Quoting: GuestMeh, the game is so boring, repetitive and shallow...

What they said.

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Quoting: iiariAnd regarding the top 10 list, still very impressed NMS is still there. What a comeback story.

NMS? Is it still the beautiful, yet stinking pile or crap, full of flawed game mechanics it used to be?
(Honest question).

Yes it is.

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Here's what I have found. If you go off on your own, charting your own courses going to random planets to get to the center, you get variations of the same 3 or 4 planet types, some of them even identical, even if you go to coloured star systems. You get better planets if you follow the waypoint paths in the galaxy map.

Interesting, I'll have to try this next time I am brave enough to have another go.

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Quoting: Grogan

Quoting: EikeThe story of No Man's Sky is astounding. I wonder if there ever was a game that dead on arrival that has risen again to such heights. Compliments to the developers and publishers who believed in the game.

Yes, part of me is happy for them, but there's another side of the coin here. I'm one of the (probably few) that liked the original game before they started adding all that crap to it. I'm glad I got to center of the galaxy at least once in the original. I hadn't seen the twitter posts that caused all the trouble, I got exactly what I was expecting from that game. After that, the first big update with changes broke my ship, changed the fuel source of ships, rendering mine useless. The next big update added base building, which was pretty much mandatory to proceed. The next update after that sunk my base into the rock.

Every time I have started a playthrough since, over the years, an update always comes along and wrecks it, every time I thought I'd try it again. I didn't even like most of the new stuff they have added and tried to ignore it. (e.g. once you've been to one of those newer types of missions, even they are just repetitious tedium for the rest)

The last recent unwanted 10 Gb update caused me to uninstall it again (instead of downloading it this time).

The problem for me with this game is that I find the core gameplay very boring and all the updates haven't really addressed that, just tacked on more crap. The lack of variety with the procedural generation really amplifies these problems.

The main story was a good tutorial but I didn't find it overly inspired and inventory management is the single most annoying part of this game!

Then they added time gating to the settlements update I think it was so you have to wait hours and hours (Real time not in-game time) for things to build. I guess the aim was to stretch out the content but I mean wtf!

I just wished they had spent more time updating the core gameplay and/or the procedural generation instead of adding heaps of what feels like superficial content.

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Quoting: starfarerHmm. Every time I read something about these kinds of games I think to myself: how does this hold up against OpenTTD? Because honestly I didn't have as much fun with any new kind of tycoon game as with OpenTTD. Can anyone chime in?

OpenTTD is good. Every time I see a game like this I immediately compare it to Transport Tycoon and usually decide it probably doesn't have the same kind of depth haha.

Probably a little unfair.

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Some good choices there! Can't stand No Man's Sky though.

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Nice, have to take a look!

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Personally I think we're in the honeymoon stage still. We're off to a roaring good start but that momentum needs to be sustained and built upon, the next 12 or so months will be critical.

When you think of all the work that has had to happen to get to this point by the open source community it really is inspiring.

On a side note I do think this would have been a good opportunity for GOG to do some sort of client or plugin for the deck. Does anyone know if they're doing that? Seems like a big missed opportunity for them.

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Have been pausing for ages and have been contemplating cancelling for a few months. Will just keep pausing for all eternity maybe haha.

Although some of the games I received though Humble Bundle were not ones I would have ever purchased normally but ended up having a blast on them and led to follow-on purchases.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: jo3fis

Quoting: einherjarAnd there the typical Internet Drama of these days is seen again (Twitter "outrage" etc.)

Calm down, he has an opinion and it is different from what the most people think about that topic. So what?

My thoughts exactly. Everyone needs to calm down.

I haven't actually noticed anyone foaming at the mouth. You want everyone stoned out on laudanum or what?

Well that would be a welcome improvement for a lot of people 🤣

How can we deploy this on a mass scale?

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