It sure feels impossible to have an honest conversation about Starfield online right now.

  • finthechat
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    I feel ya, OP. I bought Cyberpunk 2077 at launch, played the hell out of it and loved every second of it. Then I tried to find honest discussion about it and it was threads full of nonstop bitching or substance-free fluff from the low sodium crowd. There wasn’t a place to find balanced talk where people could share their experiences about the game while also being civil and open minded about things.

    If you are just looking to create discussion, I guess this thread has been successful as it’s gotten a lot of replies already.

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          It looks like they’ve made a LOT of fixes to some of the base mechanics, so hopefully that’ll make the game closer to what it was envisioned to be. It might make the game feel fresh for a replay.

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        Yeah. I started one a few weeks ago but I paused it when I heard that 2.0 is coming out. I’m gonna pick up the expansion and just play a new run all the way through, maybe watch Edgerunners again too.

    • Open world games can be played in a lot of different ways depending on your playestile you might care or not care about it’s limitations. So just because feature X is missing doesn’t mean it would matter to everyone or it’s automatically a bad game.

      In those Reddit threads almost everyone seemed like they had second hand information or it was just a meme that was constantly repeated.

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        There felt like a lot of people who really wanted CP to be GTAV and were extremely upset that it wasn’t.

        There was also a lot of angst from people who saw the words “open world” and expected it to mean some Second Life-esque escapist experience, rather than the actual meaning of open world, as in there is a big environment where you are free to roam around and do stuff in.

        Misled expectations from the marketing hype absolutely played a key role in all of that furor, but at least for me, I tune out most of it since I like making my own opinions on things.

        There’s a TON more that could be said but those are the three standout points from my perspective.

        • Yes that was the loudest portion of the complaints for sure.

          Marketing also hit the create overhype button one too many times. Maybe given the topic, genre and time of release it would have create overhype anyway, but its a moot point at this point.

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        In those Reddit threads almost everyone seemed like they had second hand information or it was just a meme that was constantly repeated.

        Literally every conversation about Stadia

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            21 year ago

            Basically just memeing to death how bad is was… it actually had valve like store policies, really good latency compared to other cloud options (even now) to the point it felt local even on a shooter, false information that you had to pay a subscription to play your purchased games, etc