Last night, Microsoft's Xbox Showcase conference was officially held. At the 2-hour conference, Microsoft announced the latest trends of more than 20 products. But the real blockbuster is Bethesda's masterpiece "Starry Sky".
Starfield's face-to-face presentation showcased a giant RPG unprecedented in the history of video games, covering almost every space-themed game with the mechanics, systems and gameplay expected to include. 25W lines of dialogue system composed of huge text dialogue, autonomous universes and worlds, a large number of stories, characters and scene locations to explore; Further deepening of role-playing, skill background identification and camp branching; Fully customizable ships and bases; Give players the minutiae of life in love and raising a family. It also includes Bethesda Game Studios' traditional respect for player freedom and meticulous craftsmanship of world optional exploration content, its high-level art style, UI and soundtrack will once again push the audiovisual experience of space-themed games to the extreme, and the grand proposition of "the truth of mankind and the universe" makes the main line attractive and confusing. This will be a new generation of love letters on an unprecedented scale to all players who yearn for the sea of stars, welcome to the stars in September, and the next generation of open worlds, explorers!
"What if you could be what you want to be and explore a whole new world? What if it all happened in a universe where you can run freely? This is "Starfield" – Todd Howard
The game perspective follows the first/third person perspective switch of Company B's previous works. Players can collect resources in the game to pick up garbage, field encounters and stronghold capture, which sounds very similar to the "wasteland punk" world view of the "Fallout" series, but in fact, the production team shows more of the future, so B Company calls its style "NASA punk", according to Todd's own words, "NASA" symbolizes the style of the spirit of American space exploration, and "punk" is the style of style. In addition, the shaping of the planet in the game also draws on data from NASA and other institutions.
In the real machine, we don't see the Earth civilization we know, but instead it is a fictional human order city-state "New Atlantis City" (this setting is a bit like the setting of science fiction works such as "Star Trek" and "Star Wars", but this "United Colony" is obviously different from the above works and a very novel setting), which is the starting point of the adventure between players and the star organization. "Mars" is a mining base, "Akira" is the world of Rangers (similar to Western Frontier), "Neon City" is a city of indulgence (similar to "Cyberpunk 2077"), this huge interstellar worldview is simply "meta-universe", more "2077" than "2077"! If it does, it would be a new step for the open world.
The pinching CAS system is more refined. You can customize the shape, three backgrounds, and features. The role-playing attribute is the specialty of Company B, and the "childish" trait needs to reap the bonus effect of parental love by the player supporting his parents.
The skills in the game are also custom gameplay. Includes various directions such as stealth, shooting, and melee combat. That air backpack can also shoot in various gravity environments, and the recoil level is also different, and that heavy punch impact is almost like the "berserk mode" of Doom's melee attack.
The weapons and spaceships in the game can be customized. Or "Space Tarkov" changed the gun, but the shooting feel is obviously the academy rifle of "Fallout 4". Ships can be freely bought, traded, interstellar, battled and traded, and jumped to enemy ships for themselves. When the spaceship can jump in space folding, I know that this is the real Star Citizen.
Starfield is an action role-playing game published by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Software on Microsoft Windows and Xbox Series X/S, initially expected to be released on November 11, 2022, and later extended to 2023. Set in a space-themed world, the game is Bethesda's third game IP after the Fallout series, and has been described as a "next-generation experience" that players have never seen before.
Starry Sky takes place in the galaxy "The Settled Systems," about 50 light-years away from the solar system. Around the year 2310, the two largest factions in the game, the United Colonies and the Freestar Collective, fought in the Colony War. Players will take on the role of a customizable character belonging to the space exploration organization Constellation. Starfield can be played in either a first-person or third-person perspective.
Starfield is the third game IP owned by Bethesda Game Studios and its predecessor (Bethesda Software Development Division), which director Todd Howard describes as "the space version of Skyrim." According to him, Bethesda began working on space-themed titles as early as 1994 and acquired the rights to make games based on the role-playing system of Traveler, but it was quickly withdrawn. Their 1994 Delta V (video game) was part of that tenure, but it wasn't fully monetized. Bethesda originally decided to release a space combat game called The 10th Planet in October 1997, but it was later cancelled and the atmosphere of Starfield was derived from the game. Howard stated that Bethesda owned the rights to " Star Trek " in the 2000s , and he proposed the idea of making a role-playing game in its setting, but it failed to make progress.
Although Bethesda has been trying to develop the sci-fi genre with a clear idea of the genre, it took a while to solidify the setting behind Starfield so that it would differentiate it from other sci-fi games that have already come out. Starry Sky's chief art designer, Istvan Pely, jokingly called the theme "NASA Punk," noting that while the game is set in the future of humanity, its core setting can be traced back to the origins of various NASA space missions. To this end, Bethesda began to produce a fictional narrative about the history of the game between 300 and 10 years ago, to which Howard said: "Now that humans live among the stars, what does that mean? ”
In the case of Starfield, the concept of Starfield had been brewing internally within Bethesda for some time before registering the title as a trademark in 2013. "If there is no other name, it could only be Starfield," Todd said, adding that development of the game has been active since the release of Fallout 4 in late 2015. By mid-2018, Starfield had finished pre-production and entered playability. Todd announced the release date of the game at E3 2021, stating that "we are very confident in the date, otherwise it would never have been announced".
At Bethesda's E3 2018 press conference, Todd Howard showed off a short trailer for Starfield. Three years later, at E3 2021, the game's in-game trailer was first released during Microsoft's joint press conference with Bethesda, and confirmed to be available exclusively on Microsoft Windows and Xbox Series X/S on November 11, 2022. In May 2022, Bethesda announced that the release date of Starfield would be extended to the first half of 2023. On March 8, 2023, a new promotional video was officially announced, announcing that the ticket would be bounced until September 6 again, and the thematic direct meeting would be held on June 11