I don't get the negatives at all. this is a space faring bethesda game, and it does deliver on everything there. ive seen complaints up and down and almost all of it is about like the random astroids you visit one time. why are we complaining like the dungeons are not rehashed in every game.
Look, Starfield is a sci-fi sandbox with story. yeah the combat is just there. its guns with some space magic... well skyrim was just swords with some fantasy magic then. its the same. the difference between them is that ones in fantasy land and the other is in space. thats it, i dont play bethesda games for the combat.
what do you actually get in starfield though:
-it has my single favorite faction quest of all time in the crimson fleet, its better imo than every dark brotherhood, steel brotherhood, minuteman (jk), thieves guild... it had me invested and actually lets you choose the ending. ryujin is among the top as well in my opinion, it felt more corpo espionage than cyberpunk did. my only complaints is they ended...
-it has ship building and outpost building that you can do for 40+ hours or just skip, its nice to include cool things that some people dont bother with. but i cant do this in elite dangerous or no man sky and those are close examples to what you can do on here but this game as way more interaction imo.
-it has my favorite one off quest of all time in the colony ship quest. i think it was well done, well written and again my only complaint was it ended and i wanted to do more with the dynamic. but thats a good quest if its been three years since i did that quest and i still think about it.
- it has cool space nuances like i saw a double eclipse where it went behind a planet and then the planets moon back to back and thats really cool to just chill on a random asteroid and have beauty of space moments.
-it has enough content that i have not done everything and my hours are at 140 ish now and i still dont think about mods. thats worth it for a 50 buck game.
- i think its an average main campaign, not the best, not the worst of bethesda.
- i wish there were more companions that were romancable, its just the constellation without mods and they are all kinda basic imo, like im pretty sure skyrim has more variety and not just because they had more number.
overall i give this a solid 8.5/10. you can find the enjoyment in this game as long as you dont just reduce it to the combat and the asteroid hopping, which doesnt come up unless you make them. it has cool space cities, cool space stories, cool spaceships. be a space pirate. be a space marine. be a space cop. be a corpo spy. its a sandbox in space. and it did let you do it. and more so than many other space games where they didnt write any dialogue or characters or lore. this has the whole host of all that just like every bethesda game.
