Yeaaah my big complaint with SF's setting is there's some neat ideas and the quests actually *Do* point out that none of main factions, even "Uoptian" visions of the UC and FC are perfect. Like the FC storyline is cliche space western...that touches on how the scars of Colony War hasn't healed...

FC is also about how decentralizing is also not ideal, where it basically went from something that has a borderline anarchist concept but got overrun by corporations until it became a collection of exploitative corporate towns which is like, every colonisation in the Americas became

That's just it right there: Starfield's a box full of ideas, just not a lot of it actually connected real well. I feel this also speaks about Bethesda's being so very much tied to its existing IP that it's forgotten how to work fresh without.That's just it right there: Starfield's a box full of ideas, just not a lot of it actually connected real well. I feel this also speaks about Bethesda's being so very much tied to its existing IP that it's forgotten how to work fresh without.

Annnnd that the UC's Libertarian approach to freedom and government means guys like Ron Hope have way too much power, and also are effectivelly legally untouchable. And then there's *Neon*, AKA "Sooo The FC basically lets a Night City esque body operate with all that attending baggage."