No Man's Sky

That's funny because I feel exactly the same. I knew what I was getting for $60 and I don't regret the purchase, but I wouldn't recommend anyone else buy the game at that price-point. Objectively, it just isn't a very good game for 60 bucks. Too many poor design choices, wonky features, poor quality of life stuff, and overall there really isn't that much very interesting to do. Too long a list of features to add before I'd say this game is worth it. Time will tell whether they patch it in or not. One thing is for sure though, they have lost all goodwill with me. If they start throwing around basic stuff and calling it DLC they can go fuck themselves.

First time pirating a game in about 10 years, I do not regret my decision.

Bubbles said:

you fanboys are so gullible. Soon you'll be paying for DLC's adding features that should have been in the game in the first place, and you think it's gonna be the greatest thing

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I feel like the "fanboys" here all generally agree the game isn't worth 60$ even if we enjoy it. Only way I'd pay for DLC is if I make the money in CSGO from them fat drops, but other than that no way am I spending even MORE money on this game unless it has a substantial amount of content.

meStevo said:

Anyone try any mods yet? I rang to check out the ones that remove the 'Instagram filter' and artificial glow on everything.

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Best one is
ShutUp at No Man's Sky Nexus - Mods and Community

meStevo said:

Anyone try any mods yet? I rang to check out the ones that remove the 'Instagram filter' and artificial glow on everything.

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I actually think the Instagram filter and rim lighting mods makes the game look worse because they take away a lot of the original feel of the planets. These are what I use:

1) Fast Actions-makes all actions happen when you click instead of holding down the button.
Fast Actions - No Man's Sky Mods

2) SHUTUP-let's you disable any sounds, like the annoying life support etc. messages when they drop below full.
ShutUp - disable certain annoying audio warnings - No Man's Sky Mods

3) Internal Resolution Multipliers-Allows you to downsample the game much like DSR only better.
Internal Resolution Multipliers (PAK) - No Man's Sky Mods

4) Better Waypoints-just makes the waypoints you set easier to see and stand out more.
Better Waypoints - No Man's Sky Mods

5)Hi-Rez Icons-exactly what it says, makes the icons for locations less blurry.
Hi-Res Icons - No Man's Sky Mods

6)21:9 UI fixes-removes the stretching when using an ultrawide display.

7)Blur Filter-removes the filter that makes the game look like it's rendering at a lower resolution.

That mod site shits the bed pretty often, most of those mods can also be found at the Nexus:
No Man's Sky Nexus - Mods and Community


Other than Shutup, which is for my sanity, everything I use is to make the game more like a PC game should be, instead of a bad console port. Considering how little there is to do in the game I strongly advise not using any mods that speed up your progression or trainers, etc. Just about everyone I've seen who uses these things realizes there is nothing left to do once you have all the money, ship and inventory slots and stops playing.

So anyone at 100+ hours and still playing this?

Tmac said:

Maybe for the shitlords, but the general rule for people who do legit work is to undersell and over deliver.

That's how you get people coming back. The alternative is so short-sighted and alienates a potential fanbase. Which, I guess if you're selling shit, and you know your selling shit, the game changes significantly.

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I don't know how all places work but most of the large companies and many of the medium ones have a marketing department that handle everything released to the public. They aren't developers and often seem like they walked out of an 80s movie. They have no idea what they are doing and would constantly ignore developer's more pragmatic advice and try to twist things in order chase trends.

Things are a bit better now though, especially compared to some of the 90s-2000s ads. Now, this doesn't seem to be the case here, but it can be pretty common. This seems to be more of a Molyneux/McQuaid dealy.

joe's on point as always. i had a sad moment when he talked about the lack of sand (dune) and water planets Man, imagine a sand planet filled with giant worms and valuable spice you have to mine

Yeah . had the same feelings as him and yeah the UI quirks and the annoyances of pop ups the slow ass interactions and watching long ass animations with fucking anything was really hard to fucking deal with and just gave up on the game and said fuck whats in the center of the universe.

I saw an all water planet in my final Atlas system today and noped out, just warped on to the next system and through my first black hole. Finished the story and still don't have atlas pass v2 or any omega upgrades :/

Side note, using the 2D->3D conversion on my TV that I forgot about was pretty awesome.

best buy currently doesn't take NMS as trade in, which is a bummer since there is a 50% trade bonus going on this week. it may pop into the system on wed or fri

gamestop is currently giving $20 for it, 20% bonus if you trade towards madden 17