Starfield is "like Skyrim in space" or a "Han Solo simulator"

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Starfield is "like Skyrim in space" or a "Han Solo simulator"

Never tell me the odds

Bethesda'due south upcoming space RPG Starfield bagged itself a release appointment concluding dark (November 11th 2022, in case y'all missed it), but we still don't know a whole almost what nosotros'll actually practice in it. In a contempo interview, executive producer Todd Howard said "it's like Skyrim in infinite", though I dubiety that means exploring draugr-filled asteroids. Slightly more interestingly, Bethesda'due south managing managing director Ashely Cheung compares it to Star Wars.

"For me, Starfield is the Han Solo simulator. Go far a ship, explore the milky way, practice fun stuff," he says.

This comes from an interview with The Washington Post, though I'm not sure this implies nosotros'll be playing as a roguish smuggler, so much as information technology suggests that Starfield will give us a proficient level of freedom.

Howard goes on to explain that Starfield will have players join Constellation (who're likewise name-dropped in the new trailer above), an organisation composed of the terminal space explorers. When you showtime Starfield, you'll choose a character background "with many options for customization that will impact how some things in the game unfold."

I'm hoping information technology'll exist less like Skyrim in that regard, where the principal impact from your character creation choices is how much racism y'all receive from the nords. Perhaps it'll be a piddling more like Mass Effect, where your background tin requite you unique dialogue choices and missions.

"We struggled at first at finding Starfield'south identity," Howard adds. "We knew the style of game we wanted. But in that location'south then much science fiction, we didn't have this existing franchise feel. We had to create that from scratch. What do the spaceships look like? What's the tech level? What do people believe? What year is information technology really fix in?"

There are some other interesting titbits in WaPo'due south article, virtually Bethesda'due south experience during the Covid-19 pandemic, how parts of the new trailer are an homage to NASA, and they've gotten ahold of some fantabulous concept fine art as well. Howard even mentions that Starfield would be "a great world to put a show in" - only please Todd, I'd like a video game first.

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