It feels like when Fallout 3, 4 and Skyrim came out you couldn’t escape people posting about them for weeks, especially with Skyrim. Now the most I’ve seen are complaints about how disappointing Starfield was.

Is the game that much blander or does Internet culture just move on that much faster these days? On the other hand, I do feel like there was a lot more enthusiasm for other games like Elden Ring, and sometimes you get an Among Us that just completely take over the Internet.

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      Yeah. Nasapunk is an incredibly generic aesthetic. The factions are all different flavors of liberal so there’s nothing really interesting about them. The constant loading screens break up the exploration people loved in Skyrim and previous games. There’s a dearth of hand-crafted stuff to find. It’s all very bland, generic, and stripped down from prior games. Really embarassing, but Cash Rules Everything Around Me.

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      Apparently Todd called it “Skyrim in space” before launch, so

      a) people are waiting for modders to fix all the issues, or

      b) people finally got tired of the shallowest storylines ever, which leads to

      c) people are waiting for modders to add stories worth playing

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        the problem is how will they get the modders enthusiastic enough to leave fallout 4 or skyrim 8 anniversery special edition. those games it seemed like everyone played for a while, they’re still on meme templates and shit. if a big modding community doesn’t organically crop up, the game is never going to get fixed, it’s never going to be worth playing, and the monetization of those mods they for sure put in the accounting sheets will never materialize. fuckers suffering from success on the free labor of fans forget how to make a good product

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        Honestly I hope the game stays shit and modders don’t fix it. I get doing things out of passion - whether with or without donations/compensation - is the point of modding, but the industry, and especially Bethesda, has taking advantage of people’s good will. Free labor is one thing, but free labor due to negligence is bullshit.