• raccoona_nongrata@beehaw.org
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    Honestly, no judgement on Bethesda here, but it sounds like it’s more about retroactively justifying tech limitations they ran into.

    A place can have a barren atmosphere and aesthtic while also having content to find, even if that content is more sparse or minimal, suited to that lonely environment. I think it’s more that they simply created more space than they could reasonably populate without taking more time on the game, so they try to pitch it as a feature.

    Again, not a judgement on the worthiness of the game over-all, but more a practical observation that they perhaps bit off more than they could chew in that respect.

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      A place can have a barren atmosphere and aesthtic while also having content to find, even if that content is more sparse or minimal, suited to that lonely environment

      That’s exactly what they’ve done.

      A “barren” planet still has stuff. In the 5 minutes or so that I did random exploration I found a colonist hut that was razed by pirates with a hidden chest with like 3k credits, and a random vendor who was going a little nuts for being alone so long. Nothing incredible, but enough to make the place not feel dead on a random frozen moon.