Starfield Space-Ro-Dah”

These long summer videogame presentations almost always end with a “one more thing.” and then some kind of final reveal. At the 45-minute Starfield Direct today, Todd Howard’s “one more thing” was… space-magic. 

That’s right. After all the talk about Starfield being “NASA Punk” and “grounded in realism,” we see the protagonist walk into a room full of enemies, slowly raise one hand like Darth Vader, and instakill everyone.

Sure, you can claim it’s really alien technology, or biotics, or psionics, or whatever pseudoscientific term can explain someone holding up their hand and killing a room full of people. But it’s magic. Space magic! It’s a dragon shout, only…