I just couldn’t push through it…

It comes up really quick if you just do the main storyline. The side quests are what give you more than basic play time.

I almost gave up not because it’s bad or slow but because I encountered the scanner bug which forced me to cheat and disable achievements. Kind of a bummer but still put in like 200 hours. I did the story once but there no way in fucking hell I’m going through ng 10 times.

I couldn’t push through it. I got sidetracked, did the freestar ranger questline, finished it, went “thats it?” and basically dropped the game. What got me to actually uninstall was the paridiso mission and how limited it was.

Have spent about 50 hours and almost finished main quest. Did ryuni, freestar collective, and pirates side quests. I’m getting more and more annoyed by all the loading screens and the frustrating UI. Also graphics are underwhelming in places. I’ll finish main quest and then delete the game.

Level 85, still going strong on my first play through. I will soon create my first serious outpost, and I’ll keep surveying ALL the planets and moons.

I have, ten times.

I uninstalled after I got most of the artifact pieces and powers, first pass through. Just played the “good” (as opposed to criminal) storylines, never beat the main story. Am planning on waiting a year or so for mods or major DLC to give it another go.

I enjoyed it, but have played it a lot less then Fallout 4, and I don’t really feel all that interested in doing multiple vanilla playthroughs, unlike Fallout 4.

One of the things that The Outer Worlds fell flat on for me was the perk system. There aren’t really any terribly-exciting perks there that significantly affect gameplay.

That’s not true of Starfield…but it is more true than for Fallout 4, and it really limited my desire to do multiple vanilla playthroughs. In Fallout 4 (and Fallout 76, though there one can respec), I had to make some tradeoffs that forced me into one of a set of playstyles. In Starfield, the combat is far easier – I never bothered to get any combat perks other than two levels of Ballistic. The only place I ever seriously had to consider backing out and getting more supplies was the Mantis run, and I virtually never had a character get killed, even by the most-built-up major fights. That meant that there was no need to make tradeoffs in choosing perks – I had a surplus of skill points. I didn’t need to play, say, a stealthy character because I could just walk into an encounter, easily kill everything without combat skills, and continue on.

On top of most enemies just not being that tough, as with Fallout 76, most melee enemies are rendered trivial by obtaining a jetpack, because one can normally reach places that they cannot. In Starfield, one can get a boostpack early, and the maps virtually never have open plains without something to get on top of.

So playing through again to play a different spec didn’t have much point. My character could already do everything I wanted.

The quests are more-or-less on rails, so there’s not much reason to replay them, as one rarely can get significantly different outcomes.

One could do a “criminal” playthrough, but I didn’t really want to take that route. Didn’t really like playing as a raider in Fallout 4: Nuka World, didn’t really want to play Crimson Fleet or gangs in Starfield. And even if one wanted to do so, that doesn’t mandate a new playthrough.

Neither the ship-building nor outpost-building aspects of the game require multiple playthroughs, as there aren’t meaningful decisions with tradeoffs to make. If anything, they discourage it. And there’s not any real “point” to the ship-building or outpost-building other than maybe making a particular aesthetic one likes. Resource production is only really required to, well, build more outposts. One doesn’t optimize outpost layout for base defense against attacks or to maximize production or whatever.

Once I figured out what the ending was I just lost interest.

I got bored and stopped playing after the 50th “make the sphere spin” mini game

i beat it about a week ago. kinda sad i left everything behind but excited for my next go around

No. The main story was so bad I couldn’t continue the game. I already thought it was bad, but that plot and the repetitive game play on the mai plot was too much for me.

I just completed main story a couple days ago. Before that, I also did Pirates, Freestar, Terramorph, Ryujin and all the Constellation companion quests, except for Sam. Also did a lot of the activities and side quests. I’m not a completionist, so I feel like I’ve gone far enough and got to experience the majority of what the game had to offer.

I may go through just enough to check out Sam’s quest, but other than that, really don’t have any desire to go further than that or play through again as a bad guy. Outposts, exploration, crafting are too much of a grind with little payoff. Too many frustrating issues, as others mentioned.

I got side tracked by the phantom liberty dlc for cyberpunk and haven’t started up starfield in weeks.

Finished my first playthrough and entered ng+. Currently playing Phantom Liberty now before I got sucked into another 100 hours of Starfield.

I haven’t. I’m at 300 hours or so and actively avoiding completing the main story like I always do with Bethesda games. I’m aware of NG+, but don’t know exactly what it is. I’m content to base build and dick around for now. There are a couple quest lines that are bugged so I’m waiting on patches to continue them. I have a couple of outposts that have the game crashing bug when you try to open your scanner, so I’m waiting on a patch to continue those. I’m at a point where the QOL issues and the mounting number of bugs directly affecting my play are going to see me putting SF on the back burner for a few months until some real patches are released to address all this stuff. Still dig the game and look forward to completing it when its improved and they support the work of modders better. …in answer to what you were asking… Tldr: I haven’t completed the main quest. I personally don’t care about spoilers.