Never ceases to amaze me how the game still sucks after 10 years of content updates
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 14 hours ago
Never ceases to amaze me how much they have given back to the community that patiently waited and kept going despite the critique they got at release with so many people shitting on them without being aware of the difficulties they had trying to release the game.
verdigris@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 13 hours ago
Then go play Star Citizen and then come back and say how good THAT game is after almost 15 years years of “content updates”!
verdigris@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
I mean, unironically better? At least you can see interesting things when exploring, and dogfighting is so much better it’s barely comparable.
chaogomu@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The “gameplay loop” of the elevator broke and then my ship blew up for no fucking reason.
The game breaking bugs outnumber the features.
But Chris Roberts has another ship to sell you, so you pay $50 and eat it all up.
ape_arms@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I play NMS, and this comment made me laugh out loud.
Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago
I’ve had so many enjoyable hours of playing NMS, and eventually it does get to a point where I’ve completed the current missions and I’ve done everything multiple times and it gets repetitive… and I stop playing it. Then they have a release, and it’s an exciting game again.
I love that it’s still getting updates because it keeps me coming back. I can’t wait to check out this latest update!
verdigris@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
I’ve tried it multiple times over the years and getting fun out of the game is like squeezing blood from a stone. The core gameplay is a shallow grind, and almost all of the updates just bolt on other shallow systems onto that core. I legitimately cannot fathom what you enjoy about it unless you’re playing with friends which can make anything enjoyable.
Wakko@hell.cloud 10 hours ago
It’s far less typing to just say “I’m not the target audience for this game.”
HubertManne@piefed.social 12 hours ago
I love it. I play this with sto because this has all the stuff sto is missing and sto has the content this is missing.
klankin@piefed.ca 14 hours ago
Isn’t coop still bugged out the ass?
Its my kinda game, but the management seems like they bit off way more than they could chew, and even after a decade still can’t handle it all
iamthetot@piefed.ca 11 hours ago
My partner and I have hundreds of hours in co op so I’m not sure what bugginess you might mean, but it’s very playable in co op.
Dojan@pawb.social 5 hours ago
In my experience the coop is hella buggy. The person I’m playing with has a rather rocky internet connection though, so I think a decent amount of it is because of that. The netcode certainly isn’t optimised, and whenever something is simulated on my friend’s computer, I basically have to give up the idea of interacting with it whatsoever.
Even so, I’m having fun with it.
MolochHorridus@piefed.social 9 hours ago
Is every space station still carbon copy of each other including merchants? Is every base in every planet still copy?
Hond@piefed.social 11 hours ago
Yeah, thats a bit revisionist? I will always be mad what a fucking liar Sean Murray was pre-release. There is just no dancing around that fact. He also wasnt some suit from the publisher. He is just creditet as programmer on the game on wikipedia(you know boots on the ground good guy). Almost every promise he uttered was broken. He was on the fucking Conan late night show and educated us on how hard they had it(and on top lied about every single feature the game would have).
And yeah, they redeemed themselves. But i have to say that 10 years later i still regret my purchase. I revisited the game every other year or so after several bombastic update trailers. I’m still not impressed or even entertained. Also they got rid of the only thing i ever really liked at release: the artstyle. Which makes me even more angry. Fuck this game. I should get a hold on myself. I should let it go after 10 years of free update. But seriosly fuck this game and fuck Sean Murray.
boonhet@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
I thought the same till I watched Internet Historians video on it. Murray was in way over his head and numerous times he was like “eh yea sure maybe” and then whatever was asked was confirmed as a feature.
Dude had no public speaking ability, got nervous and ducked up tons of times. They were too small to have a real PR person.
Many of the promised things were things they thought they’d add, but couldn’t make in time.
But personally I’m glad I bought it during COVID. I was skeptical when it was being hyped, but eventually I decided to give it a shot and I kinda liked it. But even then I didn’t find it to be a 60€ game. The 20-30 I paid for it was fine.
hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
Wells, it really is baby’s first space game. Kids are having a blast playing this I guess.
For the rest of us, it’s still an ocean deep as a puddle, no matter how many settlements or space stations you own.
It was, is and always will be a boring ass repetitive game.
Hond@piefed.social 10 hours ago
I would be fine with that. But i couldnt recreate the approximation of the 2014 trailer in 10 years. I never had the pleasure to see a single cool planet of which i could hop off and do some mediocre space battle. Its just such a frustrating game and i really liked the original artstyle.
Anyway, i should really put NMS in my filterlist because it gets me angry and worked up every single time. Ugh. Stupid.