No Man's Sky

Malinatar said:

So I bought it and it's downloading to my PS4. Was waffling between PC and PS4, but I figure the kids could probably play it which sold the deal. I expect it to be a sexier Starbound (without group play for now) at least to start.

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That's kinda what it is. Starbound. Except the basebuilding isn't in yet. It will be in the future though. I think that plus co-op are ideal for this game, and its unfortunate they aren't in at the start.

Its a game that falls somewhere between casual and hard core and I think that may be what causes it to seem polarizing. For really casual people whove been super hyped about this from some of the media, they're going to hit a wall early where they're like "Uhh okay what next. What do I do next?" and for really hard core people they're going to go "This is too easy" or "There isn't enough conflict/action"

Go in with low expectations and you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Go in expecting it to live up to all dat hype machine and you will inevitably be disappointed.

IRT Ut: The cost thing never is a good argument for me, personally, but if people are worried about spending 60 bucks for a game, then don't. As it is out of the box right now, 60 bucks might seem pricey.

If they take that 60 bucks and push out free content expansions to this for the next year or two, it will be well worth the 60 dollars.

Or wait, and it'll be 40 bucks by Black Friday on Steam I'm sure.

It really, to me, boils down to whether or not the game is a platform intended to be expanded upon, which they've indicated it is, or whether the game is complete as is, which I do not think it is.

If they put basebuilding in, its single player Subnautica + Starbound + Elite Dangerous

If they get co-op in on top of that somehow, then its basically set, imo.

That's the things it lacks the most.

There are decisions I would have made differently. I would have made faction templates that could be cut and pasted together to generate factions you can build rep with, so there's more variety. These factions would conflict on the planet surfaces. If you could build bases, enemy factions could potentially attack you, etc.

But that's almost making it a different game, as well, because the game is about grab what you can in the place you're at, and use it to bootstrap yourself to the next place, wherever that may be.

I dunno.

All I can say is I'm enjoying it. I've put probably 4.5 hours in now between last night and this morning. Its not perfect, but its good enough, and that's all I need. Especially cause fuck its been a desert for games the past month or two.

Yeah, I'm playing on ps4 for now. I have it on both because I bought it for my kids on the ps4 and pc for myself.

I don't regret it. Agree with Juvarisx on all points.

Its very relaxing

Lenas said:

I did the same. I was on the first planet a lot longer than I needed to be because I refueled/repaired my first ship, and then I claimed the DLC ship which also needed refueling, and you can only have one ship at a time. An annoying lesson but it made me explore the planet a lot more and I found a bunch of shit.

The scale of the game when you leave the first planet is really amazing.

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I started over like 3 times this morning because I kept not getting the dlc ship which, ultimately, isn't that big a boost (but it looks way better than the default starter ship and handles better too), and I've kinda done a bit of everything at the start a couple different ways.

Its a very good idea to hang out on each planet for awhile. For instance, I just restarted an hour ago and I just found an 8 slot multitool with like 3 different 2x upgrades already built in for like 50k credits, which I earned at the same station just selling the little data chips and shit I got killing a few sentinals right off the bat.

Point being, this game, as you're both pointing out, is all about what you make of it.

My advice to every starting out is just take it at a very slow pace and give yourself time to enjoy wandering around a planet's surface in your ship seeking out resources, settlements, trading posts, and alien(s)/alien related shit and you'll start to see what the appeal in the game is.

Then once you start getting a feel for that, hop in your ship and head straight up.