This is the one good thing Starfield did for me. After it made me angry enough to get over the activation potential to actually leave a review, it also made me resolve that I will make the time to praise the ones that have delighted me rather than just sit there in contentment.
Also, a general reminder that if you like indie games, wishlisting them before release and leaving a thumbs up review after you play them can have an outsize impact on a small dev!
I was so sure there must be a good game buried in there somewhere. I played so many hours looking for it. If I could just level up a few more skills or build out a slightly better ship or find the marginally better weapon. Chasing mirages for hours and hours.
I, sadly, gave them more hours than that searching for it. Hoping that the story would improve, that I would find some plot that would stitch things together in a pleasing way.
Nope. No mechanics improvement, which were trash, will fix bad story.
There were _stories_ I liked but they were almost all bottle side missions. The value of Amelia Earhart saying “What’s buzzin’ cousin?” on your bridge isn’t worth that grind a second or third or fourth time, so even the delightful moments washed away in the endless stream of drudgery.
