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No Man's Sky just keeps getting better

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Re: No Man's Sky just keeps getting better

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Post by Incipient »

A lot of the individual features are adequate, but because there are so many, they're on hbf shallow side. I don't find that a problem however - you can constantly swap between space combat, ground vehicles, building, missions, etc. So they feel fresh enough.

What I can't get over is how dull, lifeless, and copy and paste each planet feels. You explore a small square for a bit, and the rest of the planet is basically the same. There is no real variation in landscape, fauna, and flora across the planet. And the vast majority of planets are fairly barren rocks.

Re: No Man's Sky just keeps getting better

#32

Post by jomohke »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #25

I got tired of the core gameplay loop by about 85 hours. I had a decent home base (looked janky AF, but what am I, an architect?), one or two secondary bases, and a mid-size freighter. Once I got at least one of every variety of ship in a B-class or higher, there didn't feel like much else to aim for. I'd send guys off on freighter stuff to do quests, and then just kill time until they got back, sell their loot, do s…

As someone who's not really a gamer, hearing "it gets tiring after 85 hours" as a negative blows my mind. 85 hours!

Re: No Man's Sky just keeps getting better

#33

Post by iamwil »

jomohke wrote: post #32
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #25

I got tired of the core gameplay loop by about 85 hours. I had a decent home base (looked janky AF, but what am I, an architect?), one or two secondary bases, and a mid-size freighter. Once I got at least one of every variety of ship in a B-class or higher, there didn't feel like much else to aim for. I'd send guys off on freighter stuff to do quests, and then just kill time until they got back, sell their loot, do s…

As someone who's not really a gamer, hearing "it gets tiring after 85 hours" as a negative blows my mind. 85 hours!

I've racked up over 900 hours on Team Fortress 2 and I'm still terrible at it.

I also wonder what I would have learned or built in the time that I've played that game.

Re: No Man's Sky just keeps getting better

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Post by Kerb_ »

superb_dev wrote: post #28
fnordpiglet wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree the article was fluff, I expected it to do some sort of analysis of the changes in the game since its crushingly disappointing launch. However, that said, the game has improved dramatically and does so at a blistering pace. For instance there has been several major releases this year alone: https://www.nomanssky.com/echoes-update/ https://www.nomanssky.com/2023/06/expedition-ten-singularity... https://www.nom…

All these updates, but the planet I spawn on is an ugly barren wasteland. Where are the lush beautiful worlds from the store page?

Other planets. You're supposed to leave your ugly barren wasteland in like 30 minutes

Re: No Man's Sky just keeps getting better

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Post by slowhadoken »

No Man’s Sky and Street Fighter 5 both broke my heart in the same year. It was the beginning of a massive decline in quality and business practices. Video games haven’t been the same since. The free-to-play model, 2010 GDC/IGF indie game scene, and the mobile gaming market are largely responsible.

Re: No Man's Sky just keeps getting better

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Post by selimthegrim »

wonnage wrote: post #29
glimshe wrote: post #5

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.

Agreed. New systems to the game tend to just be shallow window dressing. Settlement management is literally fetch quests, or kill X number of sentinels that are attacking. A vast portion of the game revolves around finding things and shooting mining beams at them. Valheim solved this beautifully, they turned boring resource gathering tasks into practically their own minigames - you can use the simple tree/ground phys…

So, like Starflight?

Re: No Man's Sky just keeps getting better

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Post by kylebenzle »

jomohke wrote: post #32
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #25

I got tired of the core gameplay loop by about 85 hours. I had a decent home base (looked janky AF, but what am I, an architect?), one or two secondary bases, and a mid-size freighter. Once I got at least one of every variety of ship in a B-class or higher, there didn't feel like much else to aim for. I'd send guys off on freighter stuff to do quests, and then just kill time until they got back, sell their loot, do s…

As someone who's not really a gamer, hearing "it gets tiring after 85 hours" as a negative blows my mind. 85 hours!

I agree. Whenever I think about or see stats on time spent playing videos games I feel a little sick.

Re: No Man's Sky just keeps getting better

#39

Post by slowhadoken »

digging wrote: post #3

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.

yeah Polygon gonna Polygon

Re: No Man's Sky just keeps getting better

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Post by progne »

Everywhere you go in the whole damn galaxy, armed drones are there, waiting to enforce the rules. It mashes up the rule of law and rules of nature such that the rule of law cannot be escaped even at faster than light. It's a dystopian surveillance universe. I'm not that into horror.
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