You can be anything that you want to be. Believe in yourself, follow your dreams, and don’t let anyone stop you. Write that novel. Launch that singing career at your local’s karaoke night in front of a load of old men. Cook the best mushroom risotto that your friends have ever tasted. I get it, sometimes real life gets in the way of these platitudes, but I have full confidence that you can achieve every goal you set your mind to. That goes double for anything you want to do in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Starfield.
Games, and RPGs in particular, often allow you to do anything you want, or be anyone you want. From the moment you load up the game, you’re often given a character creator which allows you to customise your appearance, stats, backstories, and a whole bunch of other options. In the game itself, your choices will likely reflect the character you’re trying to be. Whether it’s 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mass Effect’s paragon system deciding whether you’re a goodie or baddie, or which faction you team up with in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fallout 4, RPGs love giving you difficult choices to help shape your character, and none more so than Bethesda.
Starfield is giving you options. Whether you’re going to be a cosmic archeologist scanning moon rocks like it’s the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:early days of No Man’s Sky, or you fancy wearing your special edition watch (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:if it comes) and adventuring in the name of New Atlantis NASA, the choice is yours. You can be a vigilante dealing out swift justice among the stars, you can take down space capitalists on their 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:superyacht-sized luxury spacecraft, you can be a pirate or you can be a cop.
I already know what I’m going to be. I’m going to be a space pirate. A pirate. ꧒In space. You can’t tell me that any other fictional occupation in Bethesda’s NASApunk will be as cool as becoming the lovechild of Blackbeard and Neil Armstrong, so that’s wh🧔at I’m going to be. I can be anything I want, remember?
I was sold on the life of space piracy when I first heard the name, and doubled down on the idea when Bethesda showed off some of the boarding options for spacecraft in the game. Ma🥀ybe I’ll be a master negotiator pirate, bartering my way on board unsuspecting vessels before pulling out my laser pistol and just starting blasting. Maybe I’ll be more honest about my motivations, blowing ships out of the atmosphere and looting their carcasses, or boarding with a bloodthirsty crew all armed to the teeth. One thing I know for sure is that no ship in the system will be safe fromꩵ my wrath, and that fancy shmancy cruise liner is the first in line for a break-in. I’ll steal, loot, and plunder my way across the galaxy, and there’s nothing you can do to stop me.
Someone will try to stop me, I assume. That would be the cops. It 🐈was previously revealed that you could play Starfield as a cop, an insider on a pirate vessel leaking information to the authorities. That’s fine, I’ll need an enemy in my playthrough, but I can’t for the life of me understand why anyone would play as a cop in their gaܫme.
When given the option of a space pirate or a police offic𒆙er, which sounds more fun? Looting freely, redistributing the universe’s unequal wealth, and making a barbarous name for yourself, or working for The Man by rounding up petty criminals and pointing your gun at children to make yourself feel bigger before returning home to your loveless marriage to have perfunctory sex with your boring partner? I know which I’m choosing, and I’m not going to be a cop, not even to roleplay some ‘good apple’ or corrupt vigilante trying to fix the system. You can b🥀e anything you want to be, anything in the entire universe, and you choose law enforcement? I worry about you.
Maybe I’m being a little harsh. The choice isn’t between space pirate and cop, it’s between space pirate and space cop. You got me. My bias is showing. But a pirate is cooler than a c🍃op, so aꦦ space pirate is, by extension, cooler than a space cop. Checkmate.
I’m sur💝e people will play Starfield as space cops, but I won’t pretend I get it. There’s not even any PvP action in the game, so it’s not as if you’re getting the thrill of ruining someone else’s fun. You’re just being a dick to NPCs under the guise of law and order. At least us space pirates are honest about our intentions. We’re both playing this game for a space age power fantasy, 🔯but I’m the one admitting I’m a bad guy. If you’re roleplaying as a space cop, I’m going to assume that you think you’re doing The Right Thing, that every lawbreaker in the galaxy is good for nothing and belongs in prison. You won’t interrogate their motivations, you won’t try to understand their motivations, you’ll just arrest with impunity to try to massage your fragile ego.
Go ahead, be a space cop. But know that you’re shutting yourself off from the most exciting RPG elementꦆs in the game, by not engaging with space heists and by ignoring the characters and their stories. Sure, you’ll hear a lot about the policꦉe and the establishment, but I guarantee you that’ll be the most boring part of the game. Do you go around real life finding out facts about the government and ignoring all the people on your street? Like I said, you can be anything you want to be. But if you want to be a space cop, maybe dream bigger.