Bethesda's first new setting in 25 years, a space role-playing game released in September 2023 with a thousand planets and, according to the internet, nothing on most of them. The record's entry for a launch that was large, fine and disappointing at the same time, and for the loading-screen counts that became its meme.
Correction: the 'thousand planets' line was accurate. The complaint was never that they were absent; it was that they were the same.
The record notes that Starfield was played by millions and argued about by all of them, and that the argument was mostly whether 'it is a Bethesda game' was a defence or a diagnosis.
November 2023: Bethesda's Steam account replies to negative reviews explaining that some planets are empty by design, and that real astronauts were not bored. The replies are screenshotted more than the game.
I remember taking a screenshot of a loading screen in a lift, and then another loading screen outside the lift, and putting them next to each other for no one in particular.
You were there. What happened?
