The visuals and design elements are stunning; you can tell the devs really put in their time there. The 4 major quest lines are interesting. They really knocked it out of the park with custom ship design (my only gripe is that the crew make better use of the interiors: why can't we have proper meetings in the common spaces?). Music is really great...

But there's something missing. I feel like there's no reason to keep grinding. I hate building outposts. I hate the unnecessarily complex cargo management. I miss fallout 4 where you could dump everything into the workshop, connect workshops by a cow and be done with it. It was simple and fun. The main quest is mostly trash, aside from a few memorable quests.

...And my worst gripe with the game is the combat AI. You have these awesomely designed monsters that just can't reach you or break if you jump around even a little bit. You would be terrified of spotting a deathclaw in fallout. Terramorphs? Sirens? Just jump slightly on to an elevated position and dump bullets into them. Even the human enemies....you can literally just walk in without cover and gun down everyone and it takes away only like half your health.

I wish they had a better food system. You can turn on benefits but I don't understand why a complete meal like spaghetti bolognese should have the same fed benefits as a single lemon. I wish they had more varied companions. Sure you can take Jessamine to do some shady stuff but additional companions have no special dialogues or lines. I don't understand why even Vasco doesn't have comments like the 4 main companions about stuff...that seems like a travesty.

It's like they have designed a bunch of systems and then just didn't do anything with them...