As one of those migrated Redditors, I really enjoy being able to continue following the story from here. Thank you for such wonderful comics!

Yarp.

You know - boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.

Chicken salt on chips is basically mandatory in my part of Aus. No idea what you’re talking about there.

Why on earth would you want fish and chips in actual newspaper? I hate the idea of getting that ink on my food.

Every fish and chip shop I’ve been to either does the boxes shown or butcher’s paper.

That Phil guy for the List quest was so creepy to interact with; staring eyes and a big grin for no reason. It bugs me that every character in starfield stares directly at the camera. In Skyrim, the npc would often continue what they were doing when talking (such as continuing to blacksmith)

The difference between cyberpunk 2077 and starfield is that cyberpunk screwed up the technical side of things at launch, but had a rich story with great characters and an immersive world full of environmental story telling even in very off the beaten track locations. CDPR has been able to improve the performance to match the quality of the rest of things

Subjectively speaking, Starfield in contrast had a decent technical launch but the world feels empty, the story is “meh” at best, the companions are one note boyscouts and the exploration gets stale very quickly. I don’t see Bethesda completely overhauling the game’s systems to change those things.

As an example, in CP2077 I was in a random section of Chinatown far away from any quest or location marker and decided to explore. I found my way to some enclosed pipe tunnel which lead to a huge pit with a platforming puzzle leading to a junk pile with a corpse which had a note on it and an exotic weapon. No reason to ever go that way, but there was something interesting to find.

In contrast, beyond my example of the frozen labs in my comment above, in 90 hours playing Starfield I never once found something of value in a cave. That is certainly not something that encourages exploration.

I’m thankful that I bought BG3 when early access released, and WotC hadn’t shit the bed yet. It would have been a bitter pill to see such a great game release and know that I would have to actively give them money after they had been so anti consumer.

I’ve boycotted WotC since the start of the year; been playing Pathfinder and have no intention of giving them any more money!

I see what you’re saying, and could agree if the “scenario” was different internally.

In the example I gave, the frozen labs had the exact same corpses in the same locations and had the exact same ice damage. If they had even been able to make those things change from copy to copy it would have gone a long way to making it feel like I wasn’t wasting my time exploring location types I had already done.

The moment Starfield lost its shine for me was when I went into my second frozen lab and the layout was identical. I realised that the procedural dungeons I had been expecting were complete BS and that only quest related stuff would be unique, which was very disappointing.

I was expecting procedurally linked cells, a la Dead Cells or Diablo. Yes, individual sections would be recognisable, but how they’re put together would be different each time.

Why don’t they explain really cool things like this?

It’s not you, it’s the game that’s missing something. I too am trying to find a use for it all and am at a loss.

At this point, I’ve transferred all my resources from a 6-outpost system to the Lodge. With the amount of stuff I have, there’s simply no need to go back to my outposts for any crafting.

I also am collecting things I no longer need because you can’t turn off the resource tracker after completing research on a project.

I’m glad I’ve never bothered with the tracker, because it would frustrate me to no end to not be able to turn it off.