I have put countless hours into Bethesda games in my lifetime, so it brings me no joy at all to say this game blows. It flops right from the start. More games need to open with cool shit. This opens with you underground in a mine following the slowest walker and talker of all time. And it doesn't improve. The core loop is so boring that I turned this off to read a book instead. It also looks like shit. The engine is way out of date and it's time to move on. Worst of all? Exploration is essentially gone. You can't wander into something cool. You can fast travel from quest to quest or jump around on empty planets. I haven't been this disappointed by a game in a long time. It has the soundtrack of the year though, that's not nothing.