Starfield

I’m sure it all means something

Starfield is a big game apparently. I spent some time watching number one son play yesterday. Strange things are abroad in the universe. You start off as a lowly recruit who is for some reason sent off to do something really scary and dangerous with inevitable (if hard to fathom) results. The game looks nice enough. The environments are incredibly detailed with lots of things to explore. But when the first significant attack is from, of all things, space pirates (which we had in Elite nearly 40 years ago), you have to wonder a bit about the originality of the premise. Apparently it does pick up speed a bit later on and start to get much more interesting. But from what I saw I was left wondering where they had spent all the time and effort that has gone into this game.