With an unfathomable number of explorable planets, it's no wonder playtesters are blown away by the sheer scale and depth of Bethesda's upcoming sci-fi RPG, Starfield. Now, the word is spreading that even the most pessimistic folks on the team are coming away with positively strong first impressions.

With over 250,000 lines of dialogue and reports claiming that the game's main quest will be about 20% bigger than previous games, it seems that Bethesda is opening the year with a colossus release. This is a good sign for the developer's first new IP in years.

The rumor about the opinion of the playtesters originates from the latest episode of the XNC podcast, on which host Colt Eastwood claimed to have heard from people close to the playtesting team that the game is "bigger and more ambitious than what was previously expected". It is bigger than anything [Bethesda Game Studios] did in Skyrim," he noted. "It takes everything they've done in Fallout and Skyrim and raises it.

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