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Starfield Slander - "Nasapunk" is offensively boring (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Frank@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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Starfield's art direction is painfully boring. I've ben watching friends play. It looks like a totally soulless, characterless distillation of every forgettable science fiction movie in the last 30 years. It sure does look NASA, and NASA doesn't have an artistic vision, they just slap shit together in whatever way won't explode. The menus, the costumes, the weapons, even the planets, just look painfully generic. Like congrats, Todd, you successfully executed the NASA part alright. There's no way you could have made more intensely bland, vague, inoffensive rendition of space. There's no "punk" anywhere to be seen, though.

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I can't believe they made this shit instead of TES Six. It's like every 2010s space show that got cancelled half way through the first season.

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[–] SimulatedLiberalism@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The “Jeff Bezos the saved Expanse” narrative was a corporate advertisement that was subsequently peddled endlessly on reddit. The fact is that there was a very passionate and dedicated “Save the Expanse” fan campaign behind it including pitching it to Amazon Studios, who then made a business decision to finance the show’s continuation. The studio representative did make a off-handed comment that “Bezos likes the books” to the press but at the end of the day, it was a business decision based on profit.

Besides, how much do you think Bezos love the books when Amazon didn’t even bother to finance the TV adaptation of the last three books? They got a 3-season deal and didn’t get renewed (Season 6 was barely advertised at all compared to other shows like The Boys), and now Amazon owns the show’s airing rights (but not the IP, which remains in the hands of the producer Alcon) so they have to wait until it expires at some point.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

I don't know. I only have a vague passing knowledge of the whole franchise, which I find to be a blessing compared to the forced-to-learn-lore-from-sheer-cultural-saturation that Game of Thrones was.