While the gaming world awaits The Elder Scrolls 6, developer and publisher Bethesda is working on another great game: Starfield.
Unlike Skyrim’s swords and sorcery and Fallout’s retro future world, Starfield is a spaceship sci-fi game. And like many sci-fi games and movies, Starfield is rather enigmatic – at least in its current form.
Bethesda has released a teaser trailer for the game that hints at the direction it may be taking. Other than that, there really is not a lot of information about the game. But we had done a little digging to see if we could find out more, so read on for everything we know so far.
Starfield release date
Bethesda has not even indicated when Starfield might come out. In fact, not much is said about the game at all. So at the moment you just have to accept this section as a placeholder that we will update as we know more.
However, Bethesda has said that Starfield will be out before The Elder Scrolls 6. That next installment in the hugely popular Open World RPG series is a long way off, potentially about five years away. That would suggest that Starfield is probably a few years away, and will likely land on PS5 and Xbox Series X next to PC. Apparently Starfield is in a playable form, but Bethesda is unable to see it yet.
We would like to see some game material from Starfield next year. And there’s a chance outside that there might even be some more details and a trailer this year, round the fall instead of Gamescom and other such showcases. But we do not expect Starfield to arrive by 2022.
Starfield trailer
Here is the debut Starfield trailer, which was shown for the first time during E3 2018.
Starfield gameplay
No game recordings of Starfield have been released yet and even the trailer for it doesn’t give much away either. But given that it’s its own Bethesda game, we think it’s going to mix sci-fi space exploration with the open-world, choose-your-own-adventure format of the likes of Skyrim and Fallout 4.
So expect a ship, like a variety of ships, over the inky blackness of space and through brightly colored nebulae and around asteroid fields. All with the aim of exploring a variety of environments by landing on planets, moons, space station and other astral bodies. And that could all be framed around a main story with split strings that players can choose to follow in one go or dip in and out while digging for side quests and other stories that are not core to the main plot .
We think there will be a lot of customization for players who are also expanding to spaceships. Of course, it is assumed that there are indeed space flight elements, and that Starfield is not just set up on a space station in the vein of System Shock, Prey and Alien Isolation.
Ideally, we want to see a game that is effectively an open world Mass Effect, exploring mixed with a compelling choice-heavy story, with some space-sim elements thrown into the mix. There aren’t as many space sims as on space-based RPGs, so there’s definitely a gap in the gaming world that Bethesda could fill with Starfield.
Starfield story
Like the rest of Starfield, the story is a bit of an enigma. The trailer simply shows an Earth-like planet with a spaceship / space station / satellite / probe orbiting it. And as the trailer gets closer, there is a light burst and drowning of the blackness of space, seemingly sighing in the surrounding craft.
This could be some form of hyperspace travel as an early anomaly that warps space-time. It could be that the light burst is the start of some catastrophic event that eats up Starfield’s story.
Given that the satellite or spacecraft seemed to be sucking into the light, it could be a wormhole that transported the craft to another part of the galaxy, allowing the player to effectively play the role of an outsider in a distant quadrant of the Milky Way. If that sounds familiar, it’s because it’s the plot of Farscape’s early 2000s sci-fi TV series Jim Henderson.
Despite the actual narrative, because Starfield is a Bethesda game, we can expect it to have all sorts of quests, characters, and dialogue options to explore, with a story that responds somewhat to what the player does and the decisions they make. they make. We just really hope Bethesda spends a lot of time making the main story engaging, with side missions attached to it.
Skyrim had a thoroughly accessible main story, but the search characters were more interesting. That’s not a bad thing, but a compelling main story is definitely something we really want from a sci-fi game, just like that of Star Wars: The Knights of the Old Republic II and Mass Effect.
Starfield view
While we really want another Elder Scrolls game, we’re very interested to see what Bethesda does with Starfield, given that it’s a brand new IP from the gaming giant.
It’s set to be a next-generation game, so we expect it to look quite impressive on the PS5 and Xbox Series X. But apart from that, there’s room for Starfield to be space-friendly sci-fi Skyrim if anything more related to space sims like Elite Dangerous.
However, we are excited to see what Starfield will remain. Bethesda has a strong pedigree of creating and publishing impressive games. That it has a lot of experience to pull off, although that also comes with a lot of expectations from fans. First of all, we just have to wait and see what Bethesda reveals next.
