The fate of Starfield (our review here) continues to spark discussion in the gaming community, and now a former Bethesda developer raises a provocative question: would the space game have been better received if it had been released under another studio’s brand? Bruce Nesmith, system designer who left the company about a year before launch, has no doubts about the fact that the expectations towards the team that created Skyrim and Fallout weighed heavily on the final judgement. The pressure of having to match two of the most beloved role-playing sagas of all time proved, in his opinion, an impossible burden to bear.
Nesmith does not hide a certain disappointment with the final result, although he defends his and his colleagues’ work. In an interview with FRVR, he frankly admitted that Starfield does not reach the same level as The Elder Scrolls or Fallout, while remaining \