Playing Starfield and wondering why the NPCs look like they’re dead inside? One developer reckons they’ve worked out why.

  • NuPNuA@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Because based on the amount of sales they’ve made and the combined player numbers between those and gamepass players, lots of people don’t care.

    I started gaming on an Amstrad in the late 80s, I’ve lived though multiple groundbreaking leaps in graphical quality since then and now and frankly, it doesn’t impress me anymore, especially with how incremental it’s become. I’m more impressed by the scale and world building of Starfield and how all its systems come together than how it’s character models look.

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      I wasn’t creeped out by character faces from my Amstrad either.

      When you get to the level of realism of Starfield you have to pay attention to the details. If you can’t, just pick a different graphical style.

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      I think this is it. I enjoy making fun of the NPCs in starfield but mostly when I’m playing I don’t notice them at all. I do have a few very pretty screenshots of the game. It’s not perfect by any stretch but the scope is impressive and most of it really is pretty good

      I don’t think Bethesda has ever sold based on graphics no matter how much they want to pretend it. Morrowind and oblivion both looked under par when they came out as well.