A silent protagonist is often the best protagonist .
In a recent consultation with Polygon , Starfield ’s Lead Designer , Emil Pagliarulo , revealed that Bethesda once planned to have the primary protagonist voice pretend but bin the idea in pre - yield .
When asked whether fan response to Fallout 4 ’s voiced protagonist make Bethesda to prefer out of include one in Starfield , Pagliarulo revealed that the ship’s company had consider it , and actually went so far as to hire an worker and having them read lines .
“ In pre - product , the plan was to have a voiced friend , ” he saidin the Starfield interviewpublished on August 28 , 2023 . “ We hired an actor , we get the vocalisation , we listen to him and we were like , You know what , this guy is too specific . ”
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According to Pagliarulo , the design squad toyed with the idea for a while but decide that have a set voice would disturb the power to make a singular character . “ Do we have , like some RPGs do , four voices ? Do we have one voice , but hire someone else who ’s more convenient ? ” he continue . “ … We realized that the only way to really do it and let the player be the soul they require to be was to have an unvoiced booster . ”
Starfield reportedly has over 200,000 pedigree of spoken negotiation via various non - playable characters with already established identity . So , opting not to voice the main grapheme was , according to Pagliarulo , “ really free ” and “ allowed us to create such a big humankind . ”
Starfield releases on August 31 , 2023 , for those who havepurchased the Starfield Premium Editionfor Early Access . For everyone else , they ’ll be able-bodied to launch into distance on September 6 , 2023 .
