Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer
Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer
Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Starfield came and went—meanwhile, a new breed of RPG dominates the conversation.
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I wish there were more new sci-fi RPGs of that quality.
I do hear CP2077 is good now and I keep meaning to play it.
TBH I'll probably end up enjoying Starfield once I get around to trying it as well.
CP2077's story is nice but short (for an RPG these days) but the meat is in the world and side missions.
As I've grown older and busier, I now prefer shorter games. Even when I intentionally try to play games, I may get 2-3 hours a week most weeks. A 100-hour campaign takes me a year to play through.
Is it one of those "play the whole main story and then focus on the side content" situations or "Save the final mission for later because its a proper ending" situations?
the latter, the main story's final quest lets you know before you start it that's it's a point of no return (though you can also just reload a save from before you do it)
Doesn't "nice but short but the meat is in the world and side missions" describe most RPGs nowadays?
Western-style ones, yeah. High-effort side content is CD Projekt's specialty at this point.
I rarely play any new ones to be honest so I'm not sure. CP2077 just feels for me like they didn't stretch out the main story longer than necessary and put a lot of effort into the world and what's in it.
I've heard people take that approach with Starfield and still be very disappointed. If it's space you want and are ok with creating your own story, Elite Dangerous is getting a pretty big revival
the difference is cyberpunk has good direction and writing. starfield's got neither. the problem with cyberpunk wasn't the core of the game, it was bugs. once they fixed most of those the actual direction and story of the game had a chance to shine through.
starfield's problem is the exact opposite. it was praised for being less buggy than the average BGS game, which is faint praise, but the problem is that it's badly designed from the very core. it has bad writing, terrible characters, no direction at all, and no vision. bland, boring and basic. there's no amount of updates that can fix that. the problems aren't technical. there's just no talent there.
Its mostly just that I want a Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim with a sci-fi setting. A solid story, lots of side-quests, and a dynamic world that reacts to the player. I'd probably enjoy a modern metropolitan criminal setting as well for an RPG like GTA's settings but Elder-Scrolls/3D-Fallout gameplay but you never see that at all.
Space is cool though.
I don't think it's a super common opinion, but I really liked Starfield's main story. That said, it completely fails on the dynamic world front. You might be better off with Cyberpunk for now.
I don't believe you. That game exists, it's called Starfield, and it failed specifically because of its sci-fi setting and for no other reason.
I've not gotten around to trying it yet, I've already got like 6-7 games on my plate ATM on various devices. I actually suspect I wont hate it but I hear its pretty meh.
Hopefully Bethesda can turn it around with DLC/updates though. I hear modding is still in its infancy too so maybe we'll get something in that area down the road too.
Also I figure if I wait hopefully Starfield will get a VR edition (or maybe a mod) and that might be when I really want to jump in.
fucking lol.
- terrible game design
- zero game direction
- nonsensical script
- not even 2 dimensional characters
- incredibly unlikeable companions
- bad dialog
- fallout 4 style fake choices and railroading, only one way to complete most quests,
- open world" that requires fast travel, completely undercutting exploration
- immersion breaking loading screens for literally everything, even following cutscenes which aren't used for bg loading for some reason
- spaceship fantasy that barely makes use of the spaceship, it's just a toy you can decorate but can't properly pilot, space combat is horrendously bad even though other games nailed it in the fucking 90s
- planet exploration fantasy that breaks planets into tiny chunks even though no man's sky existed for years
- open world fantasy where discovery is undercut by the fact that the same assets are reused over and over. like not even texture and models randomized to have some variation, but entire buildings copied including the placement of objects inside.
- classic Bethesda style afraid to lock the player out of anything approach that means you have no choices to make, just get through everything in the order you like ... be a cop and a thief and a merchant and a cultist and a garbage man why not
- vast space fantasy with a gazillion planets yet you are the center of everything
- scifi universe that doesn't have means of long distance communication for some reason, needing you to go back and forth between planets just to relay messages
i can go on but got bored.
the fact that you claim that the only problem starfield had was it's scifi setting when massively successful scifi games like cyberpunk, deus ex, half life, nier, mass effect etc exist just proves you know nothing about video games.
and more specifically your seem to have no idea what people want from rpgs if you even consider starfield to be one worth mentioning, let alone an exemplary one.
It failed because it was boring.
It famously had people saying "once you get past the first 12 hours, it gets good" it had nothing to do with the setting. The sci-fi setting was literally what drew people to play it in the first place....
I've had cyberpunk since launch and the only thing that has improved is stability. The game is still a hodgepodge of half baked RPG systems, most of which aren't even necessary to interact with. No amount of polish can change the fact that it's a turd underneath.
I can tell you haven't booted the game up recently because they completely redid the perk system and cyberware not too long ago.
CDPR has been atoning for the sin that was their failed launch for years. In my opinion, the game is a good game now.
That was over a year ago and I have. It's a bandaid on a dumpster.
I found a combat mod completely changed the game for me. By making it brutally damaging instead of so bullet spongy and deleveling it, it simplifies all that crap away. Perks and guns are for play styles, and it lets one enjoy the game instead of worrying about them.
Yes! BG3 and KC2 devs made amazing games but for some reason decided to have them take place in the most generic, boring medieval/fantasy setting.
I want a pirate RPG, or sci-fi, heck even a hardcore Mario CRPG.
shut your whore mouth about faerun
I want an Eberron game
instead of an actual rpg they went with an mmo and an rts for eberron ... idk why
Faerun is garbage. Aggressively bad even for a medieval fantasy settings. No game set in Faerun can be good.
literally the best crpg games have been set in faerun
No they haven't. Because they're set in Faerun.
It's BECAUSE of the generic, boring medieval fantasy settings that they were successful.
You are all over this thread. We get it, you dont like medievil fantasy.... clearly not a popular opinion.
Exactly.
Maybe KCD2 is for you then, it got rid of the fantasy part and has historic figures in it instead.
Take a look at Exodus.
The problem is that gamers hate anytging that isn't generic medieval fantasy.