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I played the game for 80 hours and was never bored. Maybe the problem isn't the game, but people is trying to get content from a SP game like if it was a GaaS. I swear I've seen some people review the game as "boring" after 140 hours of playtime. Not defending how they responded to the reviews tho, and I'm also not saying people can get bored with thing i like!
My friend tried really hard to get into it, he only plays single player games and loves RPGs. He rage quit 10 hours in because of the constant immersion breaking and frustrations. Like he'd want to handle a quest in a way that suited his play style and the game would be like "No! You do it our way!".
The quest that broke it for him was the earth ship. He accepted the quest and planned to fly up there and shoot it with his ship, nope invulnerable. That annoyed him. He boards it and finds out about detonating the reactor but needs a key for the computer. Scours the ship for the key and can't find it. Decides to kill everyone on board, turns out there are a large number of NPCs on the ship that are unkillable, one of which likely has the key. He gave up and quit.
The game forces you to do everything the single way it wants you to. Try to do it differently? Invulnerable NPCs, inaccessible locations, unspawned NPCs, potential to bug your save, etc.
This isn't even mentioning how boring the quest writing is, how ugly the game generally looks when compared to modern titles or even older ones, how often immersion is broken by constant loading screens or stupid menu systems.
I'm pretty sure anyone who believes they enjoy the game would likely enjoy most other games even more so at a cheaper price.
That was my exact experience, but with the cruise ship mission, as well. It’s doubly weird since they have the NG+ mechanic. With the whole alternate universe thing they should be encouraging you to do quests in different ways but nope only 1 way to ever complete a quest.