It will be riddled with monetisation, with the attendant mission/quest structure to support that goal. Like, it’s an impossibility that it won’t be. Starfield was on the verge of getting some good will back from the player base, but squandered it on that bullshit pay-per-quest DLC they released recently. Bethesda is beyond help at this point.

All excellent, I’m sure.

• No Man’s Sky - 1,631 hours
• The Long Dark - 1,337 hours
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - 651 hours (I combined the original and Special Edition playtimes)
• Nova Drift - 434 hours
• Fallout 4 - 378 hours
• Starfield - 178 hours (I enjoyed it!)

Preserving good old games!

Asterisk: Unless the CCP don’t like it, in which case it can go fuck itself.

The Outer Worlds didn’t really click with me. I found it to be a relic of a much-earlier time. I hope Avowed is a bit more ‘advanced’.

If they had added fast travel, it would have been a really solid game (to me, at least). The excruciatingly-long driving sessions were interminable, and it was this that made me abandon the game in the end, even though I was already about 2/3 of the way through it. The characters, acting and story were really good.

It’s quite repetitive, but no more than any other middling open world game. I happen to enjoy stealthily murdering people with a giant combat knife, so the repetition didn’t bother me. The constant criss-crossing around the map to go to/from objectives bothered me a lot. 90% of the checkpoints in each quest could have been a phone call.

I wonder if there’s a mod that lets you teleport to map markers 🤔 If so, I would play the game again.

It looks indistinguishable from every other tech site.

Here’s the video that half a dozen gaming sites turned into an “article”:

https://youtu.be/8KR5i98aCy0

RedCandleGames is on my very short list of ‘instabuy’ developers. The way they were treated by GOG is why I don’t buy from that store anymore.

Congratulations, completing a game and getting it out the door is no mean feat!