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As I was soaring around the perimeter of Earth’s desolate moon, listening to Inon Zur’s masterful soundtrack and Sam telling his daughter a stupid joke, I couldn’t help thinking about what Todd Howard’s vision for this world was when he started jotting down notes for it 25 years ago. What parts of this are fulfilled fully? What parts of it were limited by technology or scope? Did it all come together the way he envisioned? When I touched down on an empty white rock hurtling through space at a million miles an hour and saw the American flag frozen in place where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin placed it thousands of years ago, I felt the answer was a quiet, reserved “yes”. With Starfield, Bethesda has shot for the moon and landed amongst the stars – and there are much less wondrous places to land. I am out here, insignificant, a dot amongst the field of stars, and my only wish is that it remains so vast that I may never measure it.
As I was soaring around the perimeter of Earth’s desolate moon, listening to Inon Zur’s masterful soundtrack and Sam telling his daughter a stupid joke, I couldn’t help thinking about what Todd Howard’s vision for this world was when he started jotting down notes for it 25 years ago. What parts of this are fulfilled fully? What parts of it were limited by technology or scope? Did it all come together the way he envisioned? When I touched down on an empty white rock hurtling through space at a million miles an hour and saw the American flag frozen in place where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin placed it thousands of years ago, I felt the answer was a quiet, reserved “yes”. With Starfield, Bethesda has shot for the moon and landed amongst the stars – and there are much less wondrous places to land. I am out here, insignificant, a dot amongst the field of stars, and my only wish is that it remains so vast that I may never measure it.