Ship building can be fun. It can also be intensely frustrating for no reason.

That might be the end of the list of positives. Starfield is a game that tries to do a lot, but doesn't try to do any of it well. Exploration, storytelling, worldbuilding, buildcrafting, crafting, and characters are all things that are weaker than many contemporaries in gaming, but also weaker than in other Bethesda games of the past.

The main quest line is just a thin excuse to push you into New Game +. The world doesn't do anything or appreciate what few complexities it does have. The exploration is completely pointless as their is no reward or gameplay loop to incentivize any of it. It doesn't even have a log of things scanned for the completionist. Crafting might as well not even exist. And there's just nothing engaging in the moment to moment play. We're still doing very basic shooting with some dragon shouts that may as well have been pulled over unchanged from Skyrim.

But maybe you have a shipbuilding addiction like me.

Ship building can be fun. It can also be intensely frustrating for no reason. That might be the end of the list of positives. Starfield is a game that tries to do a lot, but doesn't try to do any of it well. Exploration, storytelling, worldbuilding, buildcrafting, crafting, and characters are all things that are weaker than many contemporaries in gaming, but also weaker than in other Bethesda games of the past. The main quest line is just a thin excuse to push you into New Game +. The world doesn't do anything or appreciate what few complexities it does have. The exploration is completely pointless as their is no reward or gameplay loop to incentivize any of it. It doesn't even have a log of things scanned for the completionist. Crafting might as well not even exist. And there's just nothing engaging in the moment to moment play. We're still doing very basic shooting with some dragon shouts that may as well have been pulled over unchanged from Skyrim. But maybe you have a shipbuilding addiction like me.