Starfield’s Missed GOTY Nomination Proves It’s Not Skyrim In Space

Although Starfield is an ambitious game with an impressive sense of scale, its missing nomination for Game of the Year at The Game Awards for 2023 shows that Bethesda’s open-world formula might not be improving enough to keep up with the competition. A highly anticipated new IP from Bethesda, Starfield takes the open-world RPG gameplay of the studio’s previous games, like Skyrim and Fallout 4, and adapts it to a new, space-faring setting. However, while games like Skyrim were influential at the time they came out, Starfield has seemingly failed to make as much of an impact on the industry as its predecessors.