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I'm very much enjoying it. The longer you play the more things open up to you. The story is probably the most interesting story I've ever played in a Bethesda game. It is absolutely overwhelming for the first 50 hours or so. But the longer you play the more it opens up the more you learn. And on top of all of that the mods. My God the mods for this game are going to be amazing.
I was trying to finish research and upgrade a few weapons and visited a few frozen lifeless rocks in a row. It was starting to get repetitive, so I decided to pick a random level 70 system at the limit of my jump range. One planet had a lot of life so I landed. There were a few of these level 10 giant beetles the size of an elephant with lizard skin (their muscles rippled when they moved, they were animated really well). I shot one to see what resources they dropped. Like a movie, an entire line of those things popped over a ridge and charged me. Level 45 to 70.
It was a tough fight. Exploring is rewarding, and focusing on planets and moons that have life show off more of the awesomeness of this game.
The animals are definitely pretty impressive. I wasn't expecting much in that department but they did a great job. I've seen the AI do a lot more than I was expecting. Once I saw a heard if passive creatures swarm a predator and kill it then all of them started celebrating their kill. Lol
Agreed. Been finding the main story, dialog, companions, etc. to be spectacularly unengaging, but have found myself to be surprisingly addicted to surveying life and resources on planets, which is typically not my kind of gameplay loop.
Just hit a planet with one predator and one prey species - the prey species were these Dimetrodon - looking lizard things the ended up one shotting me a bunch of times by breathing fire. Seeing a little bit of repetition with the animals but in general I've really been enjoying this aspect of the game.