Todd Howard says Starfield criticism is "perfectly understandable" as the RPG is a "different experience" to Bethesda's other games - but not everyone agrees

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Todd Howard says 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Starfield's criticism is "perfectly understandable" as the RPG is ꧂a "different experience" to Bet☂hesda's other games. 

In an interview with Kinda Funny Games, Howard discusses what the studio learned f🧸rom Starfield and its mixed response from fans. When asked how he, and the rest of the team, felt about Starfield's initial reception, Howard said: "On the review side, we've been through this, so it's not new to us." He continues: "What's new is it's a ne꧃w IP, so you know that we're going to be doing some things differently than we've done before."

. "Look, that's great, I don't want ever be in a world where that is not a great place to be in terms of critical reception - particularly in a year where there are so many amazing games out," he explains.

Talking abℱout specific complaints players and critics had of Starfield upon release, Howard adds: "We see the feedback, we see a lot of players saying 'this is what I want oꦿut of a Bethesda game, which is to explore a world in a certain way, and Starfield didn't give me that. I prefer the way it's done in Fallout or Elder Scrolls' and perfectly understandable, right? In terms of 'hey, this is a different experience.'"

Howard elaborates: "Knowing that content is going to be different than you've seen from us🌠 in the past when you're exploring a landscape, and that's some of the trade-offs we'll make to do what we think makes a science fiction game like this [...] and each of the franchises should kind of be꧅ its own thing."

Unfortunately, not everyone agrees with Howard on this. Re❀spondin🐎g to 's story, Twitter users didn't hold back from sharing their opinions on Starfield. "Somehow I don't think that was the reason," one user . "NARRATOR: It wasn’t," another . "I haven't played Starfield but these seem close to the opposite of the complaints I've seen about it," someone else. 

Elsewhere in the same interview, Todd Howard says Fallout: New Vegas "is a very, very important game to us" and that it's "hard to canonize" for the TV show.

In more positive news, Starfield is getting its biggest update since launch with a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:60FPS performance mode, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:proper surface maps, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new gameplay options.

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