Starfield design director says it is Bethesda’s “finest sport” in a “lot of the way”

Starfield’s Shattered House enlargement has simply launched to middling opinions

There was an enormous quantity of hype for Starfield through the lead-up to its launch final yr, with many people eagerly ready to see what Bethesda would provide with its first new IP in over 25 years. Whereas it has earned the title of Bethesda’s “greatest” sport launch of all time, and critic opinions had been typically constructive — we mentioned it “appears to have delivered what it promised” in our Starfield assessment — the reception from gamers was combined. For the sport’s director Emil Pagliarulo (by way of GamesRadar), nonetheless, it is Bethesda’s “finest sport” in some ways.

“I feel in plenty of methods, Starfield is the toughest factor Bethesda has ever executed,” Pagliarulo mentioned. “We pushed ourselves to make one thing completely completely different. To only jam into an Xbox the largest, richest house simulation RPG anybody may think about. That we pulled it off makes Starfield one thing of a technical marvel. It is also, in plenty of methods, one of the best sport we have ever made. However for us, most significantly, Starfield has its personal distinctive character, and now sits proper subsequent to Fallout and Elder Scrolls.”

Much like the bottom sport’s launch final yr, Starfield’s Shattered House enlargement has been met with a lackluster response from gamers. It is the sport’s first enlargement, launching on Xbox Sequence X|S and PC earlier this week and taking us to Home Va’ruun’s homeworld of Va’ruun’kai to face a brand new cosmic risk, which does not appear to have gone over properly with gamers.

Over on Steam, Shattered House at the moment sits with a “Largely Unfavorable” participant ranking from over 1,900 participant opinions, with many calling it “boring” and disliking the shortage of content material included with it. Even the extra constructive opinions are middling, or go on to name the enlargement “Neither good nor dangerous.”

Because it stands, it appears like many gamers really feel that Shattered House is extra of the identical. Should you loved the bottom sport you may doubtless have an inexpensive time with the enlargement, however gamers who did not take to Starfield initially won’t discover a cause to return to the Xbox RPG.