“Come on, Todd”: Xbox boss Phil Spencer was one of the Starfield players begging Todd Howard for a better way to travel - “I’m tired of walking around this planet”
Spencer wanted the Rev-8 as much as the rest of us
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Starfieldplayers have been begging for vehicles since the open-world RPG first launched, and Xbox bossPhil Spenceris no exception. In fact, he was bugging Todd Howard for the feature directly.
In an interview as part ofXbox’s Gamescom stream, Spencer said his presence at the event was preventing him from hopping into “my buggy in Starfield. I’ve been asking Todd for vehicles. ‘Come on, Todd, I want vehicles in this game. I’m tired of walking around this planet.’ I thought the trailer for that looked really good last night, so I can’t wait to drive around planets in Starfield.”
The notion of Spencer gently whining “come on, Todd” has very much tickled me, and it seems to have worked - never mind the fact that the entire Starfield community has spent a year doing the same thing. TheRev-8 update hit Starfield as part of a surprise updatethat dropped duringGamescom Opening Night Live, and it immediatelyinspired players to “go GTA” on a poor, unsuspecting New Atlantis. Hopefully it’ll recover beforeStarfield’s Shattered Space DLClaunches on September 30.
Elsewhere in his Gamescom interview, Spencer talked about more than just his penchant for annoying Todd Howard. He also noted thatIndiana Jones and the Great Circle is coming to PS5 because “it’s a strategy that works for us” and “our franchises are getting stronger,“addressing the concerns of long-time Xbox fans about the brand’s increasingly multiplatform strategy.
Kid Stuff is by far the best trait in Starfield, even if it did lead to a deeply embarrassing encounter in a nightclub.
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He’s been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.
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