I Played No Man's Sky 5 Years Later

Back in 2016, No Man's Sky was one of the most anticipated game's of the year. However - after releasing, No Man's Sky was notoriously missing many of its promised features, and people swore not to overhype themselves ever again... until Cyberpunk 2077.
But, No Man's Sky has received regular free updates, and now many will tell you that No Man's Sky is one of the best redemption arcs in video games, and now worth playing. So - how is No Man's Sky 5 years later?
#nomanssky

[@dyrellius]

The game is definitely a grind in the first few hours but it's not as tedious or frequent as you made it out to be, imo. You can buy many of the materials you'd regularly be gathering so my grind was mostly for money, and now it's mostly nanites in the end game after 80ish hours. There's plenty of methods to get both credits and nanites, and there are other resources for upgrades that I'd grind for in between. In the midgame, I focused on base building and unlocking technology, ultimately building a mineral farm that raked in multiple millions every few hours, got myself a nice freighter and exotic ship, now I'm full of S class mods and exploring planets on foot or by exocraft is extremely fun and chill. No worries about weather and maintaing bars. All that to say, there is a sense of real progression and reward in this game, it's a shame you couldn't enjoy it the same way many players of this game do.

[@mattheus077]

I just feel like the start of the game is really bad - you're just thrown in the game, most of the times in a hostile planet trying to survive while you're also trying to learn the game. It's also bad that the game forces you to build a base where it then forces you to move to another system. The game is cool and super chill (I have 150ish hours) but I couldn't get other people to try the game because of it (I started another save to help and saw these problems). Again, it's a shame that a painful first 3-4 hours experience can keep you away from the true game experience - freighters, space fights, guild missions, underwater and true planet exploration, economy, etc.

[@peacefindersimply5001]

@@mattheus077 you always start on hostile planet, game needs to make it clear to start on normal though, survival is way to hard if your just starting.

[@aaronisdeadd]

@@mattheus077 well I mean that's mostly for quest progression you could just stay there and work on your base. That first one is never really meant to be your main base anyway. I usually set up a base on a planet that can make me rich then just go about the game trying to find a really cool planet to make my main base

[@ownzuall]

It becomes "grind" when you have to restart the game from scratch every damn new update, because they do not update the planets you have bases on, and you feel like "where is the update?!". I am so tired of all these updates every few months.

[@pmcollectorboy2929]

They haven't done a universe reset in years so, no. You do not have to restart a game every update.

[@JakobBraunschweiger]

This Guy’s take on Minecraft: “its too much mining and crafting, also why do you have to gather resources?”

[@AlkiteMc]

Except mining and crafting is fun in minecraft

[@aligmal5031]

in minecraft you do anything you want and it's a rich game no man sky is still empty in alot of ways

[@Supreme_Court.]

@@aligmal5031 They're basically the same thing except one has space and variety. I'm not sure if not being able to make little railways or simple computers in a crafting game is a deal breaker for a whole lot of people.

[@femoonyks-2936]

@@AlkiteMc How tf is this fun, you're mining in a straight line for hours to find diamonds, and crafting is just puting stuff i a 3x3 grid

[@read.me.or.lv.m3]

@@femoonyks-2936 yeah minecraft is overrated

[@coolnesscube]

I get that this guy didn’t like it, and he found the experience hollow, but he didn’t engage with a lot of content (at least not that he mentions). Buying new ships, starting a farm, taming and collecting species. Frankly, the only thing he never mentions is exactly what he wanted or expected the game to be. I’d say check out the subreddit

[@robovader7625]

Or maybe he did. Buying new ships, starting a farm, taming and collecting species isn't just that interesting.

[@exploreinglife4240]

@@robovader7625 The game is not for everybody. What do people expect with a procedurally generated Minecraft in space?

[@Vixikats]

This is super important. Since he's clearly a console preferred player, the games he's used to playing are more linear story based games. NMS is very much a PC game that harkens to the survival crafting genre. Games where you're expected to cultivate your own endgame experience rather than play the game until some endgame emerges like the vast majority of single player console games. Going into NMS expecting the game to tell you what to do at all steps is just a recipe for disappointment.

[@andrewherrera7735]

Two games I will never understand why people like are no man's sky and minecraft.

[@exploreinglife4240]

@@andrewherrera7735 I like both of them because I love the game that feels infinite and has no rules there are certain things you have to follow but you’re free to do what you want some people don’t like that they wanna be told what to do and not be overwhelmed about the size.

[@kylesmith564]

I think the reason your running into the problems you do is that the game doesn't point you towards the inventory expansion properly. You can get it upgraded for pretty cheap and then just be able to stockpile materials ad infinitum, making it so you're not grinding every 5 minutes to stock up on suit energy or base materials. Similarly, you can also go to the quest menu and reset the quest locations to be local around you, so teleporting away from your story quests isn't punishing as you can just localize them back to your current location.

[@satannstuff]

@Sonic Mobian When you have a terrain manipulator storms are just an annoyance.

[@spajdermenkovic]

Yes I absolutely agree and I wish this was explained better in the game

[@sergeantsainsburys9181]

Yeah i think it says it in the catalog thing or the tips bit but the whole adjacency bonus is pretty hard to get

[@notpavo]

You missed A LOT of things like: Freighters Abandoned freighters (very good) Living ships Expeditions Becoming a wanted criminal in 78 different solar systems Getting a pet Making an actually cool base And a lot more

[@fraktux]

It's GameSpot I wouldn't expect less from them.

[@advmx3]

Well, he did a review the same way the mass media does: He played the game for five hours, thought that was all it had to offer, it wasn't of his liking and then he just decided to call the game Hollow, even if the game changed so much and added so much content he clearly never tried to go on the game's page and read the change-logs, which would take more time of reading than the time he spent playing the game. XD

[@KingsleyFreedomShow]

Becoming a wanted criminal in 78 solar systems 😂😂😂😂nice 👍

[@oliverrrrrrrrrr]

Living ships, Freighters, becoming a criminal and getting a pet aren't particularly interesting gameplay features. Especially not in this game.

[@VeritasVelez]

ByteBeat! 😁👍🎶

[@cheeseismykryptonite]

"Complains about survival aspects of survival game" " ugh this game bad. So hollow"

[@read.me.or.lv.m3]

Lmao

[@coreriey4986]

This game is an example of a bad survival game imo. so i agree with him

[@read.me.or.lv.m3]

@@coreriey4986 did we ask?

[@mareksicinski3726]

@@coreriey4986 No, it is not tho

[@Phoen1x728]

@@coreriey4986 it’s not though it’s worlds more fun than Minecraft

[@davelanger]

You can reset your missions to be in your current location. There is a lot you also missed in this like pets and those abandoned freighters called desolation.. Also, I'd hate to think what you think of Minecraft if you hate to gather resources so much. You barely scratched the surface with no mans sky

[@spajdermenkovic]

I'd disagree, while minecraft is a resource gathering game the resource gathering is very clearly tied to the exploration component of the game (caves), whereas no mans sky doesn't really engage besides find resource with scanner and mine. However, I think with minecraft specifically, it captures an appeal that games in the same genre dont, because it utilises blocks which are essentially like virtual legos, whereas other games just let you build structures wholly or at least in whole parts. I think this is why minecraft kind of gets a free pass despite at some points having some admittedly tedious grind

[@vintageroller]

spajdermenkovic caves, planets, biomes, whats the difference both games are grindy. Notch tried to do something similar with 0x10c and failed as he fell from grace. Sean Murray had to pick up the slack

[@kalhamm3r]

Glad to hear it, thanks for clarifying. I am going to start playing this soon.

[@spajdermenkovic]

@@vintageroller caves are far more interesting and dynamic, and are also getting an update because it can indeed be grindy

[@vintageroller]

@@spajdermenkovic really? caves are more dynamic than planets? You're on some cheap smack. time to upgrade.

[@MrAddummm]

classic video of review on game done by someone who doesn't like that particular style of game. his complaints were all complaints about just this genre of game. the things that he dislikes are things that most people who play this game play it for. and his comparisons on this game from other games are completely unrelated.

[@cefirodewinter9086]

It's not a review but agreed

[@mattyghost3409]

The Is lame asf

[@kinggalactix]

@@cefirodewinter9086 agreed.

[@NTiVE-tq7tj]

Exactly! This guy shouldn't even have a job i feel if your a game reviewer you shouldn't be bias!

[@Agumon5]

It's not a review and it's his opinion, I find no issue with the video at all.

[@Deepo27]

It's called a core gameplay loop, and it's the same as what's in most survival games. If anything, No Man's Sky has more to it than a lot if survival games today.

[@kaligath6616]

Its the same with harvest moon yet apparently he liked that this is why his viewpoint confuses me "i don't like the monotony of NMS but i enjoy harvest moon a game designed on monotony".

[@froginaboxVEVO]

This game definitely won't click with everyone. Eliminating the grind is something the game doesn't teach very well. After you make your first few million credits, the grind disappears immediately, and you can focus on exploring, fighting, building, community projects, or anything else. I feel like this video didn't get too deep into the game, missing out crucial additions such as the Dungeons added in the Desolation update, or automatic resource gathering added in Beyond via mineral extractors. You can also reduce the resource requirements for any activity: A fully upgraded hyperdrive can jump up to 30 times before being refuelled. Launch thrusters recharge automatically with a certain upgrade. You can automatically harvest resources with AFK farms. A special mech suit can protect you from all environmental hazards.

[@noodle_Cx]

A lot of people just seem to get video game laziness when it comes to this game specifically lol

[@LevitatorMusic]

EXACTLY!! I think there's a lot of elements of this game that people somehow never discover or they don't bother upgrading things. I remember when it felt like i was non-stop gathering Di-Hydrogen...then I upgraded my launch thrusters and boom...I've never mined it since, unless i needed it to build/upgrade something. So much of the grind goes away with just a few upgrades

[@uncannyvalley2350]

This game is meh. I get that people are into the culture or whatever, but from a casual player's pov it's just, meh. Too much work for too little return, metaphorically and literally. Great project, not what I would deem a "Masterpiece'. Each to their own, and that's okay, just don't blame people for finding the game a tad "lacklustre"

[@psychshift]

"After you make your first few million credits" just like real life then.

[@nenadmilovanovic5271]

Both fighting in space and on ground is awful in this game. Definitely should be avoided at all costs.

[@Bry.89]

Dude really doesn't understand what "survival" and "resource management" genres are.. complaining about procedural generation whilst playing a procedural generated game

[@QuadReaktor]

like a gamejournalist :D its no wonder

[@solidXxXtuna]

I mean...he did literally say that out loud. That the genre is not for him. Not trying to defend the dude wgaf about some rando journalist. But like he literally said he enjoys pre-built environments better. He wasn't trying to trick anybody. Maybe it woulda been helpful if he woulda stated up front that he has no experience with survival and resource management. But it was pretty obvious to me that it was an impression from a person that is not a genre fan, and while that opinion has limited value, it actually for me was valuable in trying to find a co-op game to rope together a few ppls with widely divergent gaming tastes. TL;DR I was looking for an opinion on the game from a gamer outside the survival esource mgmt sphere as a proxy for my squadmates who either aren't into resource grinding have zero experience with it. I haven't played the game bc for me personally it only seemed fun enough to pull the trigger with co-op. For gamers like, I'm assuming, you, I'm not sure what you would have to gain from watching the video in the first place since there's no way this dude would find value in the things you find value in.

[@Bry.89]

@@solidXxXtuna Your TL;DR is just as long as your original message.. I'm not reading either one lmao.

[@solidXxXtuna]

@@Bry.89 I get it, not everyone on youtube likes or is capable of reading. Hence youtube.

[@Bry.89]

@@solidXxXtuna Bit of the pot calling the kettle chartreuse, eh?

[@MegaWarBastard]

Clearly played the game for a few hours and gave up. No mention of exocrafts, farming, pets, freighters, trading etc.

[@wanderingspaceman16]

Not even upgrading anything lol

[@disciprine]

Ok nerds

[@walter4180]

@@disciprine lol calling about obvious shit = nerd behavior shill more

[@disciprine]

@@walter4180 get mad bro

[@walter4180]

@@disciprine begone to reddit bro

[@timeloopplays]

I'm sorry but for anyone who hasn't played this game please don't take what this guy says seriously. I have spent hundreds of hours endlessly exploring this beautiful work of art and disagree totally with whatever this guys name is.

[@timeloopplays]

I get that this game may not be to everyone's taste... But it's definitely an experience that should be had. It's beautiful, like you can endlessly explore.. Build super complex bases, hunt pirates, team up with others from the most friendly gaming community I've ever experienced in my decades of gaming experience. The updates just keep on releasing jaw dropping content and not once have Hello games asked for an extra penny....

[@Agumon5]

Man I want you to take a look at what you just said. Don't you think there's a little bit of self-selection there? Your perception is one who has played the game for hundreds of hours. No s*** you're going to enjoy it. You would not have played hundreds of hours if you did not. This guy's coming in with a fresh perspective at somebody who didn't like the game originally. He acknowledges the game has improved tremendously but it's still not for him.

[@austinkidder12345]

I want to see a massive galactic war that you and other players can take part of and the players can pick factions to join. Just my suggestion for the team.

[@andrebillups4079]

This sounds like a different game that's already been out lol

[@PowerHouseProdigy]

They’d first need to improve their combat systems, which I’m totally down for.

[@luke_s221]

There's a player-made one that you can join through their discord! It's pretty cool!

[@janematthews9087]

I mean Eve online exists. Unfortunately that mean playing Eve online. I don't wish that fate on anyone.

[@the_procrastinator8606]

hate to break it to you, but that is completely out of scope; even for the NMS's initial vision

[@shadw4701]

You haven't spent enough time playing before making this video. It seems like all you've done is went from planet to planet and did a few quests and its much more than that. It becomes less grindy once you get further into it and you can even explore more planets. The game may seem repetitive but that's because you've only been to a few planet types. It can still be repetitive at times however there's still some unique stuff you can find and planets haven't been the same since origins, there's now way more to see and explore on them. You didnt even get to do the desolate freighter missions or get pets or even build vehicles. You didnt find planetary archives, crashed ships, settlemets, infestation sites, ect. This video just feels half baked. You've only experienced around 5% of what the game has to offer

[@mustacheman9553]

I 100% agree. I loved farming for money and building up my base. The game is super fun once you get a good base going on a nice planet.

[@mr.waffles8630]

Yeah I agree with you, what could you expect from game journalist...

[@VeritasVelez]

@@mustacheman9553 word

[@k_e_K_e___]

Yea... Game journalist are the game journalists, they don't play or experience such games as no man's sky, games like this are too complex and complicated for them to actually engage and discover. For me it took a dozens of guides about how to play NMS and enjoy it in the fullest, so, I won't call this game as casual since only a small percent of the players actually have realized the full potential of this game. Can't wait for the Frontiers update, I bet they will do something with this :D

[@OneLikeOthers]

@@k_e_K_e___ I don't think this is simply "Game Journalists being Game Journalists", i have to admit that this mindset has been bothering me for quite a while considering that i once had it too. The problem i have with it is that most people who constantly make fun of them seem to either 1. make a strawman by for example taking one or two people who made a gameplay video were they play badly and then use it as a major portrayal of the majority of the group, or 2. which is when they are right when it comes to actual gaming journalism companies like IGN or Gamespot, they wouldn't tell you why such mistakes were made and would blame it on the individuals who work there instead of perhaps looking into whether it's simply their mistake or it's actually a more sistemic problem that has roots inside the company itself, maybe out of mere ignorance or maybe because they do not care and want to be entertained by having something to be mocked or mock themselves (which is something that honestly makes me quite uncomfortable). Personally I'm convinced that with very honest and constructive criticism and by acknowledging what actually happens behind the scenes and why, both communities should at least try to actually bridge the gap that has been forming between them for the past years.

[@ralphy4813]

Meanwhile, Star Citizen is still on tech alpha with 400million budget and 11 years development time.

[@elJossu]

Star citizen is much more fun though

[@elJossu]

@@Dynamo33 i dont see the cap. Star citizen definitly has much more you can do

[@ImAltair1]

@@elJossu i play both star citizen and no man's sky and this is straight up cap bro you have to have never played no man's sky to say star citizen has more stuff to do. I like star citizen but bro, don't lie to yourself just because No Man's Sky isn't your type of game. NMS definitely has a lot more stuff to do, including a literal 30 hour story. In star citizen the only meaningful things you can do is mine tediously to get money to buy other ships and outfit them. Or cargo haul to... buy other ships and outfit them. Or bounty hunting to... buy ships and outfit them. No Man's Sky can also be a bit of a grind but in that game you can even skip all of that with the creative mode. They are both ok games for different people, but to argue there's more to do on SC than on NMS is just objectively lying

[@elJossu]

@@ImAltair1 if you need to play creative to enjoy it it shows how lackluster nms gameplay is

[@ImAltair1]

@Nicedamn that's a nice way to dodge the entire point of the conversation. No Man's Sky has more things to do than Star Citizen, i hope you have understood that already. Creative mode is there for those that don't have time to invest into the game, people on college or with jobs, and that is a good thing. The game stops being grindy after the tutorial because you can automate all the "grindy" stuff. Now, going back to your precious Star Citizen, at least No Man's Sky HAS the option to skip the grind, while in SC people have to grind for hours to get ships or *pay for them*, which is laughable considering you tried to make a point where "iF yOu nEEd CrEaTivE ModE To PlaY ThE Game tHeN iT ShoWs How LacKlUsteR tHe GamEplAy iS" when in star citizen you can literally pay to skip all the gameplay itself lol. I can't believe a SC fanboy just tried to talk down on a game about it's gameplay mechanics when SC barely fucking works well even with how barebones the systems are. I have died more times to going up fucking stairs in SC than I have died in my entire No Man's Sky playthrough.

[@cefirodewinter9086]

You can go back anytime to any system you already visited (for free), and if you have a base you can also build a teleporter to go back to your base specifically, you can even build a landing pad for your ship so you don't have to use you engine, you never upgraded your ship or multi tool, is like playing breath of the wild naked and with sticks all the game, or dark souls without the bonefires

[@juggernaut23236]

This guy played the game for 20 minutes and thought that was enough time to make an insightful review LOL

[@666oracle]

I am hitting 700 hours and I am still discovering new things. Only now I found out about oxygen refiner recipes.

[@theyadore9164]

@@666oracle same here man im 570 hours in and just started to get into building more complex structures with electricity and decorations etc, there is so much to do.

[@grizzledbeard]

For NMS 20 years might not be enough. I'm always stumbling on something new and I'm 200 hours in.

[@1x1boop28]

He never said it was a review, he only said it WASN'T a review.

[@tsujen]

This is all actually a lesson in picking the right game mode for you. You tried permadeath as your first (6) attempts, so I would guess that is not really your forte. You want to play creative mode. It's right there as an option.

[@plo617]

Yeah, that made no sense.

[@joshfinch6276]

This review was horrible and alot of the information is just plain wrong. You can literally apply what you said to any sand box builder. Minecraft is an endless gameplay loop, you collect resources and you build. Like be critical you literally went into this review with the intention to bash this game, its obvious.

[@rodrigomendiola]

He said this wasn't a review

[@joshfinch6276]

@@rodrigomendiola a gaming journalist making a video about his opinion of a game is indeed a review. Sorry to break it to you but just because he said that doesn't mean that it isn't.

[@joshfinch6276]

@@rodrigomendiola I mean what else do you call it then?

[@Jakoni2x44]

@@joshfinch6276 opinion.

[@raincore80]

This game is not meant to hold your hand in what to do, and I think you wanted it to. As soon as you said you needed a mission to drive you, I understood that.

[@suzuplaza]

that sounds like the opposite of fun...

[@raincore80]

@@suzuplaza some people don't like the game to tell them what to do and like to discover things by themselves

[@jordancardenas7564]

@@raincore80 like the game ansestors

[@thegazanator]

I played Minecraft in 2021... why is there so much mining! And crafting! Urghh...

[@aviencloud4239]

The fact that u compare this to Minecraft's system show the exact dilemma no man's sky is facing., Minecraft is like the epitome of creative constrution game. When you mine in Minecraft, you don't just gather resources. You basically create new paths, modify the terrain, and dangerous creatures spawn overtime. But in case of no man's sky, the level of threat and variations of resource mining are very shallow

[@thegazanator]

@@aviencloud4239 the fact that you dont realise i was making a joke shows the exact dilemma the Internet is facing.

[@aviencloud4239]

@@thegazanator Where exactly did u imply whether ur not making fun of Minecraft systems or just making jokes when ur comments are just two lines whining about Minecraft's system?

[@slaminjamin3549]

@@aviencloud4239 take the r/woosh and move on ....happens to the best of us

[@JeighNeither]

"I always wondered what the inside of a blackhole would look like!" Ironic considering you've been living inside of one your entire life.

[@sethhowerton1489]

Excuse me?

[@fusionx5927]

@@sethhowerton1489 it is possible that we are in a black hole but I think we are in a simulation

[@sethhowerton1489]

@@fusionx5927 by that logic it's possible that we are all sentient vegetables living in a giant salad bowl then has well.

[@peacefindersimply5001]

@@sethhowerton1489 the logic escaped you then.

[@JeighNeither]

@@sethhowerton1489 Um, I'm not sure what exactly that question is propositioning of me, but you'll have to forgive me, it's a very deep dive, that you'll have to make on your own if you want the data, which also happens to be the nerdiest pun I've ever dropped (data can't escape a blackhole, & at our core, humans are data). The long & short of it, is that there are multiple indications that the universe may exist on the rim of a black hole, which conveniently explains the expanding universe quandary, & a whole host of other space oddities (yeah I went there) that currently lack answers from cosmology. To completely grasp it may require a sub to PBS's Space Time. Good Luck!

[@slaminjamin3549]

I get this is a "personal take".... but seems kind of irresponsible for a gaming journalist to make a video on a gaming news channel that's basically covering a tiny fraction of the game in question's features and content.........also "personal take" does not free anyone from criticism for stuff said in public for everyone else to hear ......

[@coereyw]

Pretty much

[@lance134679]

This is the review of someone that didn't have a lot of time to really get to know the game.

[@ChodaBoyUSA]

Or, someone who never intended to like or get to know the game.

[@lance134679]

@@ChodaBoyUSA Yes, or maybe their editor forced them to do it.

[@richthofen0005]

Duh it’s game journalism lol

[@666oracle]

Doesn't make sense why he made this video. Did not even attempt to get to know the game.

[@moshi-s7779]

I mean he did say this isn’t a review

[@blaknite16523]

The game's "issue" is not that it has an endless resource gathering loop, but that it gives you plenty of ways to elevate and improve your own quality of life, but it doesn't spoonfeed you by telling you exactly how. You figure it out, you look it up, and yea, you struggle a bit. But throwing your hands up and not even attempting to explore the depth the game has and its many mechanics outside of following the storyline just means you're not playing the game correctly. Comparing it to BOTW or Dark Souls as if those games do remotely the same thing NMS does is incredibly small-minded and kind of just means you were looking for a typical, instant gratification AAA game, where everything you find is one and done. Yea this isn't a review, but it still shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what this game is and why it's good, and ultimately a bad take.

[@user-jn7jf3kv6k]

nah ! The issue is the endless loop and horrible storytelling , there are many indies 10 x better than NMS.

[@BlackMammoth25]

I mean, were you really expecting much when Failed Journalism Major there decided to start a game he'd never played on Permadeath mode?

[@DaveControlLive]

​@@BlackMammoth25 I enjoy permadeath mode on a lot of games, I just did it for fun. I wasn't 'blaming' the game for it. I just included that to poke fun at myself. Don't take everything so seriously. I like challenging games, so thought I might enjoy the mode. That's all there was to it. - Blaknite - My only point about those two games was comparing the exploration, specifically, and why I didn't enjoy exploring a procedurally generated world. Games like Hades, Enter the Gungeon, and Binding of Isaac also have plenty of procedural generation - but it enhances that style of gameplay. Here - every world felt procedurally generated and monotonous to me. It made me not care about any planet I was on. And I'm fine with 'gameplay loops'. I love Harvest Moon and Stardew Valley. But I find those loops enjoyable, this one I did not. The narrative that was added pushes you towards more exploration. I also did other side quests (like the Black Hole one), which also pushes you towards exploration. While you could argue crafting on a planet is the goal of the game - which is fine - everything narratively and quest-wise was pushing me towards frequently leaving planets behind. So, I never wanted to fully construct a giant base, or get super creative with it, when I knew I was about to have to leave it behind anyways. I knew the redemption story of the developers going in, and honestly went in wanting to enjoy the game. But I'd be lying if I said I did. Either way, as I said in the video - it's great that you enjoy the game. I'm happy that you did, and I'm especially happy that Hello Games redeemed themselves as developers, and love what they have done for the community and the game. The game wasn't for me. I'm sorry if it's hard to accept someone might have different tastes than you.

[@ysgruppe]

@@BlackMammoth25 Oooh, Mi-aow!

[@liamzakhaev]

@@DaveControlLive Silence, failed Dark Souls™ youtuber.

[@yingsonic]

I have over 250 hours in this game, and when I do agree with some points, like how the game basically has no guides on how to manage and gather resources more efficiently, there is a lot more to this game after you play for a while. After the first few hours, and after you made your first million or so units, you can easily purchase almost any material you want from the space stations e.g. 2000 oxygen is only about 50,000 units and it is so much more efficient that I find myself not using the mining beam at all in the endgame. In the mid and early game though, you can also destroy cargo pods on freighters, explore derelict / abandoned freighters for nanites, materials, ancient artifacts and whatnot. There is so much to this game that it is a huge shame that he found it as a "resource gathering" game. For my experience in the endgame, having almost every single S-class upgrade installed on my exosuit, exocraft, starship, and freighter, and having multiple bases, having travelled to a different galaxy (Eissentam) with more paradise planets (which are planets without any environmental hazards), what I can tell you is that the game is very rewarding and all be it a bit grindy at times, this game has no shortage of features that are fun; having a huge freighter, looking for cool planets to build on, searching through derelict freighters, going on r/nomansskythegame and r/nmscoordinateexchange and going through portals, finding many cool builds, planets, starships, multi-tools, not to mention the recent expeditions, where you start a new save file and are put onto special scenarios and have unique quests in order to get time-limited items that you can get on every save file. You can get pets, build really cool bases with glitch building and other niche methods, and more. There are tons of things that he simply did not mention in the video. There are tons of things that he simply did not mention in the video. This video feels half-baked and does not mention the multitude of things that are in No Man's Sky. I get that this game is not for everyone, but if you are going to post a half-baked video on a somewhat reputable gaming review channel, that is simply sad. Many people could have seen this video and just went "nope, i guess im not playing that" and wouldn't even give the game second thought.

[@w1llow01]

I think you went into it with your mindset that the game was not fun. Yes, the early game is repetitive but what game is not repetitive, once you start making money and getting nanites you unlock the game, You can buy starships, exocrafts, mechs, and eventually freighters and have your own fleet. There is a lot of crafting and gathering or buying resources but I don't hear no one criticize that same loop in Minecraft so why shit on the game like that. If it is not the type of game you like then play a shooter or another type of game you enjoy but you can't deny the game has come a long way from when it started and remind yourself that an indie developer has supported the game for 5 years and the updates have been free of charge in the era of loot boxes and constant monetization of pretty much every aspect of games.

[@titanscar2183]

Fantastic point actually, the game is very comparable to Minecraft in how the early game goes. It's searching for the same material until you hit a goalpost, in which case you move it further ahead to find new materials. The moment the goal post moves you have an ever-expanding list of options to put your goal post at, and it genuinely makes the game entertaining. The only reason why I can see people not liking NMS is because of the lack of decent combat and the fact that the game really is basically just a resource grind with nice locals, but the game is solid. It has a nice flow to it, especially now. It has an extremely dedicated developer, has become what we were promised and more, and in general is a pretty fantastic game to play if you want something to relax to at all times. And I'll give NMS credit for that reason more than any other. From the earliest point to the latest point in the game, NMS is low effort, you never have to play the game in a serious capacity for any amount of time. For the most part you sit back, enjoy the ride and relax, and I'll always love it for that reason.

[@aboveaura4817]

Unfathomably based.

[@w1llow01]

@@titanscar2183 I agree the game does have a relaxing feel to it. Like you said it is not streesing and tense as other games are at times. So if you want to chill and relax it's an awesome game to play. The game is not perfect but If it is not your thing you don't have to downplay the game at all.

[@klittlet]

@@aboveaura4817 lol

[@w1llow01]

Also there is a fantastic community behind the game and are very passionate and helpful to new players.

[@McLovinMods]

Did this guy honestly not pay attention to any of the tutorial at all. The game walks you through all of the basic things like using portals to get from one station to another so you don't have to warp all the way back and countless other things he talked about

[@FreakinSweet1987]

But it doesn't do any of it well. I platinumed the game and still never used any of that because of how badly it explains this shit.

[@McLovinMods]

@@FreakinSweet1987 there's no way you Platinumed the game without using a portal... get your lies out of here and stop defending this absolute whining child of a game journalist

[@dirtyban5822]

@@McLovinMods I love how you call this journalist a whining child while acting like one because someone who isn’t too much into a genre on a my experiance and walkthrough of my gameplay video got you so heated

[@ElNebuler]

Its like criticizing Minecraft for constantly having to gather material. Its a survival sandbox most game of this genre are like that, its just not your thing and its fine, you can’t like everything

[@serious.business]

Were you expecting to start with an infinite amount of resources and just have everything you want and need from the get go? Were you expecting the game to morph into Call of Duty at the end of the game?

[@Omnifarious0]

I really enjoy this game. It's fun to wander around and see everything. And the resource grind is pretty easy to escape from one you set your mind to it. I get that it doesn't do it for you. And honestly, I can understand that. Not every game is for everybody. Thanks for being brave enough to share your experience.

[@kramdeer]

Why is a COD player talking about an exploration/survival game? This genre is obviously not for him as it annoyed him from the word go.

[@kfgelbart]

I watched this video because I had the same feelings of a tedious cycle you had, but even being at the 30 hour mark I had learned more about the game than you did. It seems you didn't even unlock frigates or making your own fleet, which makes me think this isn't too useful who have played these things years before this 5 year mark and want to know more. You obviously needed to spend more time in this game as you aren't even aware of all the features, and "not having incentive" is not an excuse for not even exploring all the features of a game before forming an opinion. I'm on nobody's side, I like-ish the game and wanted a perspective of if I should keep going, and this video cuts short at prejudice

[@mattybanksisdank]

100% I played at launch was disappointed lost touch with the game and came back to it this year and really enjoyed the expansion that I found to the game systems on a new play thru and only about 6 hours in I had jumped into a system saved a convey from attack and was gifted my first freighter as a reward. Once I realized that I was rehooked because I started stumbling onto all the ways they actually fixed the grind of the game by rewarding your playstyles in different ways. Do you want to be a space warrior king of combat saving the needy? You'll still end up with the means to make money.. you want to become resource tycoon? They got a system for that now too. Really did a good job of enhancing the game he just seems bad at video games

[@mattybanksisdank]

Like most reviewers

[@WiseRecordings]

Think you are getting review confused with someone's open discussion of their experience.

[@cheeseismykryptonite]

@Prophet Marukh well spoken, I wanted to say something like this on other comments

[@WiseRecordings]

Good point, @Prophet Marukh . I didn't really consider the medium used to recall his personal experience, albeit negative, definitive with game review journalism. Sounded like a purely anecdotal re-telling, without considering further game play.

[@AtotehZ]

Hiding in caves is the right move when you can't survive outside at the start. Just waiting... is not. You can continue gathering in the caves.

[@ivancerecer5758]

With the Expeditions mode, players have to start from scratch with randomized characters and item and do challenges; To me this was no issue since i know what to do, and can guarantee that resource gathering was not tedious because i had a goal in mind, and knew how to get it So him saying that the entire game is just tedious resources gathering is completely bullshit because he didnt explore the rest of the game There are easy ways of gaining resources such as mining deposits, shops, freighter crews, vehicles (heck, a single mining deposit can get you thousands of resources without grinding at all, i just teleport to where they are at) My point is that this is not a story-driven game, its a survival space exploration game, and its ironic that he said Hello Games had no clue what this game wanted to be at launch, when clearly, he has no clue what type of game this is supposed to be I get its not for everyone, but it genuinely felt like he had a biased view since he played this at launch

[@Daniel4ization]

To add more slots to your expo suit go each space station you have 48+48+tech slots too good luck.

[@ThirstysURL]

Once you upgrade you barely need to recharge anything. And I'm still seeing new whole planets, vehicles, and even dialogue after 3yrs.

[@turnedhero7596]

2:22 "i wanted to see if I would enjoy the updates" *Proceeds to use mining laser on an animal*

[@sergeantsainsburys9181]

Right after he WALKED in stead of hyper piper swing wing melee fisto jeto jumping

[@stuff4035]

Dave: why so much resource gathering?!? Automatic miners: am I a joke to you?

[@Mr_Sqiggly_line]

I came back 3 years later 100% new game and I'm in love with it

[@deeyablo]

I picked up NMS not long after release. Played for several hours, gave it a real go, and was bored fairly quickly. Picked it back up last year, and... whoa. It is incredible. I've built fortresses, fought off attacking players, and have upgraded a ship that can definitely pull off impressive maneuvers. Creating base storage, increasing personal storage, and gaining ships with with larger storage means that stashing materials isn't problematic. You can setup mining operations for all of those materials. You didn't even mention the Galactic Hub. Tsk.

[@cefirodewinter9086]

I once did an anomaly quest with a dude, but the guy realized the mission was at it's home base, so he started attacking me thinking that I would stole something, so I ran to his ship and started shooting at it, he thought that I could break it so he ran out of cover that's where I blasted his head of with the shotgun module, got to my ship stole stuff from his capital ship and went back to the anomaly. I was not expecting this in No Man's Sky, used to more slow paced gameplay this small interaction felt good

[@akifnorzaimi]

2:55 "as I have no friends" Out of context, this is really sad

[@HowBigistheMap]

I walked AROUND a whole planet. That took 29 hours.

[@rolandoberheim3305]

Had you invested as much time playing the game as you did making this video, perhaps you would have come to a different conclusion.

[@tot0byafrica748]

You missed out on space dungeons, undrerwater content, pets, advanced bases, expeditions, getting new ships and multi tools, basically you played for 5 hours and called it quits. This is why video game journalists are such a joke, you put no effort into actually playing the game lmao

[@klittlet]

this

[@klittlet]

@Private117 nope, you don't need to do any of those things to "complete" the game, and the "loop" ends about 5~7 hours in when you automate resources on your base(this is the purpose of bases, which I'm guessing is something you didn't look further into, and neither this journo). What OP is saying is that the journo failed to at least trying to understand the features of the game and fell into the supposed "gameplay loop".

[@tot0byafrica748]

@Private117 the loop ends after you get your first upgraded ship. You can pretty much automate all resource gathering, and there are multiple ways to get resources. I'd say about after the 8 hour mark is where you get most of the freedom. I can tell you haven't played the game very much or recently because half of that stuff you wrote in that mini novel is inaccurate.

[@getter8294]

Also the dude acts like he doesn’t know what minecraft-like survival/exploration games are, the way he talks about this game sounds like he thought this was uncharted or breath of the wild in space or something lmfao

[@nheimi99]

This is a great video and it 100% helped me decide whether or not this game was for me. I heard all the promises about No Man's Sky years ago, and also heard it's so much better now. But here's something no one ever said: "Gather resources and survive." Great! Finally, someone simply said what this game actually is. If you like it, hurray! But we need to start talking about gameplay loops in terms like this instead of concepts like, "It's where you can do ANYTHING and explore SPACE!" That's not true. That's the colorful paint put on the fact that it's a resource and survival game, set in space. Again, if you like that, great! But let's be transparent about what games offer.

[@OreoGamingGeek]

I honestly have never understood all of the people complaining about the planet terrain. Do they think the Martian landscape is flush with grass, trees, and fauna flying through the air? Rocky planets are the VAST majority of the planet types in the universe, and it makes sense that any universe even roughly based off of our rules (carbon is the molecule for life, life needs oxygen and water to survive, etc) that the planet distribution would roughly match it as well. I mean if you don't like rocky desert planets, don't play Elite, that thing is 98% desolate rocks.

[@jonathanwessner3456]

Personally, I preferred the resources in the first few updates. I find it weird that copper wire does not require copper

[@jonathanwessner3456]

@@TheRealBatabii probably not in the game anymore. In one of the earlier revisions, it required a plant that grew in caves, but not copper, which was a minable resource

[@robrockstv781]

one of my fav games,I am a day one player.looking forward to the new update.

[@zapchristo]

There are some things that you probably didn’t get too. Derelict freighters, farming, riding creatures, breeding, and more. Also the resources do become less of an issue when you have some of the things you can get in the later part of the game. It does take some farming to get there tho.

[@ChristianHeid7]

What is really needed in NoManSky is for you to develop your spaceship to the degree where you don't need to do the chores over and over and over again. Something like a capital ship that you can travel on between solar systems but then use a smaller ship to get to different planets and bases. This is a tried and tested formula like for example in modded Minecraft. There it takes an effort to create something that makes things easier in the future - but still adds more and more complication to the game at a steady pace.

[@bodge49]

How come you didn’t own a freighter ?. Then you you can build a farm, get a lot of credits, then you can buy almost any resource you need

[@Geez-ph9td]

Geez it’s already been 5 years ? Feels like all the hype for this was just yesterday

[@kamov52510]

True

[@wallywest4727]

and the type is still here among the community, Frontiers has got everyone hyped and each day the subreddit gets many posts with people wondering what it is.

[@robashton8606]

I know, right? I must be getting old.

[@oddlysatisfiedviewer8568]

It's like he's reviewing real life.

[@BandW1897]

500h and many great patches, but my most loved scifi fibes was at vanilla 1.0-version. Still cant wait for Frontiers!

[@JoeBro23]

There's so much you didn't pay attention to that could've helped you with these so called "tediois" tasks. You're just not good at the game, that's pretty much it lol. It's a sandbox game, you just gotta keep going. I have 150 hours in, and there's still so much I haven't done yet. You need to do a part 2.

[@sergeantsainsburys9181]

Theres a big difference from early game and middle game cause middle game you start to uograde stuff and sell resources that are precious and then buy what you need then use thise resources to uograde things to make getting the resources to sell easier and so on until you have all the resources you need and if you run out you can just buy more

[@ivancerecer5758]

10:37 Tip of advice: The space stations and the Nexus has a teleporter that can take you to other space stations from systems that you've visited or to bases with a teleporter

[@johnsemeniuk8230]

It's a survival game. What'd you expect, that'd it be easy at the start? I dropped in almost cold turkey, and managed to amass surplus materials even on the first planet.

[@sergeantsainsburys9181]

Literally all he couldve done was paused and checked what he had to do in the log or the guide or the button layout

[@johnsemeniuk8230]

@@sergeantsainsburys9181 Pretty much. Plus, once you get past the opening grind, and get all those high-tier upgrades (not counting if you wanna go ham with X-Class modules)... you can coast pretty dang well.

[@Luxcidy]

my starcraft glitched when I started with all technology and inventory slots unlocked and there are still shit loads of bugs that have made me reload pervious saves and lose progress

[@NTiVE-tq7tj]

This guy cracks me up he barely scratched the surface of the so many things you can do lol

[@cptfreeman8966]

This guy isn’t funny nor is the video

[@TheBl4ckSh33p]

After a while you can just buy the required resources. And upgrades reduce required materials (less fuel). 😉

[@FlavourFool]

I agree somewhat. I'd a say as a new player, the best way to start now is with an Expedition, these are timed events. The one I played felt like a 'best of'; streamlined and eventful. Also, in VR is how it should be played. I think it's a bit silly to expect much from each planet though, when you know the scale of the game. A focused linear game would provide what you're after.

[@GreyDintZ]

Buying new ships has been a big drive for me, and space trading. I like that you can play the game in different ways.

[@futavadumnezo]

Mans couldn't wait one more week until the new update drops ffs We don't know what the update will bring, could be a complete overhaul or something big.

[@480darkshadow]

You play the game as is. Not what gets promised. That’s how people wasted time with the base game before it got good.

[@muzamilnabinadroo]

I was thinking about someone making the video in 2021 about the game. No man's Sky has definitely come a long journey and still is coming. Thank you Gamespot.

[@The_RedVIII]

You should watch the video, it’s just a guy making fun of the game being tedious because it’s not his kind of game.

[@Safetytrousers]

@@The_RedVIII He clearly states it is his personal experience of it.

[@wrbrown571]

Internet historian did that in January of last year. It was great. Look up: The Engoodening of No Man's Sky Still, there have been multiple updates since then, as well as more on the way. Even if you're not into it, you can appreciate what's gone into it.

[@dday1643]

Dude didn’t even get a new multi tool, I doubt that he even knew what a weapon or ship mod was

[@zacharysnyder4750]

The first five hours are rough, but once you get some units under your belt you can pretty much just buy the base materials you need and some other mid to high tier components and not have to worry too much about resources. But yes as many others mentioned. You missed Freighters, which means having your own fleet, pets/farming, living ships, abandoned freighters, building super bases, exocraft and much more

[@d00mnoodle62]

What he's saying is true though, no man's sky is repetitive. I have 480 hours because i enjoy the feeling of freedom but it's always the same thing you do. I hope for more desolation styled content soon!

[@shavp]

unlike you this guy clearly has not played that much of the game, nor did he even get far enough to actually experience the desolation styled content that you love so much He even admits in the video that had he actually spent more time with it, he would have found things to like. The reailty is he can't really make any credible claim about no man's sky being repetitive since it's blatantly obvious in this video that he did not get that far into the game before he decided to quit

[@themotions5967]

It’s like any other open survival pseudo resource gathering game. You get out of it what you put in it, if you just try to play it like a triple A game it’s going to be repetitive as your constantly trying to scrap struggling to get by with minimal resources and minimal technology and innovation. What he didn’t do was build bases that innovated his resources, tamed animals, sought to upgrade or really searched for any resource improvements, decided to build vehicles, or mechs. He didn’t do any of it. He didn’t even really explore that was his fault the draw of the game is exploration and not knowing what your going to run into next and all he did was jump planet to planet ignoring the actual gameplay and decided to stick to the early game grind of struggling for core resources.

[@gustavolesama656]

@Sonic Mobian And you use all of your amazing overpowered stuff for what?

[@yamatonoryuujin4871]

@@gustavolesama656 to have fun no duh it's completely open world if he wanted he'd put all the upgrades and all those amazing stuff in storage and just start from zero there's nothing wrong with that it's a game do whatever the hell you want people play Metal gear over and over again even when some of it's earlier titles are linear.

[@gustavolesama656]

@@yamatonoryuujin4871 Yeah man I know you can do whatever you want but when you have all the updates (like this guy) the game has little bit of a challenge. What he says makes little sense to me, it seems more like a declaration of pure vanity. I also have all the updates, a ship with 3k ly, 1100 maneuverability, powerfull mt and blah blah blah and that is when I have the least fun because there is nothing in the game where I can use them.

[@anghelama6987]

I think this guy lied in his resume when he applied to Gamespot.

[@andreas2610]

simple trick i found Find a badly damaged ship (preferably hauler B class for example) repair some things like the pulse engine and the trust launchers. Then go to the space station and wait for traders with their ship. Make sure the switch costs 0 units. After transaction, run immeadiatly to your old ship to reclaim it. Now you have an infinite source of units and other resources. :)

[@mcswizz9609]

Okay this actually helped me out a lot. I prefer brutal honesty over sugar coats, especially when it spares me wasting my own time/money.

[@HGHsChannel]

Brutal honesty in this case if blissful ignorance of at least 60% of the game's features. Impressive

[@mcswizz9609]

@@HGHsChannel lol its true, i actually ended up getting it i love it so much!

[@scoggzap]

They really have redeemed themselves

[@parnmkie]

1 if you dont want to play the game dont. 2 you seem like a good fit for creative mode. 3 move your suit systems to the tech tab it frees up 3 slots you can to it with the ship to. 4 you can get a new slot with every new space station you visit there are also some in the anomaly. your welcome

[@raidends123]

What I like to do in No Mans Sky is improving as much as possible. I line ship huting, buying expensive multi tool, editing my freighter, settlement, finding rare pets collecting ship and doing missions for rare quick silver items.

[@darkbydesign1031]

you are not constantly running out of resources once you get some upgrades, once you know what to do it's almost impossible to die in this game

[@sergeantsainsburys9181]

I only died when i shot my grenade launcher and it accidentally hit something closer than what i was aiming for and when i got glitched on a tree in my ship i havent died because of the atmosphere or weather or sentinels yet

[@tsujen]

It's like watching someone hit their head against the wall and then conclude walls are bad. Maybe do some research, maybe read about game features, maybe play the game in the way you would enjoy instead of being discontent that it didn't hold your hand the way you wanted.

[@matthewlong8356]

The constant complaining about gathering resources in a survival game is like constantly complaining about having to shoot stuff in an FPS.

[@godot1785]

No man sky is another level in grinding and not in a good way.

[@dylanhal]

@@godot1785 Once you get to a certain point you genuinely don't have to grind. It's like, oh, I need some carbon and ten seconds later you're done. The grinding aspect is overblown and only takes up the first few hours of tutorial.

[@richardvlasek2445]

"just keep on soldiering through one of the worst first impressions a game can give you" is certainly a take from the no man's sky fanbase

[@shavp]

@@godot1785 maybe in 2016 No man sky was on another level when it came to grinding but in 2021 the grind in no man sky is really not bad at all and its practically non existent once you get to a higher level

[@theyadore9164]

@@richardvlasek2445 You literally beat the tutorial (maybe 1 hour of basic building and crafting) then you can buy ANY basic recourse from a space station, you can buy ships, multi tools, some building mods and components, and even buy cosmetics from some people. If you cant "Soldier through" 1 hour of a game giving you a basic outlook on how to not die, then this game is just far too much for you to handle.

[@trenchz2509]

Big tip. Stop mining for materials you need once you leave the starting planet. Mine asteroids for about 15 mins and you will have about 500k from there you can get the hyperdrive and really get the ball rolling. Its only tedious if you make it tedious.

[@Gruff_rift]

the only bug i encountered in the game is the one when you get off your ship next to a building you would spawn in the roof and i thought my game was over, luckily i was close enough to get back inside of my ship😁

[@piplup2009]

5 years of constant updates, they're putting AAA companies to shame

[@Freeformrulz]

Clearly didnt finish watching the video

[@klittlet]

@@Freeformrulz clearly didn't even played the game

[@inspiron1552]

@@klittlet on god

[@klittlet]

@@inspiron1552 mode

[@redscorpion9325]

I didn’t know this Game was out that long,I herd about it maybe 3yrs ago

[@thomastoscano7346]

I have over 200h of this game. I really love it and had some really magical experiences on it. But, sometimes i do have a hard time finding a purpose in the game, because it really does not tell what to do. With that said, i disagree that is a "resoure gather" game. As said, you dont really need to collet basic resourses after the first few hours. The game works by letting you decide and find out what you want in it, so the feeling of gathering carbon with the worst weapon its supposed to make you want to upgrade it or find another way around it, like buying stuff in the space station, finding ancient relics that you can sell, stealing cargo ships. I understant the feeling of it being a shallow experience, some planets do feel a lot like each other, most items you get just appear on the inventory, you cant even see them in 3D, but imo it was a little disrespectful to call a building that some guy was definitely passionade about (the giant robot) shallow. Its like a toy or a board RPG, sometimes you have to use your imagination for it to work best. I dont believe that the game have a very narrow audience, i believe everyone can find a way to have fun on it. Exploration is a big thing, but it shouldn't be driven by resourse gathering. In the end, you have all the right to dislike the game and say your opinion about it, but even if its not a review, you have to be fair and at least show to the audience that the game have more ways to be played and experienced.

[@texbankuk]

I'm Retired and have Put Quite a few Hours into this And Logged several Galaxies. I'm currently running 2 saves enhanced with rewards from the Expeditions Mode Mission ,Which If you start as a Noob You Might Last An Hour. Need to know about the Harder parts of the Game and its Lore...It is s Collect grind but in an almost entirely different fashion >Look up what Milestones do in Expeditions That is your timetable and even if you don't finish it by the deadline you can use that save as a normal game save later😎 And What Is the demographics on this Game ? From what I see This Games Veterans are in their 40's and Very Helpful in the community which is truly Global and Further more I've seen the Ladies liking It (doing well) and even a few Primary school Kids Playing Multiplayer and Participating in Expeditions Mode .And The game allows you To Turn off Griefing /PVP Also never mentioned The NMS Community act as moderators and The Developers acknowledge the bug reports and Ideas put forward in their Zen desk Link

[@mroracle101]

The gathering and crafting is part of the fun of this game in my opinion and in the end game you can just buy al your recourses

[@healthysandwich1503]

I remember when I first played this game, I was randomly gifted some components that when I sold them gave me a fuck tonne of credits (like I’m talking endgame) I had no idea who gave me them, when they did or why. Progression was kind of ruined for me after buying a top tier ships, carriers and weapons, 2 weeks after starting playing I got bored and haven’t played it since.

[@siavashaliyari8567]

you played it right before its biggest update which is about drop in a few days

[@storksforever2000]

I guarantee you he he already knew what review he was going to give the game before he played it.

[@zookrobe3749]

That glitched animal in the start is actually still in the game as an Easter egg

[@danellboy5757]

I swear the "yeah" was edited in for the "will you be able to play with your friends?" 😂😂

[@DarthWall275]

For everything I will defend about this game, the combat system, and combat roles by extention are incredibly underdeveloped for a game that originally promoted it as a major gameplay element.

[@beelzelred]

well maybe the frontier update can make up for that

[@exploreinglife4240]

“The game didn’t have anything for me to do in 2016 five years of updates the game is making me do too much too much grinding. Discovers creative mode there’s nothing to do in creative mode. “ 😂 Some people will never be happy. The game added all the features/more things than what the haters were complaining about.

[@cptfreeman8966]

Love the idea of NMS and I have 2-300 hours in the game but it’s as wide as an ocean and as deep as a puddle. It’s a game meant for killing time if I don’t have ANYTHING else to do at this point (including playing other games)

[@sergeantsainsburys9181]

Im gonna say that im pretty young younger than him and it took me about 30 hours and then i just had a stack of sodium and if i eveer ran iut i wiuld just bulk buy some more from the station i havent picked up a sodium flower in a long time

[@XboxProdigy1]

Nothing like listening to a guy who had no interest in the game initially complain about how bad the game he didn't want to play is after skipping a majority of the games content.

[@luminous420]

Before the bases, if there was a storm and no cave in sight, just use terrain manipulator to dig and hide and let the storm pass.

[@FoxFire128]

I really hope that Cyberpunk can take the route that no man's sky did. It has the story and gameplay to be something good.

[@cefirodewinter9086]

Honestly no, it deserves to sink, you should not wish for a game made with exploited developers and pushed by the greed of their investors to succeed because they'll do it again and again, yes we all wanted a cyberpunk open world, but I'm willing to give up cyberpunk 2077 if that means will have better conditions in the game industry And it's not the same case as No Man's Sky, most of the game was done entirely by 6 Devs in the 2016 launch, they had a flood that destroyed lots of the progress I suggest internet historian's video about No Man's Sky to learn why are they so different

[@sergeantsainsburys9181]

Ih is so good with it

[@Grave_Rob]

Complaining about gathering resources and crafting in No Man's Sky is like complaining about doing nothing but playing Football in Madden.

[@sergeantsainsburys9181]

Lol its fine after a while you can just buy it but srsly what was he expecting to be given everything at the start?

[@justgordo2251]

After hearing many stories about No Man Sky and its redemption arc i got curious enough to see what the game was like now and found this video. Should've seen it was from GameSpot so i guess that's on me.

[@danellboy5757]

The "Gek word for Gek" was a good one 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@getter8294]

It seems like you went into this game without knowing even remotely what kind of game it is and why people like it. That wouldn’t necessarily be a problem as long as you didn’t decide to judge it from the extremely limited perspective you gave yourself by missing 90% of the most interesting new features and things to do. This whole video just feels like unnecessary comments and jabs from the peanut gallery lmfao

[@incerix2953]

Procedurally generated boredom is what killed the game for me also. The game is so so much better now though and i have had a blast with it.

[@rayray117]

It’s one of those games to relax as you grind through, there is really no end goal.

[@sergeantsainsburys9181]

You make your own goals like im v collecting all the trophies from planets the shattered cubed and Shelled planets and that also working on my freighter base and settlement

[@IAmCasualty]

This is "the Verge" of no mans sky impressions