Even Todd Howard thought that Starfield “never seemed feasible” at one point

Starfield reviews finally came in yesterday, and Todd Howard shared a lengthy letter with those that reviewed it. After a long wait, reviews for one of the biggest games of the year landed, offering a broad range of opinions on the space faring RPG. Our own Starfield review came away feeling pretty positive about it with a 4/5, though there were still some reservations to be had about it. With this being such a massive release for Bethesda, arguably its biggest since Fallout 4 (sorry, Fallout 76), it's not surprising that Howard had some thoughts and feelings he wanted to share about Starfield with reviewers ahead of its release. And share Howard did, in a pretty long letter that he notes is his first time writing one to go with one of his games (via Tom Warren). "It seems like forever ago that I first started talking about making a grand space RPG," wrote Howard. "It never seemed feasible, and we had been lucky enough to create games we (and many others fortunately!) loved in The Elder Scrolls and Fallout series. Yet, we couldn't shake the idea of exploring the galaxy in ways that only video games could do. And so, we took the leap to create not just our first new IP in over 25 years, but our most ambitious." Read more