Starfield players are blasting the game as “lazy,” following the discovery that several important NPCs are the exact same person.
Bethesda has made some truly fantastic RPGs in its time, though unfortunately Starfield has been perceived as a swing-and-a-miss for the developer.
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Some of Starfield’s key problems boil down to a lack of life and identity within its universe, as while creating your own starship and flying to distant planets can be fun, once you landm there’s really not much to do.
The term “Fallout but in space” gets thrown around a lot, which is an unfortunately apt description of what the game is.
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To add insult to injury, players are still mocking the game months after it was released, this time for seemingly reusing the same character model for three separate, but important, characters.
This was spotted by JonBovi_0 on Reddit, who said they’d found it “a little odd” that three of the major child characters shared the same appearance.
They continued that the actual quests tied to the characters were “amazing and adorable but they’re the SAME PERSON,” adding, “How hard would it be to make any other kid?”
Other players commented on how frustrating it is to see a AAA game take such creative shortcuts, with one player saying, “They [Bethesda] always do poorly with children but this was the worst.”
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Another hilariously added, “We have more children with that damn hairstyle than habitable planets in the game.”
Finally one player said, “Completely agree. And as for the Ranger's daughter (Annie Wilcox?), they could have simply used her friend instead - model already exists. It shows a rushed product.”
While Starfield is still getting support from Bethesda with patches and new content, it seems the majority of players are treating it as a write-off, and are simply using it to pass the time until The Elder Scrolls VI comes out instead.