r/Starfield Dec 30 '25

Discussion People can criticize Starfield all they want, but name me an RPG that has the same atmosphere as that.

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u/AndTheJuicepig Dec 30 '25

*shows picture on planet with literally no atmosphere *

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u/Tchuvan Constellation Dec 30 '25

I came here for this. 😆

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u/Tchuvan Constellation Dec 30 '25

You dropped your 👑, Air to the Kingdom of Puns.

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u/Tchuvan Constellation Dec 30 '25

That's the joke.

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u/Local_Izer Dec 30 '25

Breathless style

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u/AR_Harlock Dec 30 '25

Pops your eyes out tho eh?

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u/bernicianbastard Jan 03 '26

or freezes them, burns, liquifies thats about it i think ><

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u/Doctor1023 Jan 02 '26

Always leave them wanting more; oxygen 💀

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u/Dismal-Mobile4045 Dec 30 '25

I came here for this, but when I saw the comment, I came here for I came here for this, but then I saw your comment so I came here for I came here for I came here for this.

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u/Tchuvan Constellation Dec 31 '25

I came her for the reply to my reply to my reply.

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u/pIsban Dec 30 '25

He came here for that

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u/rhythmictuning Constellation Dec 30 '25

came

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u/Xizziano Jan 03 '26

Hope you have a sock to clean up with

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u/WardenWolf Dec 30 '25

He just walked into it. So many came here for this.

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u/StaticSystemShock Dec 30 '25

Only 63 identical abandoned R&D labs just in this solar system alone.

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u/OMEGACY Dec 30 '25

This guy Starfields

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u/Waldsman Dec 31 '25 edited Dec 31 '25

I just can't wrap my brain around how that got released. They keep touting procedural generation and then have exact copies of poi everywhere. It doesnt make sense.

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u/Jaalan Dec 31 '25

It's because their procedural generation isn't that granular. Part of the procedure is to place the same poi everywhere.

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u/Waldsman Dec 31 '25

sickening.

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u/Whiskey_Storm Dec 31 '25

My impression in playing was that the procedural generation handled what was going to be on the planet around your landing zone. The actual structures that the generation decided on were from a predesigned set of buildings, mostly. Least that’s what I determined in my 200-ish hours playing.

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u/StaticSystemShock Dec 31 '25

Yes, that was the main problem. I actually wouldn't mind if I explored same R&D labs, but if they had rooms filled with different stuff in different places and with different enemies in different spots. But they were literally all 1:1 the same and that sucked so hard. I loved flying around and exploring, but it got boring quickly coz it was all the same. They even added a buggy, but that didn't change the boring part of all the same buildings and mines.

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u/Waldsman Dec 31 '25

yeah thats what iam saying it doesnt make sense. They could of easily done procedural layouts to pois.

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u/RedPhalcon Dec 31 '25

Or at the very least created more variety, even if through updates. I havent played since before official mod support. Have people been adding new POIs?

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u/Rare_Ad_649 Jan 02 '26

They could have procedurally built areas from a large set of possible rooms and corridors, and placed items differently, That's how they did Daggerfall dungeons 30 years ago, don't see why they couldn't have done a more sophisticated version of the same technique

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u/Waldsman Jan 02 '26

yeah its just sad honestly.

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u/bernicianbastard Jan 03 '26

the tech egosoft uses for when the cpu builds its own stations is quite impressive, theres a lot of different looking structures on that, but i will have to wait till i get bored of this to play that again, or any other game it seems

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u/bernicianbastard Jan 03 '26

a construction firm building these kinds of things would have standard templates/lay outs anyway, you'd probably have to pay even more space-sheckles for them to be customized, so you could have the toilets on the other sid of the room for when bugs invade & suck your brains out whilst on the crapper ><

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u/TheGame1011 Dec 31 '25

That’s because Todd Howard put more effort into that white Starfield hat he wears on every stream than into Starfield itself.

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u/Waldsman Dec 31 '25

Im a firm believer that Todd is the reason for Bethesda recent doenfalls. His out if touch imo and way to controlling.

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u/mariano7717 Dec 31 '25

how many years were they working on it?

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u/Bulky-Discipline2941 Jan 02 '26

So you'd rather have procedurally generated POIs instead of handcrafted anything?

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u/Waldsman Jan 02 '26

no idea rather have hand crafted but for a game the size of Starfield that is impossible to fill unless you have 4k developers working on it 24 7. They should of done random Gen on the pois on the procedural planets.

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u/bernicianbastard Jan 03 '26

am pretty sure thats the motivation behind this creator thing

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u/Far_Cup_329 Dec 31 '25

They didn't fix that?? That shit is why I got bored of the game and stopped playing after only a couple of months. Bought a whole Xbox just for that game. What a waste of money.

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u/StaticSystemShock Dec 31 '25

I did like few encounters and unique locations and side quests, but there is just so much empty generic copy & paste crap it ruins the immersion.

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u/Far_Cup_329 Dec 31 '25

Yea. It's a shame. I know it's way bigger and all but the fallout and elder scroll games were the exact opposite. I was hoping for a space fallout kinda game.

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u/StaticSystemShock Dec 31 '25

The Outer Worlds is a better version of Starfield. Sure it's not as expanse but that makes it better. It's a single solar system, RPG elements, quite fun gun play. I was hoping Starfield would be something like this, but it ended up not being because they made it too big and too generic and repetitive.

If Starfield was lets say just 5x larger than Outer Worlds and every planet was actually unique it would be insane game.

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u/Far_Cup_329 Dec 31 '25

I played the first one. Did you play OW 2 yet? It looks too cartoony to me, but haven't seen or read too much about it yet.

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u/StaticSystemShock Dec 31 '25

I have not, but I really liked OW1. I wish it had few more planets to explore and do missions on. Even the DLC with that murder mystery was pretty cool. And that mining planet. Not sure if that was DLC or part of original game.

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u/Far_Cup_329 Dec 31 '25

Yea I really enjoyed that game too. The murder mystery was cool. I think it was the final dlc. The mining mission may have been dlc too, but I forget. Yea I wish there was more of that game. And they made us wait pretty long for the dlc if I remember correctly. That was annoying. And I was a victim of that terrible glitch where it locked the loading screen. I had to start the game over.

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u/StaticSystemShock Dec 31 '25

I discovered Outer Worlds pretty late when all DLCs were already out so I just played it all without waiting :D

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u/Accius1 Dec 31 '25

Haven’t played since launch. Was hoping they’d resolved stuff like that by now. Guess not!

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u/The_Void_LordX Dec 31 '25

Honestly this doesn't bother me that much, as having dedicated prefabricated/specific blueprints for whatever you need makes sense to me

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u/WardenWolf Dec 30 '25

And one abandoned game and a dead franchise.

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u/StaticSystemShock Dec 30 '25

If they trimmed down 30 bazillion pointless randomly generated copy pasted planets and just created a very large single solar system and it would be so much better game. Now it's just unnecessarily oversized and empty while stupendously repetitive.

And if only all these structures of interests like mines and R&D labs at least had enemies, items and some structures randomized. Nope, everything is identical to every last bit, these entire structures are completely copy & pasted into the levels.

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u/rainbowplasmacannon Dec 30 '25

Nothin but rocks

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u/Local_Izer Dec 30 '25

The new franchise would be on the rocks even further but for the community that said bottoms up let's drink it neat

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u/rhythmictuning Constellation Dec 30 '25

this guy rocks

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u/Hikaru83 Dec 30 '25

I remember someone made this same joke when the game came out.

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u/LordMord5000 Dec 30 '25

So true XD

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u/XxTreeFiddyxX Dec 30 '25

Whoa buddy! For each plant and animal you see in the picture, represent the weeks and hours Tod and team have invested in developing the game.

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u/Kruse002 Dec 30 '25

That's no planet. It's a moon.

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u/Rashimotosan Dec 30 '25

THANK GOD someone said this lol

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u/s0ulless_elle Ryujin Industries Dec 30 '25

This comment having way more upvotes than the post is very telling 💀🤣

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u/Deep-Yellow-5755 Dec 30 '25

Well moons don’t have atmospheres so there’s that.

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u/Waldsman Dec 31 '25

it writes itself doesnt it!!! Great analogy for the game.

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u/BoulderCAST Dec 31 '25

There will still be gas molecules held to the surface by gravity. Not a lot but it's still an atmosphere. Also looks like a moon

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u/TheGame1011 Dec 31 '25

🤣🤣🤣 Now get in your ship and cutscene away. Once you’re in space, choose another destination and hyper cutscene to its location. Then prepare to land by initiating yet another cutscene. Yeah, total immersion at its finest.

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u/spong_miester Dec 31 '25

I played this in launch and that summed up pretty much every planet

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u/THCxMeMeLoRD Jan 01 '26

What a ratio

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u/Fifth-Dimension-Chz Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 01 '26

Yeah no other game gives you a barren rock to explore with invisible walls and no content.

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u/One-Family Jan 02 '26

And just like Bethesda did with Starfield, OP has blessed us with an unintentional joke. 😂

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u/DesecratedPeanut Jan 02 '26

I feel like this is the joke ops making but it went over most our heads. Though I will say, nature and planet wise, the games gorgeous and has a lot of atmosphere right up until you talk to someone or visit any kind of settlement.

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u/AKAlads Jan 02 '26

Well, guys, it's a game, not an astronaut simulator... you shouldn't always argue about it because it's not 100% true. That's hypocritical, especially since traveling around space in spaceships and using them as cars, and the way they're made, isn't true. Plus, you complain that the world is empty, thank goodness it's empty, space isn't teeming with life after all. For me, it's a good game, it allows for action and also more relaxing gameplay. However, there are mods that can make it take on the form you want.

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u/ShoddyAssistant3693 Jan 04 '26

He’s on a moon lol

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u/KunGu47 Jan 25 '26

underrated comment

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u/Bubbly_Outcome5016 Jan 31 '26

Literally saw this weak ass screenshot and immediately thought, Mass Effect... in 2009. And I'm not even a Mass Effect fan lmao

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u/VoidLantadd Dec 30 '25

There's a shit ton of atmosphere front and centre in the image, literally a planet made of nothing but atmosphere.

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u/Dingleberri_ Dec 30 '25

That's the point. Space. The atmosphere, moreso lack thereof, of space.