It's all of the worst aspects of previous Bethesda entries without any of the things that made those games fun.

The Story is bland and uninteresting, There is no choice, no consequences, no nothing of that sort. I don't know what else to say, It was so boring i had no interest in engaging with it. The writing is amateurish at best, Character motivations make little sense most of the time. Factions are poorly written and uninteresting, and again, do things that just don't make sense in the scenarios presented and the lack of meaningful choice really brings all that to light. One of the notable ones is when you go to the wannabe night city planet to get an artifact back, You can say you'll kill the guy to get it, but the game goes NOPE and proceeds to play out exactly the same as all the other "choices".

The "RPG" mechanics, if you can even call them that anymore, have been stripped down to their most basic possible form, There are no builds to try out, basic mechanics are locked behind perks now. Melee was just ignored by the developers, it has a singular skill, which is just a damage increase, There arent any alternative moves or swings, no strategy, its just swing madly till whatever spongey enemy you're attacking is dead.

The worlds are VAST empty swathes of nothing, with the same handful of copy pasted dungeons scattered around it, I encountered the EXACT same mining tunnel, 5 TIMES IN A ROW ON 5 DIFFERENT PLANETS and when i say they are EXACTLY the same, I mean EXACTLY the same, the loot might have been randomized in the chests, but everything else was exactly the same, one chest in one spot was an expert lock, it was an expert lock in all 5. All the loot lying around on the ground, was the same, enemy placement was the same. People gave skyrim a hard time for its samey dungeons, but at least they were all unique.

The world does not react to your presence or your actions at all, The NPC's in towns have no AI, You can shoot an inch next to their heads and it will not even phase them, They won't move, react, or say anything, nobody will. They're better described as background set pieces youre not meant to interact with, which really sucks, one of my favourite things about bethesda games is messing around with the NPC's in towns and you cannot do any of that in Starfield because the NPC's simply lack any kind of AI beyond their walk cycle.

Space exploration cannot even be called space exploration, You can't fly anywhere, its all done through menus and loading screens. If you were to omit the space flight part of the game entirely, literally nothing would change, which is an extra double bummer as we were sold on the idea we'd actually be able to explore space as well as the spaceflight mechanics being probably the best part of the game. The other thing that irks me is the game calls the map "The Settled Systems" in a game where you're playing as an "explorer". Why am i exploring already explored space? That makes no sense.

Space flight and the ship building mechanic are the best part of this game, Its fun and criminally underutilised. Its complex enough to be interesting, but not so complex like some of the simulator games out there, its a good balance, its just completely pointless as you can't actually fly anywhere.

All in all, its not a good game, you work hard for your money, don't spend it on this, Bethesda doesn't respect you or your time and do not deserve your money. If you want to scratch that itch, go replay skyrim for the 479th time, you'll enjoy it far more than this game.

Todd Howard NEEDS to be replaced as Bethesda cannot keep making games this poor.

Bland and boring