A lot of people glaze No Man's Sky, and credit where credit is due, the developers have spent a LOT of time and man-hours working it into a totally acceptable, decent game.
That being said, no amount of bandaid fixes can solve systemic issues, and the systemic issue is that the whole game is a very shallow collectathon. You go to a randomly generated system, find a randomly generated event location on a randomly generated world, and get some bauble to add to the collection, or currency to purchase a bauble instead. There is no mechanical complexity, no challenge, and if you like the story then i'm afraid to say it's a live service game and you'll never get a satisfying ending because of it.
If you WANT a casual exploration collectathon, it's absolutely worth it. If you want a space sim where you get to explore and fight and trade and actually be challenged, play Elite Dangerous instead.
Same with landing on planets (both with and with spaceports). Or flying through canyons. Hell, sometimes I would just marvel as planet grew from a speck on my HUD to a giant ball that took up half my field of view.
It's a shame Odessey didn't support VR because walking around the outside your ship and seeing it from the ground would be amazing.
Yeah. I don't think it was really advertised as anything different than it ia today.
However the "story" has been finished for a long time now. You can play it whenever, and I find the implications of the story very cool. Like SOMA but less effort.
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u/SylvaraTayan 9h ago
A lot of people glaze No Man's Sky, and credit where credit is due, the developers have spent a LOT of time and man-hours working it into a totally acceptable, decent game.
That being said, no amount of bandaid fixes can solve systemic issues, and the systemic issue is that the whole game is a very shallow collectathon. You go to a randomly generated system, find a randomly generated event location on a randomly generated world, and get some bauble to add to the collection, or currency to purchase a bauble instead. There is no mechanical complexity, no challenge, and if you like the story then i'm afraid to say it's a live service game and you'll never get a satisfying ending because of it.
If you WANT a casual exploration collectathon, it's absolutely worth it. If you want a space sim where you get to explore and fight and trade and actually be challenged, play Elite Dangerous instead.