Todd Howard responderer på Starfields blandede modtagelse

Todd Howard responderer på Starfields blandede modtagelse

Starfield snitter lige nu 83 på Metacritic, og 84 på Opencritic, som ellers ville indikere en ret stærk kritisk modtagelse. Men naturligvis er dette Bethesda Game Studios, og ydermere var der mange ret så vokale fans efterfølgende der udtrykte utilfredshed med dele af spillets design. Faktisk holder spillet “bare” 6.9 på User Scores på samme platform baseret på over 12.000 brugeranmeldelser.

Det har Todd Howard nu responderet på i et interview med Kinda Funny, hvor han indrømmer at mange ikke fik det de ønskede ud af selve udforskningen:

“But obviously, look, we see the feedback, we see a lot of players saying, this is what I want out of a Bethesda game, which is to explore a world in a certain way and Starfield didn’t give me that, I prefer the way it’s done in Fallout or Elder Scrolls. And perfectly understandable right, in terms of, hey this is a different experience.”

Han forklarer ydermere at den mere opdelte udforskning var et “trade-off” for at kunne levere det antal planeter:

“I do think, for us, particularly me going into a science fiction game, I want to be able to land on all the planets, I want the game to say yes to us knowing that that content is going to be different than you’ve seen from us in the past when you’re exploring a landscape. And that’s some of the trade-offs we’ll make to do what we think makes a science fiction game like this, that’s based in this kind of fiction and reality, to make it what it should be. Each of the franchises should be its own thing.