Gaming News A sequel to Starfield? This former Bethesda developer is already impatient
Whatever anyone says, Starfield was one of the biggest games of last year, the result of many years of development on Bethesda’s part. And this basis should apparently be used for a sequel, according to a former developer at the company.
Starfield 2, obviously?
The month of September 2023 has seemingly been nothing but a great event for video games with the arrival of a brand new IP from Bethesda: With its flavor of an over-the-top space opera, Starfield has caused a lot of buzz, and that’s quite normal. We are talking about a gigantic project with the largest universe ever designed by the company, and even if there are still many expansions to come, Some are already asking about a sequel: Bruce Nesmith, for his part, is quite convinced that it will come one day.
For the record: This video game developer worked at Bethesda from The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (released in 1996) until 2021where he left the company after working on all the games of the aforementioned saga, but also all the Fallout games from 3 to 76. And again: He also worked as an external systems designer on Starfield.
In short, Bethesda knows him and in an interview with VideoGamer: He states that Starfield will serve as the basis for a Starfield 2. This is also how the first episodes work, which can seem rough or imprecise in certain points while revealing “flashes of genius”, the idea obviously being to lighten up and refine in a more majestic sequel.
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“I’m looking forward to Starfield 2”he even blurted out during the interview. He expects it to be that way “a damn good game” And to give credit, he states that this is also how Bethesda works: each new game from a resulting license builds on the foundations of the previous one, rather than starting from scratch each time. If this had been the case with The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, their development would have taken time “two or three years” over and beyond. His words are quite accurate since Starfield took seven years to develop and it is actually a brand new project.
Obviously, it is impossible not to ask the following question: When is Starfield expected to be released? For now, unless there is a complete internal reshuffle or a new studio/team, It’s hard to imagine the game before the next decade. To give you an idea, The Elder Scrolls VI is only in early development and after that Bethesda will move on to Fallout 5. All this with the knowledge that Starfield 1 and Fallout 76 will continue to be delivered over time (which of course requires human resources). ) and that design times for video games tend to lengthen over time. Patience…
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