It’s a Bethesda RPG in space. If you’re looking for No Man’s Sky, it isn’t that. If you’re looking for Elite Dangerous, it isn’t that. But it is a BSG RPG, just like I’ve been playing since Morrowind, and it really scratches that itch. I like the characters I’ve met, I’ve enjoyed exploring, and I’m starting to get into the lore and history. The weapons feel great and the gunplay is good. I tried the ship building and was pleased with how smooth a process that is.
I’ve seen a few graphical glitches, but this really is the least buggy-at-launch BSG RPG I’ve played. It’s definitely made for a controller, but that’s fine, that’s how I prefer to play these days.
My issue with it is that it really doesn’t feel like morrowind in space to me. Morrowind had some interesting environments, and most places you found had some environmental storytelling going on. I loved morrowind because exploring felt interesting (but combat was bad)
Here I’m finding the environments uninteresting, with a few exceptions there seems to be little in the way of environmental storytelling and exploration doesn’t seem that compelling. I’m enjoying the combat more than the exploration, which is unexpected for a Bethesda game. It feels like they’ve gone for quantity over quality with environments, and things are so far apart in fairly uninteresting planets that I feel like it’s just a bit of a chore.
Maybe I’ve just been unlucky with the world’s I’ve explored, and I’m enjoying it enough to keep playing a bit more in the hope it improves, but so far, it’s not what I was hoping for.