20dbdc No.16279450
Let's say I bought into the "excitement" for this game. Let's say it's sitting there, collecting dust and unleashing a horrid rank on my Steam library. Let's say, I already know how shit it is, and it's bored me to tears the further I got with it.
Now let's say I'm metaphorically sucking Todd Howard's lying, two-timing cock by wanting to go back give it another go. This time, with mods.
I know what you're all thinking;
>Kill yourself
>Mods can't polish a turd
>I hope you deepthroat his cock and gag on it until you suffocate
All very valid points. However, I know what I'm getting myself into, which is probably just a sinkhole of disappointment. Still, they journey beats the destination in any given case. All I wanna know is, during your unfortunate waste of time playing this giant pile of dead horse puree, what mods did you have installed for Starbound? Did they improve your experience at all? Are there enough mods out there that basically fulfill every wish Chucklefuck promised at the start? Or will it just crash and burn harder than when it's running?
7cc4cb No.16279457
>Did they improve your experience at all?
Chucklefish do not have any coders, just arts and ideas guys. What they did was a) add a lot of pointless simplistic busywork and b) "sidegrade" the game instead of improve it
0b007b No.16279539
>>16279450
I used to be in a sort of similar situation OP. I bought the game and was incredibly disappointed in how shit it was when I first played it.
Later I played it again, since the first time it was in beta. I convinced myself that, hey, it used to be a beta, they've improved on it to now, and of course they've naturally fixed the issues and it's no longer boring.
Well that's what I thought, but the reality goes more like this: It's fucking boring. Sure, I thought it was kind of fun at first, but the main gameplay loop is the dullest shit:
1. Go to planets
2. Hope they have something cool on them
3. If they do, stay a while. If they don't go to the next planet.
The 'story' in this game is laughable from the word 'Once upon a time'. Basically you're apart of the Space United Nations or some dumb shit where every single race (see: six races, all humanoid looking in nature) partner together for world peace (see: political power).
Cthulu wrecks your shit and you get stranded, and eventually head to some sort of universal, uh, marketplace? I honestly don't know what it is. But the important thing here is that you meet a Katawa Shoujo character 90 years past the expiration date who tells you to go on a mission to hunt artifacts of each race (see: hunt race relevant furniture) and then you get to go on a really dull mission that has no love or inspiration in it.
This is all to find out that a cthulu cult lead by a woman-who-looks-like-a-man (PIC FUCKING RELATED LOOK AT THIS UGLY SON OF A BITCH) wants to make humanity the best race ever so she uh, killed a bunch of humans? I have no idea.
None of the lore is very interesting either. All of the books suck and all of the races are as predictable as they looked when you first saw them. Hell, 'starpeople' or whatever those cowboy fucks were didn't even HAVE any story, and according to the wiki only had like one type of settlement.
If you completely ignore the story, then all you're left with is the usual shitty random generation game. Things will start to repeat themselves a fuckton after your first like, 2 hours of playing (apparently several thousand apeman laboratories fucked up and created mutants) and the difficulty curve is completely artifical bullshit padded out by the need to go mine 10billion resources before you can go to the next tier of planets (which has the same dumbfuck AI as the previous ones).
That being said, since you already bought the game you can probably fix it with mods. I think the big one was Frackin Universe, which a lot of mods require to work. Another one, although I can't remember the name of it, was some WW2-like thing that gave a bunch of lategame content and the ability to make cool looking but shitty guns. The big selling point of it was that it departed from the black-and-white morals of Starbound though.
All in all, since you've already bought the game there's really nothing to go wrong with in installing 2billion mods.
0b007b No.16279541
>>16279539
whoops that's big
tl;dr story is bad, gameplay is bad, lore is bad, but you can fix it all with mods probably
6146ed No.16279580
>>16279450
Funny enough, I tried doing that some months ago. The results were, well.
>>16279457
That's generally my experience with every mod I've tried, as well. The game engine is so fundamentally broken and incapable and the mod support is either lacking sufficient detail or sufficiently skilled coders to fix it that none of the available mods genuinely improve the game to a playable state. Frackin' Universe is like bolting fifteen times the existing amount of resource gathering and microcrafting grinding on top of the game, and beyond FU there's nearly no content mods that do anything more than add more clothing, armor, vehicles, and so on. There's nothing. There's no mod to improve planet generation. There's no way anyone could fix the art style. Nothing can be done to fix the interface that somehow feels laggier in singleplayer than movement does in multiplayer.
Starbound was the first and last game I ever backed, and boy was it a lesson.
6146ed No.16279597
>>16279580
Also, if anyone knows what review that webm is from, I'd very much like to watch the rest of it.
20dbdc No.16279611
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>16279597
I think that's all there is of it, but the only video that got me on this thought track was this one. Sorry for linking straight to YouTube.
a10fc7 No.16279620
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>16279450
>Trust Chucklefucks
The warning signs were there, the first year of them getting their kikestarter welfare money they started going beyond their scope and just appeasing some furfaggot tranny whales who threw their money to this turd.
>>16279580
>>16279597
Webm is from Tweed, he's such a bro for taking a bullet wasting his time on this fucking piece of shit. Here's his entire Starbound series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeFvX2UaaiisOVcKIZXjWKOK5n1MOcwxt
00288e No.16279666
>>16279450
If it's any solace the mech Mod was pretty cool.
6ff979 No.16279697
>>16279666
I thought you said the mech update for a second, because holy fuck that shit was the most tedious garbage ever.
29c5a1 No.16279719
I remember all the people saying this game would kill Terraria on /v/.
Where are you fuckers now? I bet you all pretend you had doubts about this game from the start.
9623e4 No.16279728
>>deluding yourself with promises
you should have known the start what this game is, what they have already released, and if you cant handle enjoying a game for what it is, you should just fuck off back to Terraria
0d607c No.16279738
>>16279719
I was excited at first, but then they kept showing off just building and trying to avoid or cheat out of combat in their "gameplay" videos. I actually got into a fair few arguments with a friend about that. I ended up having the last laugh, but at the end of the day, I just wanted him to save his money and time. Yes, building is part of gameplay, but the thing that made Terraria stand out is the combat, and it got better.
9e292b No.16279754
>>16279719
>killing an already dead niche 2D minecraft
The games are both god-awful and you should be embarrassed if you ever so much as consider playing either one.
00288e No.16279913
>>16279697
No the Mech Mod, since all the Mods at the time were front loaded for endgame and everyone always had convenient chests full of everything you need you just slap the Mech on and have fun.
23fff3 No.16280233
Get Sexbound, fap, then delete the game.
29c5a1 No.16280357
>>16280233
>low-quality pixel sprites fucking each other
wow how hot
1e1cbe No.16280367
You faggots made me buy this game after shilling it so hard.
You made me buy Rimworld too, so I forgive you.
0beceb No.16280400
>>16280367
>You faggots made me buy this game after shilling it so hard.
Is this the new hot meme from cuckchan refugees?
>"hurr let's pretend X game was recommended before everyone shat on it"
Besides rule of thumb is and has always been pirate first, your own damn fault for forgetting to do it
4549e6 No.16280442
>>16279457
>a) add a lot of pointless simplistic busywork
>b) "sidegrade" the game instead of improve it
Fucking amen. Back when they were (pretending to be) developing the game the update notes were:
<added more outpost items
(I still don't know what those are)
<new combat system
1e1cbe No.16280569
>>16280400
Recomended? it was fucking worshipped, you faggot.
Go eat a dick.
392f6d No.16280573
>>16280400
>revisionist history newfag that wasn't around during development to watch what once had potential crash and burn
>probably never heard of the anon that was gonna get his mod included into the game but (((chucklefuck))) decided to fuck him over and ban his mod because of a non-existent (((NDA))) they decided existed
28827c No.16280610
>>16279754
I'm getting baited, right?
1e1cbe No.16280638
>>16280610
This whole thread is bait.
c8f1e2 No.16280646
I pirated this game, played it for 50-ish hours and enjoyed it.
I had no idea how ambitious it was supposed to be, for me it was just a small scale game with some clunky, badly designed or plain boring stuff, but still pretty fun. I assumed it was a 10 bucks game by a tiny team with limited budget.
But yeah, if I had followed or worse, backed this thing I would be fuming.
0beceb No.16280684
>>16280569
>Go eat a dick.
>he says while having bought an early access game without chec king if it was worth it beforehand
>>16280573
>>revisionist history newfag that wasn't around during development to watch what once had potential crash and burn
Maybe you should have gone out of your cuck/vg/ circlejerk then.
Most people were optimistic before the first public playable builds because it was a different time and the full extent of how retarded kikestarter and Early Access can become wasn't fully clear yet, everything not on /vg/ past that point was shat up to oblivion by people who got shilled into buying the game in a mix between post purchase rationalization and blind rage because they got fucked over.
And I have never seen a single starbound thread on here that didn't have at the very least half the thread shitting on it and /or chucklefucks, and we're talking late 2014 8/v/ where shitting on thing wasn't the base reaction for everything, and unsurprisingly that generally means it's not worthwhile to buy and sometimes even to play at all.
>>probably never heard of the anon that was gonna get his mod included
I vaguely remember someone who made a monster sprite and got told to fuck off by either ty or the other dumbshit from the garbage bin photo.
I do remember the hidden forums full of goons shitting on the playerbase and then latter on the devs getting butthurt at the nazi based mod that had some dev post here and on the mod dedicated board.
Thing is I never cared much about the game after I played it and just check the threads to see in what new amazing ways they fucked up / fucked someone over or how some retard got baited into buying this shit.
tl;dr: you got circlejerked into altering your perception of reality, sucks to be you.
41f43d No.16280709
>collecting dust
>Steam library
How can it collect dust when you have given up on owning your own games and are renting them from a digital platform who can shut down your account at any time and take away your access
c14333 No.16280912
>>16280638
Reddit has reached critical mass. There are posts on this very board that could have been made on r/Gamingcirclejerk, they're that bad. It isn't bait when it's done genuinely.
5429bb No.16280914
Is there a mod to fix the shitty, floaty controls? I was able to tolerate this game until I hit the first boss that could move fast, then my inability to dodge and attack at the same time, without my attack failing to go off or lagging too much and missing, just killed it for me.
4435aa No.16281020
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>>16280357
>he can't fap to pixel art
Pathetic.
>>16280573
Let me guess, nobody here liked Undertale either
6ff979 No.16281327
>>16279913
I understood that, but the mechs that Chucklefish added were so fucking horrible and pointless that I can't contain my disdain for them. They are just so fucking bad. Jesus Christ what the fuck were they thinking? Did they not play test it? Of course not.
364a48 No.16281343
>>16281327
What gets me about their mechs is, modify the proportions a little bit and add a head, and you would basically have SRW mech sprites. But, instead, whoever designed the mech mechanic must have just discovered TTGL and decided all of Starbounds mechs needed to look like retarded Lagaans.
20dbdc No.16281570
>>16281020
I can't fap to that, at least.
0d607c No.16281631
>>16280684
>4/vg/
Starbound general got taken over by shills for the game? Because years ago that place was filled with some of the most bitter people I've seen.
29c5a1 No.16281644
>>16281020
>bug rape
0/10
When it's a man consentually fucking a female bug, call me. I mean feral bugs not that gay ass buggirl shit
7443e7 No.16281657
>>16279450
of course i got more enjoyment out of a sandbox game when mods were involved. the ones i remember were frackin music, faster morphball, viera, some kind of cat girls and something that let containers retain their inventories when broken.
7443e7 No.16281660
oh and something that made the matter manipulator more configurable
0beceb No.16281682
>>16281631
>Starbound general got taken over by shills for the game?
From what I vaguely remember near the initial public and up until late 2014 release it was full-on "But it's a beta" etc, I'm pretty sure the devs were known to post in the thread itself.
But yeah I remember some caps from 2015/2016 that showed they pissed at the whole state of affair of chucklefucks being chucklefucks and fucking the game that might have been good into the ground for the most part.
There was a big shilling push with the 1.0 release that even happened here but it didn't really end up well, going by the archive it died in late 2016 soon after the 1.0 release not that they were really that live to begin with.
364a48 No.16281692
>>16280684
No one is talking about post-beta/late 2018 full/v/, dingus. As you said, Starbound was hugely hyped up on /v/, before the first playable build was released. That's what they're talking about. No one is saying /v/ still worshiped the game once it was out.
0beceb No.16281721
>>16281692
>No one is saying /v/ still worshiped the game once it was out.
Then people who bought it have no one but themselves to blame.
Never fucking preorder and wait a bit after release till you can find gameplay / reviews online that have a chance of not being shills was already something everybody with common would have told you even back then.
82af6e No.16281779
I actually liked the horrible beta a little bit after I first picked it up due to hype and plant girls, but felt it got worse with every update until it was completely unplayable. I got enough playtime out of the beta to justify the cost, but wish the game had got better in time instead of worse. That would have been nice.
111580 No.16281794
Can i get any fun out of this when playing solo only?
82af6e No.16281815
>>16281794
Maybe? I usually enjoyed playing solo more but I would be hard pressed to call the game fun either way.
4951e6 No.16281820
Falling for any kickstarter is something I have never done and I distrusted and disliked Starbound from the first time I heard of it to when I first played it. I have earned the right to laugh at anyone I choose to, people thinking it was only hindsight are those types who think everyone must surely be as foolish as them.
>>16281794
Depends on how dumb you are, same as most shiny distractions that pretend to be games.
47a6e2 No.16281835
>fell for early access meme and bought the game
>played it for several hours until realizing how shit this game is
>1.0 game release
>turns out steam actually resets refund timer when game leaves early access
>proceed to instantly fucking refund this vomit of a game
>my negative review is still up despite no longer owning the game
good thing I learned to never fall for such jewish tricks ever again
4a91d4 No.16281883
>>16279450
Starbound is one of those games that I open up every couple of years. Mods are a necessity if you've already played through it once, because nobody's ever going to want to play through it again without.
Frackin Universe is pretty good, the mods and races make things marginally more interesting. It's the kind of game to play if you care about base building with friends. You can do the exploration/spelunking bit, which isn't bad, but it's no Terraria either.
I actually like both games. Terraria and Starbound that is, but I pretty much came to terms that they're apples to oranges. Both very different games that cater to very different playerbases, despite the mechanics/appearance seeming so similar on the surface level.
Terraria is the kind of game that you play with your best bros, in that you stake out a fort, kill bosses and take over the map.
Starbound is the kind of game that you play with your girlfriend, in that you build a base together, casually stroll your way through different biome planets and collect things for that base.
fd6f01 No.16281918
Starbound is the first and last game I've ever contributed to a kickstarter for (only did it to get the early access steam key before launch). It's Terraria, but boring. If anyone here wasn't aware of this game or was considering buying it, don't waste your time, even if it's on sale.
bd0e68 No.16281941
>>16281918
I was excited for this game too, but instead of being a dumbass i just pirated it and then figured out how retarded the actual game really is.
fd9737 No.16282006
>>16279719
To be fair even Red thought that it would kill Terraria and that was part of the reason he ended the development of Terraria after 1.1.
707427 No.16282031
>>16279450
>play Terraria for dozens of hours with friend and have a ton of fun
>same friend is like "Hey look at this! It's Terraria in space!"
>buy Starbound within a few days of it going up on steam in early access
>game is utter shit and doesn't have any of the things it promised even as early features
>play for a couple hours and it sucks
>ask friend when he wants to play together
>he already played a bunch with some college friends and got sick of the game because he got all top-tier armor and weapons in a few hours
>never offers to play together again
Fuck Starbound.
6d5379 No.16282038
0beceb No.16282042
>>16282031
Could be worse, could have been Edge of Space
6760c4 No.16282049
Getting hyped for a game? That was your mistake.
04f0c1 No.16282367
>>16281779
One tip off for me that clued me in to their incompetence and laziness was the villager dialogue. It's essentially one line of dialogue each NPC is assigned, there was no limit to the number of lines you could have when assigned to a race. Yet every update there was no new dialogue It was always the same. At the time I did not think much of it until I read their excuses for being so slow at writing. I realized then they didn't write more for small updates because they couldn't be bothered to add two lines of code then throw in dialogue whenever they thought up a neat line.
f12dc2 No.16283029
>>16282031
My friend did exactly this to me except he made me buy us both the game for his birthday. Fuck I was pissed, I played it for about 6 hours anyway but it was all shit
5f05d1 No.16283377
>>16279719
>Where are you fuckers now?
Sitting here feeling like a fucking idiot that I fell for marketing bullshit and even shilled the game.
4a16c0 No.16283478
>>16280912
Reddit is imploding. Anime, porn, piracy. Its all getting purged at the moment. People are looking for a new home.
4a16c0 No.16283479
I have been playing vidya since "its me Imoen" and I never understood hype culture. Its not healthy. You are spending more time getting excited over what is going to come out than playing what is out now.
NEVER PREORDER was already a well known thing in mid 2000s.
e0cbe9 No.16283537
>>16279580
>this is the game my cousin suckered me into getting back in 2014 instead of LISA
>some of the best times I had pre-burgers and fries were playing it with him and taking the scenery in since I hadn't known nor seen better then
>still salty over being unable to play as a nazi cutebold with him
19e978 No.16283543
>>16279754
>terraria
>god-awful
pic related
>>16280912
What's depressing is how obvious they are take >>16281883 for example, his entire posts reeks of reddit tier formatting and posting. People who space out their lines after just one line actually deserve a punch in the dick.
d89272 No.16283545
Thing is, Starbound could've been good, if they just made Terraria in space.
All they had to do, was to take the limitations and flaws of Terraria, and fix them.
Terraria has only one world and hardmode is boring because you mostly explore the areas that you explored before. And you can't put too much in said world, because then it's gonna be too packed.
The start of Terraria is boring because of you don't have many movement options and mine slowly, a faster start could make the game more fun.
Starbound fucked up the combat and the exploration aspect. Combat is shit and exploration is fucked by the shitty main quest.
9623e4 No.16283569
>>if they just made Terraria in space
they did you dumb fuck
e0cbe9 No.16283579
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1508983007
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=953418513
>>16283569
They didn't exactly fix all the limitations and flaws of terraria so much as introduce new ones - why stay at a single world? Why does the gunplay suck? Why is combat shit? Why is there a space cantina now? - so much that could've been fixed.
d89272 No.16283580
>>16283569
Then where's the fast movement, where's the not as shit combat?
They made the combat system shittier, the movement too. Two simple things that span over the whole game.
364a48 No.16283984
>>16283569
>lack of distinction between biomes aside from what backpack you need to not die in them
>npc tenants worthless and a waste of time
>more restricted movement
>more restricted combat
>going underground practically meaningless
>dumb story you have to do to unlock certain shops and mechanics
>majority of bosses gated behind dumb story
They didn't make Terraria in space. They made shitty Terraria knock-off in space.
9623e4 No.16284035
your complaining is so delicious
go ahead and try to make terraria knock off that functions as game yourself before responding, see for yourself what it takes
364a48 No.16284065
>>16284035
Tiy, your game is inexcusably shit. You hired too many artists vs programmers, you used your preorder shekels to buy an office in an expensive city and all but forced your developers to move there, you hired a memelord feminist idiot because you wanted to sleep with her, fucked over several dedicated modders, were such a shitty publisher that the Risk of Rain devs don't want anything to do with you, published mock-up images as screenshots on the game's store page, and constantly lied to consumers on the progress state of the game. Starbound isn't shit because making games is hard, it's shit because you're a selfish, lying jew who doesn't know anything about making a game, and you hired a bunch of incompetent idiots to help you.
e0cbe9 No.16284121
>>16284065
>third screenshot
That's a modern-day greek tragedy, right there.
b988c7 No.16284129
>>16284035
>you have to be able to lay an egg to know a bad one
kill yourself
6450f1 No.16284131
Honestly, I bought it after the first major patch when the game was considered "Complete" and played it to completion.
I thought it "played" better than Terraria did, though the Randomization and content could have used a lot more work.
240188 No.16284138
>>16284035
>Check the ID
>This guy has been talking with himself so far as if anyone cared about his postmodernist argumentation and got 0 replies
lel here let me screenshot
00288e No.16284139
>>16284035
It took them 1 million dollars to make a pet, I've seen common Hipster laziness many times but that makes Bethesda's horse armor look reasonable.
cbeaf0 No.16284327
Starbound has a huge modding community, I wonder if they fixed the big issues with mods.
Anyone got a full list of decent mods besides Frackin Universe?
I got this mod after SOME RETARD kickstarted it and later gifted me a copy.
A well meaning retard, but a retard nonetheless.
7443e7 No.16284547
>>16284131
>Randomization and content could have used a lot more work.
as its stands now its loads more varied than terraria or minecraft. but even though its probably the strongest aspect of the game i agree. if they could have taken just this one aspect of the game seriously they could have something no other sandbox blocktism games really have currently, and the existing mechanics seem to lend themselves towards dungeon diving. it would be going with the flow.
7443e7 No.16284613
>>16284547
>as its stands now its loads more varied than terraria or minecraft.
the world generation i mean.
631238 No.16284726
>>16281644
Based and bug-pilled, as the kids say.
5c8783 No.16284872
>>16282006
I bet red is disappointed
7443e7 No.16284903
>>16284726
stop fucking the bees
364a48 No.16284984
>>16284872
He's probably more disappointed by how fucked up Otherworld got.
b6c060 No.16285074
>>16284984
The only thing I would feel in his shoes is seething rage, seeing what happened to it.
364a48 No.16286243
>>16284327
Nothing really "fixes" the game, just sticks more things in it or removes some annoyances. The game's main problems are a lack of meaningful progressions and unique, interesting worlds to explore. Frackin' Universe somewhat helps with the former, but the latter would take a significant overhaul that would be incompatible with a lot of mods and would require more effort than probably any modder is willing to give.