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Starfield has made me obsessed with no man’s sky (beehaw.org)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So far, Starfield is an awesome game, but now I have an urge to pick up my character on no man sky, and I’m having trouble putting that game down right now.

Anyone else experienced this for example urge to play another space game?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I keep trying NMS hoping to find a good game in there somewhere. I'm over 100 hours now, mostly because I'm a dork who likes collecting spaceships.

But all the mechanics -- the crafting and movement and languages and even the terrain generation -- are frankly pretty terrible. It's like Hello Games intentionally hired people who don't know how to design these things.

Why do all the space stations look identical inside? Why do I have to learn one single alien word at a time, including "a" and "the"? Why are there no rivers or waterfalls or glaciers or swamp basins? And why can't I customize my ship appearance when the game itself can clearly generate one from a dozen random parts?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Honestly I agree. I think it's a great game though, at least what it has become, but I think I keep getting disappointed with certain things that are just an issue with the core mechanics of the game. There's only so much value to adding tons of content if the game is dull at its core.

I have over 350 hours in NMS but every time I try to pick it back up I realize why I stopped before.