These games are weird and have a bizarrely long shelf life that is often (unfairly in my view) thrashed in the gaming consciousness. All of the games have this

These games are weird and have a bizarrely long shelf life that is often (unfairly in my view) thrashed in the gaming consciousness. All of the games have this half life where you love it for the first 60 hours, enjoy for another 100 hours of modding and then you are sort of disgusted by the realization that NO game can really sustain this level of scrutiny and you see all the seams, copy-paste that such a diverse world needs. The Outer Worlds was undoubtably an attempt to mimic the style of Bethesda but I honestly couldn't play more than 30-40 hours of it. Even New Vegas, my favourite in that engine, doesn't have enough of the repetitive grind that really makes these games so unbelievably popular.