Anyway, finished the game. 78,5 hours, 68% of achievements.
Managed to keep going until the end only because I kept some of the good faction questlines (Crimson Fleet) for the last. After completing those quality quests I just rushed to the endgame. The last location was, as expected, quite disappointing, fighting the Starborn not challenging at all (despite playing on hard), by the time I reached the Hunter and Emissary, I was so fed up I just talked them to death with my superior persuasion skills and grabbed the final McGuffin. Oh, welcome, ending slides. It appears I really made a difference to this one galaxy. Which of course is irrelevant since it has millions of copies in the multiverse of Bethesda madness.
Not looking forward to new game plus, seeing it's just more of the same, with minor variations because of multiverse bullshit. Yesterday I heard about some madman who completed Starfield 34 times and got rewarded by a unique encounter in his 35th playthrough! Anyway, I only visited the Lodge, to tell them I come from a different dimension and see the reactions. They all believed me because why the hell not. Writing in this game is abysmal, but the delivery of those soulless lines comes at close second.
Recently I finished Cyberpunk 2077. After 100 hours I was still actively combing the game for additional content, trying to squeeze as much fun as I could. With Starfield it was just a race to the finish line just to be done with it. Probably it would be wiser to play these games in another sequence.
P.S. Despite most elements of this game being utterly soulless, there are glimpses of something better here and there. For me it was the quest of distributing drawings of the Star Frog for some kid around Cydonia, just to lift the spirits of the general population. This was completely random, and yet I greatly enjoyed both his art and me helping him spread happiness around
![Smile :) :)](/forums/smiles/icon_smile.gif)
Kudos to the person at Bethesda who designed this quest.