Starfield is slowly – and I mean very slowly – starting to grow on me. It’s helped that I’ve 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:th𒈔rown roleplaying out the window entirel🦂y, choosing instead to do every single thing the game offers me just to see what will happen. My good guy run is over: I am now a corporate spy, a cop in two different colonies, and soon, probably an undercover pirate. I’ve also largely been avoiding the missions that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:force me to survey planets, which I was 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:doing mostly for credits🌄 anyway. Strangely, as much as those missions frustrate me, I’ve found myself almost missing them, because th♏ey were prime photo-taking opportunities.
I’ve never been much of a photo mode aficionado, mostly because prior to this year, I was playing games on inferior hardware. I only upgraded to current-gen consoles this year because I had to for work – before, I was playing on my old PlayStation 4 that threatened to explode every time I ran something with decent graphi🦄cs. Recent games haven’t looked amazing on my PS4, obviously, and so I never felt a strong desire to immortalise my time with any of them with a screenshot or ten.
That all changed when I upgraded to the Xboဣx Series X and found myself astounded by the graphical quality of its games. I snapped photos nonstop in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, delighted by the countless opportunities I had to capture Cal Kestis being hot and doing Jedi things. Every time I saw Lilith in a Di🧔ablo 4 cutscene, I took a quick series of screenshots to swoon over later, again, because she’s hot. There’s a pattern here, I know.
I love taking photos in Starfield, but for a very different reason. Obviously, some of Starfield’s planets have breathtakingly gorgeous views, but so far those scenes have been few and far between. I landed on the polar region of one of Tau Ceti’s planets and snapped some lovely pictures of a gravitational anomaly centered on a backdrop of a huge planet with stunning rings, inspirin🍌g the sense of awe I was hoping for when I started Starfꦦield. That’s not my ꧂favourite use of photo mode, though. What I really love doing is taking weird-looking, almost creepy photos of my companions just existing.
I love the 🎃genre of photography where things look weird and unappealing. I like weird lighting that looks unflattering and scary. I like darkness and big empty spaces, like fields and deserts. Starfield, with its huge barren planets and occasional wonky ambient lighting, gives me ample opportunity to capture photos that wouldn’t by any means be considered very beautiful, but are, to me, more interesting, and also funnier.
What I would usually consider Bethesda jank, when things look just a little bit too off to be natural, are now moments I covet. I get to photogr🎶aph the uncanny valley, dead eyes, strange lighting, people in unnatural poses, things where they shouldn’t be. When I kill a spacer in a ship and he glitches halfway through the ceiling, leaving his legs dangling listlessly in the air like a bad Halloween decoration, I feel childlike glee. Starfield can look kinda weird, and that’s perfect for me.