I literally went into it with a positive attitude, ready to accept it for what it was, and tried to focus on the the good parts of the game, of which there are many.

I'm already done playing because it's repetitive and doesn't have the same feel of exploration that Skyrim, Oblivion, and Morrowind had, mostly because of the overreliance on fast travel between planets.

Objectively, it's not a terrible game. The problem is that even those of us who gave it an honest shot have to be honest with ourselves and admit it isn't good either. It's just middling, which is fine. A lot of games are kind of just meh and that's okay. Some of those games are deeply loved by a small set of passionate players, and that's okay, too.

Further, it came out two weeks after a game that shoved a hot firebrand under the ass of every video game developer because of how quality the game was. Bethesda couldn't have released at a worse time, and I think there's more negativity due to that, because now gamers can say "I know what I've been missing." They have something that is way above middling, fucking fantastic really, to compare it to.

Is that comparison fair? Honestly, yes, because Baldurs Gate 3 isn't doing anything groundbreaking other than bringing CRPGs back to their roots. Anyone who played Baldurs Gate, Baldurs Gate II or the original Fallout would understand this, because BG3 really mimics the style of those games while also bringing the graphics into the modern era. If anything it's a return to form for the industry, and now people are simply going to demand that level of detail in their fictional worlds.

Finally, Bethesda has always had shitty writers, so there's that. They always fixed it by making the world you existed within engaging to interact with. Starfield is sadly just not that engaging, and thus the bad writing really shines through.

Sure call me a fanboy, I’d rather be obsessively enjoying something than whatever the hell you all like to do

As if we're not fanboying over and obsessively enjoying other games instead.

All the endless Baldurs Gate 3 memes couldn't be because people enjoy it could it?? /s