I have been experiencing a similar (if not the same) issue. The game launches and gets to the main menu. When I click on New Game it will bring up the loading screen and then crash shortly after. The same thing happens if I click on Load Game or Continue Game. This happens regardless of whether I launch the game in "safe mode" or not. I was able to play the game just fine as recently as a couple months ago so my best guess is that it has something to do with a recent update to the game. But then again I seem to be in the minority of people experiencing this so I don't know. Really bums me out as I was really looking forward to playing and now I effectively cannot.
Below is my crash identifier from a crash log I uploaded.
2021-03-23_23.18.42_00000000000000000000000000000000
