I bought a domain for this website to redirect to, and I would like to use it to post my thoughts on many things that I just don't have the time to make full videos or streaming segments on.

I would like to do at least one or two of these a month, the first one, this one... is going to be about a couple of different things.

First off, I hope you have registered to vote if you are able to in the U.S. Click Here to be taken to Vote.gov

Secondly, I want to talk about Starfield and the ways I think it failed the most. Starfield (SF from here on out) failed in 3 major ways and loads and loads of minor ways. The major ways are as follows in my eyes. Mass Loading Screens, Loss of Discovery and the eradication of any kind of coherent story and meaningful choices.

The first two go hand in hand, the fact that I can boot up Skyrim, Fallout 4 etc and walk from vault 111 to the glowing sea or from bleak falls barrow to the top of the world in one sitting, without being forced into a loading screen is crazy when SF makes you avoid your ship (THE MAIN DRAW OF A SPACE GAME) in order to play "efficiently" and avoid an extra loading screen or 3.

The first two are design problems, but the story and choices one are much more insidious to me because the game at first does seem like it will let you have choices and it will effect your game, but that is a very very hollow see through attempt that once you notice what the game is doing (or not doing more like) you will not be able to unsee it.

I played Cyberpunk 2077's DLC about a week before I played SF for the first time, and I still over a year later can not believe how lapped Bethesda got by Phantom Liberty and how the production value is astronomically different. Seeing the faces, the animations, the sound design, the attention to detail, the choices, the build craft, the narrative, the ---- you get the point, every single detail of Cyberpunk is better designed, and built than even the best parts of SF.

It all boils down to the management behind Bethesda imo, I no longer have faith in Elder Scrolls 6, not even a little bit, SF's DLC came out last night, and the week leading up to it, I had to keep reminding myself "oh yeah, SF's DLC is coming out, I forgot huh" next day "oh shit, SF's DLC is almost here, I should stream it" next day "ugh, why should I stream it, I thought the base game was bland and pastelike (both glue and copied) why would I ever give this game more of my time when it doesn't even have the mods that I want anymore (iirc the StarUI mod is not getting updated and I will be damed before I play the base version of SF on PC with that abysmal UI.

I want to like Bethesda games, they hold a speical place in my heart and always will, but the future for them are so bleak that I doubt I will even be alive when we get a new Fallout game.

Anyway, that's all for now, it's 3am and I just wanted to ramble and try and get some of my feelings out, I have not had a good day, this helped get some of the thoughts out of my brain and onto the page I guess.

-Plague