Been playing for around 40 hours thanks to holiday weekend.
I like it. I can see why others wouldn't. I see a lot of nit picky or just flat out wrong complaints that show me that either a lot of people were just going to hate this anyways or didn't really play the game to figure out how to do things correctly. (you don't need to use menus to travel between planets and such, the complaints of load times over "real space travel" is such a dumb fucking complaint since it amounts to basically the same thing, just sitting there watching a ship go somewhere)
Ambient characters are legitimately ugly. This doesn't bother me, as they're just ambient background dressing, but I can see why it bothers others. They all do have that weird "stare" thing going on. (my PC character seems to do it too, so I assume it's a quirt with models that weren't hand crafted or expected to be seen in dialogue scenes or something)
I'm bothered by the lack of clothing and armor. There are tons of clothing that are just duplicates with different names for some reasno. I expected armor to kind of work like Fallout 4, where you add "pieces" to clothing/space suits, but no it's just single space suits or nothing. I haven't found a way to change the colors of space suits or clothing yet like in Fallout 4 either, outside of the "skin" I got for pre ordering (which has constantly appearaed and disappeared constantly the whole time I've played anyways) which leads me to believe this was gutted for microtransaction purposes. (hopefully some mod author that knows what they are doing will just release a mod that adds everything in multiple colors or something to fuck 'em)
This whole system has gotten dumbed down to such a point that I'm honestly scared WTF Elder Scrolls 6 is going to be like.
The powers have, so far, been almost completely useless. There is one that gives you precognition powers that I assume can be used for persuasion, but by the time I got it I was close to end game. I have a feeling these powers will end up being a tad more useful in New Game+, but so far they've been even more underwhelming than Dragon Shouts. The unrelenting force copy cat feels very very weak in this game so far even. I also find it weird that one of them is literally named something like "See Star Stuff" (which basically just boils down to detect life from Elder Scrolls). It's like they never came up with a proper "sci fi" name for detect life and just left the placeholder text.
I got roped into the pirate quest chain and only played one mission, but the set up is so fucking stupid. Why the fuck do I need to go under cover in a pirate fleet to gather evidence to take them down legally? They're fucking pirates, not the mob. This set up feels like it should have been for a mob or illegal corporation quest chain not a pirate fleet takedown quest chain.
Overall, I enjoy the game, I can see why some wouldn't because calling it Fallout or Elder Scrolls in space is kind of a stretch, but I think a lot of complaints I've seen when browsing reddit and shit for a few minutes seem like bullshit coming from people who just want to be angry or hate the game.
Edit: As far as woke shit goes, I mean I guess the game isn't nothing but white people and there are some weird things where Sams kid looks kinda ethnic despite him being white and dirty blonde?
I actually thought it was crazy that I went nearly 35 hours in the game before Barret just casually dropped he was a faggot who had a husband that died.
I dunno. It's *there* I guess, but it isn't really in my face from what I've seen. There was a point where Sarah was getting really gushy about her former mentor and there was an option for me to ask if she loved her, and she just made it a point that she respected her but it still felt kinda weird how it was written.
