Bethesda's Huge Starfield Direct Gameplay Blowout Was Everything We Wanted

Looks amazing! can't wait for September! Thoughts on early access for the upgraded ed?

Nasapunk made me lol.

Seriously Impressive showing though. Probably my most anticipated game after that.

My first thoughts were No Man's Skyrim, combat looked fun, just hope they can minimise the bugs. With the combat I want 60fps, I'm happy to take an (optional) graphics hit to achieve it.

this sold me on starfield. i was kind of meh on it until now. its a bethesda game through and through to ninth degree.

@Darylb88 About to cover all the editions in a moment here - my brain is trying to process everything Starfield related right now 😅

Looked great. But wasn’t everything we wanted. It wasn’t the important thing that Phil Spencer assured us he had learned a few weeks back… ‘TRANSPARENCY’. What was it running on? What can series console owners expect?

Other than that, they pretty much covered everything.

Insane. There was a lot to take in there but it looks incredible. I love the aesthetic and it looks fun to play. This game is right up my street.

This game was a lot better than I expected

@Bleachedsmiles this I would like to know too.

If this game delivers on it's promises it's hard to think how this won't be the year's best game for most people. Between this, Zelda and Street Fighter. That's the race.

Looks great and can't wait but no mention on how it runs??

Don’t know if it’s been stated somewhere else, but I kept waiting for them to tell us clearly if there was going to be a 60fps mode or not on console. Maybe when they went all into “cinematic experience” they were trying to tell us “sorry, it’s only 30fps”…

Phil said we would know… we don’t…

Although I’ve never been good at playing Bethesda games, this looked absolutely awesome. I might even straight up buying this instead of subscribing to Gamepass - while gamepass the cheaper option, I know myself well enough that this game will take me months to through so games like these as one time purchase are more my thing now. Just curious to see how the Series S will be before choosing to buy or not.

phil said we would get a frames answer on starfield. he flat out lied. i bet series runs sf at 15 to 25 fps now.

@Kezelpaso I can image so much new info!

I'm gonna snort Starfield up my nose.

I'm beyond hyped, this is my dream game and its like the perfect combo of Elder Scrolls, No Man's Sky and Mass Effect. This is everything i wanted and more, i really can't wait to buy and play this.

@BBB he said they would. phil is a fake

Im pretty much completely sold. Even if it were just the character creator and shipbuilder, Id play it 😊
I was skeptical at what they would manage to achieve this time last year, but props to bethusda, they look like theyve done something special.

@rustyduck Phil spencer is a liar

Looks amazing! Definitely don't have the time to explore all these worlds but will probably just do the main quests.

My worry is performance with the game being that big...

One of the most ambitious games ever developed surely. I haven't been this excited for a game since, well maybe ever. I'd much prefer a 60fps option but I'll still play it at 30 if I have to.

This is everything I was hoping for. I've got about 250 gigs left on my series x just for this game. I'm assuming it will be enough.
What do you guys think the file size will be?
Edit: 125G. More than enough space.

If this game is free of bugs and is 60fps then we're looking at game of the year.

Somehow they beat out Spiderman 2 as my favorite trailer. That was sooooooo muuuuch gaaaame!!

@BBB that is a big no. i had enough of the xbox lies tbh. expect 60 fps on sf next gen. and a slide show on series x.

sure looks like GOTY

Todays showing of Starfield impressed me more than anything I had seen or read before. Officially hyped for it now !

@SplooshDmg. Lmao yes !!

Im sure DF is counting pixels and frames as we speak. Those Qs will be answered for those who want to know.

Game defo looks the business ....graphics look very clear and sharp ..seems to be deep beyond belief ..let's just hope it can live upto what it seems to be

I was impressed. Up til now, I’ve just been “Meh: looks cool, I’ll play it someday.” But the presentation today was very convincing. Starfield is now very high on my list!

So, so impressed. This just has to be a several hundred hours game if you do all side quests and stuff, right?!

Disappointed with the overall 2023 GP lineup but Starfield and Forza will probably be enough to cover the whole year it seems.

@Darylb88 There is a 5-day (tentative) premium early access period on Xbox, Game Pass, Windows Store, and Steam. I usually go for this option for Gears and Forza.

It was unbelievable. I can’t wait.

Game of the Year, or just a NMS 2.0

@UltimateOtaku91 it's not gonna be bug free, it's not gonna be 60fps, it's not gonna be game of the year, but it's still gonna be pretty damned good I'm sure 😃👍

@pip_muzz oh for sure it's still going to be very good, but it being 30fps and full of bugs will ending up lowering it's review scores and causing a lot of negative chatter on social media which will end up dampening it's chances of being game of the year, we already saw what those two combinations did to Redfall.

@UltimateOtaku91 I agree. But with Tears of the Kingdom being so good the GOTY is as good as decided anyway. I'm actually hoping it's not as buggy as I previously feared but the people hoping for 60FPS are definitely faaaaar too optimistic in my view.

And Redfall was treated a little too harshly I feel too. It's certainly NOT GOOD, but I'd rate it at most 1-2 points behind Forspoken. Two wrongs don't make a right, but the wider gaming media can be a little too anti-xbox sometimes (for right or wrong)

So, I just put in my notice for early retirement, put my house up for sale and I'm getting a 2 bedroom apartment. I signed up for all of the delivery services and hired a maid. I'm getting a full wall TV and a recliner in the 2nd bedroom and I'm going to live this game for the forseeable future. See ya on the flipside..... well, when September rolls around.

I love Bethesda games but was a little worried about Starfield. Far from it now, I think they have made the last game I'll ever play. The ship builder alone will give me endless hours of enjoyment.

Hi there fellow gamers:
So I was one of the people that really wanted Starfield to impress and convince me...... Well, I´m convinced.
Convinced I may lose my entire social life if I decide to take this game seriously.
My Good God, is this game ambitious or what?
Everything they showed, and they showed a lot, was so much better than the initial trailer.
The gameplay looks better, the exploration, the companions, the customization and character creation options, the environments...... The scale is Massive.
I thought Zelda Tears Of The Kingdom was big, but this.... This is on another level entirely.
If somehow Bethesda can launch this game without any glaring issues or the many bugs and problems their games usually have, this just might be GOTY material no doubt.
Resident Evil 4 R, Dead Space R, Hi-Fi Rush, Jedi Survivor, Diablo 4, Zelda TOTK, Spiderman 2, Final Fantasy XVI, Alan Wake 2, The Lords of the Fallen, Forza Motorsport and Starfield.
What an amazing year to be a gamer. Minus social life 😜
Cheers and happy gaming folks

@RaZieLDaNtE Can you please say that to all of the haters that say there are no games?

If Starfields delivers on everything shown then it's going to be some achievement. It's the size of it that I was most impressed with. Talk about ambition.

Can we get 60fps on series x please

@rustyduck Phill didn't say it was going to be mentioned at the showcase but that it was going to be clear. It is way too soon to call him a liar. The problem with redfall is that all footage prior to release (and even game previews) were at 60fps. I wouldn't be surprised if what we have seen so far from starfield is at 30fps

@ZYDIO Hi there friend.
I see no lack of games, only lack of time to play everything that has launched and will launch this year alone.
24 hours is just not enough anymore.
Is there a way to get some permanent vactions?
Or some way to mess around with the Sands of Time?(one of my favourite games, by the way).
Cause if not I just don´t know how am I going to have enough time available to play all those games.
And there are more to come.
I always knew I was going to play videogames until I´m very old.
This just confirms it 🤣
Cheers and have a good one

They took the sort of stuff I hated in Fallout4, put it in space and I'm looking forward to it. Having the ability to board ships, take out the crew, and steal the ship sold me. Not that they need to sell me, I got GP so I was going to try it out.

The game looks amazing. This and Forza (and my backlog) will keep me happy for a fair while.

@Titntin @Jenkinss @StylesT @SacredPYRO @Sakai @Wheatly @Solidchief Funny how the narrative was Games on Gamepass will be smaller, less developed, take cheaper options, not be AAA etc etc etc, we seen all those posts since Series X launched. This game is a big reminder the internet “brains” know very little and spread false information by fear, confusion, lack of knowledge and ZERO patience.

Only thing I didn't like is that it seems that landing your ship is menu driven. Obvious why the limitations exist but it makes the whole space thing feel like more of a theme for a group of open world maps rather than an actual "open galaxy". That said those limitations probably lead to far bigger positives so it's not a huge deal.

Hopefully moons and such will be able to be fully explored.

I was very annoyed about the lack of information on the game, and was confused by people who were hyped about a game without knowing what it is and by a publisher with an awful track record in botched releases.

Though this direct was just what was needed. A broad, but in depth look at exactly what the game's about and all in game footage. I'll probably wait a month until after release for the game to actually work, but will for sure check it out.

@BBB 30fps now confirmed

So much detail and features shown and I bet the game still surprises us once it's released. Also, 25 years in the making would be a lot of wasted time if it turns out to be another Redfall launch.

Looks good. Really, really good.

I'm in the camp of people who prefer fantasy to SciFi, so the pitch for Starfield never seemed all that appealing to me, when they could have put the resources into making the next Elder Scrolls instead.

I was also baffled by the hype some people seemed to have almost immediately - just based on a logo and title.

I guess they must have seen this presentation a few years before the rest of us. But I'm gonna quietly fall in line - Starfield is now a day 1 purchase for me.

@Titntin no no i didn’t mean that’s been your narrative, i simply tagged you and others that had good things to say about SF and been on here long enough to know GP isn’t a AA service. Sorry I think i missed the mark on what i was trying to do with that one. It was late and i was hours into reading all the news. Didn’t mean to make it look and sound that way towards ya. However my point still stands, in that GP will not somehow lower the budget and quality of games cause they hit a service. But i don’t need to tell you that. Anyways, sorry about that. I’ll take that post down. Cause clearly i missed the mark on it.

This will be a 10 year game for sure. People will be playing/talking about this game for the next decade. The amount of stuff to do appears to be incredible.

@Green-Bandit Its no prob bud, just wanted to understand, as we normally all good! Can't wait for starfield to drop now.... I'll be building new ships and obsessing about crew details for days

@themightyant " a £35 Starfield premium edition to get it 5 days early... conveniently on the Friday... which - lets be honest - is going to sell like hotcakes, just as the Forza one did. "Play Day 6 on Game Pass" doesn't have quite the same marketing ring to it."

Glad you are calling this out too mate. I said the same about the forza 5 early access pass and got shot down for daring to point it out. Its only 'day 1 on game pass' for some games, the big ones they will gouge us on.
Still decent value, but not quite what it was...

@Titntin yeah man i am sorry, i think i just totally missed what i was trying to get over. I am excited to have seen all of the posts on here being excited for SF. I wanted a game like this to silent the doubters about GP making games less AAA and only Sony’s method of selling games is a way to achieve AAA quality games. I think SF does GP a lot of good moving forward. Sorry again for just being tired and sending a lazy and confusing messages. You are one of my favorites on here and i would never throw you under the bus or damage the respect i have for you. Thanks for understanding and again sorry for the confusion 😔😊

Space Setting isn't my fav, that's why I never was super Hyped about Sarfield in the first place but after the yesterday Direct deep dive I'm 1000% hooked in!!! I'll pre order for pc ver even if the game will be day one on gamepass and playanywhare

@themightyant yeah that’s a great point, i am sure they are doing some adjustments to get GP just right from a business perspective and balance of good value to the gamer. It could change a bit over the years. I am just happy that when these bigger AAA games come out and start getting good attention to them it’s not forgotten they are on GP, as many people wrongly said GP isn’t a AAA service and other bad things about it even tho they had all the info that the big games were going to come to the service day 1. Sorry buddy i have this weird urge to make people cash checks they write in advance syndrome. I read so much online that i see so much silly hate throw towards Dev’s, companies and players that i like to throw some shade at them when they are just wrong. I need to be the bigger man more and just walk away. I stand behind my comments that the industry is still in a great place and they are trying their best to bring awesome games to the play bases for us to be excited for and enjoy. I think the show’s this year did a good job of that. 😊

@themightyant i agree with a lot of that buddy. I do want to slightly disagree with the point i think you were trying to make about showing titles that are a ways away. Sony was so good at this with the PS4, Death Stranding, FF remake, Last of Us etc etc and it generated buzz about what’s to come and instilled that confidence of the games will be there, not that Sony has ever had to really prove that, Xbox on the other hand has to break the walls down of Xbox has no games, Xbox is buying up studio’s and making them worse, etc etc. i think allowing gamers to see some of what’s to come and what certain peoples favorite Dev teams are working on builds some trust and generates a little excitement that the Xbox One lacked. Maybe i am wrong but it seems like the internet enjoyed the show and even on Push right now, there are people saying they are buying a Xbox after that show. Thats a swing in the right direction, with lot’s of work left to be done for MS to rebuild the brand into a must have console for those not normally looking at Xbox’s.

@themightyant yeah that is a fair point. I see what you mean completely and i agree. But i think MS was trying to steal a little thunder from that playbook as they know the more people talk about Xbox with excitement the more it will be on peoples mind to hopefully purchase. They knew Sony was coming into this generation with a full head of steam. Now that that’s a little over with, maybe Starfield and others can start to regain MS some customers they lost during the One generation. Again please don’t take what i say as anything than reading between the lines, i am not saying i know this for fact nor do i know anyone close at MS. I just enjoy talking video games and bouncing idea’s around to see what others think and of course enjoy the company and learning from others on this site. 😊

I watched this. I love Mass Effect. Isn’t this Mass Effect?
I was expecting a whole new game.
This looks like ME on steroids
But I’ll definitely play it.

@themightyant that is spot on buddy. You nailed it. Thats all true. Plus throw in Covid and Phil saying in 2022 there would be only Series X/s games, no more Xbox one. So then everyone was trying to catch up and get up to speed with that hardware, all while having to optimize for release’s on PC. Thats a lot of work to ask in a short time. Not trying to make excuses, but it just played out that way. 2023-2024 looks stacked and could give Sony a run for it’s money, if Sony throws out 2-3 dubs on the live service track and MS is sitting there with single player RPG’s and everything else not Redfall, they could squeeze some extra sales from gamers otherwise wasn’t looking at Xbox. That’s the thing i want to see how it plays out.

@themightyant Bingo! That is what any healthy industry has and that’s competing for its position. Sony needs that, MS needs it and Nintendo will do whatever they want. Now i just want to see what Sony has in them when Xbox get’s better. Can they be great or were they great cause Xbox did next to nothing with the one. But i own all 3 and am excited for what’s to come.

Seeing as I have waiting on this to get pushed out the door so Bethesda can focus on TES6 I am beyond excited. Should have a new TES game in about 4 years. And Starfield’s systems only mean good things for TES6. I will try Starfield on GP though.