Tbh I really wanted to love this game, and I ended up only liking it. It’s a good game, but there are so many things that hold it back for me personally. I think one of my biggest issues with it is that it feels too much like a video game. I get it “you’re playing a video wtf you mean” what I mean is it doesn’t feel Ike a living breathing immersive world, it feels like the entire universe revolves around you, when you leave an area it ceases to exist, when you arrive at an area you’re bombarded with 100s of meaningless quests whose whole purpose is to lead you to unique areas. How about letting me find those areas on my own? I feel like it’s so much better “stumbling” on something truly unique by sheer coincidence.

Another gripe I have is the NPC’s are nothing but a backdrop, they aren’t even fully rendered. Not to mention your player character isn’t even fully rendered, the only time NPC’s look half decent is when in conversation.

Which leads me to the dialogue cam, it’s too close, looks uncanny, I’d rather have a cinematic cam so I can at least see my character fully rendered outside of character creation.

This game made me go back and play fallout 3 and fallout new Vegas again to see if I’m just blinded by nostalgia. But after a few hours of each I was instantly validated in my concerns, what made those games masterpieces (imo) was the world building. Fallout 3 you get a quick glimpse of life growing up in a vault and then you are thrust into the world to be whoever you want to be, and the game gives you every reason to be evil or to be good, or to just be a guy. New Vegas is similar, given a quick cutscene to set the stage for the main quest, and you’re off on your adventure.

Starfield on the other hand has an intro that makes little sense no matter how your mental gymnastics are, forces you to go to Constellation, and then holds your hand for hours and hours, and you never really feel like you’re free to do whatever you want, you’re given no reason to role play. Hell even in fallout 4 I felt like it could be natural for my character to be a bad guy because he went through so much shit so fast. Starfield has no main character development.

Anyway this is just something I had to air out, I came to the realization that Bethesda has moved on to another form of video games and if people love it then hey that’s amazing, me personally I loved fallout 3/NV the best and I understand that they’ll never make those types of games again, and that’s ok.