The game is aggressively Bethesda but I'm enjoying the visuals and sniffing the 3d model of every insignificant bit of detritis in the world. I saw a very nice looking bowl, maybe THE bowl of all videogames. Other than that the narrative and main story has already lost my interest after about 10 minutes and I'll be off being a space menace if the game will let me.
Once i found out I can travel using the ship in scanner mode it doesn't feel like a map simulator anymore.
Also the chef having a perk for dueling tickles me.
Game also runs like shit on PC but digital foundry showed most settings being on medium yields good performance with no noticable quality loss.
I'm just glad it was short I don't think I could survive another oblivion intro level. I much prefer morrowinds approach of just dumping you on a shore with a vague direction and leaving it at that.
At least Oblivion provided you with a save at the end of the intro where you could change everything about your character and quickly jump into a different playthrough.
I replayed some oblivion a couple months ago- Im not sure if I can find out exactly what mods I was using over a decade ago, but Steam still has my saves and I can see the little low res screenshots of all my old characters. Very nostalgic