Starfield is going to be awful and you know it – Reader’s Feature

metro.co.uk:

A reader is pessimistic about the first gameplay footage from Bethesda’s Skyrim and claims it’s already obvious what the game will be like.

It was only unveiled for the first time a few days ago and already it feels like saying anything negative about Starfield is like kicking a man when he’s down. Not that the response has been entirely negative – there are always plenty of people that seem intent on believing a game will be amazing despite anything they might see or hear to the contrary. But I really don’t think it takes much reading between the lines to see that Starfield is a dud in the making.

In theory, Starfield sounds like a great idea. As an elevator pitch, Skyrim in space is instantly understandable and exciting, especially given how they aren’t really any sci-fi games like that. Cyberpunk 2077 is about the only open world sci-fi game I can think of and games where you can fly a spaceship are now very rare.

The idea of exploring strange new worlds and new civilisations in a next gen-only game sounded great… until they actually showed it. I don’t know who thought it was a good idea to have the first person shooter section be the first thing you see but the minute it came on it was like bam! My interest in the game evaporated almost instantly. And then it went completely when they showed the lockpick mini-game…

I’d really love to know what Bethesda expected people to think while they were watching this, as a non-descript looking astronaut walked around boring, square buildings, shooting generic weapons (can we really not manage anything better than a shotgun in the future?), and then taking part in mindless mini-games. It looked like a fan mod of Fallout to make it seem more sci-fi, but not even a particularly good