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"Eventually people will understand his vision."
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Composer Inon Zur has worked on hundreds of games across nearly three decades in the industry, though is perhaps best-known for his Bethesda scores: He composed the main themes and scores for Fallout 3, 4 and New Vegas, and most recently Starfield. Zur has given a new interview to RPG Site in which he says, perhaps unsurprisingly, that Starfield is great actually: and maybe we all just weren't ready for Todd Howard's genius, hmm?
"Todd is one of, if not the, most creative and invigorating human beings in the industry," says Zur. "He just doesn't stop. He always has new ideas. He always knows what he wants. He is very persuasive and has a very strong character. He will also find ways to describe what he wants without really calling it a name.
"He knows how to allow freedom of creativity on one hand, but also how to steer it to his own vision. He is a visionary. He sees things that people will start to find out years later."
And one of those things is that, apparently, Starfield will one day achieve "legendary" status.
"When Starfield released, I believe people were just not ready for it," says Zur. "It's a different way of looking at it, but Todd is really strong, and he said very, very lightly, 'Look, if you don't like it, then you don't like it, but this is the new thing that we're doing, and we're sticking to it.' He believes in his way, and it just has proven time and time again that eventually people will understand his vision.
"It just takes time and this is a common thing for all the big visionaries. Sometimes people really don't understand them correctly, but they were strong enough to stay on-course, and Todd will stay on-course on Starfield. Starfield will eventually become something that will be legendary. I have no doubt. It's just a matter of time."
I mean… you do you buddy, but short of a total overhaul I don't see people changing their minds on Starfield anytime soon. The game released in 2023 but hasn't ever seemed to pick up the audience love or modding scene of Bethesda's other games, and over 83,000 Steam user reviews return the verdict of "mixed" (PC Gamer awarded it 75% at launch: a perfectly respectable score, but perhaps not what Bethesda was going for).
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Composer Inon Zur has worked on hundreds of games across nearly three decades in the industry, though is perhaps best-known for his Bethesda scores: He composed the main themes and scores for Fallout 3, 4 and New Vegas, and most recently Starfield. Zur has given a new interview to RPG Site in which he says, perhaps unsurprisingly, that Starfield is great actually: and maybe we all just weren't ready for Todd Howard's genius, hmm?
"Todd is one of, if not the, most creative and invigorating human beings in the industry," says Zur. "He just doesn't stop. He always has new ideas. He always knows what he wants. He is very persuasive and has a very strong character. He will also find ways to describe what he wants without really calling it a name.
"He knows how to allow freedom of creativity on one hand, but also how to steer it to his own vision. He is a visionary. He sees things that people will start to find out years later."
And one of those things is that, apparently, Starfield will one day achieve "legendary" status.
"When Starfield released, I believe people were just not ready for it," says Zur. "It's a different way of looking at it, but Todd is really strong, and he said very, very lightly, 'Look, if you don't like it, then you don't like it, but this is the new thing that we're doing, and we're sticking to it.' He believes in his way, and it just has proven time and time again that eventually people will understand his vision.
"It just takes time and this is a common thing for all the big visionaries. Sometimes people really don't understand them correctly, but they were strong enough to stay on-course, and Todd will stay on-course on Starfield. Starfield will eventually become something that will be legendary. I have no doubt. It's just a matter of time."
I mean… you do you buddy, but short of a total overhaul I don't see people changing their minds on Starfield anytime soon. The game released in 2023 but hasn't ever seemed to pick up the audience love or modding scene of Bethesda's other games, and over 83,000 Steam user reviews return the verdict of "mixed" (PC Gamer awarded it 75% at launch: a perfectly respectable score, but perhaps not what Bethesda was going for).
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