Some Words on BG3 & Starfield
So, Baldur's Gate 3 is definitely the better of the games I've played recently - probably my (and maybe others') game of the year. It isn't perfect, but it's a good adaption of D&D 5E rules with a solid enough story, some great characters, and a lot of creative ways to interact with things. Excellent. Starfield has me thinking a bit more, though. It's certainly not as good, but the overall game is reasonably good. Most of the not-good in the game itself seems to stem from engine limitations as Bethesda's Creation Engine, even with iteration, has a lot of the same feel of its previous games. Outpost building is a variation of what was seen in Fallout 4/76. Starship building seems to be a variation of that. The fact that you have to load between surface/space/shipboard play feels like it's largely because ship flight/combat seems to have been bolted on rather than really integrated. And there are interface and animation issues that look familiar all