{"id":11437,"date":"2023-09-06T08:37:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T06:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/06\/starfield-review-an-exquisite-electric-faintly-rickety-universe-of-possibilities\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T08:37:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T06:37:14","slug":"starfield-review-an-exquisite-electric-faintly-rickety-universe-of-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/06\/starfield-review-an-exquisite-electric-faintly-rickety-universe-of-possibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Starfield review \u2013 an exquisite, electric, faintly rickety universe of possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Xbox Series S\/X, PC; Bethesda\/Microsoft<\/strong>
Bethesda\u2019s long-awaited space epic is a vast interstellar canvas full of glorious sights to see and intriguing threads to pull \u2013 if you can keep patience with its fussy systems<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a feeling when you approach your ship, a snug and plucky little star-hopper named Frontier (of course<\/em>), as it squats on the circular expanse of a landing pad. An inkling of stars pricks through the dusky sky; the hatch hangs invitingly open, a furnace of light spilling from the ship\u2019s belly on to the tarmac. You stride past your robot butler, who has awaited your return with the infinite patience of a machine, clamber over whatever trinkets you\u2019ve scattered across the ship\u2019s floor to make some room in your backpack, and lower yourself into the pilot\u2019s seat. A bank of buzzing CRT monitors, analogue switches and lights blinks back at you. As the ship\u2019s thrusters flare, there is this sensation \u2013 rarely felt in our world, where every copse and cul-de-sac has been Google-sapped of all intrigue \u2013 of possibility, of range, of the opportunity to chart the unknown. A universe of storyline threads awaits, ready to be gathered up and laced.<\/p>\n

Not at first, though. Starfield, the latest game from Bethesda, a studio known for big-hearted<\/a> and bug-ridden<\/a> worlds that strain at the seams of their supporting technology, starts blandly. You play as a miner who happens upon a fragment of an ancient artefact that, when touched, sends you tumbling into a psychedelic vision. This experience earns you an invitation to join a Masonic-like guild of explorers known as Constellation. The group believes that the artefact could relinquish some of the universe\u2019s deep secrets, a conviction burnished by the fact that, when its fragments are brought close to one another, they float and fizzle with arcane energy.<\/p>\n

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\nXbox Series S\/X, PC; Bethesda\/MicrosoftBethesda\u2019s long-awaited space epic is a vast interstellar canvas full of glorious sights to see and intriguing threads to pull \u2013 if you can keep patience with its fussy systems<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a feeling when you approach your ship, a snug and plucky little star-hopper named Frontier (of course), as it squats on the circular expanse of a landing pad. An inkling of stars pricks through the dusky sky; the hatch hangs invitingly open, a furnace of light spilling from the ship\u2019s belly on to the tarmac. You stride past your robot butler, who has awaited your return with the infinite patience of a machine, clamber over whatever trinkets you\u2019ve scattered across the ship\u2019s floor to make some room in your backpack, and lower yourself into the pilot\u2019s seat. A bank of buzzing CRT monitors, analogue switches and lights blinks back at you. As the ship\u2019s thrusters flare, there is this sensation \u2013 rarely felt in our world, where every copse and cul-de-sac has been Google-sapped of all intrigue \u2013 of possibility, of range, of the opportunity to chart the unknown. A universe of storyline threads awaits, ready to be gathered up and laced.
\nNot at first, though. Starfield, the latest game from Bethesda, a studio known for big-hearted and bug-ridden worlds that strain at the seams of their supporting technology, starts blandly. You play as a miner who happens upon a fragment of an ancient artefact that, when touched, sends you tumbling into a psychedelic vision. This experience earns you an invitation to join a Masonic-like guild of explorers known as Constellation. The group believes that the artefact could relinquish some of the universe\u2019s deep secrets, a conviction burnished by the fact that, when its fragments are brought close to one another, they float and fizzle with arcane energy. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Xbox Series S\/X, PC; Bethesda\/MicrosoftBethesda\u2019s long-awaited space epic is a vast interstellar canvas full of glorious sights to see and intriguing threads to pull \u2013 if you can keep patience with its fussy systems There\u2019s a feeling when you approach your ship, a snug and plucky little star-hopper named Frontier (of course), as it squats …<\/p>\n

Starfield review \u2013 an exquisite, electric, faintly rickety universe of possibilities<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11437"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}