Did Starfield took inspiration from 2001: A Space Odyssey?

[Algalord]

The title to this thread is a rhetorical question. Of course it did.
Every major science fiction media took inspiration from that movie/book which I highly recommend.

When I saw Starfield footage and specially this character (Matteo, The Theologian) I knew I've seen that weird hat somewhere else:

This is a scene from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odissey:
https://ibb.co/3k6szK0

And this is Matteo from Starfield:
https://www.starfielddb.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/starfield-matteo.jpg

I also like the notion of those artefacts from the main quest being some kind of alien anomaly just like the black Monolith from 2001.
Dude...as someone who loves Sci-fi I can't wait for Starfield. I'm trying to keep my expectations under control but it's pretty hard.

[Tenoshii]

Yeah there will be a lot of Easter eggs from that film in the game.

[Algalord]

Originally posted by Tenoshii:

Yeah there will be a lot of Easter eggs from that film in the game.

I wonder if we'll get to see a rogue AI like Hal 9000 in a future DLC or maybe even in the main quest.
We know so little about the lore. I'm still confused about what happened to Earth. A settlement on Mars (Cydonia) was mentioned in the Direct coverage which makes me conclude we'll get to know what happened to our homeworld.

I also wonder if we'll get to visit Mars moons, Phobos and Deimos.

[Tenoshii]

Originally posted by Algalorrd:

I wonder if we'll get to see a rogue AI like Hal 9000 in a future DLC or maybe even in the main quest.

I'd be pretty surprised if we didn't encounter some meaningful AI presence in the game somewhere. Though perhaps not as sinister as Hal 9000.

[Mowglia]

Originally posted by Tenoshii:

Originally posted by Algalorrd:

I wonder if we'll get to see a rogue AI like Hal 9000 in a future DLC or maybe even in the main quest.

I'd be pretty surprised if we didn't encounter some meaningful AI presence in the game somewhere. Though perhaps not as sinister as Hal 9000.

Hal wasn't sinister! Poor guy was just doing his job. Personally I blame the programmer, who obviously wasn't doing his job :p

[Bee🐝]

Most sci-fi takes queues from 2001, Jodorowsky's Dune, the original Bladerunner and both Star franchises - it's just part of sci-fi visual lingua franca.

I do like Starfield in terms of ship interiors have gone for a clean and gravity-aware design.

[Settings]

It would be weirder if it didn't to be honest

[Jack Greedy]

It is good inspiration, i bet the game will have great space feeling and atmosphere.
I can't wait to play it and mod it , Aliens movie comes to me as an idea for a immersion mod.

[Mack]

Although I'm sure it did have some inspiration from 2001 (it's hard to do a space game with this many people without it being influential in some fashion), it's apparently more inspired by the tabletop RPB game Traveller.

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Didn't everyone?

[Torpex]

Originally posted by Mack:

... it's apparently more inspired by the tabletop RPB game Traveller.

We will see if that's true. I will be super happy if they get to 50% quality of Traveller.

So far it looks like they are just remaking FO4 in space.

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Originally posted by Torpex:

So far it looks like they are just remaking FO4 in space.

As if that would be a bad thing.

[Torpex]

Originally posted by -={LG}=-:

Originally posted by Torpex:

So far it looks like they are just remaking FO4 in space.

As if that would be a bad thing.

Well, when they tried to remake FO4 into a multiplayer game that didn't work out.

In any case, if they just manage to get to a FO4 level of release bugginess, that would be great. I am all for it.

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Originally posted by Torpex:

Well, when they tried to remake FO4 into a multiplayer game that didn't work out.

What's that go to do with two single-player games? Oblivion is just a remake of Morrowind. Fallout New Vegas is just a remake of Fallout 3. Fallout 4 is just a remake of Fallout New Vegas. That's how a franchise often works.

Each iteration advances the winning formula, just as Starfield will likely advance it. Being a "remake of Fallout 4" isn't a critique in my opinion, it's a recommendation.

[Aiendreas]

You highly recommended it, but cant spell it?

[LDClaudius]

I wonder if there are Easter Egg from Dune.