yeah it's weird, from the very beginning of development i had this feeling that it just didn't feel compelling to me. it looked very impressive but there was like... nothing interesting to do. and i played noctis back in the day, space tourism is always compelling to me, but nms just feels... trivial for some reason. like playing with a toddler's activity center.

it's such a small thing but the first thing that tipped me off that something was off was the first e3 trailer way back, when the player in the video jumps into a ship with a long, narrow nose and that nose is not visible from the cockpit.