It honestly feels like the shell of a game. I'm sure modders will liven it up eventually but I think this is the weakest Bethesda title ever in terms of an unmodded experience. What little hand-crafted content there is, is spread way too thin. The main story is a predictable bore. The "feel" of exploration is ruined by so much fast traveling and when you aren't fast traveling, its mostly just empty procedurally generated landscape.

Even looking at vanilla Skyrim or FO4, if you saw a structure or point of interest, it would either be unique in itself, or it would be a copy-paste job but with something unique to find inside, even if it was just something small like a funny note or a unique weapon. In Starfield, it's just going to be more plates, forks, and succulents.

It has plenty of gameplay mechanics, but they all feel like stubs meant to be fleshed out by modders for free.