Starfield Will Fail Without Aliens?

[pjedilord]

We cant have sfi game and not have aliens?Starfield will fail,never been done?
Why take such risk?do people want aliens in Starfield?They should also be
faction to join?

[Schlumpsha]

There's apparently an Alien DNA trait players can pick upon character creation. Would be nice if there is going to be special dialogue or something to have here. At least the main plot seems to resolve around ancient aliens and their artifacts.

But, yeah. Having an RPG in space without sentient aliens mingling about is kinda boring. The Outer Worlds had the same issue. And even Mass Effect had no playable aliens... le *sigh*.

[Ubik Valis]

I'm predicting a DLC already: Mothership Zeta 2: Galactic Probe-galoo.

[Hobo Misanthropus]

I legitimately hope there are no actual aliens in the game. It's such a lame trope and it makes the galaxy seem way less... unexplored, when there's a new alien civilization every third planet.

I Much prefer the idea that sure, there may have been (Definitely were in the case of Starfield) Aliens at one point, but they're gone now, and at best you can pick through the ruins of their civilization and ask questions.

Elder Scrolls is one of those games where they handle "Racial Overload" at least in Tamriel real well, since there's only really 4 races. Men, Mer, Argonians and Khajiti. (Don't get me started on the 50000 kinds of hypermonkeysnake in Akavir), and within that small handful you get some decent phylogenic diversity, but at the end of the day, the vast majority of that diversity is just two true races.

I absolutely hate games that do it like WoW where every kind of Earth Animal, from Buffalo to Pandas get their own racial civilization.

[Flippy]

Has to have aliens. Good aliens, bad aliens, ugly aliens, beautiful aliens, smart aliens, stupid aliens and most importantly alien bad guys threatening the very survival of humanity!

Looking forward to ME 4 as well but after part 3 was ruined to stop replay throughs and the remake didnt really fix that, and such a long wait for ME 4 and Andromeda was an insult its all on the shoulders of Starfield now.

Mass Effect named after the Mass Effect Gates allowing long distance space travel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg-Ctg6k_Ao

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Originally posted by pjedilord:

They should also be faction to join?

This would be cool. Like you could become alien overlord and conquer all humans and then u could find an alien lover and create an entire new species

[Comrade hugeballs]

The way they seem to have set it up, so far, seems to be reminiscent of The Expanse, where they primary (and perhaps only) factions and characters throughout the series are humans, and the various geopolitical rivalries and space faring challenges therein. This concept alone has so much potential in my opinion.

Still, we see some type of artifact present, alluding to alien presence, and clearly see alien wildlife roaming about and being fought, so a sentient and intelligent alien presence is definitely possible. These are only the first glimpses of the game at all, so I'm not surprised that the devs havent revealed much else, IF there are intelligent aliens to be present.

Starfield is also setting up an entirely new game universe, so this whole first iteration could lead to some kind of first contact scenario as a main plot line. Many possibilities here, though I dont think the absence of intelligent aliens would be a bad thing, but could be interesting in and of itself.

[The Knowledge Seeker]

Originally posted by Ubik Valis:

I'm predicting a DLC already: Mothership Zeta 2: Galactic Probe-galoo.

I agree, and I am not even mad if that is the only way we get to meet a living alien race.

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Originally posted by The Knowledge Seeker:

Originally posted by Ubik Valis:

I'm predicting a DLC already: Mothership Zeta 2: Galactic Probe-galoo.

I agree, and I am not even mad if that is the only way we get to meet a living alien race.

and the modders will do the heavy lifting and make the dating/romance mods

[Hobo Misanthropus]

Originally posted by ఆ:

Originally posted by The Knowledge Seeker:

I agree, and I am not even mad if that is the only way we get to meet a living alien race.

and the modders will do the heavy lifting and make the dating/romance mods

Did we ever get our Romanceable Dogmeat mod?

[The Knowledge Seeker]

Originally posted by ఆ:

Originally posted by The Knowledge Seeker:

I agree, and I am not even mad if that is the only way we get to meet a living alien race.

and the modders will do the heavy lifting and make the dating/romance mods

I sure hope someone makes a prince of some sort of green lush planet, that I can marry and become Queen of.

[Soccer]

On the one hand, i am glad the game starts without alien contact, having the feeling of wonder and then first contact.

still i agree that eventually having multiple aliens (e.g. mass effect style) is important.

Hopefully that will be in the vanilla game, too. Otherwise hopefully DLCs and mods will add them.

[Ubik Valis]

Originally posted by ఆ:

Originally posted by The Knowledge Seeker:

I agree, and I am not even mad if that is the only way we get to meet a living alien race.

and the modders will do the heavy lifting and make the dating/romance mods

Can't wait for all the big ti**y facehugger mods.

[Barnobestabn]

There needs to be Paul in this game. if you guys rememeber the movie.

[AdahnGorion]

Originally posted by Flippy:

Has to have aliens. Good aliens, bad aliens, ugly aliens, beautiful aliens, smart aliens, stupid aliens and most importantly alien bad guys threatening the very survival of humanity!

Looking forward to ME 4 as well but after part 3 was ruined to stop replay throughs and the remake didnt really fix that, and such a long wait for ME 4 and Andromeda was an insult its all on the shoulders of Starfield now.

Mass Effect named after the Mass Effect Gates allowing long distance space travel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg-Ctg6k_Ao

The interesting thing about the next ME is if they will go back to a more RPG focused game or keep the Action Adventure formula.

Realistically having not found aliens from the get go (in Starfield) would mean, that a discovery would either be Humans erradicating or close to the Aliens or vice versa, it would be a full blown war for survival (changing the premise)

Unless ofc, there is a more based and stable story, far far after first contact.

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Maybe the aliens discover us and then we meet their leaders