I am really itching to make a video, if only for myself, a little checklist of all the claims from the deepdive video I don't believe will be in or functional upon release. Just for example, the whole dynamic lighting thing I simply do not believe will be in the way they imply it will work. NMS had the same thing and.. No, just no.
Bethesda games have always been jank, at launch especially. Here's hoping it will only be the fun kind of jank, i.e. disintegrating spaceships and flying corpses, instead of something gamebreaking.
I am still salty about a Skyrim playthrough where I got stuck because some creature refused to spawn where it should have. But T-Posing and clipping stuff can be fun indeed.
The reality is you can't have a perfectly polished game at that scale with that much variety. There's a reason, for all its faults, that even some PC players were still paying the $30 sale price on Skyrim for switch before the Steam Deck launched. There are very few games with that scope, or that evoke that sense of awe, that get made. Skyrim might not have had the different skill trees balanced, and the memes of everyone turning into a stealth archer eventually have some validity, but it did make a lot of different play styles functional at a grand scale.
I hope that Starfield has the same ambition to make a massive RPG, just with some modern mechanics. A good chunk of the memes about the game are because people played the game 50 times. Repetition is going to stick out, especially before you can branch out. But having it watered down to avoid bugs would be extremely disappointing.
I think I‘ve lost faith in most publishers and game studios at this point. They’re promising the world, but what you get in the end is a buggy, overpriced mess, riddled with microtransactions and a story that is mediocre at best
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