To be fair, Skyrim came out ages ago. Maybe he forgot.
At time of writing, Starfield’s Steam review score is at an unenviable, beige “Mixed” rating, with only 59% of its total reviews coming in positive. Its first DLC, Shattered Space, is faring even worse: It’s currently sitting at “Mostly Negative”, with just 38% positive user reviews.
But Starfield design director Emil Pagliarulo isn’t letting it dissuade him. In a recent chat with GamesRadar, Pagliarulo said that—though Starfield might not be “everyone’s cup of tea”—he reckons “it’s also, in a lot of ways, the best game we’ve ever made.”
This is, of course, a slightly wild thing for the studio that made Morrowind (its actual best game) and Skyrim (its most popular game by miles) to say, and I’m not convinced Pagliarulo didn’t momentarily forget every game Bethesda made after Wayne Gretzky Hockey in order to come to that conclusion. Still, he does offer some justification for the judgement.
