Starfield: Experience space in Bethesda’s new RPG title

The Elder Scrolls, Fallout… Bethesda created lots of RPGs for the game industry so far. And we’ve been waiting their new IP Starfield on tiptoe. This new IP is not only Bethesda’s new RPG title, but also the first Bethesda game that launched with the name of Microsoft.

After all these waitings, Starfield finally came out and showed us its beautiful universe, sci-fi stories and characters in RPG elements with some exceptions. Prepare yourself and your audience for this adventure, this will be a long story.

Choose who you are on Starfield’s universe

Not only just on live streams, but also the gamer’s experience of a RPG adventure itself has always been a special one. In RPGs, you become the one who are experiencing the universe and you are the one who are controlling your adventure.

I know that I don’t have to tell you what RPGs are or how they work. What I’m trying to say is that RPG games, especially Bethesda RPGs, are very suitable for a livestream in terms of creating your adventure and live this adventure with your audience.

Be a bounty hunter and hunt down pirates or be a thief and steal whatever you can, what about a person who is good at conversations? Persuade everybody with your sentences. It is your choice and your audience will testify your adventure.

There are just a few problems on Starfield’s RPG system: sometimes the game doesn’t offer you a choice, it shapes your adventure all the time and this could be a problem for the game’s tempo because whenever you lost connection with the game, you also lose attention from your audience and get easily bored of it.

Follow Starfield’s stories and lost in them

While Starfield offers gamers to create their own characters and adventures, it also gives us lots of stories on both main and side missions.

I’m not happy to say that but Starfield’s main missions and what the story it’s told is not enough to keep the gamer excited, and also in this situation the audience.

Of course, the main story has an interesting concept and an impressive ending but mission structures and the choices they offer can make you lose interest in the game sometimes.

But this is an RPG game and there’s still lots of things to do in Starfield. Faction missions is one of them. Those missions are much more well prepared in terms of offering choice and mission structure. Take your audience and follow a mission chain.

So, in the end, Starfield’s stories are fun and interesting enough for a live stream but I need to say that presentation is a bit old fashioned and far from being one of the best of its kind.

Prepare your tools, space is waiting for you

There are lots of guns and tools in Starfield’s universe. This also brings playstyle variety too. Choose one of them and create a fun live stream chain.

Take a shotgun and let your enemies fly off in a zero-gravity field or acquire required stealth skills and try to be a thief of the universe. It’s your choice and with a good role-play adjustments, your live stream can be really fun to watch.

Of course, as we’re in a space game, we have a spaceship and this ship can be a whole point of a live stream alongside any other elements of Starfield. You can build and set up your ship the way you like and use it on the field. I’m sure that building Han Solo’s Millennium Falcon would be fun and interesting in a live stream.

Although Starfield is a space exploration title in a way, the game mosty limits you throughout your journey. For example, there are almost no field for a free ship ride. You can’t say “let’s travel to Mars with our ship and have a chat, guys!” in your stream because you’ll always have to use fast travel option to move.

Starfield is not completely a next-gen game

When we look at Starfield’s overall experience, we can say that it’s a well made game but in 2023, Starfield’s technical problems and, most importantly, game’s structure is not giving us a next-gen experience.

In a quick look, you can say that Starfield looks and works like remastered versions of Fallout 4 or Skyrim. Giving an example: yes, loading screens are short but there are lots of them and they can be so annoying from time to time. And don’t forget to install Starfield on SSD if you’re playing on PC.

If we talk about game length on the other hand, Starfield is huge. Even tough there are limits, space is in your hands literally. Even story missions provides you a minimum 30 hour gameplay.

And there are lots of things to do aside from main missions. Factions, exploring planets, building ships or bases etc. You can spend over 100 hours in Starfield without saying “what to do next?”. I’m sure that Starfield will help you create long live stream chains.

And this game has a New Game+ feature that increases its replayability. New Game+ is not only making you play the game again, but also unlocks new dialogue options. Not going to spoil them, definitely try it out.

I’ve tested Starfield both on PC (Xbox App) and on Xbox Series X and the total results are not satisfying. Yes, Starfield may be one of the most bugless games Bethesda ever made, but the performance on the other hand, is not that good.

Xbox Series X runs Starfield at only 30FPS for now. Resolution may be high, but at least it should have a performance mod which includes 60FPS option. That doesn’t make this game unplayable but in this year, on a next-gen console, from a Bethesda game which is also now a Xbox’s title, it is not that acceptable.

PC performance on the other hand is a bit more shaky. There are lots of frame drops and crashes due to optimization problems. I suggest you to prepare yourself for some issues and using a second stream PC for playing Starfield on your channel.

This game is available on PC Game Pass.

Anıl Keskinbaş

A gamer who loves to talk and analyze video games/game sector in his writings, videos and streams !