Rembrandt
the artist
All I'll say is this. Cyberpunk, No Man's Sky, and FFXIV all released in a much worse state than this game(either broken or boring as fukk and lacking content) and look how they are viewed now. The fact that nobody has the foresight to see that once they put out DLC like they always said they were gonna do this game is gonna be light years better than it already is(you trippin if you think this is a bad game; it isn't perfect, but it isn't a bad game) you're delusional. This game released complete, mostly unbuggy for most people, and it has hundreds of hours of content. It released in a much better state than many other titles that are viewed favorably, this is a complete game ALREADY, no matter how you shake a stick at it.
Imma go even further and say this game makes no man's sky hard to come back to. If necessary, could do prettty much everything in that game here but with more systemic systems, and that's not just settlements and resource tracking/outpost building.
I think when you even look as both as a whole, Starfield is basically NMS with way way more depth structurally.
My main fault is that they definitely dropped the ball currently with exploration outside of cities or designated places. Once you get to those, you can spend hours there, but sadly, the game is far too dependent on quick traveling from all angles that it inherently limits how much and far people wanna explore.
Like, I think anyone asking for every single one of these planets to be fully explorable with no load times are 100000% delusional. But that doesn't excuse how often some things are recycled through a procedural generated system.
It's why I haven't explored too much outside of things close by missions or even messed with outposts. Not a big Skyrim fan, but even unlike FO, hi there doesn't seem to be much motivation to explore all of these places because of how many there are.
I'm enjoying those as I come across them, but I've really been enjoying the side quests, the activities, the factions missions and even sometimes exploring or fukking with an outpost.
I'm 50ish hours in and only finished 3/4 main missions lol. Got 3 artifacts but I've just been taking my time and enjoying this shyt.
Got a nice laugh from helping out that one kid by placing those frog drawings places and not only receiving the blueprint but seeing it pop up at random places in the system. Didn't really expect to see that nikka I got kicked out the CF again and definitely not shooting like that.
It's a fire way to start their first new IP in over a decade