Its good enough to spend time moaning about it not being great.

It has two or three issues, and the problem is theyre buried so deep in the design they compromise everything and are essentially unfixable.

The art, setting, bespoke quests are all great. Even the gunplay really, which is a shock but its honestly fun.

Ship building is possibly the best ship design system ever made. And its completely pointless, you will never see the inside of the ship as you teleport to PoIs and barely see the outside.

Inventory management is hell. Building your own mining base depends on very large inventory usage. And the reward is more materials for your inventory to do upgrades to weapons and armour you barely need.

The environmental damage system is incomprehensible so luckily it almost never matters. You take damage breathing in your sealed space suit?? Ridiculous.

The skill system does not feel good, all it can do is unlock stuff above that doesnt feel like it really matters, or gives more inventory management nonsense; or give incremental improvements to damage etc that do not feel good.

And the kicker, Skyrim draws you in by promising and delivering more and more new places to explore and once thats replaced with random pois the entire game collapses around it. When exploring feels pointless the entire game feels pointless.

Exactly, if Bethesda had put half of the effort CD Project Red and Hello Games put into fixing their games, they could have polished Starfield into a great game. The potential is there, it has some interesting ideas, it just has some very rough edges.

The way they just abandoned it vs how CD Project Red keeps releasing "final final final" updates to Cyberpunk like they still have something prove shows the huge gap between both studios culture.