Starfield as a Space Game - My GENUINE First Impressions 

Just to make this 100% clear, the focus in this video was to give my impressions on Starfield as a space game. Starfield is truly huge, so it's way beyond the scope of this video for me to dive into every area of this massive open world RPG. I will look at different aspects later. After some thought, I felt that many of you would appreciate the insight from the space game perspective! :)

Mass Effect or Kotor - with the addition of some ship play - would be a more appropriate comparison than ED or SC for game genre. All of which i thoroughly enjoy.

Ant, I've been watching you for a few years. Just wanted to say, I really appreciate your perspectives. You often give me hope I gaming where there seems like there is little. Thank you for your dedication.

I never wanted or expected Starfield to be any more than this, so I'm not disappointed. It was _NEVER_ marketed as some Star Citizen or E:D replacement. It was always "Skyrim in Space". And given how this is the first version of what could well be a long-term supported product like Skyrim there will probably be expansions, new features, and of course the modders will really make it more of what different groups of people were expecting.

If the majority of people who made gaming videos were as honest and informative as you are then gaming would be in a much better state. I've loved watching all your starfield videos and I can't wait to play it in a few days time.

I didn't expect a space sim but a skyrim / fallout game set in space so I think I will have fun with this game. Really interesting to have your point of view on the space elements! I hope you will talk a little bit more about rpg and writting parts tho.

I've watched several Starfield review and impression videos so far and yours is the only one which has talked about the flight model! Thanks!

It was never marketed as a space SIM, it was marketed as an RPG set in the vastness of space which is precisely what it is.

An approval from my favorite Ant calms my nerves about the game significantly.

An important note about lateral flight movement: usage of the thrusters is locked by a skill! It's a first-tier skill though, so you can unlock it immediately, if your background doesn't give it to you from the start.

One of my favorite little bits from the game so far is several times after space combat i will get a new POI popping up called "crash site" or "debris field". You can go down and search the wreckage. Its a nice touch

You can use your scanner in space to highlight the different worlds and systems. After doing that, you can jump there without opening your map. It saves a step doing it this way.

Your impressions are the ones I was looking forwards to the most. One of my favorite things to do in space games is just to sit on a random planet and take in the scenery. I love the "contemplative" nature of these games. Everspace, flight simulator and Elite dangerous and No Man's Sky offer some beautiful vistas. Can the same be said about Starfield ? Alot of space scapes I've seen so far didn't look that great. I'm putting that down to RU-vid compression but would love to hear your thoughts

A big oversight was in not linking the space view of a planet into the landing point sub-map. The option to click through the ship aim function to pick a landing point would have been a good immersive feature.

thank you. I came in thinking it was gonna be the star citizen killer but refunded when it was just skyrim / fallout in space

Well I'm out... Loading screens moving about your ship, arcade flight model and invisible walls. This just sounds like a game from 10 years ago. Thanks for the review!

From what I have seen, it's everything I expected and more importantly, everything I wanted. Basically a Skyrim / Fallout set in space. A loot fest in each area you explore, gathering materials and other things to craft various weapons, mods and other things. Skills to improve across various "trees". Many wonderful and exotic creatures and flora to find and chart. Random encounters with colourful characters and enemies and running through all of it a main quest story with many other side quests to find. I fully expected there to be loading screens when moving from the open world to dungeons/caves/buildings, etc just as there was in past BGS games. I can not wait to get stuck in on the 6th!

is there a..... less shitty way to control the ship? like with actual pitch yaw and roll?

I am glad to hear about more realistic controls of the ship than full on arcade like No Man Sky, I was afraid of that. But the fact that we cannot freely travel through star system is awfull, pure laziness from devs.

Those who want a space RPG will like this game. Those who are looking for a space exploration game with a sense of freedom are going to be disappointed. I mean, we can't manually fly from Earth's orbit to Moon's orbit without going into a loading screen and we can only explore the orbits of the planetary bodies. We can't explore the deep space that is in between the orbits. I hope the modders figure out a way to unlock manual space flight between planetary bodies and the exploration of deep space.

I think the breakdown should be like this. 1. A game set in space 2. A space game 3. A space sim I would say that Starfield exist somewhere between 1 and 2. As a space game, it appears to be very lacking. As it a game set in space, it seems like it has potential.

Imagine a pirate game where you board ships, you do this by generally going roughly near the ship. Press a button. Split second later, you are on the enemy ship. No boarding tactics, rope swinging, all that stuff. Just suddenly you are there. This is the problem I have with Starfield. Going into your ship - loading screen going into space - loading screen travelling literally anywhere - loading screen land on planet - loading screen get off ship - loading screen go into building - loading screen These are all very short loading screens but completely immersion breaking for me. Just like the pirate ship with suddenly teleporting to the enemy ship. One of the big winners for the likes of fallout, oblivion, skyrim, is just wondering around instead of fast travelling. The open world exploration. "Lets just go in this direction and see what happens." You don't get that in Starfield. There's a bit of that on planet surfaces but once you start questing and having to go to specific places, it's just a slog of loading screens and forced fast travel.

Just what I was looking for! This is the perfect breakdown of the subject I was probably most intrigued by, the 'Space Game' vs 'Sim' question. I was already prepared to take the game, and it's 'Sim' limitations, for what it is. It definitely feels more 'RPG' and ground-based vs say, the Elite Dangerous / Freelancer sim/sandbox style I usually enjoy. There seems to be just enough space-based 'meat on the bone' to feel like it's a bit more then just 'Skyrim with Space-themed loading screens'. At least for now, until expansions or modding kicks in to high gear. I'll accept it for what it is. I'm still not clear on how broad the 'career' options are in this game. How main-Quest focused it is, vs a sandbox experience where you can go off-script and do your own thing. From what I've seen so far there seems to be a huge amount of 'stuff' to do, but it feels more mission/quest-based. And spread out more thinly across the multi-system 'game map' then some other Bethesda games. Room to grow I hope! Thanks again! Subbed!

I want to point out something: look at the options there when you are in the ship: Get up or get out of the ship; the same thing Elite dangerous has; so you skip totally the interior of the ship.... YOU NEVER see the interiors. This is the same debate about fast travel: Do you want to travel 2h between planets, when you have the option to push the fast travel button? Maybe sometimes you do; but most of the times you just do fast travel. So I think that the matter at this point is more related to which parts should have a loading screen and which should not. The novelty wear off soon; then you want convenience.

It has a whole lot and I mean a whole lot. You can get lost on a side mission, and it has tonnes of loops to unlock. I am right now off the main quest, and doing research into a planetary system. Did not realize that some of the enemies were level 26, but due to spelunking into dungeons I have some decent armour and weapons. I just can't open expert chests and doors. Still, one quest has me fighting 3 high-level ships, so I am giving that one a break and continuing to survey the planets. It does not need to be a sim, and it has a lot to take in. I have never landed and not found some entity or something to do. I have found smugglers in space and found a ship parked, hacked the door and claimed it. So I now have 2 ships, and looking forward to claiming more. My ship is black, green and yellow, which represents my country flag, and it looks damn gorgeous.

Been watching your content since Elite Dangerous and always found you to be reasonable and unbiased. Reading reviews and people posting on Reddit really had me down about this game but after watching this I can see it's pretty much what I expect it to be. The whole space is a cell (zone area) and not open don't bother me since I don't want this game to fly around space for 10-15 mins just to get somewhere. I'm sure there will be plenty of random encounters and mods to come to add to the space zone.

Thank you for this clear and honest impression. I am into day 2 with Starfield and yes too early for me also to give a hyped impression. Only about 11 hours gameplay now. Is it buggy ?, yes in some instances. Installing onto an SSHD hybrid drive at first. First issue was the audio lag and cut outs during NPC conversations, and more than lengthy loading screens. However as "it says on the tin" regarding the game PC hardware recommendations I moved the game ( which I purchased on Steam) to my primary SSD. This made a clear difference for me. Steam is very good at allowing you to create additional storage areas and to move your original installation. Bugs for me ? well at one point leaving a space base on Mars to proceed to the outside are met with the ubiquitous loading screen, however this loading screen took more than 30 seconds with the game freezing, and an eventual crash. ( And yes I am always aware of background tasks on my PC, so with a game of this calibre, I made sure that nothing extraneous was running in the background ). Also I have new Nvidia drivers installed. So yes I had a couple of crashes with some loading screens freezing. Its early days, but I hope Bethesda can take the time to patch issues occuring. I am sure many players are having worse issues. Obviously for PC players, everyone's systems will differ. But you certainly dont need an RTX 4090 to play this game !!. A good ol' RTX 2080 Ti will soak this up efficiently. Bugs will appear. Yes the divisive loading screens will be an issue as you say for many. The game may crash. I did spot the NPC's feet walking through stair infrastructure as they proceeded on their obvious pre programmed walk arounds in the city. A little bit immersion spoiling in some areas. But overall for me it is a very good space game that offers plenty exploration and storytelling. Many cities offer breathtaking vistas that you just want to explore. Same as some planets. But as I am sure everyone will know, it is a cleverly crafted sandbox, so dont expect a road trip of thousands of miles before you come to an "in game barrier". So it is a return for Bethesda in my opinion to a better product than previous offerings.I agree with your synopsis of this game. Much appreciated . Just to add that you will need at least 12 to 15 hours gameplay for this game to open up and become more interesting. I am slowly approaching that time now. I just wish I knew a few things at first. Skill choices, traits etc, all can be important choices to make, some of which are not all that clear during early gameplay. Thank you.

Finally I see someone talking about the flight model. Thank you Obsidian Ant. It's good to see they added a "drift 6df mode". This will make space flying very pleasurable.

Coming from Elite and NMS, so far after like 10 hours it feels lightly "spacey". Grav jumping to outside the planet I'm going to, then clicking land is different. Not a lot of flying. Just menu clicking. I am absolutely loving the gameplay. The ship controls? Not a fan, but it's okay. There will be more space fights, and it's in the middle of NMS and Elite. The questlines are the bomb, and the FPS is great.

Oh jeez that Adoring Fan is definitely an Oblivion reference. I know it was never going to be an actual space game, but it really seems like they marketed it heavily on spacecraft, then never showed how taking off and transitioning between areas were just loading screens. I hope Elder Scrolls fanboys enjoy it but so far looks like it will be a pass for me until it's on a steep sale.

You mentioned Thrusters.. They are unlockable in the piloting skill. Have to have that first before you can use that feature.

Thanks for the first impressions. You have gained a lot of trust over the years so it is nice to hear your opinions on this game.

I'm an Oblivion, Skyrim and Fallout fan, and all i can say is playing Starfield has made me even more grateful for those games. I found it to be lacklustre across the board, and devoid of that Bethesda magic. Makes me worried for Elder Scrolls 6 tbh. I almost feel bad for criticising Elite Dangerous so much

I was really looking forward to experiencing these environments, however realising that it can SOLELY be done using automatic cutscenes it was undeniably disappointing. The journey is everything to me and it seems underwhelming that the only way you can really explore is by foot or by cutscene.

I'm pretty disappointed they couldn't find a way to tie the planets surface into 1 large area. I knew you couldn't fly down to the surface seamlessly, but I was hoping they wouldn't have invisible walls. Other than that it looks like a great time sink.

Overall enjoying the game - but the storage management is a complete mess between own storage / ship storage / companion storage. It is unbelievable how cluttered and unflexible this system works. I really hope for future improvements. Even No Man Sky was able to handle different storage sources quite well.

The ground is certainly divided into cells. I landed on a random spot and just walked in one direction. After about an hour I came to an invisible wall with a warning that I could not go any further. I think you can open your local map and fast travel into another cell. That did disappoint me.

Anothee great review. If I had to add one thing, my hours in the game have me feeling that Starfield was made very much in the vein of Fallout 4, except in space. You investigate mysterious areas and quite often run into bandits or monsters. Doesn't mean the game isn't good or not fun; it just very much reminds me of Fallout 4, making me feel like they cut a lot of corners by just doing what they did before.

One good thing about it being a Bethesda RPG rather than a full on space sim is that there's probably going to be a modding community for it eventually.

It's an RPG set in space I mean its what I thought it would be. So far anyway. Its Bethesdas RPG set in space with a lot of what they have learned over the years. I love it. Between this and Baldurs Gate 3 Ill be eating real good for a long time.

It would be nice to fly on to planets yourself, dock your ship, and take off manually. I liked that aspect with Elite Dangerous.

There's nothing like supercruise and the grav drive is basically a teleporter, so your ship feels almost stationary in space aside from popping into the same chunk above planets and moons. It's a real let down for a space game, makes the ship feel less like a home and haven against the cold of space and more a gimmick. The ship UI is also 2D with very flat, simple colors. They could have done far more with it, but mods can always fix that. Not to say the game is bad, I'm actually loving it for other reasons.

I try to limit the amount of fast travel I do to not break the immersion, and I hope there will be a mod that removes all fast travelling except for on-foot fast travelling, which is needed as there are no planetary vehicles (which I would have preferred). Yes, the loading screens, even though they are short, are immersion breaking. But do they ruin the game? Not at all. It's a fantastic game, and an improvement on all game mechanics of previous Bethesda games. I'm having a blast playing it.

Let's assume you're in a building on one planet and you want to enter a building at another planet. You have 2 options: Option A, efficient: - Open map - Select planet destination, look at a loading screen - Open map - Select city/district you want to travel to, look at the loading screen - Find the building you were looking for (there is no actual local map for cities), enter it and look at the loading screen Option B. "immersive": - Exit the building, look at a loading screen - locate, reach and enter the ship, look at a loading screen - Go to the cocpit, look at cutscene - Choose to leave the planet, look at loading screen and cutscene - Open map - Select city/district you want to travel to, look at the loading screen - Find the building you were looking for (there is no actual local map for cities), enter it and look at the loading screen Option B is mandatory for a first visit of planet/location on planet. For me it's really hard to lose myself in the world of Starfield because there is no reason to spend a lot of time on maps - not really much to do outside of mining and looting every wrench, - especially with constant loading screens

As an Bethesda RPG it is a pretty decent game, as a space game it is very lacking sadly

Thanks! Looking forward to the full review

Thanks for the video Ant One thing that doesn't seem to be an issue is optimization which , unless i missed any mention of it, is very welcomed.

Can't wait to see awesome ship builds, looking forward to your creations ✌️

Apparently someone flew 7hrs to pluto so you can sapce travel slow, but then clipped through planet after but some patches coming etc

This is the best game I've played since RDR2, probably the 2 best games I've played in my life and I barely saw anything (12 hours in) The depth and size of this game is insane, I've never experienced exploration and atmosphere like this game offers, can't wait to explore more, build outposts (and my house) and ships.

Can you build out a fleet, like have a carrier, a destroyer, some Corvettes, and some fighters? Like Homeworld, but that’s your “mobile base fleet”

Learned more from this quick vid than all the reviews I've watches. Thanks great vid

I'm holding off till they add a space oriented DLC... if they even do

I dont really like how space flighf works. I see why they designed it that way, but its hard to navigate. However exploration is really fun. It started becoming amazing when we got to Sol . I think that leak was a lie regarding the invisible barriers. I explored Venus fully and didnt hit any barrier and it took me 4 hours, and i still had other parts of the planet to explore. I suggest doing our solar system first because you dont need high skills to explore it, so you can build up your charater while learning the game. Having a blast!!!❤❤❤

I've been using my ps4 t-flight hotas thru steam as a generic controller so that I can seamlessly switch between M&K and flight stick. It's pretty awesome.

Gamers Nexus has dropped an initial GPU benchtest, and accidentally christened it Skyfield. But, Skyrim in space is a perfectly good idea for a game and should keep me happy for a while.

I was hoping there would be small fighter ships that could dock in our main ships.

The boundaries aren't an issue for me, I've spent over an hour wandering around a planet on foot collecting various resources, and in space travelling distances at low-ish speeds quickly gets boring anyway. I think they've done it correctly. I've already had some amusing random encounters in space 15hrs in

The only issue I have is the lack of peripheral support. Hopefully there is a modder out there that has the time and desire to fix that.

I've eagerly awaited your first impressions. Thank you! It seems to be as expected, not a space sim but probably a great game in its own. 👍

I'm loving my time in the game, space game or not. Its a fun game if you like looting, shooting and exploring. A lot better than other AAA games I've played this year and runs better than them day one. Which for a Bethesda game is unusual.

Could you cover the benefits, if any, of the loading screens vs seamless travel? Why couldn't Starfield achieve the same thing yet have seamless travel? Or can NMS and Elite not achieve this level of detail, in say, the cities without implementing loading screens? Genuinely curious.

What I care about the most is exploring planetary surfaces. If I land somewhere, see a mountain in the distance, I want to be able to reach the peak of that mountain. My question is, can I do that? If that mountain is beyond the edge of the tile map, can I load the next tile over and climb it there? In other words, is it true planetary exploration or just a series of unconnected maps?

Okay, I REALLY like what I'm seeing and hearing here. This video actually cleared up my concerns about this game and I am now really hyped to play it myself. This is everything I ever wanted from a space RPG.

I feel like the loading at the doors could have been solved by having an air lock you step into so the game could load while you wait for pressurization.

Great video as always. Take as long as you need to gather your thoughts for a full review, because it will be one deciding factor for me if I want to get this game or not. So far it looks to me that this game is filled with loading screens (although they seem pretty short), forced animations that you have to sit through as well as non story related cutscenes. I imagine those cutscenes will get really old the more you start to go from planet to space to space station etc. And it's not particularly the gameplay I'm after. But maybe the rest of the game makes up for it.

Space sim is a genre that doesn't actually exist, or maybe KSP is the only game in that genre. Most "space sims" have ridiculous physics, like how in ED you have "top speed" for ships, and how the thruster configuration doesn't make make sense. Also how in Space Engineers for example thruster placement doesn't matter at all, because all thrusters simply push the center of mass of the ship (plus again, the speed is capped very low). What you have as "space sims" are pew-pew games (usually with sounds traveling through space), and often those pew-pew games have mechanics implemented for advanced asset streaming to avoid having to segment the gameplay area into distinct parts divided by loading screens. A lot of people identify a good space game with having these latter mechanics to create the illusion of a realistic continuous world, but they totally ignore the huge number of completely unrealistic features of the game.

Starfield is definitely going to confuse, dissapoint, and pleasantly suprise a lot of people. If you've played a lot of these procedurally generated space games, you hopefully had carefully managed expectations going into Starfield. You explained this very well, Ant. This is another solid entry in the space game genre.

Whoever was thinking Starfield would be a space simulator was completely heading into the wrong direction imho. To me it was pretty clear that this won't be the case. It's a RPG as Bethesda always created and also announced - I was not able to discover a single, so called, "lie by Todd Howard" by now as you CAN explore whole planets if you want to, even if it clocks in horrible amounts of hours doing so. There are mostly barren planets with 10% of them being more interesting (it would not have made any sense to make all of them detailed in full scale as it would have been too many). Performance and stability are great! Likely because of the way they chose to implement stuff. Yes, you cannot fly around within the atmosphere and yes you cannot land on the surface but I feel it's either the Creation engine simply not being capable for that by design (at least not without any NASA computer ;) ) or it's simply a design decision on Starfield from day one. If it's the latter maybe, MAYBE one day there will be an update offering more freedom (just like we'll have in CP2077), removing some of these restrictions on the next console generation? Otherwise, on PC, I'm looking for mods - one was already released which removed the planetary boundaries, so why not? ;) (well, workarounds will be needed ofc.)

I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took a laserblast to the knee (?)

Ive played for over 24 hours and havent done much of the main campaign yet. Keep the crimson fleet around. Whenever you have contraband just warp there and sell eveyone on the station accepts it.

What I'm hoping this game will be like, is that it's like Skyrim when you don't actually try to follow the main Quest lines, but concentrate on exploration and doing your own thing. Is Starfield like that?

I love it! Only been in for a couple of hours. Looks amazing on my PC. I did have a couple of crashes when messing with menus, and there is definitely a learning curve. I suggest starting over a few times before you invest too much time in the game. Learning will greatly help you enjoy the experience.

Had you tried to see if we are able to edit the controls for the flight model? Like changing the mouse x-axle from yaw to roll? If not and it is lock like in No Man's Sky, then I looking forward to an other such game where I need to bring my controller out and be completely useless to chance from keyboard and mouse to controller depending on what I need to do

Just finished a 20 hour sesh on it, the first few hours have to admit felt a bit meh about it, but as I got used to it and got in to it, it grew quickly to something great, thoroughly enjoying it for what it is and will be playing this a long time - just wait till modders get their hands on it!

the hype for this game is the most absurd that has ever been seen after the hype for the development of SC in its 10th year

Thanks for your thoughts Ant. Great video as always!

I just see no point in flying. The spaceship is a storage box used to fast travel between planets and you occasionally have a space battle. Theres literally no point in flying anywhere because you can't actually move anywhere.

Todd forgot there are 3 graphics card makers now, with Intel Arc being unplayable for early access unfortunately. Intel says they will have a driver for regular launch date. Had to pull my a770 and put my old 1660ti back in just to play (at medium 1080p). While not optimal, it was decent.

Having played a similar amount to your good self, I would say it is VERY Bethesda in its design and ambitions - for better and worse. It's more like Mass Effect than NMS or Elite: Dangerous, and the idea that it would be more like the latter two is mostly audience inference. If you like classic Bethesda games and you like space, I think you'll have a mostly great time

I was excited about this game, but seeing what it is..not sure I'll bother. Didn't expect a sim, but was also hoping your ship was more than a loading screen

Great video. I agree I’ve been having a fantastic time. I’m about 15 hours in and even tho it doesn’t have that open seamless design like a space sim, it still has a massive sense of adventure and potential for exploration which is exactly what I’m looking for.

I'd enjoy watching you play the game, love your commentaries

In the end, we will see if Starfield is A good game after 1 year. I remember FS2020, was a disaster release, and look now! A fantastic Sim. Its very rare nowadays a full game is released in perfect condition. One exception BG3! I will paly Starfield next year and see the evolution during this time.

Have you tried setting up a hotas for the space flight? Is there an option for that in the controls?

Some of the restrictions suck (compared to space sims), but i am enjoying the game, still very early on but i already find myself immersed in it, which is great! The loading screens for me its fine, i can live with it.

Its crazy to me that you can't even manually travel from a planet to its moon and vice versa. What's the point of space exploration if you just fast travel everywhere?

I still remember how many arm chair devs attacked folks who mentioned the exploration would be region bound / tethered. This is still a bethesda game.

It feels just like Fallout, but with spaceships. Which isn't a bad thing, as I enjoyed every previous Beth RPG. They are epic in scale, but they all have excessive loading screens, which shouldn't be a thing in this day and age. They should be hidden, reduced, and removed if entirely possible, but I'm guessing it would require a new game engine, and that would massively add to the development duration, as they retool and learn the new engine. I think people are confused over the map, thinking it's 30 to 40 mins from landing location to the edge, but it's actually 30 to 40 mins from side-to-side, so half that if walking from your ship.

While I was completely expecting arcady space flight, I was kind of shocked to hear that there isn't support for joystics. Well, hopefully I can get around it with controller emulator. With my new 180 degree curved screen complete, I really want to try it with Starfield too.

ominous, that planet at 5:37 ''THANATOS'' at olympus system means death in greek ( Θάνατος ) , so just be careful guys :)

Honestly, majority, if not all, of the comments that mention elite are pretty positive about elite. Yeah, imagine sinking 500+ hours into starfield and then writing starfield is "waste of time", "inch deep ocean" etc. while in fact.. elite made you sink 500+ hours without a blink. Starfield will probably not. Well, starfield is a good game AND ED is a good game. ;)

This is the kind of review I wanted. "Can I live out my dreams of space travel in this game?" Think space sims are more my speed. Thank you.

This game to me is like Mass Effect meets FO4. I love both games and this game is fills the need of space RPG , exploration and base building. I'm having a gas.

It's not a space game. The spaceships are instanced dungeons in "space". There is no travel between planets. Fast travel invalidates space entirely. No deadzone in the navball means that the ships handle like they've had their breaks cut. I can *just about* forgive the fact that there is no seamless flight to atmosphere but planet-to-planet flight has been a feature of space games since the 80s. Bethesda really screwed the pooch. It's not a space game if you can spend 100% of your time on planets and 0% of your time in space. The space element of this space game is, by design, entirely avoidable. Because BGS knew it wasn't very good. The exploration is NMS but worse and the spaceflight is Elite Dangerous but worse and also optional. The RPG is typical Bethesda. 6/10.

Sounds just about right for a Space RPG type of game.

a few years ago, loading scenes between locations was totally normal, i dont think that would be a negative in this game, its part of the charm, isnt it. in Star Citizen, i see , quantum jumping also as a loading screen, though its not.

I've never been a Fallout guy, but I've absolutely loved Starfield and it's mechanics. This is a game I can see myself playing for months.

Mods are gonna be a must, cant wait.

I know a lot of people are disappointed in the restrictions, but this honestly seems like a Bethasda-ized Mass Effect, which is something I am totally down for.