Starfield or SQ 42: What will YOU be playing in September?

rodarin

For me its probably going to be Starfield. Still a lot of hype and speculation but from all the leaks we have seen it might be the saving grace a floundering Bethesda needs right now.

Obviously it cant really compare to the history that is the greatness of Chris Roberts and his vision and incredible success but we have to hope that Starfield can deliver. Its going to take a huge effort to compete with SQ 42 at this point but I am optimistic it can be done.

Arglebargle

That's some funny sheet there!

Wargfoot

Is the OP a bot?

I'm not up on the latest SQ42 timelines.
Is it supposed to be coming out in the next 3 years?

Arglebargle

I think a wormhole opened up and sucked SQ42 into the Limbo system.

Angrakhan

I wasn't aware S42 would be in a playable state anytime in the foreseeable future. However, Star Citizen and CIG have just become background noise to me. They got my money. I can be a fanboy and try to white knight the project, one of the endless multitude of complainers, or I can just move on. I try to stick to the latter. It keeps my blood pressure lower. 

Regardless, even if S42 were to somehow launch I'll be playing Starfield first. Given the quality of SC every time I've logged in I'm sure Starfield will be a better game. The bar is not very high to beat CIG on code quality and design decisions.

olepi

Kind of a trick question, since there isn't any game called SQ 42.

Nanfoodle

SQ42 says on Bing AI chat, it does not have a release date. No update on that since they said it would be coming out in 2022 it seems. Will be getting lost in Starfield for the next few months. Then getting excited when modders start populating worlds with their content. My guess I will be playing Starfield off and on for the next 10 years. 

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Scot

I too am going to recommend the game that will actually be out, SF.

Panther2103

I can't tell if this is a joke post or not but Starfield is the obvious choice since everything I've touched out of Star Citizen is broken as hell and nowhere near launch ready, unless somehow SQ42 is somehow different.

Kyleran

DarkZorvanReturns said:

Chris Roberts is a joke that runs on too long.

I'm waiting for the GOTY version before buying Starfield.

Meanwhile, still hoping the Fallout: London devs suddenly announce release.

Absolutely this... definitely waiting for GOTY version when the modder's fixes will included in the base product.

Kyleran

Panther2103 said:

I can't tell if this is a joke post or not but Starfield is the obvious choice since everything I've touched out of Star Citizen is broken as hell and nowhere near launch ready, unless somehow SQ42 is somehow different.

I haven't seen anything recently regarding SQ42 to indicate imminent release, but then I don't follow that closely unless @Babuinix is involved in the conversation.

  

Nanfoodle

Kyleran said:

DarkZorvanReturns said:

Chris Roberts is a joke that runs on too long.

I'm waiting for the GOTY version before buying Starfield.

Meanwhile, still hoping the Fallout: London devs suddenly announce release.

Absolutely this... definitely waiting for GOTY version when the modder's fixes will included in the base product.

I think I heard that the modders kit wont be out for launch. As of yet, there is not release date for the mod kit I can find. Just that one is coming =-\

Hyperpsycrow

Im gona play Banjo !

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Nanfoodle

DarkZorvanReturns said:

Nanfoodle said:

Kyleran said:

DarkZorvanReturns said:

Chris Roberts is a joke that runs on too long.

I'm waiting for the GOTY version before buying Starfield.

Meanwhile, still hoping the Fallout: London devs suddenly announce release.

Absolutely this... definitely waiting for GOTY version when the modder's fixes will included in the base product.

I think I heard that the modders kit wont be out for launch. As of yet, there is not release date for the mod kit I can find. Just that one is coming =-\

Noone waited for the Creation Kit for Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim or FO3, NV,FO4 to start making mods. The CK makes modding easier, it's not an absolute requirement.

That's epic. The scope of the game really lends to modding. I'm excited middling will also be a thing on Xbox as well. 

ValdemarJ

The CreationKit isn't necessary, but it brings mods to Xbox and that is awesome.

cheyane

Never been able to play any of the Fallout games without mods that fix their buggy ass games so Starfield after the good mods are out.

Scot

Kyleran said:

Panther2103 said:

I can't tell if this is a joke post or not but Starfield is the obvious choice since everything I've touched out of Star Citizen is broken as hell and nowhere near launch ready, unless somehow SQ42 is somehow different.

I haven't seen anything recently regarding SQ42 to indicate imminent release, but then I don't follow that closely unless @Babuinix is involved in the conversation.

  

You know I am thinking of starting a betting syndicate on how many good star ship games come out before SC or SQ42 launch. 3-1 on for 4 more games like ED or SF before we see SC launching. 

Sandmanjw

Scot said:

Kyleran said:

Panther2103 said:

I can't tell if this is a joke post or not but Starfield is the obvious choice since everything I've touched out of Star Citizen is broken as hell and nowhere near launch ready, unless somehow SQ42 is somehow different.

I haven't seen anything recently regarding SQ42 to indicate imminent release, but then I don't follow that closely unless @Babuinix is involved in the conversation.

  

You know I am thinking of starting a betting syndicate on how many good star ship games come out before SC or SQ42 launch. 3-1 on for 4 more games like ED or SF before we see SC launching. 

Keep saying, why would they release it? As long as they keep paying everyone's salary. 

With the funding, that never seems to die,  they have zero reason to do anything about release. 

Seriously, would you? They have the dream jobs right now. Never ending funds to keep the club going strong.

Expect things to change the day that what they receive in funding no longer keeps up with expenses.

Pretty much guaranteed that they will not keep this going if it costs them money, right?

Something will be released shortly after the funds of the incoming and outgoing meet.... question is, will the layoffs and such start before or after something is released.

I would bet we will see quite a few people bailing before something releases to put some room between them and what is released.

Kyleran

Sandmanjw said:

Scot said:

Kyleran said:

Panther2103 said:

I can't tell if this is a joke post or not but Starfield is the obvious choice since everything I've touched out of Star Citizen is broken as hell and nowhere near launch ready, unless somehow SQ42 is somehow different.

I haven't seen anything recently regarding SQ42 to indicate imminent release, but then I don't follow that closely unless @Babuinix is involved in the conversation.

  

You know I am thinking of starting a betting syndicate on how many good star ship games come out before SC or SQ42 launch. 3-1 on for 4 more games like ED or SF before we see SC launching. 

Keep saying, why would they release it? As long as they keep paying everyone's salary. 

With the funding, that never seems to die,  they have zero reason to do anything about release. 

Seriously, would you? They have the dream jobs right now. Never ending funds to keep the club going strong.

Expect things to change the day that what they receive in funding no longer keeps up with expenses.

Pretty much guaranteed that they will not keep this going if it costs them money, right?

Something will be released shortly after the funds of the incoming and outgoing meet.... question is, will the layoffs and such start before or after something is released.

I would bet we will see quite a few people bailing before something releases to put some room between them and what is released.

Funpimps are doing the same with 7D2D, 8+ years in development, current on Alpha 21.1B Experimental with Alpha 22 already announced to catch up console users perhaps since they are back quite a few versions.

But as often is the case, all of this work is to get ready for the "march to release..."

Dattelis

Starfield will be the perfect game because modders will make it so. Skyrim was the dream game for modders (Endereal was an entire game built off skyrim) so it'll be an interesting next decade to see what modders will come up with from Starfield assets (as well as seeing how many editions of Starfield they can release, hopefully it beats Skryim in that regard).

olepi

I'm looking forward to fiddling around with modding. I wish they had a setup like the Ryzom Ring. You built a scenario, and then published it to the players. They could go to Ring terminals and activate it, and you could be in the the instance with them as the DM.

Some of the best MMO fun I had was watching people play my scenario, I gave out rewards based on how they solved it. Olepi's Moon I called it, ah the good old days.

rodarin

Obvious posts are obvious.....

I would venture to say that many (stand alone)MODS for Starfield made by some guy probably in his basement in his 60s will be better than ANYTHING, (let alone SQ 42) Chris Roberts will EVER actually release.

No matter WHAT kind of state Starfield is released in it completely an utterly DESTROYS Chris Roberts reasoning when he first pitched Star Citizen el al to the masses about 12 years ago now.

Starfield was announced in 2018 or something like that. Star Citizen/SQ 42 was announced in 2012 (was being worked on well before then despite fanbois objections). Starfield, even with Todd Howard has cost over 200 million to develop. Star Citizen has 'raised' what now,  a trillion? (considering Chris Roberts math) So even with all the bloat and corporate padding Starfield has taken at least six fewer years and  a third (and counting) the budget to develop AND actually release. Even if its release mirrors that of Cyberpunk (not likely but possible I suppose) it is still LIGHT years ahead of Star Citizen/SQ 42.

Not to mention how it (allegedly) will not only be able to be modded with enough content youll likely never live long enough to play. Future expansions and DLCs that can be created from assets (planets and systems) that exist on release will provide decades of future developer 'created content'.

Basically this is a big middle finger to Chris Roberts. IMO. Bethesda created a new IP and universe (no pun intended) Did it in half the current running time and for a lot less money.

Remember the videos of people walking around an otherwise empty Star Citizen planet picking up frigging boxes and putting them in a ship? Remember how that was EPICALLY awesome to them? What a frigging joke. That seems like forever ago now. But really how much further along has that project come? Other than raises a few hundred million more dollars from idiots.

Of course the whole MMO versus Single player argument will come up. But really SQ 42 is SINGLE PLAYER. Where is that? Its basically a proof of concept at this point. It cant be released because they dont have anything, and even if they have something it obviously is so poorly implemented it will prove that anything and everything they have claimed about SC (beyond rudimentary stuff) isnt possible even more than a decade later.

Anyway its always fun year after year after year after year to come to the forums and see the fanbois avatars change and the biggest white knights disappear and their arguments beyond 'yah but look at the money' be debunked. But its come now to other than the few dozen people who have spents millions on this game no one else really cares about it. So it holds a lot of distinctions I think. Because its already a failure. Even if it ever does release who is going to care? Beyond a simple curiosity stand point. Starfield has likely guaranteed that it will likely never actually release because the comparisons will be made. If Bethesda can do what they say and do annual content updates or 'worse' semi annual ones it keeps Starfield front and center in perpetuity. How will Star Citizen or SQ 42 compete with that?

kitarad

No brainer Starfield of course.

Scot

kitarad said:

No brainer Starfield of course.

It is amazing how dropping a comma can make you read that post differently.