Starfield Developer Interviews
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Now that we had a chance to check out some actual Starfield gameplay, you might be interested in learning more about Bethesda's next big project. To kick things off, here's Bethesda's VP of Marketing Pete Hines talking about the studio's approach to open-world design in the context of Starfield:
And then, we have IGN's extended interview with Todd Howard that covers a broad range of topics, including Starfield's length, content density, and Bethesda's plans for the foreseeable future. Here's the video part of the interview:
And an excerpt from the text summary:
Todd Howard Confirms Fallout 5 Is Coming After Elder Scrolls 6
Todd Howard has confirmed to IGN that Fallout 5 will be Bethesda Game Studios' next game after The Elder Scrolls 6, which itself will follow on from 2023's Starfield.
"Yes, Elder Scrolls 6 is in pre-production," he said, "and, you know, we’re going to be doing Fallout 5 after that, so our slate’s pretty full going forward for a while. We have some other projects that we look at from time to time as well."
Starfield Includes More Handcrafted Content Than Any Bethesda Game, Alongside Its Procedural Galaxy
Amid a huge amount of new information on Starfield from the Xbox-Bethesda showcase, likely the most-discussed detail was Todd Howard's announcement that the upcoming sci-fi RPG will include 1,000 fully explorable planets. Howard told us more about the game's approach to procedural generation, what it offers, and assured us that players can ignore them in favour of a huge amount of fully handcrafted content, if they want to.
