"No Man's Skyrim": Starfield gameplay reveal makes fans draw parallel to No Man's Sky
Starfield’s gameplay reveal finally aired last night. Bethesda head Todd Howard showcased an extended look at their upcoming space RPG title from the stage of the Xbox-Bethesda Games Showcase.
While the general reception to the gameplay showcase has been positive so far, fans could not help but point out the uncanny similarities between the upcoming Bethesda title with No Man’s Sky. Fans soon started to trend "No Man's Skyrim" as a joke alias for Starfield, which was previously dubbed by Bethesda as "Skyrim in space."
No Man’s Sky has been in the conversation as a space game right from its announcement in 2013. While its rocky launch cemented its place as one of the most overhyped and under-delivered products of all time, Hello Games has mostly cleaned up the whole mess. Delivering free content updates through the last few years and building the game piece by piece to match their initial vision and then some more, No Man’s Sky’s redemption arc has been nothing sort of magical.
The gameplay reveal trailer undoubtedly features some elements that are bound to make you feel: “Where have I seen that before?”
Like the scanner that the player's character uses at the very get-go to survey the flora and fauna, the mining beam and the outward appearance of the space suit - all bear a striking resemblance to No Man’s Sky.
Some fans even equated the scale of “over one thousand planets” of the upcoming Bethesda RPG to NMS's almost-infinite procedurally generated universe.
The Frontier update added alien outposts to the inhabited planets of No Man’s Sky. This enabled players to become mayors, manage settlements, and even grow them into proper towns. Fans have pointed out this as a parallel to Starfield’s advertised settlement system.
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