Should you buy Starfield? Yes
Starting from the most basic of answers to the more in depth.
If you liked the (Let's be honest here) Dumbed down systems of The Elder Scrolls V and Fallout 4: Yes. If you loved the weapon modifications of Fallout 4, If you like to hoard every kind of weapon and be able to modify each type: yes.
Starfield has a similar enough perk system to Skyrim and Fallout 4. Long gone are the days of in depth skills and attributes of The Elder Scrolls IV. So if you expected another Oblivion or Morrowind, you will be disappointed.
I was not impressed when I first tried it out, probably about 2 years ago. Tried it again a few days ago, and I am loving it. The same gunplay that I loved from Fallout 4. A perk system that's easy to grasp but so very limiting.
I miss T.E.S.' Skill system, where using a skill improves it. Almost level 30 at this point and, while I am great at sneaking, I barely even touched the combat or diplomacy branches. Too many other things that are holding me back to prioritize that.
I don't see why the game gets a bad rap. I must not be the "vox populi." I liked having a voiced protagonist in Fallout 4, it was immersive to me. Apparently to the majority it's the complete opposite. A barren moon not having life on it aside from scattered POIs, totally believable. So far I've only once encountered a duplicate POI, complete with the exact same corpse placement. But the game still drip feeds new weapons to me to keep it exciting. The game has its own version of Thuum shouts which are quite cool and so very easily missed if you pick a direction and start flying. And from what little I've read from New Game + without spoiling too much for myself, the replay-ability seems fantastic too.
Ship designing took me a few stumbling minutes to figure out; but once I did, I have been enjoying that too. Refusing to outright by a new ship, and prefer to "Ship of Theseus" the Frontier. Bigger, better, faster, stronger.
Creation items. To quote the meme of Gennaro Gattuso: "sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe ♥♥♥♥." The first thing I realized was the Trackers Alliance. Turns out I have to spend even more money to flesh out a faction already in the game. I am not happy about that. I haven't yet found a creation item that allows me to turn off individual resource tags, but I am hoping the community will have a fix for that, as they usually do with Bethesda games. I haven't even touched either of the thus far DLCs yet, but I am still going strong, and loving the game. I know it's not recommended for the Steamdeck, but I am going to give it a go and update this with my findings.
Get Starfield, love Starfield.
