that every element on Earth, every element in our body comes from an exploding star." "What's out there? Is there alien life out there? Where do we come from?" he ponders. For Howard, it's the search for answers to these questions that make up the soul of Starfield. Space is the great unknown: a frontier that still asks more questions than it answers. Starfield follows that playbook, but tells a different kind of story. Players have fallen in love with the richness of these worlds and the complicated moral decisions they have to make in them.īethesda Softworks A screenshot of the game play in Starfield shows what it's like to set off in space. In the years since, Bethesda has garnered a reputation for creating ambitious role playing franchises like Fallout and The Elder Scrolls. It's the kind of origin story that doesn't seem plausible in 2023, but Howard would go on to not just join that studio but help grow it into one of gaming's most influential. "And I just knocked on the door and said, 'I want to work here one day.'" "So I drove by the office," Howard recalls. He was attending William and Mary university at the time, not far from the company's headquarters. "My girlfriend gave me this game for Christmas, and I saw the address on the box," Howard says. Of particular interest to him is 1988's Wayne Gretzky Hockey. Inside that trophy case, Howard points to a row of boxes made up of every video game the studio has released. It's also where NPR meets Starfield's game director Todd Howard just before the game's release. It's a monument to how deeply the studio's games have resonated with people. Starfield's story shoots for the stars, but it was born right here on Earth.Īt Bethesda Game Studios in Maryland, a trophy case starts on the first floor of the building and extends upward to the third. It also has real life consequences for the developers who are banking on the game's success being as grand as their vision. It's no exaggeration to say this might be one of the biggest stories ever told - in any medium.
The studio behind it says it has 3 million words of dialogue and includes more than 1,000 environments players can explore across multiple galaxies. Welcome to Starfield, a new video game decades in the making. Bethesda Softworks Concept art for Starfield shows ships hauling cargo from an active mining operation.
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