It has to be the blueprint for the next 20 years of the company.So allegedly, these are leaked images from Bethesda's upcoming Starfield. Players love Bethesda Game Studios games, but there was definitely a feeling of being underwhelmed with Fallout 4’s similarity to the games that came before it. If Starfield can make players feel like the first time they blew up Megaton, or stepped into the world of Skyrim, then his legacy as the face of Bethesda, will be reestablished. Whether you feel he earned it fairly or unfairly, I’m sure he’s more than aware of the meme status he achieved with the Fallout 76 announcement. Starfield is Todd Howard’s opportunity to regain that trust from players. A Todd Howard game means something, and that’s why when he was associated so closely with the launch of, and eventual disaster of Fallout 76, people felt so let down. You can tell just by the reaction he gets when he’s brought on stage at E3, what he means to players. Love him or hate him, Todd Howard is one of the most recognizable faces in video game development. It’s a huge challenge for any studio, no less one with such high expectations around it. The lore has to be built from scratch, the locations, the characters, all of it has to stand on its own, without the help of a previous series behind it. The idea of seeing this team being able to stretch its legs with something completely new, on a whole new generation of hardware is incredibly exciting. The trailer hails it as “a brand new universe, 25 years in the making”. This isn’t based on any previous IP, it’s built from the ground up by the developer. And while Fallout 3’s canon doesn’t stick rigidly to the rules of those PC classics, it did give the team a foundation to work off, with things like the vaults, plenty of monsters, and even some of the games most recognizable imagery like the Brotherhood of Steel.Ĭonversely, Starfield is a completely clean slate for Bethesda Game Studio. When Bethesda took over the Fallout IP in the mid-2000s, it inherited a large amount of lore that had been developed over the two previous Fallout games, in anticipation of Fallout 3. The idea that the developers are going to establish a whole canon of new musical acts is hugely exciting, however, how much of this will manifest in the game, and how much of the musical score will rely on songs from our current earth remains to be seen. Or, it could just be a regular violin, to be honest, but that’s less fun. In fact, in the teaser trailer, you can see half of a poster for what appears to be a musician playing a space violin. In Starfield, barring any connection to the current history of Earth, or your character carrying around a collection of old songs from home, there’s not likely to be much in the way of licensed music to set the tone. This music was so essential to setting the atmosphere of the Fallout games, to ground them in reality with licensed music that gave the impression that long before the bombs dropped, this universe shared a history with our own. Made up of popular pre-50s swing and jazz music, no one can forget the first time they turned their pip-boy to Galaxy News Radio and heard the sultry sound of Capital Wasteland DJ Three-Dog introduce “I don’t want to set the world on fire”. I don’t want to set the moon on fireĪlong with the Power Armor and Vault Boy, Fallout’s soundtrack is one of the most iconic elements of the game. But, will shooting be your only option in Starfield? What about melee weapons? Will you even need to use weapons? How Starfield sets this element of its gameplay apart from Fallout and Skyrim is truly one of the most intriguing unanswered questions about the game. Hopefully, the upgrade to a new suite of futuristic and alien weapons also allows for a refresh of the combat system, which while not as VATs reliant as it once was, still isn’t up to the standards of a modern shooter. The gun, which appears to be some kind of SMG, also features an ammo reading on the gun itself, perhaps hinting at more inworld HUD elements integrated into the game. We got a brief look at a weapon in the teaser trailer (opens in new tab), showing off a sleek yellow and white design. However, in the far-flung future of Starfield, no longer will you have to maintain your equipment by strapping bits of old windshield together, as the technology you’ll be using will be brand new. Even when you do find something that’s close to working, it’s probably been bolted together with pieces of old metal and tin cans. Since the Fallout games all take place in the wake of a large chunk of the US being landscaped by a nuclear weapon, a byproduct of that is that there’s not a huge amount of functioning guns left kicking around the wasteland.
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