According to Bethesda Chief Software Engineer and spokesperson Todd Howard, Starfield is going to be the studio’s biggest game to date and focus solely on its single-player RPG experience. Little to nothing has been known about the game so far until the first supposed screenshots of the RPG title leaked last week, so this is the biggest news about the game to come directly from Bethesda since its cryptic E3 2018 de
Bethesda is still prioritizing work on both Starfield and The Elder Scrolls VI , with director Todd Howard focusing on the two titles' development over other projects. Fans had begun to grow concerned about the company being stretched too thin following the recent announcement that the publisher was also creating a brand-new Indiana Jones game in partnership with Lucasfilm Games, with Todd Howard in an executive producer role. Developer MachineGames, best known for working on Wolfenstein : The New Order and its sequel, is leading the proj
In Skyrim, you could become almost anything and everything at the same time, and in Fallout: New Vegas , your allegiances determined what direction that story would ultimately go in. Bethesda needs to take those two things and apply and refine them for the world at large. If I join the Dark Brotherhood, that should directly affect the way I'm seen by other people, factions, and individuals. Maybe the Thieves Guild doesn't care that I'm an assassin on the sideline, but that also doesn't mean I should so easily be welcomed amongst the Imperial forces. Small things like this break immersion and make me feel too powerful. Things like this remind me that I'm in a "game" world -- a world that responds to me unnaturally -- versus a world that feels alive and reacts ore noticeably to what I
On that note, a patch of land to call your own would be a welcome addition to The Elder Scrolls VI. We saw moderately open-ended building mechanics introduced in Fallout 4, and while there were many flaws with it, there were still a lot of powerful tools at your disposal. We're also seeing some light town-building in the upcoming mobile title The Elder Scrolls: Blades, so perhaps this is an idea they’re already tossing around for the sixth entry. It would be interesting to see Bethesda try and take this newer mechanic and redefine how exactly it wo
Of course, it is not just the fact that Bethesda has announced it is working on licensed titled in mainstream franchises like Indiana Jones that worries gamers. There has been very little news about either Starfield or The Elder Scrolls 6 for some time. In fact, fans have had to make do with cryptic Tweets about the follow-up to Skyrim in the absence of concrete information. Meanwhile, Starfield has also been notably missing from major gaming events in recent times, but Todd Howard did confirm that it would be the studio's biggest game to d
Bethesda’s subsidiary developers were arguably the only redeeming factor of the conference; we got a glimpse at updates coming to last May’s Rage 2 and an extended look at Doom Eternal courtesy of Id, and we saw a few snippets of gameplay from Machine Games’ two upcoming Wolfenstein spin-offs, one of which will be a VR ti
Bethesda has confirmed that it is fully focused on the development of both Starfield and The Elder Scrolls VI . Replying to fan concerns on Twitter about the fact that Todd Howard is involved with too many projects, Bethesda Senior VP of Marketing Pete Hines reassured them that those two titles are still his main priority. Howard, who has helped to lead both the Fallout and The Elder Scrolls series for more than a decade, also has roles in several other projects according to Hines. But both he and Bethesda as a whole are committed to finishing up work on the two high-profile games. The communications executive promised that recent announcements will not affect the development of either g
In a new digital interview conducted with Todd Howard during the Brighton Digital 2020 conference, the highly anticipated original Starfield strategy|Https://Starfieldgalaxy.com/ IP from Bethesda has finally become less of a mystery. As revealed by one of the studio's foremost developers, the game will be strictly single-player with no multiplayer components included, and it's being developed with mod support in mind. Howard also shared that Starfield is expected to become the biggest game for the studio so far, as the development team is using procedural generation to create huge landmasses as part of the level design process, while cities will be larger in scale and more expansive. Additionally, the team itself is roughly 4 to 5 times bigger than the number of developers involved in creating Skyrim or Fallout
The longer we go without hearing from those directly working on Starfield , the more it will begin to feel like vaporware. Sure, the game will almost certainly release at some point in the future, but could there be more internal strife at Bethesda than we know? Could this end up being something like The Last Guardian or Duke Nukem Forever —games that were hinted at many years before they actually released? It’s hard to say for sure, but, if Bethesda continues to keep Starfield under wraps at next year’s E3, we may be in for some trou
