Recent reviews by Aniah

A ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ farming simulator has better combat and more depth in the story than starfield.

On its own merit, I do consider this one of the best if not the best farming sim games. It has a deep main story that is part of a larger world. It has lots of lore that is being expanded upon. The farming side of the game is good and outside of that it has actual combat. This game has a lot going for it and I'm excited about their sequel especially after the recent leaks from the devs. The sequel seems to already be leaps and bounds better than this game.

Please for the love of god be part of the team for the next elder scrolls or even fallout. Cmon Larian Studios, we need a real RPG with actual choices.

Update 06/28/24 - 7 dollars for a single quest with a broken weapon reward that you cannot reload. 10 dollars for a single room hab which is 1/7 the price of the game. Besides the price, my biggest issues is that this game is already very lacking in the content department and they have the audacity to charge almost $20 for something that would be free elsewhere is laughable.

I will not be playing anymore Bethesda games till maybe Fallout 5 (+2032) because if Todd is being truthful for once in his life, he will be retiring after TES6 and hopefully emil will follow him. If this happens then maybe Fallout 5 could actually be a decent game.

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♥♥♥♥ you emil, you need to be fired and banned from ever writing any stories for game companies ever again. You ruined fallout 3, fallout 4, the elder scrolls 5, and now starfield and probably also the elder scrolls 6 as well. You're a twinkie full of ♥♥♥♥.

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I have now have 112 hours into the game. I can now say for certain this is indeed the worst bethesda game to date. Yes, worst than fallout 76.

For those who've seen my previous review, I gave it a 6/10 and that was after 75 hours of gameplay. I've said it had a lot of new but also a lot of old and some stuff even regressed. Did my opinions change now that I've seen a bit more of the game?

...Nope. In fact it got worse. I will now rate this game a 3.5 out of 10. It's absolutely atrocious and I refuse to defend or give bethesda any pity points after they have spent more than 8 years on this with the ideas and concept going further than 20 years ago.

Those who've seen my original review knows that I've given a lot of praises to the improvements made over the previous games but after 100 hours I've realized that those improvements are so miniscule and worth nothing more than looking a bit nicer. Things that are irrelevant if your game is terribly designed and boring as hell.

This game outside of their new graphics is an absolute downgrade over all previous bethesda games in some form. It's an absolute regression in mechanics and fun that it makes me wonder what the hell did the developers do in the last 8 years of development and are the developers of their previous games even still working at bethesda.

My biggest gripe about this game is the lack of player choice. This game is so lacking in player choice it should not even be allowed to be called an RPG. The "RPG" in starfield is worst than fallout 76 which is worst than fallout 4 which is worst than fallout 3 which is worse than fallout new vegas. Do you see the trend here?

I will give you some example so spoilers ahead if you give a ♥♥♥♥.

In one of the Sysdef missions, you will be required to sneak through a building to find some scumbag to get information from him and maybe even take him in. The mission is a stealth mission in the sense you are requested to sneak your way through to the end point without being spotted. A specific request is that you do not kill anyone in the building since the workers are innocent and aren't part of the plan so like metal gear solid, full stealth without being spotted. The mission is easy as hell but due to a mistake on my part save scumming, I accidently saved into a spot where i spawn in front of a security robot. At that time I did not want to restart the whole mission from the beginning since I was already pretty far into it and it's a pain to slowly crawl my ass back to my current location so I did the next best thing. I shot that robot with a silenced weapon and no one noticed. REMEMBER THIS! I've only killed one robot and it was the one who spotted me, no one else in the facility saw me nor did I killing anyone else. I didn't even harm the guy I needed to get since I was playing goodie two shoes here. Bloody hell, when I got back to Sysdef, the commander in charge screamed at me and acted like I just genocided a city with a rusty chainsaw. Man threatened to not only fire me for "killing" all those innocent people but to also throw me to the brigs and lock me up. You don't understand how infuriated I was after this. I basically quited playing for that week.

One more, and this one is biggest example of lack of player choice as well as being something Obsidian manage to do extremely well with Fallout New Vegas.

Almost all named characters are essential NPCs which means you cannot kill them no matter what. When you "kill" them, they simply go down on the ground for a while before getting back up. There are so many times in this game that simply shooting a guy in the face would've solved the whole mission or at least change the whole mission. Nope, you can't make any decision that can affect the story since that would ruin the story that bethesda wanted to tell. ♥♥♥♥ off you little ♥♥♥♥♥. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fallout new vegas allowed us to kill everyone including all major characters and companions and then change the story accordingly and this was back in 2010. Do you see how far back we've regressed? Do you see how much RPG mechanics they've forgotten? It's 2023 and with Baldur's Gate 3 doing what fallolut new vegas did but 100 times better while being cheaper than starfield, this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game is an atrocity in every caliber and deserves it's rating of 3/10. Seriously, ♥♥♥♥ this game.


No one at bethesda have anything called foresight or common sense. 8 years and 20+ planning my ass. Even my anus is more honest than bethesda and my anus constantly spews ♥♥♥♥ daily.


Some extra negatives that I don't want to get too in dept to but still pisses me off.


Negatives
- ♥♥♥♥ Optimization / ♥♥♥♥♥♥ UI / 4080 Low FPS
- More loading screens than all their previous games combined...
- Little to no enemy variety and aliens
- little to no NPC fighting each other
- Worst melee combat ever
- Gunplay didn't evolve from fallout 4 in any way (lazy ♥♥♥♥♥)
- Limited base building options and small ship building limit
- ONLY 5 MELEE WEAPONS!?!?
- ONLY 3 LASER WEAPONS!?!??!!?
- Not enough clothing and armor
- Jumping too high
- Cities feel lifeless and cramped
- AI still the same and maybe even worst than previous titles somehow
- ♥♥♥♥♥♥ powers mostly
- Perks/traits feels weak
- Perks/traits are boring and uninspired / nothing game changing
- Bounty/wanted is wacky
- Can't ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dive underwater, something all their previous games could do

Just finished the tutorial mission and so far it's pretty ok, not bad but oh boy the optimization is another story. It's so buggy and lacking in the features department. No frame limit, no aim toggle or toggle anything in general, ect.

Also, what's with the fps? Got 90 fps in tutorial on 1440p with settings at low, dlss balance with a 2080 ti. It then dropped to below 40 fps once the main game starts and you jump into the open world.

This is extremely poorly optimized right now.

Trying to get this started on the steam deck gave me one of the worst headache I've have had in recent years. I gave up trying to get it to work after 3 hours.
Even trying to delete this from my steam deck is a pain in the ass. This is definitely one of the worst game launcher I've have experienced.

Not saying the game is bad but it just refused to run well for me. -99/100

I bought the game on the day it was first released for early access. I also paid for the soundtrack. The price of both today would be less than $60 USD. For the price of that, we've gotten over 7 years of updates and free content. God forbid they try to make some money after all the free stuff we've received. The community is the pinnacle example of entitled and racist. These entitled fools expect a lifetime of freebies after a measly $50 as if hard work and content grows on trees for free. This upcoming DLC has no effect on those who don't wish to purchase it since it still fits in the military theme. God forbid they try to make some money after 7 years of free content. Maybe once they leave, we can have a less entitled and toxic community. And if they refuse to support the game then that's fine as well, the Chinese community will continue to support the Devs without crying like they've always have.

Edit: ~Oh wow! Would you look at that? The game is still fun and the said microtransactions didn't kill the game. Who would've thunk huh? Maybe if we start judging games without your sinophobic bias then you might realize that it was never an issue to begin with. Ironically, Tencent actually has the lease intrusive microtransactions when compared to EA, Activision, Blizzard, and Riot Games.

Really good but expect performance issues.

I might actually die playing this... die laughing that is. First 3 hours and i'm already on the floor in tears ugly laughing as my family watch in distress over my degrading mental health. 10/10, gave me something life couldn't, actual happiness.

All my weapons are stuck reloading. I literally can't play the game. 1.04 patch came out a week ago that fixes this issue but some people including me didn't any updates. Stuck on 1.02 version. It's been a week yet the devs never came out and addressed this nor anyone in fact. These developers are incompetent.

Everyone at 343 needs to be purged and a new competent studio be brought in. 4 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ halo games and they ♥♥♥♥♥♥ each and every one of them. It's like when Ubisoft hiring to fill a diversity quota rather than their skills in making a game, you end up with a ♥♥♥♥ game and now Ubisoft is trying to sell itself because their ♥♥♥♥ games don't sell or have a long life. 343 has now have had a whole decade of failure, you heard that right, a whole decade, 10 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ years people. Microsoft would do well to completely dismantle 343 and bring in a new company at this point.