Based on everything I’ve heard of it, this seems a bit too high.

It’s not. I personally love the game, but it has a lot of flaws and that number seems about right to me. I think it’s a better game than Fallout 4.

Some of the storylines are fantastic, but they’re pretty disjointed from the rest of the world. Some of them feel like they have loose ends that didn’t get finished in time.

There are several game systems that are neat, but unfinished, and superfluous.

I really don’t understand the dog pile this game has gotten.

Man flying my ship has been a massive disappointment. I did not expect NMS, but man it is truly soulless and seemingly pointless. The only positive thing I can say about it is sitting in your cockpit floating around is incredibly eerie and the sound design is cool. That’s about 60 to 90 seconds of entertainment.

A buddy of mine on a gaming discord also put it really well: The game has little to no culture. Cyberpunk, for all of its flaws, drips with culture. There’s language, fashion, architecture, just so much style and feel. Starfield is a beige blob in comparison.

I think the lack of distinct culture, in the way of little world building touches, was one of the drawbacks. The main one for me was the recycling of the same 20 buildings in the procedural world generation, down to the the three mines outside the entrance and the dead scientist halfway up the stairs. But I think that is where modders can help the game, by doing a sims settlement style mod where people can create their own variations and new buildings and insert them into the world generator. They’ll probably get rid of the map limits and add a truck or motorbike within a month too.

I don’t get it, I spend like +40 hours in the game and didn’t touch the randomly generated content even once.

Sometimes it feels like people had the entirely unrealistic expectation that they were going to be landing on Planet Skyrim and wander around a handcrafted world full of quests. And then have a completely new experience of the same scale on the rest of the 999 planets.

It was clearly put in to play interspersed with the questlines and for some endgame looting, but some people wanted to be able to just wander planets endlessly as if it could possibly have the scale of content that would make it worth playing like that. Maybe they’ll come back when modding lets them insert hundreds of new POI prefabs off the workshop into the procgen pool.

I didn’t really have that expectation. I knew most of the worlds would be mostly empty. But every bounty location, for example, was one of those twenty buildings and they could have at least put in some light variations. I thoroughly enjoyed the game, and as you said, I’m just waiting for the Creation Kit and mods to get back into it.