I actually preferred the day 1 version tbh. They almost immediately nerfed the generation algo to the point of being useless. You used to get so many weird ass creatures and planets, genuinely never being able to guess what you’d see next…now it’s just like a set of planet types and then they’ll have all have pretty samey animals to the point of it basically just feeling like survival Mass Effect without the narrative.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Perhaps the randomness of the world generation was a bit better, but literally everything was worse. There were many times that I was like “okay, time to try that thing Sean Murray said I could do” and I just… couldn’t do it. Not that I didn’t try, I mean the functionality literally wasn’t in the game.
Multiplayer, for example. Ship customization was another one. Things to do in the ship in space were extremely limited, etc. The planets were basically just walking and mining simulator.
I definitely prefer the current version, even if it means worse RNG for wildlife and planet generation.
DillDough@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
The original exploration was more fun to me than the whole sum of what the game became. I have other games that I prefer over NMS for everything else it has to offer but to this day nothing else has ever offered as much insane shit to see as OG NMS. I still praise the studio, still plan on buying the new game, and am not shitting on anybody for enjoying the game but I just preferred the initial release.
NMS has been one of the funniest games for discussion for me though, everybody has always been pissed off about my opinions on it…I remember getting down voted to hell on reddit and shit talked by all the college homies for saying it wouldn’t be what people expect and that it would need years of updates…then I was made fun of and called a shill for enjoying the game at release, and now I’m still getting dogged on for saying the generator gave far more variety on day 1.