 we were greeted by a special appearance from Phil Spencer and Todd Howard who introduced what we were about to see. After sitting through the trailer that was shown at the previous night's Gamescom Opening Night Live, the game began and we were walked through the first 20 minutes of Starfield. This further cemented to me that giant RPG's do not work in demo form. As someone who admittedly isn't the biggest fan of Bethesda Game Studios titles (I like Fallout well enough, just not as much as you all do), I was hoping to walk out of this presentation ready to head to the stars in September. Instead I'm exactly where I was before I landed in Germany. Spoiler alert: the Starfield demo covers the opening of the game, so if you want to go in with fresh eyes, don't read any further. Starfield opens up with you heading to do your day job as a miner as two characters exchange at times Marvel movie-esque quips between each other. As you go to work you'll mine away at ore in a way that's not dissimilar to No Man's Sky before touching a strange looking rock that knocks you on your ass so bad that you've forgotten what you look like. When you awake you're taken into the character creator which looks extremely impressive from what I could glimpse (it was sped through because – as everyone knows – creating a character can be an hours-long affair in an RPG) looking like a natural current gen evolution of the Fallout 4 creation. After you awake a member of the group Constellation arrives to){kind=link}
We also got our first look at the Fallout TV series following the 20-minute demo
Microsoft kicked off its presence at Gamescom 2023 with a Starfield demonstration led by Todd Howard
A number of journalists were funnelled into a big room at the back of the massive Xbox booth emblazoned with Starfield decals. As we sat waiting to see what awaits us when Bethesda’s next hit launches into early access in just over a week on September 1, 2023 (with the full launch five days later on September 6, 2023) we were greeted by a special appearance from Phil Spencer and Todd Howard who introduced what we were about to see.
After sitting through the trailer that was shown at the previous night’s Gamescom Opening Night Live, the game began and we were walked through the first 20 minutes of Starfield.
This further cemented to me that giant RPG’s do not work in demo form.