No, Skyrim Grandma isn’t in Starfield
rockpapershotgun.comShirley Curry - better known to the internet as ‘Skyrim Grandma’ thanks to a viral Let’s Play in 2015 - has shot down rumours that she made a cameo in the recent Starfield Direct, adding that she won’t even touch Bethesda’s much-hyped space RPG while she waits for Elder Scrolls 6.
Talk of Curry’s cameo in Starfield was sparked by a moment during the recent extended gameplay showing when the player character encounters another ship with the callsign Grandma during a space flight.
“Hello, stranger,” the NPC says over the radio. “I just finished cooking up some food. If you wanna come on over, just pop on by.”
With Bethesda announcing back in 2021 that Curry would make an appearance as an NPC in The Elder Scrolls 6, it wasn’t too much of a stretch that she might’ve also snuck her way into becoming a Starfield Grandma, too. (Not to mention another internet-favourite Elder Scrolls character already popping up.)
However, Curry herself took to the comments section of a recent vlog on her YouTube channel - which now has over 1.2 million subscribers - to repeatedly deny that the character is a direct cameo.
“That may have just been a little 'nod' to me. I AM NOT in the game,” she wrote in response to one of several commenters who asked about the moment, telling another bluntly: “NO you did not see me”
"I did not voice it but they may have picked out words from all the dialogue I did for my character which is in this game of Skyrim, which is on Nexus," she further confirmed in the comments section of a separate video.
She confirmed to another viewer that she had watched the showcase, but expressed being overwhelmed by the response since: “Yes I have watched Starfield Direct, besides everyone telling me about it, I've
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