No it's just another video game. The core competency of this developer is dialogue interaction or dialogue puzzles that help create a sense of immersion in a world with lots of RPG mechanics. It is more or less in line with their previous games. There are quite a few tacked on features.

There's so much media coverage of video games these days I think it makes it hard to just have them stand on their own merits without having every detail examined and compared across every game that has ever released. People who are spending the money on video games as entertainment will be entertained, but this isn't a genre defining product and it isn't a flop either.

No, I actually like it more than I liked fallout 4 on launch so far. It's just really popular to call Bethesda games shit on the internet

No nor is it "buggy" by any real stretch.

People like to shit on every Bethesda game since they don't like their brand of RPG. For them roll playing means you can do whatever the fuck you want. Do you want to go off and kill every person in sight, well it's a bethesda RPG so yeah go for it. Do you want to go into people houses at night and steal all their food and mess up the place? go for it. Do you want to... etc. Hell this idea runs so deeply, there's a mechanic in oblivion I beat you didn't know existed, goblin warfare. It's real, it's just also buggy.

Yeah it's another bethesda RPG, now with space. I've been having a blast with the game so far.

Having a hard time putting it down but Lemmy seems quite negative on it

Personal thoughts - being about 15 hours in; the exploration part is far from exciting, the gunplay is not much improved since Fallout 4, the crafting systems have not really evolved at all, the outpost construction system feels very disconnected from any other gameplay - being a completely optional resource sink more than anything else, the ship construction system is clunky as anything and has a bunch of drawbacks to it, the usability of the UI is mediocre at best - probably slightly worse than the original Skyrim UI, the economy seems completely broken - you're very obviously meant to have 2-3 digits fewer in your credits than what the game awards you for regular play even without heavy looting, the characters are rather weakly written and seem strangely delayed in reactions to the story, your chosen backstory never has an actual role in gameplay - only been able to skip two 1k credit payments and a "put the cube in the cube hole" puzzle with it so far, etc.
It's very much a Bethesda game. I'm definitely going to finish the main story - and probably poke into a bunch of the side content as well, but this is definitely not looking like a game I'll have more than a single playthrough in.

I actually ended up bringing out a USB dancepad I've got laying about to play with, since I had to do a bunch of on-planet stuff, and standing and drinking tea while waiting through the traversal for those missions felt much nicer.

At least I thought so. Refunded after 10 hours on Steam.
Did not feel like a game from 2023. Did not want to pay that much for that quality.

Only watched like 2 hours of gameplay footage but seems to have learned from the mistakes of Fallout 4 while keeping the fun stuff like legendary items and weapon customization. If you like Bethesda games and sci-fi I think you'll love it.