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Starfield developers aiming for a game with a "vision of a future that’s grounded in reality

Starfield releasing this year and all we have are concept arts. Do you guys really believe they are anywhere close to being done? This game will either release buggy as fu**, without any of the promised features or delayed.
I'll give you 7 reasons why its for sure releasing on time.

Skyrim released on 11.11.11.

This game releases on 11.11.22. Thats 4 ones plus 2 twos, equaling 6. Plus 1 holiday season. That equals 7.
 

Fredrik

Member
Starfield releasing this year and all we have are concept arts. Do you guys really believe they are anywhere close to being done? This game will either release buggy as fu**, without any of the promised features or delayed.
People say they’ve done this before. It’s not impossible. But yeah, Oblivion was delayed, so they’ve done that too.
What promised features are there though?
 
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JLB

Banned
The best news about this game is the setting perfectly fits the studios capabilities. They're not the most cutting edge in terms of Naughty Dog level animations or action gameplay.

Can they make a big rpg with slow moving astronauts, exploration and guns? Yeah, they can.
lolololo naughty dog is cutting edge on action gameplay? sure fucking thing hah
 
Set to release this year. However, we have zero gameplay footage. Just short cuts and clips. I wouldn’t be surprised if this gets delayed to 2023.
Welp, let's hope not. Let's also hope there's some official gameplay sooner rather than later (or if not for this game, at least one of the other XGS games supposedly coming out this year like Forza 8 or RedFall. Clogging everything to Summer isn't the best strategy IMHO).
 

ReBurn

Gold Member
Starfield releasing this year and all we have are concept arts. Do you guys really believe they are anywhere close to being done? This game will either release buggy as fu**, without any of the promised features or delayed.
It's just how Bethesda do
 

reinking

Gold Member
I am looking forward to what Bethesda can do with a setting that takes place in space. I'm not going to get over-hyped until I see more. If this just turns out to be some sort of reskinned Skyrim I will be disappointed.
 

Ozriel

M$FT
The first gameplay video of Elden Ring was released in June 2021. Eight months to release. Prior to that, we had concept photos and in-engine trailers. Sound familiar?

According to the ‘experts’ here, that means Elden Ring is really not going to release in a few days, or it’ll be hopelessly broken.
 
Can't wait for this game man !

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Helghan

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Starfield releasing this year and all we have are concept arts. Do you guys really believe they are anywhere close to being done? This game will either release buggy as fu**, without any of the promised features or delayed.
I think this is going to be the least buggy Bethesda game ever to launch.

 

Pallas

Member
I want to believe, but there is no way this will be ready in 2022, not without any issues on release.
It’s Bethesda, as much as I like their games with some exceptions, when has any of their games been with zero issues at launch? It can release in 2025 and it’ll still have bugs and issues.

Here's a "reality" for you: The game is a little over 8 months from release and not a single shred of gameplay has been shown.
That’s kind of the status quo for Bethesda though, right? Don’t tell me you forgot how they stealth drop Fallout 4 and released it a few months afterwards.


@Men_in_Boxes, no gameplay clips yet, but it would be almost shocking if it isn't 1st person.[/QUOTE]

Don’t they usually let you select between 1st and 3rd person view in their past games?
 
If this was a completely new studio or completely different game I'd understand, but this whole "it's going to be bad because we haven't seen gameplay" narrative is hilariously dumb. 1. Bethesda generally doesn't show anything until they can show a TON (so like E3 this year), 2. We know exactly how BGS games are gameplay-wise, there's no mystery that this game is going to be similar to a Fallout 4 or Skyrim, with a different setting. And honestly, BGS games in general don't really lend themselves to 1-2 minute gameplay snippets, like watching a short gameplay trailer for their games wouldn't really help much because the moment-to-moment gameplay isn't the selling point for their games, it's the exploration, the characters, etc. etc. which is why I wouldn't even have interest in watching any gameplay snippets until their E3 blowout where they show us a metric fuckton of stuff about the game.

Also if we're being real, I very much prefer the whole E3 idea of "announce and show a ton of things all at once" as opposed to the way State of Plays or Nintendo Directs work, so I'm glad they haven't gone down that trend.
 

Kuranghi

Member
Yep. First gameplay trailer for F4 was shown 4-5 months before launch and we already saw a short in engine trailer for Starfield, a whole year before release. Trolls are getting desperate trying to downplay the most hyped game in history.

I agree people can be unnecessarily negative about it, I'm cautiously optimistic, but saying its "the most hyped game in history" is a bit much no? If I had to make that claim I'd say most hyped would be ES VI or "HL3" in whatever form that arrives in.

I know we've seen the gameplay/in-engine video but thats not the game being played, I need to see that before I start to get really excited.
 

MaKTaiL

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IDKFA

I am Become Bilbo Baggins
I don't know about this game. I was let down with F4 and 76, but previous Bethesda titles were amazing, so the previous two might just be a blip.

I guess I'm also not sold on the vision that's grounded in reality. That sounds a bit boring for an epic RPG set in space. They should have gone full space opera like Star Wars or Mass Effect.

Also a little concerned that we've seen no gameplay yet.

Fallout 4, doe.

That's different. F4 was a surprise announcement at E3. It was rumoured to be in development, but nothing official was announced. Then at E3 Bethesda not only announced it, but also showed a ton of gameplay and confirmed it would be out the end of that year.

Starfield was announced years ago and still we've seen sod all.
 

Sega Orphan

Banned
This is my most anticipated game this year. I love the exploration aspect, and who doesn't love space? Hopefully it's not too slow paced and has a lot of action/shooting elements to it. But as with all Bethesda Games, we won't know until we pop it in the drive and load that baby up.
 

EDMIX

Member
Yep. First gameplay trailer for F4 was shown 4-5 months before launch and we already saw a short in engine trailer for Starfield, a whole year before release. Trolls are getting desperate trying to downplay the most hyped game in history.

well....not really though. Fallout 4 is an established IP, they can do that, this is a new IP. I'm more then ok if they want to do a media dumb with info throughout the year vs how they did with Fallout 4 as this game needs to more, its a new IP, we don't know shit about it.

Keep in mind, Starfield was announced lonnnnnnnng before its first trailer and all that other info came out, so its not even a Fallout 4 type situation, its not like we JUST heard about this game this year or something. So I bought Fallout 4 day 1, I'm buying this game day 1 and I'm not downplaying shit, I'm telling you it makes more sense to market this more as its a new IP and gamers need that information about its world, gameplay and other elements sooner and more of it then Fallout 4, a game set in a established world, concept etc.

They can be setting themselves up for a flop too as many might be buying it based on what they "think" it is vs what it really is simply based on lack of information. So....understand I'm disagreeing with you cause I want the game to do well, but shit man, I also want them to having a fucking fighting chance as a new IP and they need a bigger marketing tail and much longer.

Fallout 4 can get away with that as we know what Fallout is, ask anyone what Starfield is and all we have are guesses and assumptions, how much longer until that backfires into unrealistic expectations based on this odd marketing? Starfield 2 have a 6 month marketing window, I'll have no argument for you sir, I only say this as a massive difference exist between Fallout and this game in terms of marketing, PR etc.

MaKTaiL MaKTaiL "You know what else was ahead of schedule and in the final stages of development? BF 2042. That's all PR talk." lol yesssssss now every game that states "ahead of schedule" or "runs surprisingly smooth", thats when you have to start to worry, especially if its a new IP.
 
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adamsapple

Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
I'm very eager to see this game in action.

Fundamentally I already know what to expect with Todd saying this will be like skyrim in space, but I want to see Bethesda's take on alien planets ala Obsidian and Outer Wilds.
 

Markio128

Member
If it was a Skyrim in space, then technically there would only be one world/region to explore. Clearly that won’t be the case. I’m interested to know how much of each world I can explore. Will I be able to get into a spaceship, take off and explore the galaxy, then land anywhere on another world, or will there always be the same landing area? Will it be like a combo of Elite dangerous and Skyrim? So many unanswered questions, that only a decent length of presentation will answer.
 

Sosokrates

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I like that idea. Having auto pilot on and doing in-ship tasks, maybe repair something or upgrade the ship and preparing stuff for the upcoming adventure on a new planet, and then get an alert that something is approaching which start an action sequence.

This highlights a big problem with Bethesda’s stealthy approach with this game. It’s a new IP so even if they’ve said ”Skyrim in space” and ”NASA-Punk” people still don’t know what to expect and then we can start fantasizing and expecting too much.
Like in my ultimate fantasy there is realtime space flights. And hundreds of openly explorable planets, some with weird life forms and biomes.
But a realistic expectation is that we have fast travel as you say. And maybe 5-10 explorable planets, where maybe 3 are open for free exploration and the others are just focusing on specific settlements. The Outer Worlds and Mass Effect essentially.

I think there will be 100s of explorable locations and side quests, though some planets will be sectioned off, its all very well making 100s of explorable planets, but making them fun and interesting is simply not feasible.

I think the game will be limited to 1-3 solar systems. Most planets will be sectioned off, where only a small region is explorable. There will be fully explorable planets but they will be more like the dessert areas in a GTA game, small settlements with the rest of the planet engulfed in some kind of procedurally generated sandstorm.

I think exploration will be aided by scanners, you could just go to any random place but you likly find nothing.
Take the alien movies or star trek, a lot of the things they discover is through sensor alerts.
You will be travelling to your next quest location and an alert will chime stating a desolate ship with no life support, minimal power and eratic life readings, you could lay in a course pop your space suit on and take a look or just ignore it. I think thats how most exploration will happen. Because going to random planets with nothing that unique gets boring pretty fast in a game like no man sky.
So basically what im saying is, sensors will point you to interesting things rather then you just ending up on a boring desolate planet.
 
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Game will be a masterpiece calling it now the modding community will have a field day with the content they can do with this it gone to be a sight to behold
 

Robb

Gold Member
I really like having the visual design be grounded in reality, what we saw in the E3 trailer looks great.

But I hope they don’t let that mindset limit the rest of the game. Imo gameplay tend to get really tedious when devs think they should focus on making it “realistic”.
 

Pallas

Member
That's different. F4 was a surprise announcement at E3. It was rumoured to be in development, but nothing official was announced. Then at E3 Bethesda not only announced it, but also showed a ton of gameplay and confirmed it would be out the end of that year.

Starfield was announced years ago and still we've seen sod all.

Starfield is a new IP though, I don’t think it would had gone smoothly if they announced it like they announced Fallout 4.
 

Kenpachii

Member
Starfield releasing this year and all we have are concept arts. Do you guys really believe they are anywhere close to being done? This game will either release buggy as fu**, without any of the promised features or delayed.

Pretty much what i think about it, all they showcase is some art shit. No gameplay in any way. Doubt this game is anywhere near done.
 
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