That's right Bethesda, it's the entire player community that's wrong...
Jesus, claiming it's a miracle the game is even working isn't a compliment guys. That means their refusal to abandon the Creation Engine is at its breaking point. That engine is trash, was always trash, but they kept it because it made it easier for fans to mod for and in turn take advantage of fans to fix their games for them as well. I sound harsh with that claim yes, but they haven't released a single game on that engine that didn't require fans to clean up their mess due to their refusal to do it professionally. That's why EVERYONE runs those games with the fans patch mod. It's mandatory and quite frankly it should embarrass the hell out of Bethesda, sadly though it does not.
They need more time to force a new paid mods service into the game like they did with Skyrim and they want it to coincide with the delayed TV show ....
@theduckofdeath yeah I totally agree. They did tell us it would be empty but I guess it just hits different when youre walking in a straight line and there's nothing at all to do, see, or hear until you reach your destination. Even if it meant I might struggle with difficulty or something I'd take it. If I was low health and something killed me at least it was a point of engagement where I felt like I did something that mattered enough that it got me killed. It also adds an amount of a rewarding feeling when I finally make it to my destination. Like I accomplished something no matter how small it was.
So here's my rant. This is a good start. Get the technical issues out of the way and then hopefully they can focus on fixing the rest of the game. For instance, make it fun. Seriously, I joke, but this game needs things happening in planets between waypoints. If I have to manually walk a mile or more from that "defunct robot factory" to that "landmark anomaly" then fine, but something either needs to be added between those destinations like a random encounter or add a galaxy wide radio station broadcast akin to the Fallout games. This game is so boring when you're out trying to explore.
Starfield also desperately needs build diversity. Give me more than 3 energy weapons since everything is all ballistics. Sure you have 10,000 different types of ammunition but theyre all ballistics and they could have easy just been 5 different ballistic types. So more guns that aren't ballistics please. Melee needs to be redesigned as well since everything technically functions the same and there is no difference between a baton and anything else you can wield. Please God, fix the perk chark! That's the biggest snooze fest of all. This NASA punk esthetic is so dull and drab and thats fine if it's what they want but the perks shouldn't also reflect that.
I fall asleep when playing this but I don't have to, it can become a better game if THEY fix it, not the modders. I low-key feel like this game needs a relaunch of sorts like Cyberpunk and No Man's Sky got. Starfield is good no doubt, but there's no excuse why it's not great.
@BrilliantBill and with that I see a total win. In the short term AI is just a helping tool to help devs get games out. Let's take advantage of it while it's still innocent. The real issue is when the total product is AI made. Then we can all have this bigger discussion.
As far as people being laid off that really does suck but every industry is having worldwide layoffs. We need to stop this bigotry that only game dev jobs matter.
@RazputinAquato no I totally agree with you but it doesn't matter at the end of the day. Most people can't tell the difference between real art and AI art. We already have AI doing word processing work in the industry already. As an example the dev apology the Gollum team put out was written by AI and no one could tell until it leaked that that was what happened. We've had AI doing lots of jobs already and even though most will never admit it, I have a feeling we've already been playing games and watching movies that had AI writing in them because some of these games and movies have such bad writing that I can't imagine that amount of trash came solely from a human brain. Not to mention the AI tools used in many games we have already known about for years that gave us AI created classics such as the GTA Definitive Trilogy.
I'm of the belief that a good chuck of all the layoffs we've seen this year was preparatory for new AI jobs. Don't need the Destiny composer anymore if they can have AI make an amalgamation of all the previous work they have the rights to. Again this sucks, but nothing we can do about it but watch it play out. Don't like AI products? Let them know with your wallet. The companies doing this don't care about anyone's Twitter rants as long as the cash flow keeps chugging along.
I've listened to many takes on this subject and i kind of feel like after everyone's thoughts I find myself agreeing with Asmingold as much as I dont actually want to. I don't like the thought of AI going forward but it's here no matter how much I hate it. The biggest issue is everyone's bigotry on why its ok to lay off fast food workers and postal workers etc. in favor of quicker AI and robotics but jobs specifically in the games and film industry should be seen as the hill to die on.
Oh boy, here we go. This is one of the big reasons we've seen so many layoffs this year. All these corporations have been prepping this AI takeover. This really sucks to hear. It's great cuz games will be pumped out quicker but means we'll get more issues like we saw with the AI masterpiece that was the GTA Definitive Trilogy. I really do hope I'm wrong but the way the industry has been going the last couple years I highly doubt I am. At the end of the day corporations are going to corporate and all that matters to them is cash flow.
@Halucigens I never said you couldn't enjoy videogames... i don't think you get it. No one here is complaining about this because they don't want you to enjoy games. People are mad because ads are becoming bigger and bigger everyday. I'm not mad about the one simple MW3 ad today. I'm frustrated because I know what Microsoft is likely to do in the future if we don't cause a fuss. If it causes enough negative feedback that could affect shareholders confidence or at least put them in a negative public viewpoint and then they'll stop or at least pull back a little. And the complaining against Gold last year did work as they pulled back on the price increase so I'm not sure of your point there. They changed what the service is now called a couple months ago but it's still essentially the same service...
@Bmartin001 I don't think people are complaining about this specifically. It's the idea that if Microsoft can get away with this and no one complains then they will slowly keep upping the ante more and more until it gets to the point where you have to watch a 2 minute ad before you can boot up your own games.
@Halucigens you realize that if people don't complain it'll get worse? Remember when Microsoft tried to up the price of Gold last year and everyone lost their ***** so Microsoft reversed course and apologized? That happened BECAUSE people lost their ***** and made such a fuss. That didn't happen by being complacent.
If this is the future we have to look forward to then just imagine how more Microsoft will push this. Ads anytime I want to access my games and apps? Ads to boot games I own? 30sec videos I'm forced to watch whenever I power up my Xbox?
@AverageGamer oh I completely understand that. My complaint is that this is something that should have been ready at launch. The main menu screen is in full HDR at a high nit scale. Once you start the game though it auto locks the HDR to never go above 400 nits not to mention the colors are horrible and drab because of it. Most devs haven't really had this issue even when their HDR is also broken.
Maybe not the end goal, but definitely the current goal. Once the precedence is set, you can say goodbye to voice actors. No company is going to want to publish a game that costs more to pay real people if they can save money with A.I. They'll hide behind "fiduciary duty" and since most people think that's a legit excuse, it'll be allowed until there's a strike.
Captures that were not uploaded to the cloud used to get automatically deleted after a few months. Maybe they got rid of that recently. Either way adopting a better capture app for saving and editing captures needs to exist. Xbox One launched with a better Capture app than the "Series" systems currently have now.
Hate to say it but what did they expect? This year has been so full of bangers that most people can't keep up. So games that aren't big hitters arent going to be seen. I had never even heard of this game and I'm on my Xbox almost every day.
@Moby yes however Xbox has always automatically deleted non uploaded captures as well after so long. Uploading it was the only way to keep it from doing that. Now however, even uploaded content is unsafe. Some of this could have been avoided if captures just stayed on the hard drive no matter what.
Why not just have them save to the internal hard drive like Sony has had the PlayStation do since on board capturing started last gen? Why is Microsoft making something so simple so damn confusing?
@JayJ I was excited to try it out before I heard about this. Now I'm just turned off from it. Hopefully they change it, but if not I've got other stuff to play. This year has been nuts!
@Kloppo Nothing wrong with that. Especially since almost all Souls like games can never get the balance right. Everything ends up being off in one way or another unlike what FromSoftware does. It would help this game more to have an easy mode in the event their game has any imbalance, then people can just slide the difficulty and actually roll credits lol.
@NeoRatt I don't know, those remasters came out quite a while ago. I don't know they even represent what Capcom is currently all about. Even then, they weren't bad ports and most of them had new features and/or better frame rates and resolutions. Not to mention as well, for the most part that's what a remaster is, a glorified port. Hell, id kill for a cheap port of Dino Crisis on modern consoles!
It's a great game but I think it's safe for me to admit I hyped it up a bit. Definitely in my top 5 this year though. However I really do think this will be a much better game in the years to come.
Man, I think I'm going to have to put Starfield on hold and play Cyberpunk. I've been waiting for a reason to start that game and hopefully once I come back to Starfield all of its problems are ironed out more.
Ok so this game is amazing but there is a weirdness to it where you could put in 30hrs and still not really "get" the game. I'm loving it but not "there" yet, however I'm hearing there is that classic Bethesda "moment" when the game REALLY opens up and hooks you in. I've also heard it reinvents the wheel for New Game + and I'm curious to see how all these things will affect future developments of other games going forward. ESPECIALLY with Hideo Kojima! This guy is probably going nuts with new ideas while playing this and I am stoked to see what he does in the future now!
So is this going to be 4k 60fps on PlayStation? I would assume they'll also have better textures as well so this is a huge disappointment if this all turns out to be true. 4k on Xbox is great but missing out on 60fps is a bigger deal and running with worse assets, if that is the case, is a crap deal as well.
If and when this ABK deal goes through, they should fire up the Backward Compatibility team again and add some new games to the list. Hell there's even some titles from before the merger that are surprisingly absent, I'm looking at you Condemned 2.
This makes no sense to me. Is Jim saying multiplatform games have never existed lol? They've always had access to each other's tech behind the scenes. That's unfortunately just how this works. How do they think multiplatform games get made for next gen consoles before the new consoles are released? Everyone has access to dev kits no matter what. Jim really hoping to pull one over the courts here...
As long as the frame timing is locked in then the 30fps will be a non issue. The moment that frame time is off and we get screen jittering, it's rough.
Not going to lie, kind of a missed opportunity to not get these running at 4k 60fps. I'm still going to get this but the HD Collection versions were only 720p as far as I remember...
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Re: Deals: All 80+ Backwards Compatible Games In The Xbox Countdown Sale 2023
@Kaloudz glad I'm not the only one
Re: Starfield Dev Calls Out 'Unreasonable' Criticism From Some People On Social Media
That's right Bethesda, it's the entire player community that's wrong...
Jesus, claiming it's a miracle the game is even working isn't a compliment guys. That means their refusal to abandon the Creation Engine is at its breaking point. That engine is trash, was always trash, but they kept it because it made it easier for fans to mod for and in turn take advantage of fans to fix their games for them as well. I sound harsh with that claim yes, but they haven't released a single game on that engine that didn't require fans to clean up their mess due to their refusal to do it professionally. That's why EVERYONE runs those games with the fans patch mod. It's mandatory and quite frankly it should embarrass the hell out of Bethesda, sadly though it does not.
Re: Bethesda Delays Fallout 4's Xbox Series X|S Upgrade Into 2024
They need more time to force a new paid mods service into the game like they did with Skyrim and they want it to coincide with the delayed TV show ....
Re: Bethesda Reveals What's Coming To Starfield Update 1.8.83 This Month
@Grunt companions have infinite ammo as long as they have at least one unit of ammo for their weapon in their inventory.
Re: Bethesda Reveals What's Coming To Starfield Update 1.8.83 This Month
@Banjo- dude I championed this game on release but the longer I spent with it the more I realized most the criticisms were warranted.
Re: Bethesda Reveals What's Coming To Starfield Update 1.8.83 This Month
@theduckofdeath yeah I totally agree. They did tell us it would be empty but I guess it just hits different when youre walking in a straight line and there's nothing at all to do, see, or hear until you reach your destination. Even if it meant I might struggle with difficulty or something I'd take it. If I was low health and something killed me at least it was a point of engagement where I felt like I did something that mattered enough that it got me killed. It also adds an amount of a rewarding feeling when I finally make it to my destination. Like I accomplished something no matter how small it was.
Re: Bethesda Reveals What's Coming To Starfield Update 1.8.83 This Month
So here's my rant. This is a good start. Get the technical issues out of the way and then hopefully they can focus on fixing the rest of the game. For instance, make it fun. Seriously, I joke, but this game needs things happening in planets between waypoints. If I have to manually walk a mile or more from that "defunct robot factory" to that "landmark anomaly" then fine, but something either needs to be added between those destinations like a random encounter or add a galaxy wide radio station broadcast akin to the Fallout games. This game is so boring when you're out trying to explore.
Starfield also desperately needs build diversity. Give me more than 3 energy weapons since everything is all ballistics. Sure you have 10,000 different types of ammunition but theyre all ballistics and they could have easy just been 5 different ballistic types. So more guns that aren't ballistics please. Melee needs to be redesigned as well since everything technically functions the same and there is no difference between a baton and anything else you can wield. Please God, fix the perk chark! That's the biggest snooze fest of all. This NASA punk esthetic is so dull and drab and thats fine if it's what they want but the perks shouldn't also reflect that.
I fall asleep when playing this but I don't have to, it can become a better game if THEY fix it, not the modders. I low-key feel like this game needs a relaunch of sorts like Cyberpunk and No Man's Sky got. Starfield is good no doubt, but there's no excuse why it's not great.
Re: Xbox's New AI Partnership Is Stirring Up A Heated Debate On Social Media
@BrilliantBill and with that I see a total win. In the short term AI is just a helping tool to help devs get games out. Let's take advantage of it while it's still innocent. The real issue is when the total product is AI made. Then we can all have this bigger discussion.
As far as people being laid off that really does suck but every industry is having worldwide layoffs. We need to stop this bigotry that only game dev jobs matter.
Re: Xbox's New AI Partnership Is Stirring Up A Heated Debate On Social Media
@RazputinAquato no I totally agree with you but it doesn't matter at the end of the day. Most people can't tell the difference between real art and AI art. We already have AI doing word processing work in the industry already. As an example the dev apology the Gollum team put out was written by AI and no one could tell until it leaked that that was what happened. We've had AI doing lots of jobs already and even though most will never admit it, I have a feeling we've already been playing games and watching movies that had AI writing in them because some of these games and movies have such bad writing that I can't imagine that amount of trash came solely from a human brain. Not to mention the AI tools used in many games we have already known about for years that gave us AI created classics such as the GTA Definitive Trilogy.
I'm of the belief that a good chuck of all the layoffs we've seen this year was preparatory for new AI jobs. Don't need the Destiny composer anymore if they can have AI make an amalgamation of all the previous work they have the rights to. Again this sucks, but nothing we can do about it but watch it play out. Don't like AI products? Let them know with your wallet. The companies doing this don't care about anyone's Twitter rants as long as the cash flow keeps chugging along.
Re: Xbox's New AI Partnership Is Stirring Up A Heated Debate On Social Media
I've listened to many takes on this subject and i kind of feel like after everyone's thoughts I find myself agreeing with Asmingold as much as I dont actually want to. I don't like the thought of AI going forward but it's here no matter how much I hate it. The biggest issue is everyone's bigotry on why its ok to lay off fast food workers and postal workers etc. in favor of quicker AI and robotics but jobs specifically in the games and film industry should be seen as the hill to die on.
Re: Xbox Signs New AI Partnership To 'Assist And Empower' Game Creators
Oh boy, here we go. This is one of the big reasons we've seen so many layoffs this year. All these corporations have been prepping this AI takeover. This really sucks to hear. It's great cuz games will be pumped out quicker but means we'll get more issues like we saw with the AI masterpiece that was the GTA Definitive Trilogy. I really do hope I'm wrong but the way the industry has been going the last couple years I highly doubt I am. At the end of the day corporations are going to corporate and all that matters to them is cash flow.
Re: Some Xbox Fans Aren't Happy About 'Intrusive' Call Of Duty: MW3 Ads
@Halucigens I never said you couldn't enjoy videogames... i don't think you get it. No one here is complaining about this because they don't want you to enjoy games. People are mad because ads are becoming bigger and bigger everyday. I'm not mad about the one simple MW3 ad today. I'm frustrated because I know what Microsoft is likely to do in the future if we don't cause a fuss. If it causes enough negative feedback that could affect shareholders confidence or at least put them in a negative public viewpoint and then they'll stop or at least pull back a little. And the complaining against Gold last year did work as they pulled back on the price increase so I'm not sure of your point there. They changed what the service is now called a couple months ago but it's still essentially the same service...
Re: Some Xbox Fans Aren't Happy About 'Intrusive' Call Of Duty: MW3 Ads
@Bmartin001 I don't think people are complaining about this specifically. It's the idea that if Microsoft can get away with this and no one complains then they will slowly keep upping the ante more and more until it gets to the point where you have to watch a 2 minute ad before you can boot up your own games.
Re: Some Xbox Fans Aren't Happy About 'Intrusive' Call Of Duty: MW3 Ads
@Halucigens you realize that if people don't complain it'll get worse? Remember when Microsoft tried to up the price of Gold last year and everyone lost their ***** so Microsoft reversed course and apologized? That happened BECAUSE people lost their ***** and made such a fuss. That didn't happen by being complacent.
Re: Some Xbox Fans Aren't Happy About 'Intrusive' Call Of Duty: MW3 Ads
If this is the future we have to look forward to then just imagine how more Microsoft will push this. Ads anytime I want to access my games and apps? Ads to boot games I own? 30sec videos I'm forced to watch whenever I power up my Xbox?
Re: Starfield Adds Nvidia DLSS Support In Steam Beta Update Next Week
@AverageGamer oh I completely understand that. My complaint is that this is something that should have been ready at launch. The main menu screen is in full HDR at a high nit scale. Once you start the game though it auto locks the HDR to never go above 400 nits not to mention the colors are horrible and drab because of it. Most devs haven't really had this issue even when their HDR is also broken.
Re: Starfield Adds Nvidia DLSS Support In Steam Beta Update Next Week
Jesus... A PC exclusive beta trial for the ability to adjust HDR? Smh...
Re: 'The Finals' Dev Responds To Criticisms About Use Of AI Voiceovers
Maybe not the end goal, but definitely the current goal. Once the precedence is set, you can say goodbye to voice actors. No company is going to want to publish a game that costs more to pay real people if they can save money with A.I. They'll hide behind "fiduciary duty" and since most people think that's a legit excuse, it'll be allowed until there's a strike.
Re: Talking Point: What Do You Want To See From Xbox & Activision Blizzard?
Yeah I'm going to need them to go ahead and do THPS 3&4 remakes like what was originally planned a couple years ago.
Re: Xbox Confirms Game Captures Will Be Deleted Beginning January 2024
Captures that were not uploaded to the cloud used to get automatically deleted after a few months. Maybe they got rid of that recently. Either way adopting a better capture app for saving and editing captures needs to exist. Xbox One launched with a better Capture app than the "Series" systems currently have now.
Re: Disney Reportedly Encouraging Its CEO To Look At Acquiring A Company Like EA
Oh man. This is bad. They can't make good movies to save the company so they want to make bad games instead lol?
Re: After Just One Week, Paradox Is Already Admitting Defeat With The Lamplighters League
Hate to say it but what did they expect? This year has been so full of bangers that most people can't keep up. So games that aren't big hitters arent going to be seen. I had never even heard of this game and I'm on my Xbox almost every day.
Re: Xbox Confirms Game Captures Will Be Deleted Beginning January 2024
@Moby yes however Xbox has always automatically deleted non uploaded captures as well after so long. Uploading it was the only way to keep it from doing that. Now however, even uploaded content is unsafe. Some of this could have been avoided if captures just stayed on the hard drive no matter what.
Re: Xbox Confirms Game Captures Will Be Deleted Beginning January 2024
Why not just have them save to the internal hard drive like Sony has had the PlayStation do since on board capturing started last gen? Why is Microsoft making something so simple so damn confusing?
Re: Talking Point: Early Access Players, What Do You Think Of Forza Motorsport So Far?
@JayJ I was excited to try it out before I heard about this. Now I'm just turned off from it. Hopefully they change it, but if not I've got other stuff to play. This year has been nuts!
Re: Talking Point: Early Access Players, What Do You Think Of Forza Motorsport So Far?
ACG told me all I needed to know. This game needs a rework to its progression system
Re: Redfall Update 2 Now Live, Includes Performance Mode On Xbox Series X|S
This looks great! I'm excited to try it out now.
Re: Lords Of The Fallen Overview Trailer Details Lots Of Juicy Info Ahead Of October Launch On Xbox
@Kloppo Nothing wrong with that. Especially since almost all Souls like games can never get the balance right. Everything ends up being off in one way or another unlike what FromSoftware does. It would help this game more to have an easy mode in the event their game has any imbalance, then people can just slide the difficulty and actually roll credits lol.
Re: Lords Of The Fallen Overview Trailer Details Lots Of Juicy Info Ahead Of October Launch On Xbox
Dude this game is looking to be an actual competitor to FromSoftware's stuff. I'm sure that's not the case but this game is looking amazing.
Re: Here's What's Included In September 2023's 'Bonus' Xbox Update
How about we do something about the overabundance of Xbox Store links on the main dashboard? I want my games and apps default access back.
Re: It Sounds Like Capcom Is Considering Raising Its Game Prices
@NeoRatt I don't know, those remasters came out quite a while ago. I don't know they even represent what Capcom is currently all about. Even then, they weren't bad ports and most of them had new features and/or better frame rates and resolutions. Not to mention as well, for the most part that's what a remaster is, a glorified port. Hell, id kill for a cheap port of Dino Crisis on modern consoles!
Re: It Sounds Like Capcom Is Considering Raising Its Game Prices
Normally I'd hate this but Capcom is worth it. They continue to release banger after banger.
Re: Talking Point: Where Does Starfield Rank In Your Top Games Of 2023?
It's a great game but I think it's safe for me to admit I hyped it up a bit. Definitely in my top 5 this year though. However I really do think this will be a much better game in the years to come.
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.0 Now Live On Xbox, Here Are The Patch Notes
Man, I think I'm going to have to put Starfield on hold and play Cyberpunk. I've been waiting for a reason to start that game and hopefully once I come back to Starfield all of its problems are ironed out more.
Re: FTC Denies Involvement In Huge Xbox Leak, Blames Microsoft Instead
@Grumblevolcano you should do stand-up comedy. I've been laughing straight for the last 20 minutes!
Re: Unity Vows To Make Changes In Response To 'Confusion' And 'Angst' From Developers
Damage is already done. Many developers already switched engines and many will no longer trust Unity to not have this pulled again later.
Re: It Looks Like Hideo Kojima Is Spending His Spare Time On Starfield
Ok so this game is amazing but there is a weirdness to it where you could put in 30hrs and still not really "get" the game. I'm loving it but not "there" yet, however I'm hearing there is that classic Bethesda "moment" when the game REALLY opens up and hooks you in. I've also heard it reinvents the wheel for New Game + and I'm curious to see how all these things will affect future developments of other games going forward. ESPECIALLY with Hideo Kojima! This guy is probably going nuts with new ideas while playing this and I am stoked to see what he does in the future now!
Re: Rockstar Announces New $50 Port Of Red Dead Redemption, But Xbox Doesn't Need It
So is this going to be 4k 60fps on PlayStation? I would assume they'll also have better textures as well so this is a huge disappointment if this all turns out to be true. 4k on Xbox is great but missing out on 60fps is a bigger deal and running with worse assets, if that is the case, is a crap deal as well.
Re: Your Last Ever Games With Gold Titles Are Now Available On Xbox
Jesus... They couldn't even go out with a bang in any way? This is like a fart in the wind...
Re: Xbox Exec 'Gets Chills' From The Moment Phil Spencer Revealed Backwards Compatibility
If and when this ABK deal goes through, they should fire up the Backward Compatibility team again and add some new games to the list. Hell there's even some titles from before the merger that are surprisingly absent, I'm looking at you Condemned 2.
Re: Sony Won't Share Confidential PS6 Details With Activision If Xbox Deal Is Approved
This makes no sense to me. Is Jim saying multiplatform games have never existed lol? They've always had access to each other's tech behind the scenes. That's unfortunately just how this works. How do they think multiplatform games get made for next gen consoles before the new consoles are released? Everyone has access to dev kits no matter what. Jim really hoping to pull one over the courts here...
Re: Todd Howard Explains Why Starfield At 30FPS Will 'Feel Great' On Xbox Series X|S
As long as the frame timing is locked in then the 30fps will be a non issue. The moment that frame time is off and we get screen jittering, it's rough.
Re: Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol.1 Officially Arrives On Xbox This October
Not going to lie, kind of a missed opportunity to not get these running at 4k 60fps. I'm still going to get this but the HD Collection versions were only 720p as far as I remember...
Re: Microsoft Announces Price Increases For Xbox Series X And Xbox Game Pass
@Cashews I'm thinking the same here. What are they thinking?! Why destroy this monumental momentum they FINALLY have going here?