I used to like No Man’s Sky. Then HG turned it into a beta test for their new game coming up and are either too lazy or too incompetent to fix the massive amount of long standing bugs and inconsistent shit
And their Reddit subs are full of kids that are willing to die on a hill- blindly defending HG as the be-all-end-all perfect example of competence in game development, all while ignoring the fact that they break shit constantly every time they release something they clearly never tested.
Or the boomers on Steam forums deflecting every criticism and trying to derail a thread by defending it as a “sandbox” game or not a bug, putting a post there is like controlling oversized children otherwise it devolves into dogpiling.
I played a lot of Elite, and tried No Man’s Sky recently. I get why somebody might like it, perhaps even more. It’s more fun. But perhaps a bit too “colorful” for me. I enjoyed the realistic touch of Elite.
But I cannot tell myself that yet another grind is what I need in my life.
Last time me and a buddy played we triggered enemies on a corrupted planet to earn parts to reclaim a sentient ship, but it was bugged so the enemies included corrupted and regular enemies and the ship at the end was 2 ships glitching into each other as they occupied the same location (one for each player).
The sameness of every planet was a major turnoff for me, plus the scale of the universe pretty much guarantees that you’ll never run into another player organically. The game is basically just Minecraft in space, except bad.
This is the reason why I don’t like procedurally-generated games. What’s the point of a big, massive universe, if it’s nothing but a bunch of generated sameness? Environments that weren’t handcrafted are a major turnoff for me. As someone who sees video games as art, it just feels soulless and empty. Like AI-generated art, except it’s an entire game.
I don’t think you can, but the game is so boring that I never played long enough to find out. That’s the point I’m making. I’m not interested in a multiplayer game if there are no randoms to run into. Might as well just play an SP game.
These days running into other players is far more common on the Expeditions due to all the players having the same goal and quest pathing, but you still bump into real people the closer you are to the galactic center in the regular game modes.
In terms of the ‘boring samey planets’ when was the last time you played? Because with the current terrain generation, water effects, gas giant systems, fully submerged worlds and new fauna/flora generation I’ve yet to find any planets that were identical.
Why is this even an issue for you? Just play it like SP without thinking about online factor. Maybe you will stumble upon some player after a month of playing, giving you a proper “holy fucking shit” moment, but realistically why even think about it and why turn it into a turnoff?
Fuck yeah. I love No Man’s Sky. Whenever a new update launches me and a friend will just go and sink 10 ish hours into it just playing around. The game still has its issues, but I’ve had some genuine fun just immersing myself in the world and building bases and discovering things
Nah, it’s better than that but this statement still holds true for me - after several weeks I’ve seen everything (i.e. the patterns behind everything), and that’s when it got repetitive. All in all it’s a very nice game.
That’s been my problem with it as well. I still do like dusting it off every now and again. It has the best land to space travel transition of any game I’ve ever played.
I have done everything but finding goddamn freighter modules to improve my stolen pirate ship. I cannot find the bastard things anywhere and there’s no mod to give them to me 😡
IIRC you can get them through the derelict freighter missions (which take forever and are kind of boring after the first one), or by blasting NPC freighters if you don’t care about reputation.
For the latter I’ve heard (but wasn’t willing to try myself to confirm) that you can just shoot the external cargo modules off of friendly freighters without them becoming mad and summoning sentinels.
I have played it a lot in the past. Used to log in again with every new update. But for some reason I haven’t touched it since late 2023. Just got a little busy with reading and other games. Though to be honest I can’t seem to work up the motivation to start it up again and I don’t really know why.
It has come such a long way since launch and I can only commend them for staying active for so long. The regular updates and expansions for a game that has no micro-transactions… it’s awesome. I would recommend at least trying it to anyone who’s even a tiny bit curious. Wait until it’s on sale and you can’t really go wrong.
Perhaps I will give it another go in the future. I can see I’ve missed a lot of new features.
I liked it but wish it had better multiplayer. My friends kept dropping out of the party and there wasn’t much to do as part of a small group other than to collect corvette parts to make bigger (or smaller) outrageous ships.
Could be tempted to do the massive week long runs but… I just got back into BG3.
It was apparently my top played game on PS5 this year because earlier in the year I got really into playing it while listening to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.
I liked it, but similar to Elite they both seem to end up with a problem of “yeah, now what?” after playing for a while. Yet I have enjoyed other sandbox games like Wurm for many 1000s of hours, while Elite and NMS I only have 1200 and 400 hours in. Maybe the lack of multiplayer interaction? I know you can group up but doesn’t seem like something that really happens through gameplay alone.
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NMS was so much fun but now when I log in I’m lost and confused and dont feel like I have the metal to start over.
I haven’t got past the early game where you’re scraping the map for technology to build a little wooden house.
I used to like No Man’s Sky. Then HG turned it into a beta test for their new game coming up and are either too lazy or too incompetent to fix the massive amount of long standing bugs and inconsistent shit
And their Reddit subs are full of kids that are willing to die on a hill- blindly defending HG as the be-all-end-all perfect example of competence in game development, all while ignoring the fact that they break shit constantly every time they release something they clearly never tested.
Or the boomers on Steam forums deflecting every criticism and trying to derail a thread by defending it as a “sandbox” game or not a bug, putting a post there is like controlling oversized children otherwise it devolves into dogpiling.
I played a lot of Elite, and tried No Man’s Sky recently. I get why somebody might like it, perhaps even more. It’s more fun. But perhaps a bit too “colorful” for me. I enjoyed the realistic touch of Elite.
But I cannot tell myself that yet another grind is what I need in my life.
I’ve never even heard of Man’s Sky. /s
Last time me and a buddy played we triggered enemies on a corrupted planet to earn parts to reclaim a sentient ship, but it was bugged so the enemies included corrupted and regular enemies and the ship at the end was 2 ships glitching into each other as they occupied the same location (one for each player).
I highly recommend it.
No.
The sameness of every planet was a major turnoff for me, plus the scale of the universe pretty much guarantees that you’ll never run into another player organically. The game is basically just Minecraft in space, except bad.
This is the reason why I don’t like procedurally-generated games. What’s the point of a big, massive universe, if it’s nothing but a bunch of generated sameness? Environments that weren’t handcrafted are a major turnoff for me. As someone who sees video games as art, it just feels soulless and empty. Like AI-generated art, except it’s an entire game.
You can run into players organically?? I thought you had to go into the Nexus for that
I don’t think you can, but the game is so boring that I never played long enough to find out. That’s the point I’m making. I’m not interested in a multiplayer game if there are no randoms to run into. Might as well just play an SP game.
So you don’t know, you just claim stuff
These days running into other players is far more common on the Expeditions due to all the players having the same goal and quest pathing, but you still bump into real people the closer you are to the galactic center in the regular game modes.
In terms of the ‘boring samey planets’ when was the last time you played? Because with the current terrain generation, water effects, gas giant systems, fully submerged worlds and new fauna/flora generation I’ve yet to find any planets that were identical.
Why is this even an issue for you? Just play it like SP without thinking about online factor. Maybe you will stumble upon some player after a month of playing, giving you a proper “holy fucking shit” moment, but realistically why even think about it and why turn it into a turnoff?
Fuck yeah. I love No Man’s Sky. Whenever a new update launches me and a friend will just go and sink 10 ish hours into it just playing around. The game still has its issues, but I’ve had some genuine fun just immersing myself in the world and building bases and discovering things
definitely
Same
Dang there are a ton of comments here
It gets the (small niche) people going
There’s [email protected] but it’s not super active. You’re bound to find some fans in the general gaming communities like this one though.
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Wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle.
Nah, it’s better than that but this statement still holds true for me - after several weeks I’ve seen everything (i.e. the patterns behind everything), and that’s when it got repetitive. All in all it’s a very nice game.
That’s been my problem with it as well. I still do like dusting it off every now and again. It has the best land to space travel transition of any game I’ve ever played.
Those takeoffs into space are bangers, you are right. Really cool mechanics and visuals, that alone is worth trying this game.
It’s not wrong, but the amount of random shit they added to it is enough to make a dive into it worth it to me, at least once in a while.
It’s certainly not deep, but there’s stuff to do, some room for creativity, and occasional funny weirdo creatures to encounter.
I have done everything but finding goddamn freighter modules to improve my stolen pirate ship. I cannot find the bastard things anywhere and there’s no mod to give them to me 😡
IIRC you can get them through the derelict freighter missions (which take forever and are kind of boring after the first one), or by blasting NPC freighters if you don’t care about reputation.
For the latter I’ve heard (but wasn’t willing to try myself to confirm) that you can just shoot the external cargo modules off of friendly freighters without them becoming mad and summoning sentinels.
Every since launch 🧡
I have played it a lot in the past. Used to log in again with every new update. But for some reason I haven’t touched it since late 2023. Just got a little busy with reading and other games. Though to be honest I can’t seem to work up the motivation to start it up again and I don’t really know why.
It has come such a long way since launch and I can only commend them for staying active for so long. The regular updates and expansions for a game that has no micro-transactions… it’s awesome. I would recommend at least trying it to anyone who’s even a tiny bit curious. Wait until it’s on sale and you can’t really go wrong.
Perhaps I will give it another go in the future. I can see I’ve missed a lot of new features.
I liked it but wish it had better multiplayer. My friends kept dropping out of the party and there wasn’t much to do as part of a small group other than to collect corvette parts to make bigger (or smaller) outrageous ships.
Could be tempted to do the massive week long runs but… I just got back into BG3.
It was apparently my top played game on PS5 this year because earlier in the year I got really into playing it while listening to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.
I liked it, but similar to Elite they both seem to end up with a problem of “yeah, now what?” after playing for a while. Yet I have enjoyed other sandbox games like Wurm for many 1000s of hours, while Elite and NMS I only have 1200 and 400 hours in. Maybe the lack of multiplayer interaction? I know you can group up but doesn’t seem like something that really happens through gameplay alone.