It wouldn’t have been horrible if they did it in an Immersive way. For example, Mass Effect had it’s big hologram system map. You walk up to it and it zoomed to it, or whatever happened, and it didn’t take you out of the world into a menu. It’s still a menu, but it feels like it’s part of the world. Similarly, the Fallout menus are in the pop boy. While not perfect, it does help it feel Immersive.
The Starfield UI doesn’t even try. They give you the watch thing like they’re going to do the Fallout menu thing, but then they just don’t. There is zero attempt to make it feel like part of the universe. They have the navigation consoles that open the system map, but it still just opens the same menu. That’s still better than what you do 99% of the time though.
It wouldn’t have been horrible if they did it in an Immersive way. For example, Mass Effect had it’s big hologram system map. You walk up to it and it zoomed to it, or whatever happened, and it didn’t take you out of the world into a menu. It’s still a menu, but it feels like it’s part of the world. Similarly, the Fallout menus are in the pop boy. While not perfect, it does help it feel Immersive.
The Starfield UI doesn’t even try. They give you the watch thing like they’re going to do the Fallout menu thing, but then they just don’t. There is zero attempt to make it feel like part of the universe. They have the navigation consoles that open the system map, but it still just opens the same menu. That’s still better than what you do 99% of the time though.