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Starfield’s rotoscoped animated advert pokes fun at hoarding playersAnd the adoring fan
And the adoring fan
Image credit:Joel Haver
Image credit:Joel Haver
If you spend your days refreshing the YouTube homepage in lieu of doing work, like I do, you might have at some point come across the work of Joel Haver. Haver makes, among other things, comedic rotoscoped animations riffing on science fiction and video game tropes.
It makes sense that Bethesda would have tapped him up to take the mick out ofStarfield, then, given it combines both those tropes into a mockable whole.
Here’s the six-minute short that Haver (and team) put together:
Starfield from the NPC’s PerspectiveStarfield from the NPC’s perspective.Watch on YouTube
Starfield from the NPC’s Perspective
As the title suggests, the animation tells the story of a crew of NPC pirates who have been following the player across the galaxy, assuming that his ship is full of valuable treasure. It is not.
I enjoyed the above short a lot more than I’m enjoyingStarfielditself. I’m only three hours in, though. Alice B has played much more for theStarfield reviewand found her way towards having some fun with it, albeit with lots of caveats and awkward systems along the way. And not the fun kind of Bethesda awkwardness depicted above, either.
