Starfield will be GamePass's "House of Cards/Orange Is The New Black" Change my mind.

That is, the platform's first zeitgeisty blockbuster megahit, produced entirely in-house for the platform, and the final execution and actualization of Netflix's business plan, firmly cementing its proof of concept as the new status quo. Change my mind.

House of Cards single-handedly legitimized the idea of internet based "TV" platforms having original content produced for them, primarily for consumption on the internet, and conditioned people to expect the same standard of quality/production you expected from TV.

Gotta say, I'm impressed with how confident Microsoft and Bethesda seem about this game considering they're currently carpet bombing YouTube with pre-roll ads of the Starfield trailer.

I've seen the thing like 20 times by now.

I absolutely believe Starfield will be that game. The only thing GamePass needs is its "House of Cards" and "Orange is the New Black" moment. Change my mind.

It's a Bethesda RPG i.e. it will suck. Never played a good Bethesda game.

I enjoyed TES so there has been good Bethesda games. 😊

We should at least see some gameplay footage before making such claims.

The game has outstanding potential but it'll be a we shall see for some time now. Mid next year we should know plenty more.

"In-house". Like Microsoft created Bethesda. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

As if it matters. 😎

I think people forget that Bethesda's last few games have been meh or outright awful....looking at you Fallout 76.

Bethesda has ALOT to prove right now, whether or not StarField get's people on gamepass is neither here nor there.....Bethesda needs to make a good quality product first, and their stupid in house engine isn't going to help them

I'm expecting the game to be pretty bad. That said, people seem to love the crap Bethesda makes, so it absolutely will increase subscriptions. And I am a subscriber, so I absolutely will play the game when I otherwise would not have.

Good Lord...

I can see Todd Howard becoming the new Kevin Spacey…

Perhaps. I loved Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3 and 4 so I’m pretty hyped for the potential of this game.

Man you guys are really setting yourself up for failure if this game flops. Not a drop of gameplay and you think this game will change the world 😄

@StrongDeadlift: barrier to entry with netflix was a bit lower but yeah it will probably have that gateway drug effect for gamers if the game is as good as we all hope

@SolidGame_basic: exactly. I'm setting my expectations pretty low since I'll probably get it on PC (game pass or not). But until some gameplay footage, it's better to be cautious. Specially since MS is known for terrible first party and the last Bethesda games were terrible.

So you've seen a logo, a picture of a ceiling or a wall (it was hard to tell) and an incredibly boring/generic CGI teaser and this is your opinion... 🤣

It is really funny seeing the folks who get excited from a logo complaining about in game cinematics. 🤭

I tend to enjoy the shit out of Bethesda sandbox games. They are just fun - even if they can't write a story for shit. Good lore, terrible narrative - that's Bethesda writing for ya.

I don't see ads on YT. I actually haven't seen anything about Starfield except for the E3 presentation.

I wouldn't even visit youtube if adblocks didn't exist.

@Litchie: Wait... adblock kills pre-rolls? I had... no idea.

This changes everything.

@sancho_panzer: lol

Another great Xbox studio game

Skyrim in space... he actually f'n said it.

it'll be Microsoft own exclusive Cyberpunk 2077 in terms of quality lol, i'm sure it'll be a fun game tho,... with any luck.., maybe

Now that Bethesda is focusing exclusively on Xbox and PC, I just hope they put a ton of work into their engine and storytelling tech (character animations, dialog trees and overall quest implementation) to make them 100% rock solid, not the janky implementations they've had since Morrowind.

PC360, part 2.

Every cow has a gaming PC...

Indeed. The Elder Scrolls 6 and whatever comes out before Starfield will be very telling of what we can expect from them from now on.

@dabear: I have all platforms, deal with it. 😎

LOTS of folks will sub to GP when this game launches, and MS will brag about dem numbers.

Bethesda has been trash for the last 10 years and I'm not nearly as excited for a space game compared to medieval fantasy or post apocalyptic wasteland. The mass effect trilogy will probably be better. When has Bethesda ever written a great plot?

Morrowind was alright, but that was 20 years ago so...

The thing that gives me little hope that this game will actually be good is that the things people enjoy about Bethesda games seem to be the same things that I can't stand about them. I can't really fault Bethesda for making games for their fans, so it kind of is what it is.

Well it can't be Skyrim in space when the trailer clearly showed guns. That said we did see an empty barren world... Hopefully that means there are a LOT of places you can go and they were just chilling away from all the everyday traffic.

Don't get me wrong, I'm still excited to see more, but my initial hype meter if it was at a 80 on a 100 scale has dropped to a 70-75. I'm not going to get to worried about it though since the game is still a year and a half out. We are probably still another year plus away from seeing anything meaningful.

I don't understand how people still fall for hype... Is this your first rodeo @StrongDeadlift? Falling for the Cyberpunk 2077 hype is understandable. There was TONS of footage shown leading up to launch. Little did we know, the stuff that was shown was the only parts of the game that were finished and had gone through quality control. Buy Starfield? We still know nothing about this game, and people are calling it a masterpiece. Chill...

@goldenelementxl: All of this hype over a logo is hilarious, especially when its from the same people who graced us with Fallout 76.

If the game was also on PS5, most of the people calling it a masterpiece would chill out a bit and wait.

Starfield will be the Fallout76 in space.

FO76 is a really good game now, after all the updates and expansions. People are just parroting what happened at launch out of ignorance.

I didn't think the game was all that bad at launch honestly... just got repetitive later in the game and had some unforgivable bugs.. hell, that's why I quit playing.. my base kept disappearing.. lol That's a bug I was waiting to see if it got fixed and never went back to the game. I'm sure that was dealt with a long time ago though so I really should go back and give the game another chance.

I've been playing off and on with a pal, and there are still some glitches here and there, and the graphics are really sub-par, but there's a ton of content, people came back to WV, and there's some Steel Brotherhood content out now.

One other thing I'll complain about: the grind to get to level 20, where the better content becomes available, is a real chore.

Or people just have low standards. Next you fellas will tell me Diablo Immortal eventually will be a really good game. Despite being mobile f2p trash.

While I like sci-fi, nothing I have seen is really selling me beyond it being cool that Bethesda is making a new IP, and I imagine they are finally building a new game engine instead of reusing the same one again and again. So just more excited to see what that will be like when it is finally built.

But yeah, one game in a sea of promising games coming to Game Pass on release, that's what I am excited about.

guess we'll see. I really liked Oblivion and Fallout 3

F76 will never be good because its an mmo, but not built as one.

Oh, I thought being overrated cause that's what I see house of cards is.

Indeed. I would wait until gameplay gets released until getting hyped.

you realize ND was a dev long before sony made the playstation or entered gaming and released about a dozen games before Sony purchased them. A majority of the companies owned by MS, EA and Sony were once independent and then acquired. The only company who doesn't do that is nintendo. they just kind of do their own thing

Those devs got big as they are through their respective platform holders' money. Nothing is different at Bethesda (Zenimax) except being paid 7.5 billion to keep their games off other console platforms. Their operations are still the same.