+78 No Man's Sky is still a bad game. amirite?

by Reichertskylar 1 week ago

reasonably unpopular opinion for sure

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I've tried replaying no mana sky a few times and it always just boils down to shooting rocks for minerals for the vast majority of it. The initial exploration is cool but I quickly realized there wasn't anything interesting to find. Once you fly to a few systems everything started to blend together, I haven't played in awhile but none of the updates really addressed that in my experience, it's just another puddle next to the ocean

by Anonymous 1 week ago

No mans sky was the most boring lame assed game I've ever played. Idk. May not have been playing it right, just holy heck what do you even do there

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I just enjoyed it for some time on psvr2 and moreso after smoking but it was mainly about hanging out on different planets and flying through space in vr. Got bored of that quickly though

by Historical-Pear 1 week ago

Yeah fair that game would slap stoned in vr

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I got bored of it pretty quick when it first launched (I just can't get into survival and crafting games) but I played it recently in VR on the PSVR2 and I think I could lose myself in it for a long, long time.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Its just boring. Nothing fun about it at all

by alena91 1 week ago

I feel like this isn't unpopular

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Some people have the same complaints about Minecraft, ARK, Valheim, etc. The fundamental gameplay loop of the procgen survival/crafting genre isn't for everyone. That's okay. Not everybody has to enjoy it. Just because it's not for you personally, doesn't mean it's a "bad game."

by Anonymous 1 week ago

"It's just not for you" can be an excuse applied to literally everything ever made though. Name anything, no matter how bad its reputation, and there are some people that like it, and they can say "it's just not for you. That doesn't make it bad."

by Powerful_Peak 1 week ago

I agree it feels so lifeless

by era29 1 week ago

I couldn't disagree more. Ok, the story is shallow, but it's an exploration game after all.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I love the story, but the game is only a sprawling shallow pool.

by Alert_Wrongdoer 1 week ago

I like the game but not the story. You can't satisfy everyone, I guess.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

"The core gameplay loop remains shallow" what does that even mean?

by Correct-Suggestion 1 week ago

True. It felt like a chore everytime I tried it, whether it was the day of the game launch or a couple months ago. A good space game with a lot of soul you might wanna try is Outer Wilds.

by stiedemanntiffa 1 week ago

You've described basically every sandbox survival game. It sounds like you just don't like the genre.

by Correct-Suggestion 1 week ago

There are random encounters so its not all the same. Like I have warped into a pirate controlled star system without knowing then instantly got flagged for my goods and attacked. Some star systems have super aggressive fauna and sentinels some are super chill so its easier to collect resources. They have even added full water planets now with realistic waves so I have seen some pretty wild underwater setups. They also keep adding giant missions that you can do with the community which is also really entertaining.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It's a sandbox survival game with some 4x elements, not a survival game per se. After the initial survival phase, that part more or less goes away (as it does for most experience players in most survival games, if we're being honest; it's really only survival horror that maintains a true survival gradient throughout).

by Correct-Suggestion 1 week ago

They really didn't

by alena91 1 week ago

I can't explain why, but I feel the same way about NMS. The progression system feels really shallow to me. I can never figure out what it is. I can sink 12 hours a day into Minecraft on a particularly boring weekend, but in NMS it just feels like the items are more meaningless. In Minecraft I'm excited the first time I get diamonds or get my first redstone machine going, but in NMS there's no real milestones that grabbed me. That's not an objective take, and I don't think it's a bad game, but the progression is missing something that other survival games have for me in particular

by Anonymous 1 week ago

The beauty of sandbox games is that there's no one right way to play them. I found the exploration part of Minecraft largely boring, but I enjoy the building aspect of it. NMS is the opposite for me; I find the building largely perfunctory and the exploring the best part. Finding expensive ships to fix or sell is my jam.

by Correct-Suggestion 1 week ago

"It insists upon itself"

by Appropriate_Love_684 1 week ago

Agree. Jack of all trades. Master of none. Needs a better story than just "space mystery"

by Leannonabigale 1 week ago

From what I've heard after a little playing you'll start seeing reused assets. Or there is no variance. The games price is also super high again, but doesn't warrant it. If you had to basically pull your game from a store and have the audacity to "fix it" and then put it back up for $60+ it better be amazing

by Mosciskiderek 1 week ago

Sure, they added some bells and whistles but its still the same game, disappointingly boring and uninspiring. Outer Wilds with its one solar system is infinitely more interesting.

by ankundingathena 1 week ago

Over promise, under deliver. That's the concept you're trying to say.

by euna00 1 week ago

For that is the Bungie way.

by Potential-Image7764 1 week ago

Bungies "underdeliver" is miles ahead of most other companies at their best though. They're a victim of their own hype. Though I haven't played Destiny since the sale to Sony, so that may have changed.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I dunno if I tried, so much as I did, just not in two sentences. Thanks for writing my TLDR though.

by Haileypouros 1 week ago

Yeah that's basically it. You can't blame consumers, because people have different tolerances for products they buy but I feel a developer should not promote a product based on conjecture/assumption that they can actually flesh out that feature. Especially the complex one. Proof of concept does not equal fully-functioning mechanics.

by euna00 1 week ago

I like building mechs & flying around in my giant frigate

by Anonymous 1 week ago

All l know is that everytime l fire it up on my ps5 it sounds like like a jet powering up, no other game, not darktide or helldivers or death stranding 2 does that. Game itself is pretty meh.

by jedediahtrembla 1 week ago

Maybe it's you bro.

by WitnessPotential4319 1 week ago

Tried to get into it when it first came out, then again recently because aparantly they had improved it a lot, still found it boring and just couldn't get into it tbh.

by Motor_Mousse 1 week ago

I've played like 300 hours and I fully agree, almost all the quests are fetch quests, all the planets are functionally identical, combat is 5/10 at best and the base building is fine

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Agreed. Like yea, I guess it is cool how much they updated it, but it's still not fun.

by Unhappy-Abroad5917 1 week ago

as big as the ocean but knee deep

by Dry_Specialist 1 week ago

Not liking a game does not equate to "bad game"

by Pitiful_Film 1 week ago

Yikes

by Anonymous 1 week ago

it's a sandbox game... what do you expect. You could say the exact same thing about Minecraft

by ostanton 1 week ago