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Starfield steam page for the DLC currently shows eight user review score of 41%, making this one of the worst Bethesda DLC's released of all time. This is so horribly, shockingly bad for Bethesda, because it shows as a gaming company, they are no longer capable of delivering a really good gaming experience as they had in the past. Some of the reviews sum up quite nicely what is wrong with this DLC....

Less content than any skyrim DLC. Less than The Fallout 4 story DLCs. Doesn't change of the complaints people had with the base game, writing is still at a 4th grade level.

Quick: If you are looking to buy my answer is no, you aren't missing much content. I was really hoping to enjoy this DLC. Took about 4 hours for the main story and maybe 2 more hours to 100% the achievements.

These two reviews I think really summed up what Starfield has become, $70 for an AAAA title that has extremely little buy-in from the community, horrifically low amount of replayability and can be breezed through easily. It's mind-boggling to see this

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I've given up on every major developer/publisher, so-called AAA garbage, except for capcom for monster hunter and square enix for final fantasy. I'll be extra sad the day they too go the way of every other greedy lazy "AAA" game company...

At least indie devs care to make a good game and not try to make a money printing IP machine with some game like aspects in it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Even Capcom I'm not preordering. If wilds is getting good reviews a couple days after launch I'll get it. (Even though I'm pretty sure it will be a good game)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (14 children)

I don't think this means ES6 is doomed. Did anyone play the Civ space game? It was an offshoot one-off experiment that wasn't really well recieved and they quietly moved on.

My guess is that this game pivoted during development and they ended up with something that didn't really work and shouldn't have shipped. The failure to find something good in this experiment may be isolated to this game.

The fact that they released it in the state they did could be more about their workflow and project pipeline/target milestones they need to hit than it is about their ability to execute.

The failure here is in design, ES6 has a tried and true design to follow.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

If ES6 is just a refreshed Skyrim I really see no reason to buy it. There are much more interesting RPGs than the Bethesda style nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah they need to get rid of that cokehead.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My sister loves Beyond Earth; I still prefer Alpha Centauri.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Story and worldbuilding wise, ES6 has a very bleak future ahead. Emilio Pagliarulo, the de facto director of Starfield and lead writer, has shown that no hole is deep enough that he won't dig it further down when it comes to lack of quality and consistency. Not that Skyrim's main story was good, but it was certainly better than Starfield's. There's also the disturbing indifference of "the world" to everything happening around it. Literally nothing you do in Starfield affects anything outside its own storyline. Hell, shooting up in the air or using fucking space magic in the middle of a city generates no reaction from npcs if nobody is hit.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

I actually liked beyond earth 🥲

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

I have no hope for The Elder Scrolls 6 and Fallout 5. It was a good run but like all things. Everything comes to an end.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 months ago (1 children)

worst Bethesda DLC's released of all time

Are we including Horse Armor here?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago

Bethesda literally invented shitty DLC

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hey im all for giving Bethesda shit for publishing an incredibly bland game, but 8 reviews hardly seem like a solid foundation to make that title.

EDIT : I've realised that autocorrect might have gotten you since around 1, 1k user reviews still sit at around 42% positive

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I'm enjoying it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But but, we've been told Bethesda hears us and was fixing it!

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