No Man's Sky for new slow player

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨kurcatovium@piefed.social⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

Hello, I’m eyeing No Man’s Sky for past 10 years and haven’t decided it’s a game for me yet. On paper it’s my childhood dream come true - deep space, commanding ships, discovering planets, seeing alien life forms, basically everything I dreamt about as a kid reading Clarke and Asimov…

I’m not a kid anymore, but the itch is still there to some degree. Nowadays I do enjoy slower paced RPGs, interesting story and distinctive art and music style. Thinking games like old KOTORs, Morrowind, Gothic, or Pillars of Eternity, Disco Elysium or Pentiment from newer ones. I did enjoy some hours in Valheim too, but more like exploring and not so much building and micro managing the base. And I play slow. Really slow. I tend to discover all the corners of the map before moving on, just to “check” if there’s something of interest (old Gothic was amazing for this).

Is No Man’s Sky worth its asking price for me? Or will it crush me with never ending space, billions of quests and tedious base building? Does it have “main story line” or something like that?

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Hond@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
NMS is wide as an ocean but deep as a puddle. IMHO(!) The procedural generation of all the worlds/planets doesnt provide interesting places to discover. Everthing gets really samey really fast just with a bit of different paint so to speak. I also wouldnt say its a thinking mans game. Its mostly a lot of brain dead tedium with tons of ressource gathering. The main goal is to get to the center of the galaxy. Everything a long the way is the fun you find for yourself. There is some sort “story” in place. But compared to the other games you mentioned in your post i also could easily argue NMS doesnt have a story.

Personally i still use my first savefile since 2016 when i look into the game for a few minutes/hours after several big updates because i find the start to be really slow and boring before you can enter and fly your ship for the first time.

tbf, NMS never managed to really pull me in. Consider my post the pessimistic outlook. Maybe someone else can provide a more positive spin on the game.

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CobblerScholar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Love NMS but as others have said NMS seems gigantic until you after you’ve played it for a few days. The constant free updates are great and it keeps me coming back every couple months when they release a new feature. I don’t engage with most of them on anything but a surface level but its still neat. I’ve likened the gameplay experience to “round peg goes in round hole” but the same could be said of Minecraft or Terraria or or or. End of the day its got its niche and it absolutely worth the 30ish bucks when its on sale

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luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
I played Elite Dangerous first and never left. It’s realistic and more immersive. It’s so dam good. In VR it’s jaw dropping. Highly recommend over NMS, which is arcadey and childish in comparison

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thejoker954@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
There’s no rush in NMS. Everything (except expeditions) can be done at your own pace. The starting missions can drag (especially) base building , but once you’re past them you won’t have to build another base if you don’t want to.

While expeditions are a timed affair, they are fairly streamlined and offer decent rewards.

Like the other poster said NMS is a mile wide and an inch deep, but in my opinion is still worth the money.

It’s a great game to play for a while and come back to every so often.

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ncc74656@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
If you have game pass I think NMS is still on there

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