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[Ryuu96]

Reading IGN's Review.

Positives

• Variety of Spaceships. Customisation of Spaceships.
• Clever Hybridizing of Traditional RPG Skill Unlocks and Elder Scrolls System of Increasing Skills During Use.
• Feeling Like My Character Has Honed Skills Instead of Magically Mastering Them.
• Maybe Best Lockpicking Minigame Ever in an RPG.
• Joys of Piloting a Spaceship.
• Rich Sci-Fi Universe.
• All Sorts of Morally Ambiguous Situations.
• Mystery Story Pays Off.
• Combat Gradually Becomes "Good Enough"
• Immense Amount of Quality Roleplaying Quests and Interesting NPCs.
• Stable for a Big RPG.
• Very Fun Raid Moments in Space/Ship Battles.
• Loot Keeps Combat Interesting.
• Interesting Companions. Fun to Chat.
• Eager to Finish Major Questlines Still.
• Sprawling Universe with Detailed Lore.
• Densely Packed, Stories Around Every Corner.
• Interesting Side Quests.

Negatives

• Stingy Skill Distribution (Can't Get Em All in One Go).
• No Respec System.
• Disjointed Space Travel.
• Too Many Loading Screens.
• Too Much Reliance on Quick Travel.
• Slow Start Overall to Combat/Story.
• Slow Rollout of Essential Abilities.
• Disappointing Powerful Enemies, Easy to Kill.
• Unmemorable Gunplay Without Something Like VATS.
• Too Long to Unlock Certain Upgrades.
• One Part of the Main Quest Being Repetitive (But Enticing and Different Rewards...)
• Wish Bethesda Took Inspiration From Breath of the Wild For Puzzles.
• Generally Visually Different But Barren and Lifeless Worlds.
• Shockingly Bad Inventory Management.
• No Maps (Including Mini-Maps) - Only Shows Points of Interest. Nothing to Guide You Around in Cities Aside From Using Shop Signs.

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Just doesn't really feel like it matches the score, Lol.

VATS is in Fallout because the gunplay is trash, Lol. VATS helps to hide how poor Fallout's gunplay is, I don't think it is needed in Starfield to make Starfields gunplay memorable. I can understand the criticism of the slow start but RDR2 was forgiven for that, Lol. Some other criticisms make it sound like Starfield is more of a hardcore RPG than previous entries.

I'm on IGN because they're the most popular and the dude gave Fallout 4 a 9.5/10 but Starfield a 7/10, Lol.