Not really much to go on yet. Wake me in a year or so
This is a teaser of Starfield...a sci-fi adventure game, which is the first new franchise from Bethesda in 25 years.
It's described as a next-generation first-person game, set in an entirely new world...
Not really much to go on yet. Wake me in a year or so
Isn't Bethesda known for releasing games not that long after their announcement? Or maybe I'm thinking of someone else.
I wouldn't expect this one to come out soon. They have a lot of pots boiling right now. This, Fallout 76, Elder Scrolls 6, plus mobile things like ES: Blades, and Fallout Shelter (which just got a Switch port).
ES6 comes out after this one's done, actually. As announcements go this is pretty bare bones; it could be a spiritual sequel to Startopia for all we know.
You say that like it's a bad thing
Uh, no, I -- wait a minute, would you actually want one by Bethesda, though?
Tbh, all I want from Bethesda is a new Gridiron! and IHRA Drag Racing.
Elder Scrolls, Shmelder Scrolls.
After FO4, the only BSG announcement that would remotely excite me would be IHRA 3.
Ah, another fan of watching men run around in women's clothing, I see.
Y'know, I'd agree with you guys if the obscure historical artifacts you wanted resurrecting were, like, a new SkyNet instead of these old sports games.
Sports games? I thought Gridiron! was a game about extreme ironing.
Well this changes things...
I just want to know if there is space flight and combat in this game. I've all but lost faith in Star Citizen and only have No Man's Sky to scratch the itch in the way I really want it to.
Wayne Gretzky Hockey 2 is still Bethesda's best game.
@Buccura, Empyrion is the best of that genre right now IMO. Unless you like the aesthetic of NMS &/or the vastness of the exploration (in size though not really in content), Empyrion is deeper on every other level. It's on sale this week too.
As for this game, I feel like we this is the rumor going around from ages ago, that it's a scifi varient of the Skyrim/Fallout open world model on a futuristic alien planet. I'm curious how it will compare with Cyberpunk 2077 on that front. That's what I'd be happy to see. I think the catch-all approach of NMS/SpaceEngineers/Empyrion/StarCitizen is kind of cursed with the dilemma of either shallow gameplay or infinite development time, and am happy to just wait for Empyrion to improve over the next 5 years, and this can be a strong, narrative driven single player game that stands on its own.
Well, 4 years on and we now have a video of some concept art.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/sta...a-scifi-future
And a release date.
Fingers crossed on that.
Bethesda are pretty good with release dates. And the date was announced months ago, I think. It had one when I added to my steam wishlist.
Anyway, I really like the last 3 TES games so I'm at least a little excited to see what they come up with here. FO3/4 were enjoyable too, even if it felt like most of the team wanted to do something else but had to slap a superficial coat of Fallout onto it.
I'm definitely excited about it.
Between Elite Dangerous not being that great outside of the ship and Star Citizen being in development purgatory for 8 years, I am absolutely champing at the bit for an Elder Scrolls in space.
As a physicist, "realistic science fiction" is a term that makes me wince. If your sci-fi shows you traveling between star systems in less than a human lifetime, it's not realistic.
Aside from that, I'm happy to see Bethesda start a new franchise. The Elder Scrolls series is groaning beneath the weight of its own lore, and the Bethesda Fallout games were power fantasies incongruent with their setting.
TES has some amazing lore, unfortunately most of it was written by Michael Kirkbride either directly for Morrowind or in the various meta pieces he's written about that game. The readables in Skyrim are kind of hilarious, because you can immediately tell which ones originated in either Skyrim or Oblivion and which ones came from Morrowind. I'm glad the weird stuff exists though, because some of my favorite parts of the newer games are when they have you doing things directly relating to the Scrolls themselves and other weird bits of MW lore and then you're suddenly in a Morrowind fever dream.
Morrowind's lore was great, for sure. If the next Elder Scrolls returned to a localized threat, it could continue to improve the lore. But right now the series faces the same problem that Terry Brooks' Shannara series did. Every new story introduces a new existential threat, which in turn requires a revision of the overall lore in order to wedge the new threat into it. The more times you do this, the more contrived the lore feels.
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It's a shame I played Gothic 2 a few years before Oblivion, and that prior experience showed me how out-of-date Oblivion was on launch. I didn't bother to even play Skyrim. figured it's another balanced-to-be-easy power fantasy like FO3. Really hoping TESR Skywind can come through so I can finally experience TES3.
No idea what Starfield is lol, and I'm pretty sure nobody does. And knowing Bethy it'll take a good while after before it's even worth investing time into.
Out 2023, for PC and Xbox. Day 1 in Game Pass.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1716740/Starfield/
I'll rent it in Game Pass and if I end up liking it I'll buy it on Steam, for the modability.