Starfield creator on 'choice anxiety', long games and exclusive titles

Todd Howard tells the BBC his team wondered if they 'were in over our heads' when creating the game.

[anast]

"Todd Howard tells the BBC his team wondered if they 'were in over our heads' when creating the game."

Yes, they were in over their heads. They answered every problem with a loading screen.

[Tacoboto]

FFXVI has a moment early on where your crew sees the first major crystal in the distance. We have to get there by nightfall.

It cuts to a loading screen. We select the point on the map. It loads again - nightfall now and we're at the crystal. Rinse and repeat for getting anywhere not part of your loaded instance chunk.

Replace FFXVI with Starfield and crystal with planet, and it's quite literally the same.

[Armaggedon]

Baldurs gate has loading screens too.