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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

What Is with the Starfield Nonsense?

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

lotuseaters.com

Politics, News, Daily News

4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Callum and Harry discuss the ongoing disappointment of AAA games and the media that promotes them.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So today a video game named Starfield released. It's a Bethesda title. So not to spoil it, but I was not very interested because it's a Bethesda title.

0:09.0

It was a rather uneventful release as far as I'm concerned, as far as I can tell from online discourse

0:13.9

no one's really got much to say about it. I'm not following anything that

0:16.6

Bethesda puts out anymore for the right reasons such as the bad guys so as in

0:20.4

bad creators of video games from their history.

0:22.8

I still can't bring myself to hate Todd though.

0:25.7

I just love Todd.

0:26.6

So I decided I wouldn't pay attention to it

0:28.9

because I didn't even know it was coming out.

0:30.1

And then for some reason it keeps popping up on my timeline.

0:32.2

And there's been a whole lot of nonsense about this.

0:34.0

So I thought we just sit down and go through the Vigigam and the nonsense.

0:38.4

This is not a video game review in case you're expecting me to sit here.

0:40.9

Neither of us have played it and it literally came out today.

0:43.6

So, well some people had early access to it because they paid a bit extra.

0:47.4

We did not because honestly, Starfield to me has been something that has been advertised on leucaseed bottles and nothing further in my life until the past few days.

0:58.0

We're getting into a minute but basically I looked at the game and they looked at my money and said I prefer my money.

1:02.0

So we'll start by promoting something on Loisius.com, this being the Our Cyberpunk Distopia of,

1:07.0

well the episode here being us going through, I have no mouth and I'm a scream which was really good fun.

1:12.0

And if you want Sci if I I recommend that over what I've seen of video game now here's the video game a lot of

1:17.9

people seem to be really enjoying it and go ahead you know if I play too you one of the

1:21.4

problems I have is just the the general setting so I'm not big on this kind of sci-fi where everything's I don't know kind of look at the concrete and gray textures. Well, it's not so much that it's it's this open worlds kind of

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