• Bear@lazysoci.al
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    1 year ago

    I was dumb enough to back this on Kickstarter. I’ve given up on ever seeing a finished game.

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      1 year ago

      I kickstarted it 11 years ago, I’m sure squadron 42 will be out any day now, right?

      Luckily, I really wanted a space sim, so I kickstarted elite too. It was far less hyped and star citizen fans always big up how they’re not the same scope (which is true if you ignore everything else about SC), but at least it was released and very enjoyable.

      I usually try star citizen out every time I get a new PC to see if it’s any better just to make myself happy that I never sunk money into ship preorders etc

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      Yeah I spent 60€ to get the avenger titan much later.

      The bright side is, it is about as finished as No Man’s sky was. That is, buggy as hell game, but playable. It is fun to go in and fuck around in, but I definitely pity the people who have sunk hundreds or thousands into it.

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        That’s not an accurate comparison, The game breaking bugs in NMS on release were patched a day or two after release (I stupidly preorderd and experienced the hyperdrive blueprint issue). But the issue with NMS wasn’t really bugs, just over promises by the developers that didn’t match the final product. At least there was a few hundred hours of gameplay and complete gameplay loops.

        Star Citizen, another game I stupidly preordered / Kickstarted (I’ma sucker for space games; kickstarted Elite Dangerous too) is a totally different kettle of fish. A decade later, there still isn’t a single, non-buggy / non-broken game loop in the entire game.

        I so desperately want to like Star Citizen but for $600mil, having a few hours of “mucking about” with no real purpose nor way to achieve anything meaningful without experiencing migraine-inducing bugs, it’s pretty much unforgivable.

        For the same money, I’ve been able to play Elite Dangerous for almost a decade and sink 1000s of hours, build a massive fleet of ships, and hang out with my buddies without screaming at the game. Sure, it’s shallower, but at least the loops are complete and the management were able to regularly make meaningful feature additions to the game over the years (although Odyssey was an utter shitshow at launch and took a year to patch into something stable and fun).

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          1 year ago

          Did you get a chance to try Starfield yet? I’m on the fence, at least until there are some performance fixes.

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            I’ve been playing it on the Steam Deck (haven’t had a chance to play on the desktop yet as it’s currently extremely hot where I live so I’m huddled next to the aircon). And yes, it actually plays. Low frames in big cities but otherwise seemingly playable!

            I love it. It’s more Skyrim than No Man’s Sky but I’ I’ve been playing Bethesda games since Redguard so I’m biased and a fan of their jank.

            Only one crash to desktop so far…

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              Nice! That’s good to know. I was actually waiting for feedback on how it runs on the steam deck before taking the plunge (since that’s where I’m planning to play it most of the time). As long as it’s playable, I think it should be good.

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                You’ll be playing it on low settings for everything and there are major frame drops in the big cities. But I’ve sunk around 8h in on the Deck and so has my partner. So far, so good. Only crash to desktop happened after resuming the Deck from sleep mid play.

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            Starfield is pretty good, but space is just the background. It’s not really much of a space game TBH. (I’m enjoying it though!)

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          NMS doesn’t have hundreds of hours of gameplay unless you love base building. You can see the whole game in 50 hours.