Bruce Nesmith thinks that if Bethesda Game Studios (BGS) goes ahead with Starfield, the team’s new IP, it will be a huge success.

Nesmith left Bethesda in 2021, leaving behind his work as a designer on several games with Todd Howard’s team. He was the lead designer on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. In an interview with VideoGamer, Nesmith said that if Starfield gets a sequel, he thinks it will be a great one, comparing the first episode to Mass Effect and Assassin’s Creed. The first episodes of those were great, but the second one made them much stronger…

“I’m really looking forward to Starfield 2. I think it’s going to be a hell of a game because it’s going to address a lot of the things that people are saying, ‘We’re pretty much there. We’re missing a little bit. It’s going to be able to take what’s in there right now and put a lot of new stuff in there and fix a lot of those problems. When we were making [The Elder Scrolls V:] Skyrim, we had the tremendous advantage of [The Elder Scrolls IV:] Oblivion, which had the tremendous advantage of [The Elder Scrolls III:] Morrowind. It was all there for us. All we had to do was keep improving and adding new stuff. We didn’t have to start from scratch. If we’d had to start from scratch, it would have been another two or three years of development,” Nesmith said.

In September, Todd Howard, the director of Starfield, admitted that BGS is irresponsibly making big games, and that’s because very little content is cut: “My job on the games is often to be the director, a little bit like a movie director, where you bring all the pieces together from the art, the cinematography, the technology that our engineers build to bring these worlds to life. And of course there’s all the writing and the quest design and the level design, and there are so many parts to our games that I’m in a really unique position to work with so many amazing people and bring it all together.

Right now, BGS is working on The Elder Scrolls VI.

Source: VGC, VideoGamer