Bethesda teases Starfield’s two big ‘step-out moments’
3 min read
Bethesda teases Starfield two big ‘step-out moments’
Bethesda’s Starfield is still another year, but since E3 2021, the company has slowly tempting new details about the game. At present, the company publishes what is possible the first in a series of developer diary called “to Starfield.” While the first episode did not really go into the specifics of the game, Bethesda Boss Todd Howard did drop temptant temptations in the end.
How Starfield sticks to the Bethesda formula
Most of the discussion in this first episode to Starfield less about the game itself and more about the high-level concept behind it. For example, Director of Bethesda Todd Howard began an episode by talking about a sense of achievement associated with video games and how it could often be underestimated.
The discussion then shifted to Art Director Matt Carofano, studio director Angela Browder, and Howard talked about the team in Bethesda and the desire to remain loyal to the feeling of Betesda with Starfield. Howard also explained that Bethesda wanted to make science fiction matches since Morrowind’s time, and such a game was the second only for Fallout in terms of where the team wants to branch out of the franchise of the Elder Roll.
This video is feasible to watch only to get an idea of the design philosophy behind Starfield, but also because a while towards the end where Howard teases that Starfield has two “coming out” – tempting he immediately identified as “Cryptic.”
What is it “coming out?”
If you have never played the previous bethesda game, it might not be clear what the moments are steps, but fallout fans and scrolls that are older are likely to know what Howard is talked about as soon as they read the previous words in the previous paragraph. Most Bethesda games have a step a step in the beginning, where players managed to pass the opening of the game and stepped out into the open world for the first time.
In Scrolls III: Morrowind, this is something simple like going down from the ship and stepping into the city of Seyda Neen for the first time. Then the Bethesda game has more buildup before that time, as on Old Rolls IV: Forgotten, where the player must navigate the Empire’s sewer before going out to the Cyrodiil area. The same thing happened in Fallout 3, where the player spent the opening of the game in Vault 101 before stepping out to the post-apocalyptic desert which was once Washington DC for the first time.
Howard teases that we get two moments at Starfield no doubt about making players guess about what they can. For a moment where you step out to the world in the game for the first time it seems given to consider bethesda’s game from the past, but what else? Maybe this player first left the planet and flew into space? We just have to wait and find out, which unfortunately means waiting until now next year. Starfield comes out on Xbox Series X | S and PC on November 11, 2022.
