There's the problem. You bought a BSG rpg wanting it to not be a BSG rpg. They will always make this style of game. If you want a different style of game, they will disappoint you.

Ive been playing BSG rpgs since Morrowind, and so I got exactly what I was expecting, with some cool extra bits on top. And as such, I absolutely love it!

I played Outer Worlds and, I think I completed it. The setting got old and the plot.. what was the plot again..? I'm like 90% sure I finished it but I couldn't tell you what happened.

Contrast that to Starfield, I've completed two faction quest lines and they were both superb. They took unexpected twists and turns and were full of lore and interesting characters. The Crimsom Fleet quest line was epic, and payed off in just the right way for me (seriously the discovery at the end is 🤌). The Rjujin quest line was also great, and took such an unexpected turn from the initial thing of applying for an office job. Also the toy you get from the questine is really fun to play with, crazy that someone might play the whole game and miss it because they thought applying for a corp job would be boring.

At the moment I'm taking a break from story missions, and I've been taking pirate hunting bounties, and just exploring. I've found loads of random encounters and followed threads to some epic stuff. And I've still only just started the main quest line.

The game is so much deeper than Outer Worlds, while also being far broader. Also, Bethesda make open world games, if they had released something as stripped back and linear as OW, they pull have been torn apart for it, even more than they are now.

Oh man of I could customise a buggy as well, and have that buggy drove out of my customised ship, I'd be so bloody happy about that

I switched from playing on my 1440p monitor to my 4k TV the other day and all my old screenshots have a black box round them whe they come up in the menus now. I'm wondering if, when I switch back, my 4k shots will all be zoomed in...

But manual space travel would be even slower and honestly I think it would get old very quickly. I do understand the frustration, and if you were expecting it to work like NMS or Elite then yeah it's going to be disappointing. But for me, that's not the point of the game. I've had a ton of fun exploring randomly around, just jumping system to system and checking out random planets. The only part of space flight I'm actually that bothered about doing 'realistically' is ship to ship combat, and that works great, especially once you unlock the thrusters. If you manage to take out their engines by focusing fire you can disable them and board the ship, and take it as your own. Also the sidequests are great, I think the writing has improved from previous games. They often go in unexpected directions.

I've enjoyed seeing the initial backlash fade and turn around. I'm seeing a lot of posts on the subreddit saying stuff like "I initially made a bug complaint post but now I'm a few hours in and I was wrong, this game is amazing"

If you're not enjoying the first few hours I implore you to stick with it a little longer.

From the article it looks like that was an issue with ZeniMax Online Studios

Fallout76 was a bad game. Not really evil though. And I heard it got much better, admittedly long after launch. I really enjoyed Fallout 4 but I get that I was in the minority there. Either way, I don't think a company should be totally panned just because they made the main character voiced instead of silent. Re-releasing Skyrim got old, but you don't have to buy it, lol. I don't know what you mean about their launcher. Was it bad? You could always start the games from the exe as well. You'll be happy to know there's no launcher for Starfield anyway.

I think they've made something amazing with Starfield, although it starts quite slowly.

Pirate the game if you want, no judgement from me, but don't justify it by pretending its some moral good.

The plumber was being silly with the cat

Oh why not, it's a really good game. Did Beth do something evil or something?

I'll add the Discworld games. And Simon the Sorcerer!

You're sitting g just around the minimum requirements for the game. You might want to try installing some performance mods, there's some available already in the nexus I think, but there will be more coming soon

Yeah the lack of city maps is frustrating. So hard to find your way to certain places without a mission to go there.

It's not that buggy. I've had maybe half a dozen minor visual bugs at most in all the time I've played

Fair enough. I'm the kind of madlad that really enjoyed Fallout 4, although not as much as previous titles. I'd say this one beats FO4.

Oh, I don't know that one!

Just in case you don't know, CP2077 is great now, and set to get better when the dlc drops soon.

You do also get the first expansion thrown in

I woke up early and played 45 mins before i has to leave for work. I just did that dogfight as well. Work is sooooo slooooow today!

I think you mean Round the Twist, not Round the Bend. Was also an excellent show, loved it so much as a kid!

Knightmare was great!

Starfield early access hits tomorrow, I think it's gonna be tricky to convince myself to also do my washing, shopping, etc. this weekend!

That's really scummy. A lot ofnpeopke have been paying $45 a month ans been told they woukd get a new phone at the end of it. Now they just change their mind? How is that not breach of contract? Looks like a class action is needed here!

Can confirm it is, I went for it and now have SF preloaded 😁

Why is this downvoted? Just cos it's an ad or should I not take this deal?

I spent so many hours building the bases in Fallout 4, especially once the mods got going!

So I'm looking forward to that, but I'm worried that the npc pathing will be bad again. They never used half the stuff I built cos they couldn't find their way up stairs and things very well.

Can we start calling them pro-shame protesters?

Get a better than the rest are in vanilla and if they want a cake was there any way I could get an extra bag for the Turmish government for me and the indigenous people of each island to the North surrounded by dwarves in a long tradition started by a narrow road to a modifier area with the sahuagin of a kraken in a long tradition started to fall in love

Yeah, and the other person was sidestepping the partisan nonsense. Don't be disappointed when people agree with you.

Here's changed their name to Evri to try and escape their terrible reputation.

Wtf did you just call me?!

Supposed to be a troll I think, but that blatantly a goblin

Also the military cosplay guy has a swastika on his arm.

Yeah it's quite dangerous, there is moderate risk of mild injury and very mild risk of serious injury. But everyone participating knows that.

They didn't say "and that is wrong". But I think that's because it's obvious. There were a few raised eyebrows or a change to the tone of voice, so it was certainly implied.

Like if there was a documentary on the slave they might not actually say, "and this was a bad thing", bevause obviously it was a horribly bad thing.

I'm stumped.

We have a long tradition of doing silly and dangerous things. Particularly in small towns. Some have formed out of old oagan (pre-Christian traditions), some for more questionable or objectionable reasons like this one. They keep going because a lot of people have good memories of them and it becomes part of a local identity.

I watched this video, and lots of people make mention of how the tradition started, and how the pennies used to be actually hot. And why. Its referred to multiple times. Your post implies this was glossed over, but you clearly got the info from the video, so it's not exactly hidden. Maybe that's why OP says, "no need to watch it", bevause they know they're telling fibs for outrage bait?

Look up The Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake. People get really hurt doing that.

Don't be so sensitive then, it's just a joke!

They said they don't drive

I think it's just straight up whistle

New here. I was reading all the snarky strawman comments here and thinking "what the fuck are these people on?". Then I read your comment, which is clearly and concisely written, and makes good points. I hadn't thought of it that way and it makes a lot of sense. Not saying my view is totally flipped around, but that's some food for thought and I'll be snacking down.

Now will the rest of you calm down about owning libs and speak nicely to each other?

There were a lot of protests in the UK at least before Bowling For Columbine came out.

Its just how photography copyright law works. The person who presses the button owns the photo. I was a wedding photog or a while. I wouldn't stop the couples sharing my photos on social media, but they wouldn't be allowed to sell the photos for use in marketing or anything. Nit that ot ever came up.

If a couple asked me not to use their photos for advertising then I would have taken them down, not because I was legally obliged to, but because I'm not a horrible person.

When I was getting started I charged less, because I didn't have examples of my work at weddings. But I made it very clear to the couple that I would be using the photos for advertising o get my business off the ground, so they knew their pics would be all over my website, etc.