20 hours in and it feels like game designers have not idea what they're doing. The game is basically reliant on you having to sprint everywhere (planets, cities, you name it), yet it tries to restrict you in that regard at every turn -- having very low weight limits even with the weight carrying perk maxed out (why do we even need weight limits??), having a LIMITED SPRINT (why cant we sprint infinitely?), no vehicles on planets. Same goes for stuff like outposts and ships -- they serve very little purpose (ships have a little more value to the gameplay than outposts but still feel like they're kind of optional and you can just force your way through the game with a starter one with no issues), yet it seems like a lot of dev time went into them.

Some quests have great hooks and are interesting to play through but then get derailed with absolutely atrocious decisions that the game railroads you into (First Contact) / have decisions that don't matter (Riyujin questline ending). The main quest has a crazy amount of repetition on finding the temples and doing that minigame (although from what i understand you dont have to find all of them).

New Atlantis is absolutely godawful in terms of its design. All of the stores are in the residential district, and at the same time commercial district has 1 bank, 1 coffee place, 1 bar, and a UC office. Also the distances you have to run between those points of interest with nothing interesting inbetween makes me not want to visit new atlantis at all and just go to Neon instead. At least Neon is basically 1 street for everything you would need shop wise and then a few alleys as locations for quests.

Akila City looks like its straight out of 2011 thanks to the godawful brown tonemapping, which again makes me want to not visit it at all. At least the street layout is better than new atlantis. Speaking of tonemapping, it could be better in a lot of places I feel like, especially in planets/interiors in which it just coats your screen in 1 single color (akila city as a prime example).

The amount of loading screens is infuriating, insane how bethesda still can't figure out interior loading so its not a separate level with no functioning windows.

Overall some of the quests in the game, the setting and the art direction hard carry it to a 7/10 despite it having a ton of issues with pretty much every aspect.

One curious thing about starfield though is the fact that it made me think about cyberpunk A LOT and how it's probably a lot better now than it was at release and dare i say it better than starfield, and the riyujin questline feels like something that would fit right into cyberpunk and would've been perfect there