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For those who enjoy a humorous video essay about this topic: https://youtu.be/O5BJVO3PDeQ?si=3BMt0QPkx9DYqzEl
Hello Games just keeps shipping things that make the game better.
No Man's Sky is one of the biggest gaming disappointments of my life. It was always a grindy, pointless game about exploring a dull, repetitive universe.
Seconded. I was hoping for a persistent multiplayer and modernized Freelancer 2 but i got a very pretty, but mile wide and inch deep game. God what i would give for a modern reimagining of Freelancer 2...
To save you a click or perhaps a rage-comment: This is a hype article for people who think No Man's Sky is already a great game. Seems like a fluff piece to me. There's nothing in it that suggests any sort of fundamental change in the quality of the game.
https://www.nomanssky.com/echoes-update/
https://www.nomanssky.com/2023/06/expedition-ten-singularity...
https://www.nomanssky.com/interceptor-update/
https://www.nomanssky.com/fractal-update/
Each is pretty packed with quality of life, gameplay, and content improvements.
I no longer regret my original launch purchase. The game is pretty amazing now, and the rate of change and improvement indicates to me it’s not close to topping out. If you have it and haven’t picked it up again, then, I would actually say wait another year and try it again then. Not that it needs another year, but that in that time it’ll likely be even better than it is now by a substantial margin.
No Man's Sky is one of the biggest gaming disappointments of my life. It was always a grindy, pointless game about exploring a dull, repetitive universe.
I did give it an honest try, and even enjoyed the first 30 hours or so. This was about a year ago, though I did buy the game at launch and promptly give up on it, like many others.
A true mile-wide-inch-deep game. Once that initial spark fizzles out the idea of picking the game up again is painful. Bit of a shame really, because the actual game parts do work well enough.
Just a long way of saying “I hate to say it, but I completely agree”
If you look at today’s NMS and think, “ooh, that looks like it could be fun!” you’ll probably have a great time. If you look at it and think, “Enh, is it good enough yet?” then you’ll probably have a bad time.
It is what you see and they’ve fixed the incredibly shallow game loop. But it’s one of those games where if it’s not for you, it’s not going to win you over.
I enjoyed it as a “podcast game” where I’m just focused on a tv show or podcast while mucking about, planet to planet.
I love this game so much. First of all, it's kind of technologically astounding. You can get in your spaceship and take off from a planet and fly to another one and land, all without any loading screens. The planets themselves are sculptable isosurfaces (only to an extent, though; you can't drill a hole through to the other side) and littered with points of interest, unique animals and plants. It's quasi-social -- yo…