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More than Skyrim or Fallout, Todd Howard says Starfield was "intentionally made to be played for a long time" and Bethesda's looking 5+ years ahead

www.gamesradar.com More than Skyrim or Fallout, Todd Howard says Starfield was "intentionally made to be played for a long time" and Bethesda's looking 5+ years ahead

"What does it look like in six months, a year, two years, three years, four years, five years?" Howard asks

More than Skyrim or Fallout, Todd Howard says Starfield was "intentionally made to be played for a long time" and Bethesda's looking 5+ years ahead

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If that’s the case, wouldn’t they have made it interesting?
- "basically we made a coloring book. It's bland, boring, but some talented artists will add onto the poorly fleshed out systems later and keep it alive for five years. We love our modding community."
  
  Watching Bethesda scrape together this new IP and it just being.. Average.. Is disheartening. I hope they're just channeling their good ideas in ES6 but I'm losing faith.
  
  I lost faith when the lead creative left like 6 years ago
We can just wait for the mod that recreates Skyrim in Starfield.
- Land on a planet, you step off the ship, and you suddenly get captured. Hard cut to black.
  
  Slow fade in... "you're finally awake"
  
  "Walked right into that UC ambush, same as us and that thief over there."
  
  "That's Solomon Freestar! The true High King of Skyrim!"
  
  And the dragons are just space ships and the souls you absorb are just... uh... radiation I guess from damaging the reactor. Or the magic space civilization from Starfield originated from here, so that's why everyone has magic.
  
  I'm not backing down from the space ship dragons though, that part is just brilliant.
Years of loading screens
- I was actually pretty impressed with the loading, especially after coming from bg3. It was pretty much instant for me.
  
  Coming from bg3, I had the opposite opinion. BG3 loading screens take a while but it doesnt load very much unless your loading saves a lot. With Starfield you get hit with a small loading screen constantly like when transitioning in/out of ships, buildings, planets, etc.
  
  For me it's not the speed, but the quantity. Docking? Loading screen. Launching off planet? Loading screen. Changing planet? Loading screen. Landing on the same planet? Loading screen. The only solution is to fast travel everywhere in an "immersive" space sim RPG. NMS and Elite:Dangerous have solved this issue. Bethesda needs to get with the times already.
- Poor.
They released the game 5 years too late, it was clearly made for a different market
Empty, lifeless, soulless without a deep story.
- They realized that modders were going to overhaul the game in any way, so they just gave us a blank canvas instead.
  
  Out of everything else, this is the most scathing criticism of this game I’ve seen 🤣
  
  It's funny and true; I have no desire to continue playing and yet I am still excited to get my hands on the toolkit and make my own shit because all I see are missed opportunities everywhere. Honestly, I kinda wonder how into sci-fi the devs actually are, because everything is surface-level and misses the mark on a lot of referencial material so often.
- Such as life. Or space, in general.
  
  So where are the space hookers?
And yet I find myself not wanting to play it at all after only 80 hours.
Vast and “Empty” ==/== years of content
- I see you’ve discovered space, congrats!
  
  Indeed, just not my cup of tea is all.
The penultimate step before they just release a barebones framework that just lets the community create all the content (including patching their shitty code) while they keep raking in the money.

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