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Starfield or SQ 42: What will YOU be playing in September?
rodarin
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For me its probably going to be Starfield. Still a lot of hype and speculation but from all the leaks we have seen it might be the saving grace a floundering Bethesda needs right now.
Obviously it cant really compare to the history that is the greatness of Chris Roberts and his vision and incredible success but we have to hope that Starfield can deliver. Its going to take a huge effort to compete with SQ 42 at this point but I am optimistic it can be done.
Obviously it cant really compare to the history that is the greatness of Chris Roberts and his vision and incredible success but we have to hope that Starfield can deliver. Its going to take a huge effort to compete with SQ 42 at this point but I am optimistic it can be done.
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If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
I'm not up on the latest SQ42 timelines.
Is it supposed to be coming out in the next 3 years?
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
Regardless, even if S42 were to somehow launch I'll be playing Starfield first. Given the quality of SC every time I've logged in I'm sure Starfield will be a better game. The bar is not very high to beat CIG on code quality and design decisions.
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With the funding, that never seems to die, they have zero reason to do anything about release.
Seriously, would you? They have the dream jobs right now. Never ending funds to keep the club going strong.
Expect things to change the day that what they receive in funding no longer keeps up with expenses.
Pretty much guaranteed that they will not keep this going if it costs them money, right?
Something will be released shortly after the funds of the incoming and outgoing meet.... question is, will the layoffs and such start before or after something is released.
I would bet we will see quite a few people bailing before something releases to put some room between them and what is released.
But as often is the case, all of this work is to get ready for the "march to release..."
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
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I would venture to say that many (stand alone)MODS for Starfield made by some guy probably in his basement in his 60s will be better than ANYTHING, (let alone SQ 42) Chris Roberts will EVER actually release.
No matter WHAT kind of state Starfield is released in it completely an utterly DESTROYS Chris Roberts reasoning when he first pitched Star Citizen el al to the masses about 12 years ago now.
Starfield was announced in 2018 or something like that. Star Citizen/SQ 42 was announced in 2012 (was being worked on well before then despite fanbois objections). Starfield, even with Todd Howard has cost over 200 million to develop. Star Citizen has 'raised' what now, a trillion? (considering Chris Roberts math) So even with all the bloat and corporate padding Starfield has taken at least six fewer years and a third (and counting) the budget to develop AND actually release. Even if its release mirrors that of Cyberpunk (not likely but possible I suppose) it is still LIGHT years ahead of Star Citizen/SQ 42.
Not to mention how it (allegedly) will not only be able to be modded with enough content youll likely never live long enough to play. Future expansions and DLCs that can be created from assets (planets and systems) that exist on release will provide decades of future developer 'created content'.
Basically this is a big middle finger to Chris Roberts. IMO. Bethesda created a new IP and universe (no pun intended) Did it in half the current running time and for a lot less money.
Remember the videos of people walking around an otherwise empty Star Citizen planet picking up frigging boxes and putting them in a ship? Remember how that was EPICALLY awesome to them? What a frigging joke. That seems like forever ago now. But really how much further along has that project come? Other than raises a few hundred million more dollars from idiots.
Of course the whole MMO versus Single player argument will come up. But really SQ 42 is SINGLE PLAYER. Where is that? Its basically a proof of concept at this point. It cant be released because they dont have anything, and even if they have something it obviously is so poorly implemented it will prove that anything and everything they have claimed about SC (beyond rudimentary stuff) isnt possible even more than a decade later.
Anyway its always fun year after year after year after year to come to the forums and see the fanbois avatars change and the biggest white knights disappear and their arguments beyond 'yah but look at the money' be debunked. But its come now to other than the few dozen people who have spents millions on this game no one else really cares about it. So it holds a lot of distinctions I think. Because its already a failure. Even if it ever does release who is going to care? Beyond a simple curiosity stand point. Starfield has likely guaranteed that it will likely never actually release because the comparisons will be made. If Bethesda can do what they say and do annual content updates or 'worse' semi annual ones it keeps Starfield front and center in perpetuity. How will Star Citizen or SQ 42 compete with that?