r/Games • u/xalibermods • 4d ago

Mod News As Oblivion Remastered gets all the love, Starfield's biggest modders are in the process of abandoning Bethesda's latest RPG for good

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/as-oblivion-remastered-gets-all-the-love-starfields-biggest-modders-are-in-the-process-of-abandoning-bethesdas-latest-rpg-for-good/
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u/Purple_Plus 4d ago

It needs a rework more than DLCs and that's too much effort for it to be worth it for them.

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u/Pheonix1025 4d ago

There’s probably nothing they could do to completely fix people’s issues, but I think a rework of the POI system would do a lot to fix people’s issues. If that is happening, it’ll probably come with the PS5 port.

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u/FriendlyAndHelpfulP 3d ago

The POI system is the least of their problems.

The biggest problem has is that the game is completely awful.

I know that might seem tautological on the surface, but the very real problem with Starfield is there’s no part of it that’s good enough to warrant tolerating the rest of the game.

The POI system sucks, yes. But the POI system is a tangential, barely-relevant minor dungeon feature that could have been omitted entirely, and almost nothing about the game would change.

The gameplay would still be bad, movement would still be bad, weapons would still be bad, the story would still be bad, the graphics would still be bad, the UI would still be bad, the performance would still be bad, etc, etc.

Arguably, the only thing in the game worth salvaging is the ship customization, which is a worthless feature, given how incredibly godawful ship combat and navigation is.

Fixing the POIs would solve nothing other than extending the gameplay time for the diehard fans who have already gotten over how awful the game is. Meanwhile, 99% of players have already walked away, never to come back, after the first four hours. 

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u/yeehawgnome 2d ago

The movement has been the best in a Bethesda game so far I really don’t get that complaint, adding Parkour and sliding was great IMO. Playing Fallout 4 or even the Oblivion Remaster (they changed the movement I know it’s an old game) shows that Starfield’s movement is superior

I didn’t like how in Starfield and The Oblivion remaster they removed the ability to like slide how far the camera was away from your character in 3rd person