In a lengthy essay published to Bethesda.net following Microsoft's acquisition, Todd Howard mentioned a scant bit of info about the two titles, if only to remind fans that they still exist. Howard's essay reflected on the legacy of Bethesda and its partnership with Xbox, which allowed it to bring Morrowind to the Xbox console back in 2002. Howard claims that being bought by Microsoft will allow Bethesda to make the most use of the Xbox Series X's next-gen technology to advance the development of both Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6 . Most notably, Howard said that the Series X's new hardware has led to Bethesda's biggest engine overhaul since Oblivion . To quote the man himself, " These new systems are optimized for the vast worlds we love to create, with generational leaps not just in graphics, but CPU and data streaming as wel

I understand that the game may feel janky to play today for many, and that's hard to argue agaisnt. However, where Starfield's thematically inchoate sci-fi nature can leave many people in disarray, Morrowind’s exotic yet slightly alien fantasy aesthetic is unforgettable and unique in RPG history, enough that it warrants your attention in case you haven't ever checked it

Modders actually created something on PC that sought to make the dialogue system closer to previous entries in the series. By comparison, a title like CD Projekt Red's The Witcher 3 kept a more direct dialogue approach and still, players felt more immersed than ever before in a character and world that was already well-established before its third en

And not just the cinematics or models, but the entire environmental fidelity is easily the greatest that the industry has to offer. RDR2 maintains a cohesive sense of immersion by letting you take your time to explore everything it has to show you, from random NPC world events, each NPC's own routine in towns, to the Van Der Linde gang's ever-growing individual stories, and that's just scratching the surf

In a surprising social media post, Bethesda revealed that it has donated a bundle to the Make-A-Wish Foundation's auction. The highest bidder for the company’s package will have the opportunity to make a character for Starfield . In addition, the auction winner will walk away with an Xbox Series X, recalling that Bethesda recently announced that it would be acquired by the console’s creators , and sixteen titles from the studio. Several of the games seem to come from some of Bethesda’s most popular franchises including The Elder Scrolls, Wolfenstein , and Doom . At the time of writing, the ongoing bidding for the Bethesda bundle is just north of $2,000. Interestingly, the auction’s website goes into slightly more detail about what the winner can expect than the studio's post. It states that the highest bidder can look forward to working with the team behind the game, naming Todd Howard specifically, and that the winner should expect to " schedule time to create the character within 3 months of 2/28/202

The Make-A-Wish auction page seems to have revealed an interesting, though admittedly very small, detail about the game’s development. Starfield creators will reach out to schedule developing this prize character with the auction winner in the months following the end of February. That is not much to go on but it doesn't rule out a release date for the end of this year. Hopefully, there will be a press event from either Microsoft or Bethesda soon that will tell fans a little bit m

It's hard to say exactly what this will mean for the games until fans can learn anything at all about them. Howard mentions that the next-gen technology is " optimized for the vast worlds we love to create ," and given Bethesda's commitment to producing larger worlds for each successive game in the Elder Scrolls franchise, it can likely be expected that both of the upcoming titles will feature open worlds on a truly impressive scale . The precise details of what else these new engine overhauls will bring are completely unkn

There's no doubt in my mind that Bethesda Game Studios will deliver good, if not incredible games with Starfield and Starfieldgalaxy.Com The Elder Scrolls VI , whenever they actually end up releasing . If they want to keep their status in a genre that's always looking to raise the bar though, they need to create a world that gives a role-playing experience unlike anything we've seen before. They've definitely got plenty of time to flesh out tons of old and new ideas...so no pressure ri

A supposed leak of Starfield screenshots may have just been verified by the unlikeliest of sources: a t-shirt worn by a Bethesda developer. The screenshots in question leaked in September, offering a brief glimpse at a possible player character, a spaceship design, and the HUD of Starfield . Bethesda has neither confirmed nor denied the validity of the leak to d

Starfield was announced at E3 2018, and since then, next to nothing has been revealed about the game. The few scraps of information that Bethesda has made public since - like the fact that Starfield will be an exclusively single-player game - have come very recently. At its reveal, Bethesda said that there was still a long wait in store for Starfield, and there are no hints as to when that wait will be over yet. All that’s known on the subject is that Starfield is expected to launch before the long-awaited Elder Scrolls