The worst thing though, is that you can just tell how it’ll play from looking at it, if you’ve played any of Bethesda’s previous games. You really wouldn’t think that to see the amateurish looking display at Starfield’s big reveal. You don’t get many modern games to compare that sort of thing with, but it certainly doesn’t look as fast and fluid as Star Wars: Squadrons.Īlso, apparently you don’t even control the ship as it moves from ground to space – that’s automatic – so that’s something else No Man’s Sky does better before it’s even started – and remember that that game’s made by about two dozen people and Bethesda *checks Wikipedia* has more than 420. The final problem is the spaceship combat, which looked clunky and unexciting. It already seems like No Man’s Sky does this sort of thing better, given the drab looking planets they’ve shown so far, and I think the two games are going to be compared a lot the more we see of Starfield. There’s only going to be four major cities in the whole game, which is a very small number, and I think it’s obvious that the non-important ones are just going to work like the non-story planets from Mass Effect, where there’s no real detail or anything to really see.

But as has already been confirmed, this will only be possible because of procedural generation, so only a few of them are going to be hand-crafted.

The most encouraging parts of the game were left till the end of the footage, and I do definitely like the idea of exploring 1,000 worlds in my custom spaceship.

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