We are now less than one month away from the launch of Starfield, the new space-exploration RPG from Bethesda Game Studios – makers of The Elder Scrolls series as well as Fallout 3 and 4. And after an excellent and very well-received 45-minute Starfield Direct presentation in June, hype is running high.
Kind of a low bar…
What are all of your general expectations for Starfield? I feel like in my corner of the internet, people are generally being very skeptical and pessimistic. I think this is fair, based on the last few years of Bethesda.
I didn’t love fallout, but mostly because of the dinky crafted weapons and their handling and the fact that you almost had to use VATS to make it work. They’re damn good at making giant worlds worth exploring, and the gunplay looks a lot more fluid than fallout. I like the premise of highly customizable shipbuilding a lot more than fallout’s settlements, too. It’s far from guaranteed to be great, but “sci-fi Skyrim with enough engine improvements for guns to feel OK” is extremely promising to me. There’s a reason Skyrim is still selling copies a decade later when the mechanics are super limited by age, and if they’re able to bring the same world building to space exploration I’m all for it.
I’m not going to get it. I just don’t like the bethesda style for their recent stuff. I didn’t like fallout 4 at all. My favorite bethesda game is tied between daggerfall and morrowind.
