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I am someone who frequently points their Elite: Dangerous ship in a random direction for weeks on end, setting out for planets that truly have nothing to do on them but walk around and vibe under an unknown sun (opens in new tab). A terrifying, lonely game that was content to simply let you soak in some pulp sci-fi landscapes in an impossibly massive cosmos. See, I adored No Man's Sky at launch, long before it added what the gamers considered to be good content.

No janky combat dungeon or extremely binary moral choice could be more interesting than seeing (and scanning) a cool rock or bug. Hell yeah, I sure hope there isn't! I hope we get a thousand Mass Effect 1 Mako sandbox planets with nothing to do but vibe on. So forgive me if I go sickos mode when I see folks say there's no way there'll be enough content to fill a thousand worlds. As soon as the world becomes a known quantity, my interest drops off fast as I'm left with only half-baked combat encounters and serviceable-at-best stories.

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When there's a chance at something just over the next hill, be it a skeleton on a toilet or a warehouse full of bugs. If Bethesda's going to lean on anything, it might as well be the one thing they've always leant hardest on-scale.įor me, Elder Scrolls and Fallout games have always been best when the map isn't cleared. Starfield was never going to be Outer Wilds. Sorry, games journalists, but let's be real. What does a Starfield with 10 planets look like? A lot of slightly more bespoke combat warehouses and characters telling you those dang pirates are at it again, probably. This could literally be any game released in the past 5 years.

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