Чудова гра

Цікава пісочниця, але є декілька недоліків: немає можливості продавати чи передавати космічні кораблі, мультипульти та вже відкриті технології; через певну кількість відкритих планетарних систем починає помічати схожість, та не велику наповненість природної фауни, але враховуючи розміри планет та систем цей недолік не сильно помітний

Is No Man's Sky a great game? Absolutely.

Is it a great game for me? Unfortunately not. Every time I come back I end up just shutting it down to do something else.

I've finally found a way to articulate what it is I like and don't like about the game, because on paper this is somewhere between "right up my alley" and "tailor made for me."

What I do like? The vastness. Seamless transitions between spaces. The goofy little colony system and the strange language mechanics that progress as you get farther into a playthrough.

Where it falls short for me is execution. I'm not switching between a mining laser and a laser gun, it's all in the same tool. Only two things change: class and modules. The modules themselves are usually straight upgrades for a subsytem on your multitool, and labeled as such. You'll get an "S-tier mining class upgrade" then I open my weapon's menu, check my mining upgrade(or upgrades) and replace one if it's better. Or just throw it on there if I have a slot open. It's not meaningful and even the best are minor upgrades. Oh yay, my jetpack is 5% more efficient or whatever.

All of the tech works the same way. Your suit, your tool, your ship, your capital ship, all the little individual vehicles you can use. You don't really do much for these upgrades, usually you just outright buy them and you don't ever have enough storage space to actually make a build. None of is organized in a single place as far as I can see, so you spend most of your time just jamming modules wherever they fit and hope you've got enough blaster or shotgun or whatever upgrades for the next time it needs serious use.

And grinding stuff is just a matter of skipping planet to planet, and system to system. Most planets have the same "common" resources which will litter the surface as plants and minerals. Then they'll have a few rare ones, which show up in the vast, beautiful underground cave systems. Where you'll spend 90% of your time staring at yet another cool looking stalacite and shooting it with a laser. For other stuff you'll just skip between PoIs and refuel your ship.

There are strange, incredible worlds in the anomalous planets. Intense dogfights (for which the strategy remains 100% the same and player skill is barely a factor once you've locked in on it) in a vast, beautiful space. Strange space anomalies like derelict freighters. All kinds of stuff that should be fun.

But all of it feels inconsequential, the rewards are mostly the same, the actually unique rewards are largely cosmetic in the end.

In short, if you love exploration games I really do recommend picking it up. Or as a first, it's a definite great in the genre, especially with the actual exploration.

Worth every penny, but it only hits my rotation for a few hours when new expeditions come out. And still one of the best comeback stories in gaming, just the subsystems hit all of my "generic" buttons and that means it can't hold my interest for long. The truth is that I rely on stuff like complex crafting and skill-based encounters to keep me exploring (see: Nightingale) after 40-50 hours in a game and those systems just aren't there for ME when it comes to NMS.

I tried to love this game, and put a lot of time into it looking for the magic of exploring a galaxy of wonders. Unfortunately the basic mechanics of the game are just too repetitive and grindy and that very much gets in the way. NMS is far more about crafting and building and hopping around between different places, than it is about exploration, mystery, and wonder.

Great game all round, may have been a rocky start but the team stuck with it and nothing else really competes.

Fun and chill exploration survival/builder, with an interesting story too. The amount of content added over the years is truly impressive.

I saw an alien with four schlongs

No Man's Sky - a video game that came out in 2016 to mixed (mostly negative) reviews. Fast forward to today (2024), it's a totally different game from what it was in 2016!...

...But it's the same game as it was 2018.

I'd say No Man's Sky "Jumped The Shark" with the Living Ship expansion from 2020. The world and system generation is as boring is it was 4 years ago and the "updates" they release do little more than update filters and add new (stupid looking tbh) creatures.

Where are the gas giants? Why does every planet (save for moons) have the same gravity? Same creatures? Same plants and rocks? Seriously, this is a universe exploration game and instead of building up the engine, they add "Quests" called "Expeditions" and change a filter here or there.

"Oh look, a [Frozen, Icebound, Arctic, Glacial, Sub-Zero, Icy, Frostbound, Freezing, Hiemal, Hyperborean] planet! I bet it will have *gasp* snow, trees (because every star supports photosynthesis), maaaybe some water (but no ice??) and the same creates as the planet 3 systems before it."

I'm not knocking the devs for releasing free updates. Instead, I'm knocking them for over-hyping each update just like they did with the 2018 release. I'd be more than happy with DLC or an expansion that adds more meat to the game. Expeditions WERE cool but at this point they are literaly "go here and do this thing" quests and that's practically all the devs make anymore.

Oh, and one last thing. The Space Station revamp is terrible. It's lazy and uninteresting. The old space stations had rooms you could explore with windows to look out of. The new stations are basically a giant room with everything in it. What were they thinking??

Overall, the game is fine if you haven't played it. But if you have for the past 4+, it's a tired old game that lost it's luster long ago.

Recommendation to the devs: PLEASE tweak the planet and system generation to give us actually unique planets to explore.

Yes mans sky

First, No Man's Sky has you do a series of clunky, weird tutorial missions that rely heavily on mining rocks and plants and running across a procedurally generated desert or tundra from quest marker to quest marker. Then you'll get sick of it. You'll set your own goals, chart your own course through the stars. That's when the game really begins.
You'll discover ancient monuments, talk to strange aliens, mine asteroids for gold, buy a cool gun, kill giant robots, become a bounty hunter, smuggle illegal goods, rescue a capital ship from pirates, buy that ship and become captain of a fleet, meet god, go into a wormhole, get hopelessly lost, and build a new home on a far flung alien world, under the ocean, with your pet dinosaur and your motorcycle.
Follow your curiosity.

Probably my favorite game to play stoned to the bone. And I mean, Friday night, 10:30, favorite drink on hand, window cracked open, feet up, stoned to the bone.
10/10 game AND developer.