It's actually worse than that. I genuinely gave it a fair chance. I thought maybe it does get better like they say it does. I think those people were paid, because there's bad takes, and then there's that.

Every potential it had, it squandered. There's no fun to be had in the game. The tiny little 'ooh neat' moments are so few that the rest of the game cannot possibly make up for it. If they gave this game another 3 or 4 years, and took out all the useless NPCs that don't even act human, then maybe they'd have something. But that's a hypothetical best situation, so I can't focus on that.

I'm actually more concerned for Bethesda now than I was before. I had thought that they'd have a fun new series for fans to enjoy. But you can't have fun with it unless you rationalize every single penny spent on it and force yourself to find something you like about it.

You know how Skyrim and Oblivion lines got meme'd to death because they happened a lot? Stop right there criminal scum and arrow in the knee? I'd gladly go back to that over hearing the same 3 affirmative action lines over and over.

And that's not fun at all.

I regret even playing this for free. Hell, even the final month of gamepass for me was free, and it felt like I overpaid for this.

Y'know that meme from a certain mongolian basket weaving forum that starts the first panel off with a stickman squatting over a plate about to take a dump?

The guy just trying to have a nice meal says "What the hell why are you shitting on my plate?"

The squatting guy says "How do you know it's shit, it's not even out yet"

That's Bethesda now. They've become the butt from which only shit can be produced.