One of the things I immediately enjoyed about the game was how open everything is and the complete lack of any hand-holding, time consuming tutorial period where I can basically do nothing except follow markers. I feel like the player learns pretty fast how the basics work and there's a large and friendly community to offer suggestions and help them sort out the more complicated stuff.
I would parallel this with minecraft more than any mainstream, large studio game; if you like to build, learn, try new things, and sometimes hilariously explode, you'll have fun here.