So, what happens in the Starfield’s first few hours?
Starfield is practical so close to release that you can taste the horrible cobalt taste that’a Grav Drive jump to Hyperspace will leave in your mouth, and yet it’s a game that feels like what has been shown to the public has been just a tiny fraction of what’s possible in Bethesda’s latest and most ambitious RPG to date.
They’ve already done a big gameplay reveal in the summer, so with just a few more days until launch next week, Bethesda and Xbox turned up at Gamescom 2023 with something different: a theatre presentation to showcase the opening of the game. Not hands on, not a sample of gameplay that people could actively explore, but a video demonstration of what people can expect (and what they might have already seen from a shaky cam leak of the opening 40 minutes).
So, spoilers abound in the following few hundred words, but what does the Starfield opening actually show you? How do you get roped into this galaxy-wide scavenger hunt?
As in so many adventures, yours is a humble beginning. You’re not an epic adventurer, but just another of the many people who head down the mines of planets and asteroids to retrieve valuable minerals that have allowed humanity to proliferate across the galaxy.
It’s just your second day on the job, and after some banter between the mine boss and another miner on your descent, you get to see the grimy work of collecting resources in the game. It’s not long before you get your own hands on a Cutter and get to laser beam yourself some metals for the Arsos Extractors mining company.
But this isn’t just any old day and, presumably putting your life at risk instead of their own, as there’s a fresh breakthrough into a cave formation that features some mysterious anomalous signals, you’re sent in to
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