Look: 7 hype-worthy moments from the Starfield gameplay trailer

Bethesda fans finally got a good, long look at Starfield during the Xbox Bethesda Showcase at Summer Game Fest. Here’s what has us hyped.

1,000 planets full of people and loot and resources and stories and who knows what else.

Seeing space ships be broken down across big drafting tables seems almost too good to be true. We want to believe!

The base building in Fallout 4 was a standout innovation for the Bethesda formula. Nice to see it get blown out even more here.

Populating your various structures and ships (or hunting artifacts) with living, breathing recruitable crew members is like having a Housecarl in space. Friendships!

Big planets full of stuff to harvest means lots to do. Those spaceships and outposts won’t fabricate themselves!

Mini-games like this (and some version of the dialogue system from Oblivion) will help us avoid smashing buttons and getting bored.

That was a big honking leap! The best part of Skyrim was smashing a horse or jumping up a mountain now you get do it with less gravity