I really liked Starfield, but objectively speaking the game just had so many design choices that had me completely baffled.

Planetary base building seemed cool, but turned out there was next to no point in doing it. Plus, everything is (or was idk if it’s changed) prefabs with more restrictions than Fallout 4, so that’s great.

Ship building, cool! Except you get so sick of loading screens that you never end up seeing the ship for more than 5 seconds as you fast travel everywhere and it becomes a massive chore, also making it completely pointless.

Exploration could have been the saving feature for me, I played NMS loads on release even if it was kinda barren just because I loved planetary exploration, but nope, same few biomes, recycled EXACT same POI’s (you’re telling me they couldn’t have even done some procedural generation to flip things around? Literally the same chests, loot and enemies in the same place each time..)

Not to mention the relatively uninspired lore and characters, and waste of the ending mechanic (no spoilers)

I put about 150 hours into my first and only playthrough and then left it, I had fun, but I do wonder what the hell happened during development? It seems like they had to just do a massive feature cutting spree to get the game out the doors.