The game is aggressively Bethesda but I’m enjoying the visuals and sniffing the 3d model of every insignificant bit of detritis in the world. I saw a very nice looking bowl, maybe THE bowl of all videogames. Other than that the narrative and main story has already lost my interest after about 10 minutes and I’ll be off being a space menace if the game will let me.
Once i found out I can travel using the ship in scanner mode it doesn’t feel like a map simulator anymore.
Also the chef having a perk for dueling tickles me.
Game also runs like shit on PC but digital foundry showed most settings being on medium yields good performance with no noticable quality loss.
I’m enjoying it, it’s pretty empty in a lot of places but actually I like that you can basically always know whether or not you’re gonna have to talk to a human. Because I like listening to podcasts and stuff when I’m playing games like this. Skyrim is a bit too on/off in that regard- which as a game makes it better than Starfield, but as a chill vibes audiobook accompaniment, I prefer Starfield. The dead planets don’t even have aliens on them and you won’t stumble upon a pirate unless you intend to.
I like the ship building, although I am definitely gonna mod that aspect hard, and use some other kind of mod to adjust enemy ships accordingly.
It’s certainly not a great game, but the mods are gonna be so fucking good I stg
I’m probably gonna do one playthrough and then play it again like 3 months after they drop the Creation Kit