Bethesda announced The Elder Scrolls VI five years ago at E3 2018, but the new fantasy RPG is still “five-plus years away,” according to Phil Spencer..
I definitely shared that opinion a few years ago. I found Fallout 4 disappointing, Fallout 76 was a disaster (I’ve heard people say it’s better now, but I still feel like a lot of the design decisions are at odds with Fallout as an IP) and they were making a lot of poor decisions.
But I can’t help but be optimistic for Starfield. It’s not just the recent presentation that gives me hope; everything I’ve seen about their approach to it and their design philosophies seems promising to me. I’m sure it’ll still have some of that traditional Bethesda jank to it, but I’m more than happy to accept some jank if I get a proper RPG with some good player agency.
Fallout 76 is better now but still horribly bad game. Initial condition was a disaster and adding NPCs afterwards doesn’t really help if all the quests are still kill&fetch type with no real story to support them. Also the world is completely empty and doesn’t really give a reason to wander around for hours like FO4 does.
But FO76 was a product of a completely different team IIRC so I wouldn’t be afraid of Starfield being bad because FO76 was.
I definitely shared that opinion a few years ago. I found Fallout 4 disappointing, Fallout 76 was a disaster (I’ve heard people say it’s better now, but I still feel like a lot of the design decisions are at odds with Fallout as an IP) and they were making a lot of poor decisions.
But I can’t help but be optimistic for Starfield. It’s not just the recent presentation that gives me hope; everything I’ve seen about their approach to it and their design philosophies seems promising to me. I’m sure it’ll still have some of that traditional Bethesda jank to it, but I’m more than happy to accept some jank if I get a proper RPG with some good player agency.
Fallout 76 is better now but still horribly bad game. Initial condition was a disaster and adding NPCs afterwards doesn’t really help if all the quests are still kill&fetch type with no real story to support them. Also the world is completely empty and doesn’t really give a reason to wander around for hours like FO4 does.
But FO76 was a product of a completely different team IIRC so I wouldn’t be afraid of Starfield being bad because FO76 was.