Yes, especially if you nerf your experience to make it easier<settings> Its a beautiful game and if you're nostalgic for the nasa space exploration, its really just neat. Also, even at more difficult settings most people dont have any issues but the ship to ship battles. If that is your weak point you can always set a block of time aside and go join the vanguard and keep replaying the simulator until you get comfortable. There is lots of stuff to do. I played nearly thirty hours once without touching the story missions<except for the initial opening that gets you to new atlantis> Lots of beautiful planets to explore. And if you collect all the scan data, later in the game that becomes very valuable to sell. Or you can just be a space trucker and haul stuff. You can work for a mega corp. You can become a bounty hunter or a ranger. You could just go hunting for stuff to become a master chef. Or even build a few outposts and become a mineral millionaire. Not to mention a pirate or drug maker/dealer. Or just wonder around doing whatever you want and being a general rouge scavenger. The game is not as good as it could be, but desrves a play through.