Ohhhhh, I’m gonna defend NMS here. It’s light years better than the release version. It has an extremely weak endgame. It’s almost non-existent, but everything else has been such a step up that I don’t think it matters. Why? Because the expedition system makes restarting the game the most viable way to play it. All your special gear and some new parts come from expeditions. Having to start from nothing to discover what new things they add to the game is really appealing. You can transfer it all over to a standard save too.

The only problem I have with it is that it is a bit of a pin the tail on the donkey situation with the way they tack on new system after new system. It does feel disjointed in parts but you can ignore the parts of the game you don’t want to interact with. Like I never fuck with the big capitol ships. I don’t do much farming. Most of my time is spent designing ships and bases. That’s a perfectly viable way to play.

I was a day one purchaser. I remember waiting half an hour to load the game just for it to crash. All these years later I would say it’s easily the most enjoyable space exploration game of this generation.