space game with no aliens LOL

[twiggy]

imagine creating a sci-fi space travel game and not including different alien races that you can choose to play as. even fallout 4 had ghouls, super mutants and aliens in it (unplayable without mods but still in the game)

whats the point of setting the game in space if youre not gonna have aliens in it? imagine mass effect or star wars with only humans

[Lokaror]

Thats part of the aesthetic and themes of the game. A fantasy world doesn't always have other races, a horror game doesn't always have all well known horror monsters.

[Chazer]

Originally posted by Langkard:

Fermi's ghost appears and states, "My paradox plus the Great Filter. Question answered. You're welcome."

His paradox is just guess work. Question is not answered.

[twiggy]

Originally posted by caesar_andy:

Interestingly enough Starfield and it's terrormorphs are one of the very rare occurances, that got the dipiction of "alien life" in a actually plausible way. Similar to "Alien".
Stuff like StarTrek, StarWars or MassEffect is just nonsense in that department, because all what this games do, is to take a few human cliches, put rubber-ears on it, and done. The reason is clear. To effectively use aliens in a story, the characters must be able to interact with each other. So a form of physically and mentally simmilarity is required.
But that has nothing to do with realistic aliens. In fact, many scientists are actually doubting, if we would even be able to recognize alien-life as life at all.

Terrormorphs are more "Alien", than all of the MassEffect cosmos together.

arent terrormorphs just native alien species that scientists captured and managed to stick a controlling chip onto that works and effectively makes them controllable?

[Noxsa]

starborn is technically an alien race, so starfield has aliens.

[Flippy]

I am not a big Star Trek fan because even at its best it was sort of all about that synthesizer thing that could make anything instantly and removed the need for anything even money, and it had lots of issues but it didnt drag everyone through the mud on it all the time and tried to be fun and tell good stories and it has aliens. Its now a disaster of a fiction about super heros and time travel and alternate universes where nothing means anything and is a ruined title but still.

Starfield is a new fiction that just came out and has story dlc on the way. Maybe it will be epic.

[Zuruuu]

Originally posted by Tutifrutilandia:

Originally posted by twiggy:

even elder scrolls games had different species you could play as and it wasnt in space

Do you know this game is nasa-punk, right? Not fantasy.

Nasapunk style don't look punk at all

[BR B-263-54]

Originally posted by Vixzian:

Originally posted by BR B-263-54:

It's a fairly realistic-ish take.

Sci-Fi space games don't need aliens... I had to explain this to a friend of mine aswell.

Again yes they do. The first reason being that if area of space is large enough it should be a natrual even mathematical probability that one would encounter aliens. Two is that this isn't just space it's a fantasy game... so why in the hell would you not add something (that the vast majority of people want anyway) like aliens or a first encounter even if it is the climax of the game??

That's like saying use your imagination only keep everything from the perspective of human beings on real life earth. WTF?

I'm afraid not no.

We seemingly are living in a universe with zero signs of advanced alien civilisations, we should have found SOME evidence by now that they exist but we can't.

Sci-fis like Dead Space and Starfield get this right...

Fermi Paradox and the great filter are things I actually believe in, I also quite like the horrifying idea of the 'Apex Predator' which is what Dead Space played with - there is something so horrifying and destructive out there in deep space that we're best just leaving it well alone.

[Zuruuu]

Agree with OP
It should have more intelligent species, would keep the game more interesting
The fact that a tons of planes has NOTHING but minerals and you can fast travel to whenever that you want just made it look that you are not even at in sideral space
This game is sad

[taylorj15]

Originally posted by Carlos Spicywiener:

Originally posted by potato:

uh, the universe

we haven't discovered alien life yet and certainly not any kind of sentient alien life

Announces the man after scooping up a cup of water from one of our oceans and exclaims "SEE? No sea life, either".

Given how small of an area the game takes place in (relative to the galaxy let alone the universe) this is a pretty apt analogy. Plus there's plenty of life on other planets in the game, waaay more than would actually be present in our immediate corner of the galaxy.

[Vixziค็็็็็n]

Originally posted by BR B-263-54:

Originally posted by Vixzian:

Again yes they do. The first reason being that if area of space is large enough it should be a natrual even mathematical probability that one would encounter aliens. Two is that this isn't just space it's a fantasy game... so why in the hell would you not add something (that the vast majority of people want anyway) like aliens or a first encounter even if it is the climax of the game??

That's like saying use your imagination only keep everything from the perspective of human beings on real life earth. WTF?

I'm afraid not no.

We seemingly are living in a universe with zero signs of advanced alien civilisations, we should have found SOME evidence by now that they exist but we can't.

Sci-fis like Dead Space and Starfield get this right.

Did you not see the cup and ocean comparison? Because that's what this is. Humans don't even understand their own planet let alone another one even within their own solar system. So duh of course we haven't seen signs of advanced life. You do understand how big space is right? The chance of running into a space faring sentient life form from our current capability of being bound to basically just Earth or like Mars at best... is next to zero and them running into us or even our planet would be far worse than trying to find a needle in a haystack.

[Soccer]

Well i do like that its one of the few games, not having aliens at the beginning, so that they can be discovered. That said, yeah, in DLCs and Mods there should be intelligent alien races in the future, Mass effect / Star Trek style.

[Silverlight]

The company that brought you literally Argonians and Kahjiit in the same game cannot trust me.

[Noxsa]

Originally posted by Zuruuu:

Agree with OP
It should have more intelligent species, would keep the game more interesting
The fact that a tons of planes has NOTHING but minerals and you can fast travel to whenever that you want just made it look that you are not even at in sideral space
This game is sad

i like it that its barren, its like real life, no "aliens", the starborn are technically aliens, with alien super tech and all.
and for the game is dead, LOL you have no clue what power Bethesda games has eh, modder will sure as hell keep this game alive, like they did with all other of their games.
personally i can't wait for the "starwars full conversion" mods that mostlikely will be made, there's already a stormtrooper mod ^^

[Anemone Starburst]

Originally posted by twiggy:

Originally posted by potato:

it has aliens

theyre not sentient though

They are sentient. They just lack higher intelligence, on par with humans.

That said, I agree with your original post. We have alien creatures which are analog to earth animals, but we have no intelligent bipedal humanoid aliens that we could directly interact with in a meaningful way.

EDIT: I see numerous people on this thread don't understand what "sentient" means so here is the definition:

sen·tient
/ˈsen(t)SH(ē)ənt/
adjective
able to perceive or feel things

eg: "she had been instructed from birth in the equality of all sentient life forms"

[zombygunner]

dont worry op if it wasnt people crying about aliens it be people crying about lack of zombies lol. Or the other group of cryers why does every game have to have zombies or aliens lol. Face it no body knows what they want