Starfield composer Inon Zur has been discussing working with Bethesda, saying he believes “people were just not ready for” 2023’s divisive space adventure.

  • Stepos Venzny@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    4 minutes ago

    If I were saying that an unpopular thing were better than it gets credit for, I’d say at least something good about it. Anything at all.

  • archonet@lemy.lol
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    16
    ·
    edit-2
    4 hours ago

    if by that you mean people were not ready to pay $70 for a giant steaming pile of shit, then yes, they were “not ready for it.”

      • archonet@lemy.lol
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        4 hours ago

        I honestly don’t remember, a cursory search told me $70 but regardless of which it wasn’t worth it then and it’s barely worth $15 now, from what I know of the game. Tons of different games (No Man’s Sky, Outer Worlds 1 & 2, Elite: Dangerous to name a few) do different parts of Starfield 100x better than Starfield does it, often for less money. I can have a far more enjoyable time playing a mixture of those games than by playing a half-baked Bethesda attempt that does all of it – from the roleplaying to the space exploration to combat in space – badly.

  • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    2 hours ago

    I didn’t know Inon Zur had takes on the games he produces music for. Interesting to see his perspective at least, even if it seems off. Seems like he rides Tom Howard’s dick a but I almost like his work in a vacuum more than any Bethesda games

  • Kenny2999@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    3 hours ago

    The spaceship builder was cool and some of the bugs were pretty funny. Easily worth the 1e Xbox pc gamepass.

  • booty [he/him]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    3 hours ago

    TES6 is doomed lmao

    If they can look back at Starfield and think anything but “holy fuck we need to change up the way we run things around here immediately” then they’re already a walking corpse, this shit is gonna SUCK

  • dragontology@retrofed.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    18
    ·
    6 hours ago

    The game is what wasn’t ready. They shipped without a map for about a year. They ignored game breaking bugs posted to their community Discord (the official one they moderate). One notable one that was still unpatched after a year of being notified was how in random ship encounters, the leader of the enemies would be aligned to Constellation, meaning if you or anyone in your group killed them, all your allies turn against you. That should have been an easy fix. They just did not care.

  • Stern@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    4 hours ago

    Yea I’m sure folks just weren’t ready for Highguard, Concord, or E.T. on the Atari either.

  • U7826391786239@piefed.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    7 hours ago

    “not ready for it” or even “just don’t get it” doesn’t change the fact that the game sucks sweaty donkey balls. i can’t think of a single thing that makes playing the thing an enjoyable experience.

    maybe i don’t get it, but i also don’t care. got better things to do with my time