I expected so much from Starbound, but it's just Terraria in space with neater code and content deploy processes. And better looking and all that, which I never care much about.
I see so many rebalances, redesigns, reworks, refactors, rebuilds, rewhatever, I just don't know what Game Design, Software Architecture and Software Engineering is for anymore.
I've been expecting Colony Systems for years now, and what we get is exactly like Terraria, but with a dash of customization or something.
And I just bet there are hundreds thousands of more reworks planned, and in the end I doubt it will ever come to anything close people expected it to be.
You know, usually I do my research and provide strong arguments and try to defend my opinion against possible critiques, but when it comes to Starbound I don't care if someone tells me I'm being too harsh or wrong. This is my perception and intuition, and I just can't do anything about it.
What's funny is that I've tried mods back in the last update, and none of them made the game better than a Terraria with more tiers and different maps.
I don't know, maybe I just played too many games. I just don't get it. We already have Terraria, and I see the same linear tier-system and poorly explored universe here. Put as many lore and Points-of-Interest as you want, if you aren't going to take the player for a ride, then just publish a book and save some money and time.
I remember when I played Mass Effect 1 and read all the lore and all the codex and didn't understand why they didn't explore any of it. Then played the other games and the same pattern repeated.
I don't get it. So anyone who still likes Chucklefish, don't be mad at me. Because I just don't get it, and it's not like I'm trying to make any actual points. Just describing my not-getting-it-ness.
PS: In Mass Effect 3, they DID make up for some lost time by making you go to all the homeworlds and all that...for a single mission. It just made me "don't get it" even further.
PS2: Probably one of the rare times of my life where I feel so confused I can't even feel mad.