Starfield had a blowout today as part of the Xbox conference, and it’s safe to say it did its job. Opinion on the game has shifted dramatically.

Not that the muted reaction to it before was ever fair. I think it’s a nice combination of Fallout 76, Bethesda’s reputation for janky launches and a general attitude to Xbox that made people comfortable knocking it out. And maybe those people will still turn out to be right.
But before it felt like those critics were in the majority. You couldn’t read about Starfield without someone popping up to say “It won’t
