Games @sh.itjust.works nanoUFO @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

A heroic Starfield modder just straight-up deleted those repetitive temple 'puzzles' from the game

www.pcgamer.com A heroic Starfield modder just straight-up deleted those repetitive temple 'puzzles' from the game

Chasing a buncha blinking lights in zero-G was enjoyable once. Once.

PC Gaming @kbin.social Whiskeyomega @kbin.social 1y ago

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So you need a shit tonne of mods to make this AAA game enjoyable?
- I played the game 40+h without any mods and had a lot of fun. It is very much enjoyable without mods. Can mods make the game better? Yes, sure Are the mods needed to have fun with the game? Absolutely not.
  
  For my curiosity, what on Earth could you possibly do for those 40 hours? Cause for me that's about 5 times more than it's worth spending with the game in its current state.
- First Bethsda game you've played? They make a great frame, but half-ass the interior lol.
- Considering the main quest is like 10 hours long and then the game tells you to just wander around I'd say yes.
  
  So your paying what like $80 for the "game" then needing the community to make it decent? So glad I haven't bought it
- Sounds about right
- Blame Skyrim
  
  Which one? ;-)
- That's the entire point of Bethesda games, and has been for 20 years.
So you need to remove entire gameplay segments in order to make this crap somewhat enjoyable? Jesus.
- Someone yesterday said they don't buy Bethesda games because they're good at launch, instead they buy them because the modding community is so prolific.
  
  Paying $60-70 for a game that requires teams of unpaid volunteers to make it playable after launch.
  
  I bet Bethesda LOVES that guy.
  
  This is why I bought it really. I never expected it to be good. But always enjoy what the community can do.
- Are you new to Bethesda games or it has just been a while? 🙂
  
  I remember starting Skyrim for the first time and making it as far as the character selection screen (well, after spending a few hours fixing the no-voices bug) at which point I went wtf is this crap and went looking for mods.
  
  Maybe I was just less jaded in 2011 but was Skyrim ever this bad? I even enjoyed Fallout 4 - you know... for what it is.
- Someone had to fix their horrible UI on day one.
- Somewhere in the vast chasm between "these are the best gameplay element ever conceived" and "this crap cannot be enjoyable with these left in" lies the actual description of their impact for a normal person.
  
  They are perhaps marginally tedious. It bothered one modder enough that he modded them out with a mod that has about 7600 unique downloads. It bothered millions of others so little that they...just played the game anyway.
Seriously fuck those temples. It already takes two minutes to walk from the ship, and now I gotta spend two minutes floating around in zero G?

TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY TIMES?
- Two hundred and forty times?
  
  Two hundred and forty times?
  
  To 100% it, yes. It has to be done ever several new game cycles so you'll also have to go through the other shit multiple times too. I don't think anyone is expected to do that though. The new game plus stuff undermines the outpost system though. It'll be gone your next cycle, so just don't bother I guess? The ideal meta progression would be to rush through the main story and complete all the temples on your cycle then move on.
My experience with starfield is "ughh this is annoying, ughh this part sucks, oooh thats kinda cool" and then I check my save file and have over 130 hours. So basically my typical Bethesda experience. 10/10 would do again.
- This just sounds like abuse
  
  Stockholm syndrome 😄
- This also shocked me when playing Starfield, I basically just completed one of the faction quests and basically just spent time building and stealing ships and my playtime is more than 100 hours. WTF.
- Same but i never made it past 50h where Skyrim got 1500 and counting out of me as there are far less annoying things to deal with.
I saw a bit of those on stream and thought maybe the time affected the quality of the result.. but no. It's just filler shit to get your space dragon speech spell or whatever. Then the enemies are all bullet sponges. It all seemed very transparent and very familiar.
I like starfield overall but it definietly is a weaker game than skyrim
- FULLY agreed.
Huh, I haven't come across a single one of these temples so far and I'm almost 90 hours in. I guess I need to give the main quest more attention.
- Truly living the sandbox dream there.
  
  You need to visit temples to get powers. They're like words of power in skyrim.
  
  Are these powers worth prioritizing the main quest over whatever ADHD direction I head next?
- I just did my first one after about 50 hours and I really hope there's not many of them...... I didn't know what I was doing or if I was doing it right untill I passed it.
Removing content from the game you paid for, LMFAO
- Emjoyment/hour should be the measure of a good game. This sort of a thing only works to increase time played, not time enjoyed. It's only a negative.
  
  sure if wasting your money adds to your enjoyment go ahead, the rest of us gonna have a laugh though
Are you able to load these mods on console, or is the game just unplayable?

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