Ahhh this is boring.
What was I thinking paying 15 bucks for this.
The gameplay realy shows it's age. It's just gathering and it's just all so slow, cluncky and boring. A game engine without a game. This is from the time the genre was new and just the tag "survival game" sold them a shitload of copies.
Start Citizen is a master piece if you compare it with this game.
Also abysmall performance. Probably VRAM related (have a crappy 8gb GPU), but it's all over the place and so inconsistent. Sometimes the game comes to a standstill and just closing it down is the fastest to get back into it (and tune some settings down, then it's fine). Normally I don't run into issues without ray tracing at 1440 P.
Gonna play it for another 2 hourish just for the feeling not completely burning 15 bucks for nothing.
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I completely agree that the game doesn't offer anything new exciting after a while. But i still praise it for free content updates after so long. And true, it is also a test environment for their next game.
But with the latest ship building update Chessclub-Todd is getting nervous
Using procedurally generated content in the way No Man's Sky does is what really dragged the game down for me. All the planets are the same with different skins; same resources, animals and objects with different names.
I would've thought they'd improved on that years ago to create a huge variety of planets that actually matters. But no, the changes have so far only been visual with weird and amusing weather.
The multiplayer component is severely lacking. It still feels like a single-player where you can barely interact with other players, making it pretty pointless. I didn't play expeditions for that very reason.
With their new game, Light No Fire, I really hope the developer has implemented much better game mechanics and variation. I really hope their procedural generator is much more capable to generate interesting content with huge variation that doesn't feel like it's the same stuff used over and over and over again with different skins hiding that very fact.
But with truck simulator you know what you sign up for. And at least the maps are handcrafted and you feel you are actually going somewhere.
some enjoy discovering the unseen though .. even if it's not exactly novel, that's all I signed up for atleast
I imagine nms is dreadful if you reduce it to its basic elements and the gameplay isn't strong for sure.. but it's a solid package if you have the patience for it.
I think it's just what you make of it really, but it definitely isn't in the quick dopamine category so I don't blame people for getting bored with it quickly.
Pirated the original a fair bit and then played a few years ago on retail and still got 83 hours out of that shit so I can't complain. that's probably more than I got out of vanilla skyrim
they keep adding shit so i'm sure to play again.
personally i'm a sucker for anything procedural, static "hand-made" isn't all that interesting to me and procedural elements are one of the bigger strengths of the medium, but it has limits like any other feature.
a lot of games love to throw in that "we can do everything at the same time" feel with randomization and NMS is the poster child of that and also suffers with the lack of gameplay elements tied to that very same procedural generation.
Almost every game suffers from the latter, especially AAA projects. You can have infinite pretty patterns, but if these things don't have any real effect on gameplay it's very close to fluff which is damn hard to care about.
Frant wrote:
with their new game, Light No Fire, I really hope the developer has implemented much better game mechanics and variation. I really hope their procedural generator is much more capable to generate interesting content with huge variation that doesn't feel like it's the same stuff used over and over and over again with different skins hiding that very fact.
i'm looking forward to being let down again still, i'm kind of excited for it though
Using procedurally generated content in the way No Man's Sky does is what really dragged the game down for me. All the planets are the same with different skins; same resources, animals and objects with different names.
I would've thought they'd improved on that years ago to create a huge variety of planets that actually matters. But no, the changes have so far only been visual with weird and amusing weather.
The multiplayer component is severely lacking. It still feels like a single-player where you can barely interact with other players, making it pretty pointless. I didn't play expeditions for that very reason.
With their new game, Light No Fire, I really hope the developer has implemented much better game mechanics and variation. I really hope their procedural generator is much more capable to generate interesting content with huge variation that doesn't feel like it's the same stuff used over and over and over again with different skins hiding that very fact.
Agreed, the game feels like a tech demo like Elite Dangerous where they have just applied some randomisation to various elements, multiplied it by 10000x and called it a completed game.
They had the opportunity to expand on the core gameplay but its the same as day 1. Instead they have just added a bunch of random things to grind for and there's no incentive to do it.
Multiplayer feels lacking because its not real multiplayer, its a single player game with peer to peer multiplayer thrown on top.
I hope Light No Fire will be great but I feel with such a high percentage of the NMS community saying that these boring updates make it the best game in the world (reddit etc), I don't think they have incentive to make anything else but a grindy boring game.
So they're running the end-of-the-year "cavalcade" of rerunning some past expeditions. It's a good way to let people like myself who wasn't around for the earlier expeditions get into them and get the rewards (including the unique ones).
The first expedition to start was Expedition 2: Beachhead. At the end you get the Normandy from Mass Effect as a prize.
You can't even guess how disappointed I was that it's just a frigate in your "fleet" that you can't even board. You can only send it on "missions", that's it. After completing the second to last Expedition (Expedition 19) as the first one I completed I thought we'd get the Normandy as a replacement for either our capital ship or something like a corvette.. but no.
Anyway, I didn't really understand what the expeditions were until I joined and completed Exp.19 and more recently Exp.20. Now I'm excited about at least one of the upcoming expeditions, Expedition 17: Titan. The reast are just the last 3 expeditions (18, 19 & 20).
I want to play Expedition 9, 12 and 16 since they've got unique ships I want that aren't available anywhere else. The upcoming Titan expedition has a unique ship but I don't like the "Living Ship" class of ships. Oh well.
I've spent many hours building a base that I'm now about to dismantle. I built it way up in the sky after first building a tall-as-fuck vertical "stick" that I could use to get up higher and higher until I reached the altitude I wanted. It takes time to learn how to build structures and foundations etc. well. Now I have structures at three different altitudes since I climbed higher when I felt I needed to start anew. All that is going to be removed so I get all the resources back to begin building a newer (and better) base.
So yes, this is a game where you have to make your own fun when you've finished the main content in the game. I've got more money and nanites than I have need for, my storage units are filled to the brim with anything I could possibly need. Exploring new star systems is, as I wrote in an earlier post, pointless since they're all more or less the same; they're all just used for farming resources anyway.
What's left for me in NMS is to play expeditions when they arrive and build bases. That's it. I may start building a new Corvette since I've got a ton more parts than I had when I played the Corvette expedition. I'm not sure I'll bother since they're currently a nuisance to use compared to normal star ships. It will sit down smack on/in your base since there's no way to build a parking spot for it or even point to a spot where it should land instead of right on to/inside the base.
Expeditions are great, they show a lot of the mechanics while providing a good paced path to follow. But tbh there is little need to wait for expeditions or rush any ongoing ones as you can simply activate them at any given time (unless you're on console):
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