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Sigh, the game isn't horrible but god is it boring.From a technical standpoint I'm going to say something I have never said about an un modded Bethesda **** is solid, compared to comparable games. Unfortunately the typical beth glitches might have actually helped in giving it some variety, personality, and/or humor. Resulting in something that has a boredom quotient that can't be over stated. AND OH MY GOD THE LOAD SCREEEEEE EEEEE ENNNN NNNNNNNNSSSSSSSS... in a space sim ( or a pretend sim ) ...in 2023-24. those went the way of the dodo a decade ago. SSD's can help here, except Beth in their wisdom hid 2/3rds of them behind animations/cut scenes....GGGGAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHThere is also the problem of mods.....Before someone jumps in and says there a bunch...ayup and they are mostly glorified filters, QaL stuff. Great but have no bearing on the most common complaints for the title........bland plot, boring/repetitive side quests, 0 exploration, and load screens.Mods can't fix those at least not without muti year team collaborations. This won' happen for three reasons1 that type of massive project takes passion...this is passionless tittle, and will not light that spark2 the paid mod scheme acts as a de-incentive to those types of projects. more rewards for quickie filters.3 population, modders want peeps to download their stuff. the title is only barely double the daily avg of goat simulator 3Procedural generation paired with pretty juvenile storytelling no amount of graphics or planet numbers is gonna save. It is't bad from a technical standpoint(which is a departure from a Bethesda **** is however, EXTREMELY forgettable. I can't even remember what I named my own character. There are some who complain about woke stuff. Tbh I have no idea what they are talking about. You have to be able to remember it for it be subject to that accusation. I think those morons at least, have an agenda. It's not woke, it's boring. Which is far far worse. Even a woke game has the potential to be interesting. Or at at least memorable in a "I'm a pissed off child" way(mafia III, last of us2 ). This title is a sleep aid nothing more nothing **** the ship builder had more impact in game similar to Zeldas magic hand there might have been something to do in an increasingly huge, empty/or repetitive, pointless, and boring **** alas. With an absolutely INSANE # of loading screens and the only place to actually fly it, being in **** anything attempting to mimic a "space Sim" in 2023-24 .....hard pass. I cannot decide which game has the worse "modern" (ie non existent) space mechanics/content this or Outlaws(at least outlaws it's possible to stay awake for the plot) save yourself some wasted time and go pick up a walking or farming simulator. It has about the same plot. and fewer loading screens.POST DLC Did not purchase dlc, and have 0 intention to so. as such this review is done and will not be further updated. But considering they seem to think no one purchased the DLC because of the buggy.....I'm probably gonna be skipping TES6. You cannot fix stupid. Better to just duct tape it quiet and ignore ****'s been a year, and Beth has shown 0 intention of restructuring design/production flow to something rational/efficient or creative. (cyberpunk) or respond to critical feedback (NMS) This studio is done. It no longer just ****'s just broke 10 years from now people will still be playing skyrim,mor,obliv,FO3-4. They won't be plying fo76, SF, or most likely tes6 and the sudio likely won't last to launch a fo5

Sigh, the game isn't horrible but god is it boring.From a technical standpoint I'm going to say something I have never said about an un modded Bethesda **** is solid, compared to comparable games. Unfortunately, the typical beth glitches might have actually helped in giving it some variety, personality, and/or humor. Resulting in something that has a boredom quotient that can't be overstated. AND OH MY GOD THE LOAD SCREEEEEE EEEEE ENNNN NNNNNNNNSSSSSSSS... in a space sim ( or a pretend sim ) ...in 2023-24. those went the way of the dodo a decade ago. SSD's can help here, except Beth in their wisdom hid 2/3rds of them behind animations/cut scenes....GGGGAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHThere is also the problem of mods.....Before someone jumps in and says there a bunch...ayup and they are mostly glorified filters, QaL stuff. Great but have no bearing on the most common complaints for the title........bland plot, boring/repetitive side quests, 0 exploration, and load screens. Mods can't fix those at least not without muti year team collaborations. This won' happen for three reasons1 that type of massive project takes passion...this is passionless tittle and will not light that spark2 the paid mod scheme acts as a de-incentive to those types of projects. more rewards for quickie filters.3 population, modders want peeps to download their stuff. the title is only barely double the daily avg of goat simulator 3Procedural generation paired with pretty juvenile storytelling no amount of graphics or planet numbers is gonna save. It is't bad from a technical standpoint (which is a departure from a Bethesda **** is however, EXTREMELY forgettable. I can't even remember what I named my own character. There are some who complain about woke stuff. Tbh I have no idea what they are talking about. You have to be able to remember it for it be subject to that accusation. I think those morons at least, have an agenda. It's not woke, it's boring. Which is far far worse. Even a woke game has the potential to be interesting. Or at at least memorable in a "I'm a pissed off child" way(mafia III, last of us2 ). This title is a sleep aid nothing more nothing **** the ship builder had more impact in game similar to Zeldas magic hand there might have been something to do in an increasingly huge, empty/or repetitive, pointless, and boring **** alas. With an absolutely INSANE # of loading screens and the only place to actually fly it, being in **** anything attempting to mimic a "space Sim" in 2023-24 .....hard pass. I cannot decide which game has the worse "modern" (ie non existent) space mechanics/content this or Outlaws(at least outlaws it's possible to stay awake for the plot) save yourself some wasted time and go pick up a walking or farming simulator. It has about the same plot. and fewer loading screens.POST DLC Did not purchase dlc, and have 0 intention to so. as such this review is done and will not be further updated. But considering they seem to think no one purchased the DLC because of the buggy.....I'm probably gonna be skipping TES6. You cannot fix stupid. Better to just duct tape it quiet and ignore ****'s been a year, and Beth has shown 0 intention of restructuring design/production flow to something rational/efficient or creative. (cyberpunk) or respond to critical feedback (NMS) This studio is done. It no longer just ****'s just broke 10 years from now people will still be playing skyrim,mor,obliv,FO3-4. They won't be plying fo76, SF, or most likely tes6 and the sudio likely won't last to launch a fo5

giving it a 50/50 It's a beautiful game, would make an awesome screen saver(S A V E R is filtered? replace your Chinese curse filter, )....but If you like rts's this is a poor take on the genre. Think one step below Overloard...without the funny If you like ants and enjoy ant sim...this aint it. I've seen free phone apps with more sim characteristics unless your bored or are easily impressed by (admittedly) stunning graphics.. spend your $ elsewhere

Somehow, SqE made action combat more boring than endless cut scenes ( of which there is a mind numbing amount) If you think game of thrones was the hight of creative endeavor and are willing to sit through it again with name changes you may like the story. IM kinda waiting for a news report of Martin and/or HBO suing SqE over this. Prob 5 or more hrs of dialog is literally lifted word for word. Production value is obviously high, however polishing a turd is still a polished turd. There is no rpg There is no adventure There is no exploration There is no FF Protip: pop Got into your DVD, grab a PS controller, every 5/10 minutes randomly mash square and L1 for a couple minutes. You have now "played" FF16 and saved yourself $70

Pay to win game with no chat functions AT ALL (in a team based game) Match making is weigted to pit high spenders against low to non spenders. Not sure if this is to "reward" the spenders or "incentivise" the low spenders/. But the result is you almost always know which team is gonna win in the 1st minute of a match. So no point if your on a budget and no challenge if you spend

Pros: Strong combat game-play Smooth & constant frame-rate Reasonably close to adverted game-play features(((this shouldn't be a pro this should be the minimum standard acceptable, Sadly very few games can even achieve this low low bar. 1st time Indi developers who don't know wtf they are doing have a more accurate feature adver to feature delivered ratio than most AAA studios these days)))) Shrugs: Typical OW game-play indistinguishable from any other goto an icon on map kill everything then another another another Rage2 does this no worse or better than any thing else it's just a tired repetitive tired grindy tired system/ Did I mention it's tired? Short but so wa the original Graphics get the job done, nothing fancy, but not bad It has Denuvo if that matters to you and you need a Beth account to launch. The $ invested to hr played ratio is rather low so wait till sale Cons: Impressively storytelling got WORSE from the original, that is kinda impressive Save game system often does not save status (quest progress, ammo count, hp, location) correctly Music, sound effects, voice work often cuts out or gets on a loop the driving, omfg the driving it's much worse than original in terms of control, feedback, fun, utility and importance of the entire system *other than ONE quest you can complete the game without EVER getting in a vehicle* which is good since you will never do it again once you get the hele-bike lack of re-playability

Decent idea flawed by poor match making and repetitive maps. It is common to have 2-3k ps(power score) matches with 5-7k players involved and vice versa. Since AI bots fill in slots (8 vs 8) players don't fill it's hard to make the argument low player base is the reason. The only conclusion one can reach is the developers want relatively new players to get steam rolled by things they cant even scratch in the hopes they drop $. If there was anything todo in the game beyond endless matches on the same maps this might be mitigated. But to date not so much. Likely if this trend continues through release there wont be a player base beyond the handful of whales and grinders it has now. Give this one a pass.

The prior games had their issues but the unique control scheme and minion mechanics got most players to ignore the rough spots. Cut and pasting from other genres/games while scrapping what made the franchise unique would have faced headwinds even if they had done it competently. In this case they couldn't even copy other peoples mechanics competently. As a dungeon crawler (ie diablo/gauntlet) who they copied it's a horrible implementation. As an overlord game (you know lording over minions to do your evil deeds) it fails as there is no minion evil deed doers just bad ai. It's main selling point, the co-op feature is somewhat hampered by the fact it is ONLY balanced for co-op and so few people purchased it and so many who did got refunds there is some difficulty in finding a match. This title stands a fair chance of killing off the franchise all by itself.

dis-regarding bugs witch can be fixed there are "issues" with this game that's supposedly a space SIMULATOR no radar No freelook No targeting commands Poor JStick/HOTAS support no effective wingaman commands No effective fleet commands Most ships are placeholders flying in one big infinite loop interacting with nothing. No true player ship customization No true dynamic economy(contrary to what is stated in PR pieces) If your looking for a space sim or an X-game look elsewhere it aint here