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Do you schedule time on your calendar to concentrate on stress and feeling bad? If you don't then you're not a chad.

People just really get too into their memes. "Skyrim in Space" was never part of the Marketing, and I personally thought it just sounded funny to say.  the expectation I hear often seems more to me like people who didn't like it, didn't know what they wanted, or just wanted something that was never being sold to them. I also really wonder about people who say that they've already beaten the game. I cannot bring myself to appreciate the opinions of people who just troll through games by rushing from objective to objective.  From the time I've spent with the Game, I am frequently impressed by the environmental design and atmosphere. It's a Space Game! Space Ship! Space Colonialism! Third Person Lazer Gunplay! ooh!  It's all exactly what I expected from the details that were sold to me.
Easy to Control, and a perfect time waster when I'm adhering to my '1 Hour of Gaming a Day"
I get the whole meme of "but mah FOV slider!" "Todd, why wasn't the game optimized" "wheres the HDR? My Sentitive eyes refuse to look at anything without HDR enabled!" but I'm also a filthy Console player from my youth and I'm used to swerving around the curated experience developers lock you into, so the features one expect to see on PC were missed, but didn't inspire feelings of "immediate refund, now!"
To be Frank, I don't want other people to play Starfield. If I really enjoy something, I don't have such delusions as "all people, as many as possible should enjoy this"
it's not for you, it's for me.

In terms of my interests with Games, I like to explore dense detailed environments in games and observe all of the little differences and details. This is why I still go back to various PS2 and PS3 Games that people consider bad, because I'm mostly just trying to drink up the design works. I don't really care about Immersion, so I'm not bothered by "robot voice acting", since depending on who's publishing it, I choose to think it was a deliberate design decision. I am aware the entire time that I am playing with an interactive video.
Despite the bugs, the game plays fine. Probably the least broken Bethesda release I've played in a long time.

Deep Mechanics are also what I like about games, I like digging into a set of "rules" and figuring out what my most optimal way to interact with those rules might be. Starfield isn't that, it's a very dry Western "Action" RPG in terms of mechanical depth. But I'll take that compromise.

The Game also has mildly 'okay' writing.  I think some of the characters are cool, lots of truly unique personalities. Even if I consider some of the positivity character exhibit to be painfully shallow (just like real life? goty)

I do understand the critiques with the procedural planets, If I wanted to walk around aimlessly waiting for something to happen, I'd play Tom Clancy's The Division :audience laugh:  but I knew going in that the deliberate touch of a human hand would be lighter than one might expect.  It's like going into an item world in Disgaea and then complaining that the map design and enemy placement doesn't make sense.  OF course it doesn't, it was randomly generated for your enjoyment, ENJOY IT! or in Starfield's case, if you don't enjoy it, don't swallow. I've heard that the main Campaign has big enough environments to make up for the deficit in planet variety.
I approach games with these sort of things in mind and when I can foresee myself taking my time and exploring all that the game has to offer, then I feel pretty good about engaging with it. Games are just as much art as anything else that people call art. and just as a Film can be designed to such a degree where every frame is a painting, Games also offer the ability to examine that painting from many different angles. No, it's not Skyrim, but it's also not trying to be Elder Scrolls (if I'm being Generous, it's more like soemone's Good Ending Fallout AU Fanfic. the Nukes weren't that bad, people survived and we went to the Stars. the only drawback is the severe lack of ghouls.). Starfield gets to be it's own thing.  It's something new. Which I'm always excited for and I enjoy taking my time with. at the risk of repeating myself.