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Don’t expect more ‘Starfield’ until next summer

The sci-fi RPG is still a ways off.

We probably won’t get a good look at Starfield  until the summer of next year.

During a Reddit ask me anything with Todd Howard, game director and executive producer at Bethesda Game Studios, a question about what Starfield  brings to open-world RPGs was among the most upvoted comments. His answer was (unsurprisingly) coy.

“We prefer to just show it, which should be next summer,” Howard said  on Reddit. “We’re happy with the advancements we’ve been able to make, some of which you can see in the trailer shot in-game.”

Next summer would line up nicely with E3 2022, so maybe we’ll see more of Starfield  at Microsoft’s press conference by then. Though this is pure speculation on my part, mind you. 

There’s was a teaser trailer for Starfield at E3 2021, which you can check out below. It has a couple of in-game shots but no actual gameplay.

A story trailer for Starfield called The Settled Systems came out back in October. Since then, though, there’s been next to no new information on the game. In that same Reddit thread, Howard admitted that his son roasted him over the lack of  Elder Scrolls 6. Then there’s Fallout 5,  which is also many years away — starting to notice a pattern here.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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‘Fallout 5’ is alive, but likely years away

Bethesda has a one-pager for ‘Fallout 5’ – but don’t get too excited yet.

Todd Howard’s been thinking about Fallout 5.

As do we all, from time to time. But when the director and exec producer of Bethesda Game Studios ponders the post-apocalyptic RPG series, it sets things in motion. 

Howard and his team already have a creative concept already for the next Fallout game: “We have a one-pager on Fallout 5, what we want to do”, he told IGN. 

It’s probably too early to start packing our bags and boarding the hype train though.

“I’d like to find a way to accelerate what we do,” he said, referencing the long gaps between Elder Scrolls and Fallout releases, “but I really can’t say today or commit to anything that’s gonna happen [or] when, other than ‘Hey, our cadence is Starfield and then Elder Scrolls 6.”

Starfield, a spacefaring new IP from the studio, has a pretty firm release date now so we should all be playing it on Nov. 11, 2022. 

Their next game on the slate is Elder Scrolls 6, which was officially announced at E3 2018 while in pre-production and not yet in a playable state. 

So it sounds like we’ve got some time on our hands before Fallout 5 drops.

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One possible avenue to accelerate what they do, as Howard put it, would be to hand development over to another team within the Bethesda fold. Obsidian Entertainment was entrusted with Fallout: New Vegas, for example, which won an enduring cult status for its hardcore tabletop style ruleset.

BGS has several studio locations whose responsibilities overlap. We’re interpolating here, of course, but it sounds like it’s at least within the company’s resources to hand IPs off to different locations and develop them simultaneously. 

“Fallout’s really part of our DNA here. We’ve worked with other people from time to time, I can’t say what’s gonna happen” said Howard. 

On the wider BGS operation, he added: “I like to view it as one big team, and then we have groups that focus on one game.”

“So you could look at the Fallout 76 team, mostly based in Austin right now, and that’s a full team that you would put on a game but they work on other things. And a lot of people here in Rockville worked on 76 and Montreal and Dallas as well. 

We’ve always done it that way so we can move between projects so everybody knows they’re gonna work on Elder Scrolls 6 in some fashion.” 

Written by Phil Iwaniuk on behalf of GLHF.

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Bethesda explains why there’s still no sequel to ‘Skyrim’

Want Elder Scrolls 6? It’s still a long way off, unfortunately.

It’s been a decade since The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim came out and there’s still no sequel in sight. Though Todd Howard, director and executive producer at Bethesda, is finally opening up about what’s going on with Elder Scrolls 6, IGN  reported Tuesday. 

“Would you plan to have the kind of gap we’re having between Skyrim  and the follow-up? I can’t say that’s a good thing,” Howard said via IGN. “Do I wish I could wave a wand and the game we wanted to make just came out? Absolutely.”

Howard goes on to say there were several projects Bethesda Game Studios wanted to do before returning to the world of Tamriel. One of which being Fallout 76  and the other being the upcoming RPG Starfield. 

“We felt doing something like Starfield. We’d been wanting to do something else for a long time and play in a new universe, so if not now — I’m going back in time, we started right after Fallout 4, so 2015 — if not now, when? It felt like, if we didn’t do it then, the ‘when’ could be ‘never,” Howard said via IGN.

It seems like a pretty cut-and-dry answer: Bethesda wanted to work on something besides Elder Scrolls  for a bit. It’s understandable since RPGs with the scope of Skyrim  take several years to make. According to Howard, development on Starfield  began nearly six years ago, and we’ve still not even seen it! The story trailers are pretty sick, though. 

Bethesda isn’t ramping up development on Elder Scrolls 6  until after Starfield  comes out on Nov. 11, 2022. So if you factor in that it took seven years for the scifi RPG to release, then Elder Scrolls  probably won’t see a new entry for a long, long time.

Elder Scrolls 6  might still be a long way off, but hey, maybe the Skyrim: Anniversary Edition  will scratch that open-world RPG itch for now? Probably not. Make sure to back up your mods for that re-release, by the way. 

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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New story trailer for ‘Starfield’ explains its universe

Want to see what the folks behind Skyrim and Fallout are up to next?

Starfield  is the highly-anticipated RPG from Bethesda, and a new teaser trailer just came out about its backstory. Oh, and there’s plenty of beautiful concept art as well!

Set in 2327 and roughly 50 light-years beyond earth’s solar system called The Settled Systems, Starfield’s primary conflict centers around a war between the United Colonies and The Freestar Collective. Players will explore this turbulent area of the Milky Way while hopefully not getting shot up by vicious mercenaries, spacers, pirates, and all sorts of unsavory folk. Think of the Cantina scene in Star Wars: A New Hope, but (unfortunately) without Obi-Wan Kenobi watching you back.

Check out the full Starfield  Settled Systems teaser for yourself below.

Some stills of the concept art in the teaser are available for you to take a look at below.

Starfield is one of the first big Bethesda exclusives for Xbox after Microsoft bought the company last year. It’s coming out on Nov. 11, 2022, for Xbox Series X|S and PC. Oh, and it’ll be free for Xbox Game Pass subscribers to boot.

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