"Starfield's Title Screen Is Rushed," A Bethesda Exec Replies!

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Developers have gotten into a comment war with Mark Kern (former World of Warcraft team leader) criticizing Starfield’s title screen on one side and Bethesda’s head of publishing, Pete Hines, on the other…

“The countenance of start screens. The game’s start screen can reveal a lot about how rushed the team was and how much pride they took in their work. Starfield’s start screen shows hasty shipping deadlines by a passionate team overworked or a team that didn’t care. Start screens are often done at the very end of development. Teams are too busy making the core game. It’s common for the start screen to change completely once the game is shipping or on patch 0. Teams that take pride want to put a good face forward and often redo these just before the game goes live. The most insane example is probably the original Command and Conquer installer. It’s never been outdone,” Kern wrote on Twitter.

This criticism was not taken kindly by Hines, who responded: “Or they designed what they wanted, and that’s been our menu for years and was one of the first things we settled on. Having an opinion is one thing. Questioning out a developer’s “care” because you would have done it differently is highly unprofessional coming from another “dev.”” A witty response also came from Xbox-affiliated inXile Entertainment, who have since. However, they deleted what they said, got preserved what the studio currently developing Clockwork Revolution wrote on Reddit: “We are moving all dev resources off the game and onto the start screen. The campaign will be 45 minutes long, but the start screen will be 20+ hours.”

Here are the system requirements for Starfield:

Minimum system requirements:

Operating system: Windows 10 v2004 (10.0.19041.0) or later
Processor: Intel Core i7-6800K or AMD Ryzen 5 2600X or better
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 5700 or better
DirectX: DX12
Free storage: 125 GB (SSD required)

Recommended system requirements:

Operating system: Windows 10/11 updated
Processor: Intel Core i5-10600K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600X or better
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 or AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT or better
DirectX: DX12
Free storage: 125 GB (SSD required)

Starfield will be released on Xbox Series and PC on September 6.

Source: WCCFTech

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