Starfield, fans are divided
The Starfield presentation has certainly pleased all Bethesda fans. As per tradition, Todd Howard has pitted every single detail regarding the most important aspects of the game. Despite this, some players are wondering if the amount of planets to visit isn't too big. Doubts that obviously deserve to be heard, given that it is a very important aspect of the game.Let's start with the numbers: Starfield will make available to players something like 1,000 planets, all of which can be visited and explorable. Among these planets, the doubt of some users concerns the possibility of finding themselves in front of practically empty game environments. "The idea of having 1,000 planets bothers me. It means that everything will be small and empty. There is no way they have created so many places and made them all interesting ", the words of a Reddit user. "I hope the worlds are not empty," added another user of the platform. Some would probably have preferred fewer planets, and even specialist critics like PC Gamer are worried about this amount of explorable worlds.| ); }
These judgments are obviously preliminary and are based only on a few hypotheses. To truly discover the nature of Starfield's exploration, we will have to wait until 2023, the year in which Bethesda's new game will debut for Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X and of course PC. Only when it is available will we be able to find out how the development team has created one of its largest universes ever.
Starfield fans divided over decision to have a silent protagonist
Bethesda Game Studios’ confirmation that Starfield will feature a silent protagonist has divided fans who look forward to the role-playing title’s 2023 release.
Starfield’s lengthy gameplay presentation counted among the highlights of this past weekend’s Xbox + Bethesda Games Showcase.
For the first time, the Bethesda-based development crew treated the public to a look at Starfield’s shooting mechanics, character customization, and exploration.
The gameplay reveal also featured instances of dialogue exchanges between characters. However, it wasn’t clear if the player-controlled character had the ability to respond with voiced lines. Bethesda has since set the record straight on this front.
In a post on its official Twitter account, Bethesda Game Studios revealed that Starfield’s protagonist will never speak.
Some fans in the thread below the tweet applauded the news, with prospective players such as Octavian and Nick Eickman expressing their frustration with the voiced protagonist in Fallout 4.
Others like Raziel argued that voiced leads in western RPGs often disrupt the immersion of truly role-playing your own character.
On the other hand, a contingent of Starfield fans, Tenkay23 and Yusuf Farra among them, think a silent protagonist marks a step backward.
Thus, western RPG players have begun to debate whether fully voiced leads in the likes of Mass Effect and Cyberpunk 2077 make or break the role-playing experience.
Silent and voiced protagonists both come with their fair share of positives and negatives; for now, the jury’s out on whether Bethesda made the right decision for Starfield.
Players will get to judge that much and more for themselves when the long-awaited title finally hits PC and Xbox platforms in 2023. Unfortunately, the developer has yet to announce a concrete release date.