I didn't realize it was gonna be on game pass lol so I did end up downloading it even though I swore up and down I'd wait on buying until they fixed all the crap they were gonna inevitably do.

The amount of loading screens is kinda profligate, there's more than one quest where you go to a planet (loading screen) talk to a guy then to the next planet (loading screen) and talk to a guy, and just repeat. The combat is pretty bad, I can't say I was expecting super smart AI or whatever but there's been more than a few times where enemies just kinda stood somewhere far away and couldn't figure out how to path to the fight? The main storyline didn't capture my interest. There's still a lot of bugs, nothing that'll bluescreen or whatever but I've had VASCO twirling his head talking to me, the Charlie 3 guy rotating really fast, theres one quest marker that doesnt get removed during a quest in the Well which made me rely on the actual given instructions (which was a nice change of pace), just a bunch of stuff like that. Stealth needs an overhaul, it's hard to get the sneak attacks to rank up and it starts getting really useful at rank 3. Also, unarmed is very very underwhelming and hard to do - which I guess is fair but whatever.

I love the setting and aesthetic, I do like the NASApunk look. I actually gasped at New Atlantis topside and Neon city. Also, there's just so much stuff to find. The sidequests are usually pretty goos. The Well was cool. Getting UC citizenship seems to be a thing Bethesda expected people to do because it has a lot of strong writing, I didn't love UC as a faction but whatever they're obviously very lib. It feels like a lot of people are discounting gastronomy, which is understandable because it takes a lot of work to rank it up to where the buffs are really good. Oh yeah and seeing Earth all fucked up actually made me feel quite sad, I landed on it and just felt... upset I guess, which is a plus for me if a videogame can make me feel an emotion like that.

I didn't know how to feel about the religions... it was interesting to think of organized charitable Atheism as a religion or the like syncretic dialectic synthesis of ALL monotheistic religions? I didn't get to try out the Great Serpent stuff but they're interesting guess to just consider. For some reason the religious struggle in skyrim was cool for me but future humans with made-up religions aren't as cool? I'm not sure why I struggled with it. Also, a lot of the spacesuits are kinda ugly, hard to play fashion field.

I don't think I'd pay separately for this and I don't know if I'll finish it, but so long as it's on gamepass and so long as I keep having that I guess I'll keep it installed. I'm still eagerly anticipating a GOTY edition with unofficial bug fix mod at some point to actually enjoy starfield.