Personally… I think it had a whole lot of potential…but tripped, fell, and faceplanted just before the finish line.
So many systems feel either half finished, or that they had massive design changes danger close to press date, and it lacks tons of polish and I have no idea how some ideas managed to get through QA without being throttled to death, Like not being able to dictate where doors and ladders appear on ships you build/modify, or the fact that your carefully designed interior just gets dumped unceremoniously into cargo if you change ships, also an alarming lack of variety in the PoIs on planets, and in the PoI’s themselves. See that PoI? That looks like one you saw before? This ones exactly the same, down to every single hand placed sheet of paper and corpse locations. Also having menus in menus in menus to do shit is just bad design and annoying.
I have more critiques, about the ridiculous number of, and the bland sameness of certain spoiler content, but thats about as much as I’ll discuss that .
The main story takes what I feel is a dumb and entirely predictable plot turn towards the end, too.
I also question their priorities when one of their first patches was to remove the vendor chests from the game, because some people were playing their single player game wrong, and making Bethesda look bad due to their horrible economy and under funded vendors.
I’m sure there are lots of people who can squeeze fun from it, and more power to them. Hope they have a hog wild time with it, but that doesnt change the fact that its fundamentally flawed, in a similar to possibly worse way than Cyberpunk was at launch… and I seriously doubt Bethesda will dedicate 3 years to patching it and fixing it before trying to further monetizing it with a expansion.
After about 15 hours of play I was forcing myself to keep playing it, buoyed somewhat by a friend also playing it and us venting and bitching to eachother about our disappointment. At about the 100 hour mark, I just gave up and pushed to the end game and beat it.
I’m just glad I got it for free with my video card.
Personally… I think it had a whole lot of potential…but tripped, fell, and faceplanted just before the finish line.
So many systems feel either half finished, or that they had massive design changes danger close to press date, and it lacks tons of polish and I have no idea how some ideas managed to get through QA without being throttled to death, Like not being able to dictate where doors and ladders appear on ships you build/modify, or the fact that your carefully designed interior just gets dumped unceremoniously into cargo if you change ships, also an alarming lack of variety in the PoIs on planets, and in the PoI’s themselves. See that PoI? That looks like one you saw before? This ones exactly the same, down to every single hand placed sheet of paper and corpse locations. Also having menus in menus in menus to do shit is just bad design and annoying.
I have more critiques, about the ridiculous number of, and the bland sameness of certain spoiler content, but thats about as much as I’ll discuss that .
The main story takes what I feel is a dumb and entirely predictable plot turn towards the end, too.
I also question their priorities when one of their first patches was to remove the vendor chests from the game, because some people were playing their single player game wrong, and making Bethesda look bad due to their horrible economy and under funded vendors.
I’m sure there are lots of people who can squeeze fun from it, and more power to them. Hope they have a hog wild time with it, but that doesnt change the fact that its fundamentally flawed, in a similar to possibly worse way than Cyberpunk was at launch… and I seriously doubt Bethesda will dedicate 3 years to patching it and fixing it before trying to further monetizing it with a expansion.
After about 15 hours of play I was forcing myself to keep playing it, buoyed somewhat by a friend also playing it and us venting and bitching to eachother about our disappointment. At about the 100 hour mark, I just gave up and pushed to the end game and beat it.
I’m just glad I got it for free with my video card.