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[SportsFan581]

The composer? What on earth did I just read. Do composers typically get huge behind the scenes looks at the games along with playtime with it?

That's what I was thinking too, but I do remember Howard saying this was their biggest musical score also. I guess it's possible that the composer would want to know about, or would have at least read, the scenes that the music is going to be placed in.

 

[balls of snow]

Shame about the delay. Could have the biggest ms vs sony game showdown in history.

 

[Himuro]

This just screams like the next Cyberpunk. Bethesda can't take another loss.

 

[Andodalf]

The composer? What on earth did I just read. Do composers typically get huge behind the scenes looks at the games along with playtime with it?

Good ones. Todd has said many times that Starting on the Score and particularly the main theme is one of the early parts of Pre Production for him. Zur would have been one of the first people to dive into what the game offers.

 

[Jennings]

Nobody plays Bethesda games for the main story. Nobody gives a shit about Bethesda-level philosophy 101 nonsense. Bethesda games would all be 100% better without any main story campaigns at all.

 

[Edgelord79]

Inon Zur sounds like a name from another galaxy.

He’s best friends with Zaphod Beeblebrox. Probably always carries a towel.

 

[iHaunter]

Isn't 76 enjoyable now? Seems to be a common opinion

And it was a mmorpg with an evolving world, this will be a finished (content wise at least, until expansions and mods anyways) and realized story.

Seeing as he's the composer, he probably means total scope of the game, not necessarily land mass (though given the number of planets, seems a given)

It was a half baked money grabbing piece of crap. And they had the nerve to try to sell people a subscription called Fallout first for $100 a year on top of that. This whole "It's not how you start it's how you finish" schtick has gone on too long.

 

[Ghost of Caelid]

Maybe this game will be the best game of 2023. I'm looking forward to Starfield.

Mark it. Unless from soft dropping a game next year.

 

[TheGreatMusashi]

Because Inon Zur is the hero Gaming deserves, but not the one it needs right now.

So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it.

Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A Peter Molyneux.

 

[PSlayer]

Thread relevant

 

[pasterpl]

So they've gone back to meaningless PR?

I was really disappointed with the trailer and went back to look at the view count hoping it wasn't just me. 2 months later the debut trailer sits at 3 million views on the official channel. That's really low in comparison with other trailers during the same time frame.

Because trailer views on YouTube is the the most important metric. It doesn’t event correlate with game sales. No sure why people keep bringing it up.

 

[supernova8]

Gigantic game with a load of procedurally generated nonsense and a tiny bit of handcrafted goodness. Not for me thanks.

Literally just remake Oblivion with next-gen graphics and I'll be satisfied.

 

[Filben]

Uh... they never get me with these kind of comparisons and statements about a game's size. Instead my interest is more declining.

That shit may worked in the 90's: "With 20 levels!" or "with 6 huge stages!".

But with decreasing quality I couldn't care less about scale because it seems developers aren't willing or competent enough to do both big worlds and high quality content in it.

I take Gothic 2's small world over those huge ones any day if that means brilliant quality and open world design.

 

[Three]

I like the fact that they don't even say what they think is their (Bethesda's) biggest game. Just that it's twice as big as whatever that may be. Stops you from being able to compare anything of significance.

 

[JimmyRustler]

If their older games is something to go by that means twice the size, half the content.

 

[Magic Carpet]

I like the fact that they don't even say what they think is their (Bethesda's) biggest game. Just that it's twice as big as whatever that may be. Stops you from being able to compare anything of significance.

Biggest as in most people played? That would be Fallout Shelter the cellphone game.
Biggest Time to complete all content? Morrowind followed by Fallout 76.
Biggest Game map? Arena the very first Elder Scrolls.
Biggest sales from a single title? I’m guessing Skyrim, not really sure how to find out.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

The composer? What on earth did I just read. Do composers typically get huge behind the scenes looks at the games along with playtime with it?

How will he create music suitable for mood of the game if he doesn't know what it is?

He must be as involved as any of the developers.

 

[Skifi28]

Twice the size, but does it have 16 times the detail?

 

[Crayon]

I'm torn on jumping in day 1 or waiting for patches and mods to shape up. That'll take a year. It was worth waiting for cyberpunk.

Nothing Bethesda says about it means anything, really. I'm not going to know till I play it myself. The gameplay demo was discouraging but there has to be more to it than that. I imagine the meat of the game will be unique questlines in cities and towns, giving some context to the mediocre looting and shooting and crafting. My most anticipated game but I'm worried.

 

[CaptainSlayAHo]

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[Chittagong]

According to Zur, ideas like having the courage to ask questions, and to try and find their answers are at the core of Starfield.

A game where I can JAQ to my hearts content on 1000 planets? Sign me the fuck up!

 

[reksveks]

Because trailer views on YouTube is the the most important metric. It doesn’t event correlate with game sales. No sure why people keep bringing it up.

Even more 'important' when you consider something like Trueview ads also count as impressions/views once they hit a certain video completion rate.

 

[killatopak]

I’ve been playing Morrowind for a while now and if we’re just speaking map size to memorable content, I prefer the smaller Morrowind map than Skyrim.

If they can put meaningful content AND huge map size, I’ll be pretty impressed.

 

[Ozriel]

Why are games getting bigger sill being viewed as a good thing. I'm still super excited for this game but if anything this lowers my excitement

It lowers your excitement that a space game with lots of planets is much bigger than Skyrim?

 

[Rhazer Fusion]

Games always getting bigger imo isn’t a good thing. From my experience, it generally leads to less focus on core mechanics and structure because they are focusing on just keeping the player busy with busywork and scope. We’ll see how it turns out. Hopefully, it will be really good.

 

[CaptainSlayAHo]

I'm torn on jumping in day 1 or waiting for patches and mods to shape up. That'll take a year. It was worth waiting for cyberpunk.

Nothing Bethesda says about it means anything, really. I'm not going to know till I play it myself. The gameplay demo was discouraging but there has to be more to it than that. I imagine the meat of the game will be unique questlines in cities and towns, giving some context to the mediocre looting and shooting and crafting. My most anticipated game but I'm worried.

Fingers crossed they're available on console on release this time around

I played 10-15 hours of fallout 4 before kind of fading off, came back when mods were introduced to console and it felt so much better.... Just the ability to see the actual text of dialog choices was an amazing upgrade lol

 

[Kamill]

Skyrim not biggest bethesda game

 

[Miles708]

Do we know if the planets are freely explorable or you can only hop between settlements and fixed zones?

 

[Three]

Do we know if the planets are freely explorable or you can only hop between settlements and fixed zones?

The planets apparently circle round so I guess fully explorable. You hop between planets.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Oh good, I always wanted to know the philosophy of Todd Howard.

 

[CaptainSlayAHo]

Oh good, I always wanted to know the philosophy of Todd Howard.

Good thing you won't have to anymore

 

[ahtlas7]

Inon Zur?! Seems this guy composes for half the games that come out. Dude must work for peanuts.
Now, let’s hear more about space philosophy according to Horse Armor Todd.

 

[yazenov]

Sounds like yet another open world game with lots of meaningless fat that doesn't respect the player's time. Red flag indeed.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Rhis game will be special. Bethesda main games have never let me down. I even did every ounce of fallout 4 and loved it.

Their games are something else and just vibe with me.

 

[Laptop1991]

i agree with other posters here, as long as it's filled with content, then great, but if it's just empty space then it doesn't need to be bigger than past games.

 

[GymWolf]

Twice the size, 14x more details, not enough betatesters.

 

[Markio128]

Da ba dee da ba di
Eiffel 65

Ob-la-di, ob-la-da
McCartney 68

 

[Robb]

As other have mentioned, as long as it’s meaningful content then great!

Hopefully the story isn’t too philosophical, I usually don’t enjoy when games end with some kind of philosophical open ended ‘you decide what you think happens’ stuff.

 

[Wildebeest]

The main plot of Fallout 4 made you ask all sorts of deep philosophical questions that changed you. Am I wasting my life away playing computer games made for and by idiots? Does this game disprove the existence of God because surely a God that cared would not have allowed this story to be written?

 

[Caio]

I hope it will be a great Game, I want it to be great.

 

[cormack12]

 

[Kenpachii]

Yea they have 10x more space now lol.

 

[IWasInSeinfeld]

These artificial improvements needs to stop being used as a selling point.

 

[kyussman]

I wouldn't normally be overly excited by that news given Bethesda's game design philosophy....but knowing most of it will be procedurally generated resource mining nothingness makes me even less interested tbh.

 

[Robb]

This makes Phil sound like Cave Johnson from Portal 2.

Maybe that’s why XGS output is so poor this year, all the devs are stuck doing crazy experiments in Phil’s underground lab.

 

[Party McHardy]

No PS5 version hurts us.

 

[Pasta la Vista]

God I hope this is good. If they can nail the music and atmosphere that will go a long way for me.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Gigantic game with a load of procedurally generated nonsense and a tiny bit of handcrafted goodness. Not for me thanks.

Literally just remake Oblivion with next-gen graphics and I'll be satisfied.

You mean that same oblivion that used loads of procedurely generated content and literally put speed tree on the map?

.....

 

[supernova8]

You mean that same oblivion that used loads of procedurely generated content and literally put speed tree on the map?

.....

Hey it was novel back in the day
We don't need Oblivion in space x 1000

 

[DenchDeckard]

Hey it was novel back in the day
We don't need Oblivion in space x 1000

Haha, I definitely need oblivion in space....sounds like my perfect game.

I hope I get randomly infected with some space disease like I did when I became a vampire out of no where In oblivion.