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Friday Fun Thread for September 1, 2023

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Starfield thread.

Mediocre writing, animations, gameplay, many loading screens. And yet I can’t deny I played until 7am today, and I started very tired and wanting to go to sleep at 10. There’s a certain charm to this game that’s hard to describe, a sense of adventure that was in Skyrim but not - in my opinion - in Fallout 4 (although that might just be because I find post apocalyptic settings very boring). I slept for three hours, now I can’t stop thinking about playing some more. You overhear something, then the next thing you know you’re off a grand adventure around the galaxy; time vanishes.

Would I recommend it? I’m not sure, all the criticisms are valid. But I’m having more fun with it than with Baldur’s Gate 3 so far.

It's weird, there are quite a few games that I have played for no reason other than it was leaked early, but with Starfield I just... It feels like a waste of bandwidth? That's not really it, it can't be - I have unlimited bandwidth, but I'm going to get the game on gamepass and I've already downloaded the files and it just seems like a waste to play a leaked copy. Besides, I'm still playing Sea of Stars (which is pretty good, wears it's chrono trigger inspiration on its sleeve and the soundtrack is by Yasunori Mitsuda. And while some of the early tracks are a bit weak, the music really picks up once you pass the first act) so I figured might as well try to finish that.

Also has anyone here gotten their hands on the Chunks promos Bethesda are sending out? A friend got the full swag bag and along with the hat and tote bag and shit it comes with a smart watch designed to look like the starfield version of the pip boy and, more importantly, these bricks of flavoured marshmallows mimicking the Chunks food items in the game. Sadly however, the Chunks Chicken Fillet is toffee flavoured, not chicken fillet flavoured. And while I think the idea of advertising your game/movie/universe by recreating iconic products from it is great (and the more they commit to it the better), I've never understood why they are so stingy with them - I haven't found a way an ordinary member of the public could get chicken fillet marshmallow slabs, and without one I have no way to justify eating my way into a diabetic coma.