Recent reviews by Killerdude

It's all of the worst aspects of previous Bethesda entries without any of the things that made those games fun.

The Story is bland and uninteresting, There is no choice, no consequences, no nothing of that sort. I don't know what else to say, It was so boring i had no interest in engaging with it. The writing is amateurish at best, Character motivations make little sense most of the time. Factions are poorly written and uninteresting, and again, do things that just don't make sense in the scenarios presented and the lack of meaningful choice really brings all that to light. One of the notable ones is when you go to the wannabe night city planet to get an artifact back, You can say you'll kill the guy to get it, but the game goes NOPE and proceeds to play out exactly the same as all the other "choices".

The "RPG" mechanics, if you can even call them that anymore, have been stripped down to their most basic possible form, There are no builds to try out, basic mechanics are locked behind perks now. Melee was just ignored by the developers, it has a singular skill, which is just a damage increase, There arent any alternative moves or swings, no strategy, its just swing madly till whatever spongey enemy you're attacking is dead.

The worlds are VAST empty swathes of nothing, with the same handful of copy pasted dungeons scattered around it, I encountered the EXACT same mining tunnel, 5 TIMES IN A ROW ON 5 DIFFERENT PLANETS and when i say they are EXACTLY the same, I mean EXACTLY the same, the loot might have been randomized in the chests, but everything else was exactly the same, one chest in one spot was an expert lock, it was an expert lock in all 5. All the loot lying around on the ground, was the same, enemy placement was the same. People gave skyrim a hard time for its samey dungeons, but at least they were all unique.

The world does not react to your presence or your actions at all, The NPC's in towns have no AI, You can shoot an inch next to their heads and it will not even phase them, They won't move, react, or say anything, nobody will. They're better described as background set pieces youre not meant to interact with, which really sucks, one of my favourite things about bethesda games is messing around with the NPC's in towns and you cannot do any of that in Starfield because the NPC's simply lack any kind of AI beyond their walk cycle.

Space exploration cannot even be called space exploration, You can't fly anywhere, its all done through menus and loading screens. If you were to omit the space flight part of the game entirely, literally nothing would change, which is an extra double bummer as we were sold on the idea we'd actually be able to explore space as well as the spaceflight mechanics being probably the best part of the game. The other thing that irks me is the game calls the map "The Settled Systems" in a game where you're playing as an "explorer". Why am i exploring already explored space? That makes no sense.

Space flight and the ship building mechanic are the best part of this game, Its fun and criminally underutilised. Its complex enough to be interesting, but not so complex like some of the simulator games out there, its a good balance, its just completely pointless as you can't actually fly anywhere.

All in all, its not a good game, you work hard for your money, don't spend it on this, Bethesda doesn't respect you or your time and do not deserve your money. If you want to scratch that itch, go replay skyrim for the 479th time, you'll enjoy it far more than this game.

If you like Ace Combat, Especially Zero, You will love this game.

Its everything i love about Ace Combat in a fresh new and very interesting setting, The story is good and the gameplay is even better than that. The soundtrack is incredible and leads to some really satisfying moments during some of the most intense dogfights ive ever experienced in a game like this.

On top of a great story theres a rogue-like conquest mode as well, if you just want more Project Wingman after you finish the story, Conquest mode scratches that itch, Even though i've barely dipped my toes into it, I can tell its gonna be a lot of fun.

12/10 would bully Crimson 1 again.

I get home from work, just to go back to work again.

Solid game.

Spent 45 minutes as a Medic secretly giving a guy a tonne of morphine, Turning the whole crew against him cause they thought he was stealing all the morphine. They celebrated when he finally OD'd and died.

12/10 would do it again.

Good stuff

Made the mistake of going to bed after assembling a motor, Which spawned me in a pitch black house with absolutely no possible way to fumble around and see anything, So I sat there for an hour waiting for the sun to come up. Excited that it was finally day again and I could actually play the game, I found the moped and tried venturing into town, but died instantly, down the road from the house, wasting all that time.

I'm sure the game is full of lots of interesting bits of dialogue and fun things to do, Shame I couldn't do any of it.

Some of the evidence sucks to gather, Like the D.O.T.S projector as its really hard to know if your doing it correctly, As well as the ghost behaviour descriptions are fairly inconsistent and contradictory to what actually happens ingame most of the time.

Overall, I'd recommend it, Its most fun to play with a group of friends and the jankiness of it is good for a few laughs.

digital viking flavoured crack

Its alright

Um, Wow, I don't really have words. 155 hours in, I don't think I've even reached the 1/4th mark yet. There is SOOOOOO much game and it is pretty complex.

It has an incredibly steep learning curve, If you have multiple monitors, I reccommend playing with the wiki and egosoft forum open on one of them, game on the other. But eventually, If you stick it out, You'll really love this game.

For the price, You NEED to get this. The is the GTA of open world space sims, The game that defines the genre.
Totally worth it.

A good start scenario would be the Humble Merchant you get around 15k, a Transport and a Scout, Sell the scout for another 30k I think.