We have a culture of edgy hot takes so I think that’s where a lot of this is coming from. Space is huge and it’s expected that a lot of it is empty and boring. Filling things out with randomly generated planets is awesome as long as the main story ones get some TLC. They did that.

The game has some rough edges like terrible inventory management and clunky menus, but there are so many good parts that I think it won’t be much of an issue. I expect they will smooth some of it out with patches.

Overall, the game reminds me of Mass Effect. That first game was janky as hell, but the world building and characters were so good that it didn’t matter. I’m impressed with Starfield so far. It looks like they nailed the most important parts.