I don’t know how I’m going to play 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Starfield. My go-to with Bethesda RPGs is to pick a class and roleplay in that role, for want of a better word. I’ve done aggressive Orc warrior playthroughs of Skyrim, energy sniper runs of Fallout, and everything in between. Yes, I did the stealthy archer once. No, I didn't play as a mudcrab, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:that was my former colle🐼ague Andy Kelly.
Starfield doesn&rsqu🌳o;t look to have such rigid classes. You could be a sciencey grenadier, a jetpacked assassin, or a smooth talker with just a knife for backup. But between levelling up your flight capabilities and building bases on every planet yoꦉu come across, there’s a lot of trudging around. Starfield is so vast that I can see the endless cycle of explore-mine-build getting a little boring, but last week’s Direct showed it has a sense of humour, too. It needs to nail this aspect if it wants to avoid tedium and become an all-time great RPG.
I’ve already talked about the mining and building aspects of Starfield. They’re 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:ripped straight from No Man’s S🧜ky and make me worry that the game doesn’t know its own identity. Is it an RPG or a survival game? A part of me is looking past the new skill system and the roleplaying elements that I know I’ll enjoy, and to the mining and grindingꦫ that looks tedious and boring. I don’t want to have to build a base on every moon in order to mine enough gold to upgrade my warp drive and continue the story. I want an adventure, not a virtual side hustle.
That’s where Starfield needs to be funny. If I’m spending my tim𝓀e exploring a planet purely because it has vast reserves of nickel, I need to stumble across something to make it worth my time. That could be an ancient ruin that piques my interest and sends me on a galaxy-spanning side quest to find alien intelligence, or it could be a greedy pirate who’s hoarding space meatballs.
Starfield’s developers have this sense of humour. One dev shared a story of her hold, which🧜 is filled with the half-eaten sandwiches of conquered ship captains. Another showed o💛ff their ‘mech’ spacecraft, while the in-game footage clearly showed an homage to Optimus Prime. I’m glad we have the freedom to do and make stupid stuff like this, but I hope there are jokes slotted in there, too.
Bethesda 🔥can be funny, but triple-A games are a lওot like blockbuster movies. My worst Starfield nightmare would be a barrage of Whedon-esque dialogue, turning it from space simulator to knock-off Marvel movie. I feel like, if that were the case, we would know by now, but it’s still a serious fear. Instead, I want Bethesda to look to the comedy of its previous games to ensure that exploration is funny as well as fun.
Take Vault 108, for example. Big Fallout fans will already know what I’m talking about, but the iconic l✱ocation was 💜filled with clones of its sole Vault dweller, a man named Gary. How do we know he was called Gary, I hear you ask. Why, he and all his clones yelled their own name as they attacked you with impunity. It’s absurd, and could have fallen completely flat, but somehow works well and creates one of the funniest and most memorable moments in Fallout 3 lore.
I’m confident that Starfield will keep this off the wall Bethesda humour. The developer has already shown it’s happy to parody itself with the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Adoring Fan character reappearing, somehow teleporting from Cyrodiil to New Atlantis (the﷽ Starfield planet, not the sunken island of Greek mythology). We also know that the developers themselves have a good sense of humour, with Optimus Prime and the sandwich pirate, so I just hope they had a chance to inject plenty of t🧜hat into the game too. I’m not funny enough to make my own humour, so I need Bethesda to help me out here. Just save me from the monotony of another resource-gathering trip.