gritty sensibilities?

      • @Blamemeta@lemmy.world
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        162 years ago

        Maybe, but it feels more corporate and sterile than just a different tone. Like they wanted more but had to reign it in.

        • Eochaid
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          22 years ago

          There’s literally no evidence they ever considered another tone. They were clearly going for a Star Trek tone, not a space opera.

          • @Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
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            12 years ago

            Considering all their past recent games had those aspects at least somewhat… It’s odd that they sterilized it so much in comparison.

            Compare that to BG3 where there’s like… Full on sex and people can explode into a bloody mess

            • Eochaid
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              2 years ago

              Okay, but just because they’re not titillating the desires of teenage boys doesn’t mean they “sold out” or “got more corporate”. They’ve been pretty consistent about presenting their creative vision for the game since the beginning.

              Also, you’re premise is wrong. I just shot the hell out of someone iin the game and there were absolutely blood splatters all over the wall and floor. Have you played the game, or are you meming influencers?

              That said, I would never consider Beth games to be particularly risque. They’ve always faded out sex scenes. Oblivion and Skyrim aren’t particularly bloody games. Fallout’s bloodiness is more in line with the IP and considerably tame compared to Obsidian’s games.

              Maybe you’re thinking of mods. I dunno.

              • @Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
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                12 years ago

                There is blood splatter, but it looks silly, when you loot things off of dead bodies they still have the same suit/helmet/whatever left on their bodies you supposedly just looted.

                I’ve put over a hundred hours into the game, I’m not a teenager, and the game is definitely more tame/sterile/corporate in many aspects compared to previous games. Remember bloody mess in Fallout? Or the fact you can goo enemies with laser weapons? Yes fallout under beth is definitely more tame even then compared to Fallout 1 and 2 but still Starfield has none of that.

                There’s dibellla in Elder Scrolls, and cannibalism, and skeletons (im mot talking about like necromancer skeletons, literally bones for corpses of prior-dead, in Starfield there are corpses but it’s always the “frozen over” look, even on warm planets with atmosphere where decomposition should definitely have taken place instead)

                Need I say more?