In all honesty, and if the trolls would be honest with themselves, it's the most wanted game for virtually everyone. This is going to be a really big game for many people. Hell, it's Bethesda's first new IP in over a decade. No one is trying to miss that event. I don't care how many trolls there are.
So much this for me. I can't tell you how sick I am of single player games that use the Assassins Creed template. I can't wait to sink a few hundred hours into Bethesda's magnum opus space opera.
Look no disrespect to anyone who's excited for the game because I'm just as hype as you are as it's going to be a day one for me but in my humble opinion I could never say this is the most ambitious title in gaming for just too many factors.
I need you to understand that the very same people who are saying this is the most ambitious are also the same people who are letting us know this is not no man's Sky which is very odd because this game technically speaking is not even actually doing something beyond no man's Sky's concept because if we're going to get loading screens in between the actual planets it means that in some of these areas other titles clearly we're more ambitious and doing some pretty incredible things and I would argue one of the most interesting things about Starfield for me and lots of RPG fans especially people who love bethesda's title is actually that is grounded it is based on Concepts we already had before and understand and even to some degree lesser than the games that even introduce those concept but some of us. Doesn't really matter we're just excited that they're making this concept into something we're going to be interested in playing that doesn't really mean it's the most ambitious ever.
It simply means subjectively to us it is interesting on how everything is put together but in regards to the concept in the features there's nothing here that has never been done before by someone else in better and each individual area or something simply being done by a team we trust.
To me that's good enough because I could at least ground myself with a level of expectation instead of waiting for game to introduce never-before-seen features or something because I think people kind of got into that crazy hype with cyberpunk. Maybe the correct way to Market this game is just letting us know it really is Skyrim in space or something because at least it's not trying to over promised some unrealistic expectation in simply marketing exactly what the game is factually.
I could see the shooting mechanics from Fallout, I could see a lot of the loot system from that as well and I could see the base system similar to the community setup thing for Fallout 4 or you could get those NPCs to join those communities across the Wasteland. So as crazy as it might sound that to me is much more exciting because at least it's not offering this argument as a never before concept but more so as something we're already familiar with.
I get your point, but in my eyes, ambition doesn't necessarily mean reinventing the wheel or even keeping up with the Jones' in all categories.
This game is ambitious because it's doing metric ton of everything.
That doesn't necessarily mean it will keep up with games that excel in a few categories in the few categories they excel in. Like, I'm not expecting Doom Eternal level gunplay or No Mans Sky's seamless planet hopping,
but I am expecting:
- Gunplay that's a solid improvement over Fallout 4 and Outer Worlds, and I already had a ton of fun with those games.
- Base and Ship building that far exceeds Fallout 4
- Sprawling environments, some that even appear like Cyberpunk, only with this game we know Bethesda will actually succeed with dynamic npc's and a persistent world that Cyberpunk could only dream of
- Missions and dialogue that have the same strength as those seen as Far Harbour (same quest designer)
- Graphics that exceed every Bethesda game
- Space combat on par with the current industry standard
- Procedural generation that's a step up from anything Bethesda has offered
- Hundreds hours of gameplay
Wrap this all up in one massive package and for me it's easily the most ambitious and exciting game on the horizon. Sure I'm expecting some of the bugs and jank we've come to expect from Bethesda as well, but in the face of the enormity of what they're doing, I'll easily take that over some cookie cutter Assassins Creed template single player experience that has made this industry so stale.