Bethesda has today taken a first look at moving Starfield with the “official revelation of the game” for its upcoming interstellar role-playing game. In fact, it looks like Fallout 4 with spaceships, though a little less colorful than Fallout 4. Watch the 15-minute presentation here below.
Starfield is set in 2330, making our little magician an explorer searching for mysterious artifacts in the galaxy. Once again, we will explore big worlds, do missions, level up and unlock perks, side with factions, gather resources, build advanced places, create and shoot people, but this time not limited to one world. Game director Todd Howard said that Starfield has more than 100 systems and more than 1000 planets and yes, we can fly to them in our own spaceship, with space combat. I hope more of these planets and moons look interesting than the video suggests.
It kills me that after years of anticipation, Starfield’s big open revelation with the most desolate and boring planet and then directly starting to gather resources. But I’m probably not the person to look forward to in modern Bethesda role-playing games. They build vast worlds full of carefully decorated and NPCs that live according to simulated schedules, but almost nothing interesting to do. That might be okay if Bethesda leaned in on that, I love walking simulators, but no, they’re full of repetitive missions, bad combat, and tasteless writing. Often nothing could be better than something, and this frequent disappointment leaves me frustrated and bored.
Please tell me to shut up and explain why you’re excited to explore the space. Put me in the fairground exhaust tank and throw your opinions at the target. I’m glad your games are so exciting for so many! I’m glad people enjoy them so much! Maybe I’ll sink into the tub, I’ll soak deep as a penance for my tired, cynical opinions.
Starfield is set to launch in 2023, having recently been delayed by Skyrim’s birthday. It will be on Steam and also on Game Pass and yes, of course I will try it on Game Pass. I want to go to this lush planet with the giant armored space cow.
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