Starfield won't end when Free Lanes and Terran Armada hit the game on April 7. That means the simultaneous PS5 launch, long-rumored and finally confirmed, won't mark the final chapter in Bethesda's own space odyssey. While I think it's a safe bet that the vast majority of the studio's hard-working personnel is attached to The Elder Scrolls 6, there'll still be some tidbits to come for the game that composer Inon Zur is convinced will soon be looked upon more fondly across the board.
Lead Creative Producer Timothy Lamb has real qualms with folks dubbing next month's update "Starfield 2.0," and who can blame him when even Todd Howard himself says otherwise. But he does leave fans with a heck of a tease.
Starfield didn't exactly unite Bethesda fans new and old when it launched in 2023. To be sure, Fallout 4 had already brought quite a bit of heat from some corners—I don't adore it, myself—but that game seems to have kept selling and getting played more so than the space epic that debuted some seven years later. To say nothing of Skyrim, which... yeah. The king of long-term commercial payouts, that one.
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