Starfield Got One Planet Completely Wrong

Even with some of its more fantastical elements, Starfield creates quite a convincing vision of humanity as an interstellar civilization in the year 2330. Developer Bethesda Game Studios has long held that the game’s design ethos is “NASA-punk,” hoping to capture a natural progression in technology and aesthetic following the space race of the 20th century. The result is a setting much more grounded than that Bethesda’s fantasy epics in The Elder Scrolls, and far less silly than the satirical post-apocalyptic wastelands of Fallout. Still, one planet in particular shows a surprising lapse in attention to detail.