Ex-Bethesda Designer Thinks Starfield Sequel Might Be More Successful
"When we built Skyrim, we had the tremendous advantage of Oblivion, which had the tremendous advantage of Morrowind."
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Bruce Nesmith, a Former Designer at Bethesda who worked on Daggerfall, Oblivion, Fallout 3 and 4, and Starfield, shared his opinion that the sequel to Starfield might be more successful than the base game.
The developer said (via Video Gamer): "I'm looking forward to Starfield 2. I think it's going to be one hell of a game because it's going to address a lot of the things people are saying, 'We're quite there. We're missing a little bit.' It will be able to take what's in there right now and put in a lot of new stuff and fix a lot of those problems."
Nesmith explained that the studio's sequels used to be more successful than their predecessors: "When we built Skyrim, we had the tremendous advantage of Oblivion, which had the tremendous advantage of Morrowind. All that stuff was there for us." He continued: "All we had to do was continue to improve and add new stuff in. We didn't have to start from the ground up. If we'd had to start from the ground up, that would have been another two or three years of development time."
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Nesmith compares Starfield to games like Mass Effect or Assassin's Creed, which had a difficult start but were followed by successful sequels: "If you look at the first Dragon Age, the first Assassin's Creed, the first game in a lot of IPs, they tend to show off flashes of brilliance amid a lot of other things that don't quite catch everybody's eye." He underscored that sequels might be more successful than the first installments: "It takes, sadly, sometimes a second or third version of the game in order to really enrich everything."
Starfield features a huge universe with thousands of planets. Todd Howard recently discussed the development of such complex in-game worlds and explained why the company's titles are so "irresponsibly large."
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The base Starfield game has a procedurally generated world, while Starfield's most recent DLC, Shattered Space, features an entirely different hand-crafted world. The expansion received contrastingly mixed reviews. Many players criticized its short story and lack of additions to the base game, while others praised the atmospheric, detailed, hand-crafted world with improved animations. Another Starfield expansion, Starborn, might be released in the future, as a trademark with the title "Starborn" recently filed by ZeniMax.
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