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You don't even need to go that recent. Fallout 4 was trash. Skyrim was bland. Fallout 3 and Oblivion had fun side stuff but the main quests totally sucked.

NASApunk

give me sovietwave please its so much better than the cringe this word elicits

I kinda don't mind the aesthetic. It's better than all things being and will be hard for the awooga people to mod without completely and totally breaking the aesthetic. The effort that will be necessary for clothing mods in this game is going to be very high because there's pipes and shit hanging off them in all directions. It's not an easy art style to mod for.

I actually think that's partly why it won't catch on. It's a hard aesthetic to do and everything in the industry is about streamlining your asset creation. That and doing it in an optimised way is just not possible, and I don't think any other companies like putting out things that perform this poorly.

The factions seem uninspired right now and after a few hours I have absolutely zero emotional investment in literally anything at all. It's a run, kill, loot, gameplay loop with so far absolutely no emotionally interesting anything, the space stuff only brings to the table disjointed fast travel and terrible space fighting. Oh and since it's not Fallout the one thing that makes up for Bethesda's terrible shooting the VATS system isn't here, so you just have Bethesda's terrible shooting with no redeeming features.

If it can't emotionally invest the player in any of its universe building then it's just going to leave people feeling like the aesthetic itself is the problem, when in reality the problem is most likely that Bethesda has no creative talent left at all and can only rehash rather than create anything new.

I can't stress enough how disjointed it feels travelling between planet ground, your ship interior(loading screen), your ship seat, takeoff loading screen, go into menu, find place you want to go, fast travel (loading screen) to place, watch cut scene of your ship flying from A to B, look at planet you're now orbiting, go into menu, select planet, select landing site, watch cut scene of you landing(loading screen), get out of chair, walk to door of ship, loading screen, get on ground of new planet.

All of this should be seamless by now it's SOOOOO disjointed and feels really bad.

Oh I also think my computer would probably run Star Citizen with more frames. So there's that too. Not that I want to but it's a serious mark against it.

The game seems to literally look bleak and washed out as well, every screenshot or video clip is colorless as hell.

Who coined “NASApunk”? I need to know so I can shout at them until I’m blue in the face it’s so stupid.

I’m tired of people just abusing language and just smashing words they don’t understand together to make a shorter words that are even more incomprehensible.

When people use “punk” in this way they prove they only understand it as an aesthetic and not it’s ideology whatsoever.

Or fuck it maybe I’ll just give in. Everyone knows there is nothing more punk than a literal government agency.

The whole NASApunk thing is so funny. First off, it's the epitome of the modern corporate cyberpunk trend. So we have this trend of adding -punk to aesthetic styles without even thinking about punk. Then we have the trend of soulless companies unironically trying to produce cyberpunk content. So Bethesda is trying to create its own punk style that has zero punk. Very bizarre but also very expected.

So let's ignore this ridiculous "NASApunk" misnomer and just look at it as NASA aesthetics in science fiction. Well, we already have that in the form of retrofuturistic art from the 60s to 80s - oftentimes commissioned or made by NASA. If you want something to look like NASA, you paint it white with some black detailing. That is the classic NASA aesthetic. If you're borrowing from this period of NASA-inspired futurism, then your world should have rotating space habitats, moon bases, mass drivers, big spaceplanes, space-based solar, and obviously ROCKETS!! But from what I've seen so far, Starfield takes very little from these aesthetics. "NASApunk" is just bulky spacesuits and spaceships that aren't pristine transposed onto a generic scifi world where capitalism exists in the 24th century, there's dogfighting in outer space, and FTL and artificial gravity is trivial.

Bethesda is never ditching gamebryo

It got cracked 4 minutes before the early access started btw

The fact that there are people who paid money for the game who can't play it yet, while pirates can freely download it, is just

but it's the other Miyazaki

New Vegas. But I guess Obsidian made that.

Morrowind is good on its own. Fallout 3 is...ok. The rest are whatever.

Morrowind

They did 100 times as much QA on this game as they normally do (100 * 0 = 0)