Posted on: July 3, 2022

rvfalcon

Games: 19 Reviews: 1

What was the start if it is "good" now?

Overpriced, overrated, zero depth game. As a huge space games enjoyer I was literally convinced by the recent comments and youtube reviews that this game worth a try. Don't make the same mistake. It isn't and will never be just because the core mechanics will remain the same for ever what I can clearly see in reviews from 2016. And the devs are too lazy to rework it and just try to throw in some identically poorly designed ideas as DLC's instead and sell them as improvement. The only reason I can think of you should buy this game is to try to build some fancy space-tech base. Or just to casually kill some time. Every other aspect is like 50% complete. The game always stops progressing at the moment when you start to think that it might be an interesting mechanic with deep aspects. How can you say it is an exploration game if there is no adequate map? The precedural generation of the planets is so restricted and the assets used are so ugly that I constantly get the Mako from mass effect 1 flashbacks when exploring. Everything is made of the different parts, but generally looks the same: empty and boring. There is no ladscapes you could enjoy. There is no cities or even small villages that give you an illusion of being alive. Every space station is 100% identical two-room-and-a hangar-asset inside. On the planets there is about 10 identical sets of buildings that spawn at random spots. The NPC routines are like from 2000 or just do not exist at all. The game desperately tries to show you that it is not empty by spawning the armades in a middle of space-nowhere or sending a pirate attack to kill you when you open the crates in some god forgotten desert. The economy essentially does not exist and you can make money literally out of the air. The storyline is basically a set of "go to the marker and read what an NPC says" iterations to excuse some grind and introduce the new features. The combat is simple and easy. The space ships are clunky. And yeah, there ARE bugs

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Posted on: November 23, 2023

zgrillo2004

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 16

Bumpy Beginning to Diamond in the Rough

It had a bumpy tedious beginning when it was first released. I preordered it in 2016 and it was full of bugs and wasnt optimized and didnt have multiplayer. a few updates later they made multiplayer possible. 10 years later It was a sleeper hit Indie game that allows to do anything you want. Hunt, Mine, prospect, dig, pirate, trade, etc with your friends. This is a gem to behold. but there are still some quirks in the game like being out of sync when in multiplayer and other things. Now they allowed mods to be more simplified and I am a person that loves to play games with mods because it enhances the game even more. Buggy mess at the beginning, now a gem with an active developer team that squashes those pesky bugs in updates.

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Posted on: August 27, 2024

RustySnipes

Verified owner

Games: 10 Reviews: 1

Used to be empty no its loaded

Bought it in 2016 it was garbage needed more time to develop , now it's been a crap load of years and its been in development the whole time. Game has the most content of any space game I have played. You can play for hours and not even touch a story mission because of how much other stuff there is to do. Highly recommend it nowadays.

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Posted on: August 28, 2024

CymTyr

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 12

This game....

This is one of the best sandbox games I've ever played. Highly accessible, with tons of systems to either use, or not use, at your discretion. The systems are not very deep, but there are so many of them, taht you can keep yourself busy for quite a while. This is also the de facto example given by developers for releasing their games in a broken state, because if Hello Games could redeem themselves, why can't we? Unfortunately, very few publisher/dev houses can and will perform the redemption arc that Hello Games did with NMS. Even as someone who typically doesn't enjoy space games much, I love this game. It gets better over time, too, for me, though obviously you might get bored. Functionality is the same as the Steam version, but be aware for best use you will want to use the optional Galaxy client, so that way you have multiplayer enabled and other players are in your galaxy. I know, you might not like MP games, you might not like being connected to the internet.... It IS optional for NMS, but you will want it turned on. The NMS community, for the very most part, is wholesome and welcoming, and you will be afk in a space port and someone will randomly gift you a super rare item, without any expectation of even acknowledgement. Seriously, I don't review many games these days. This game is worth it. These devs haven't charged for a single update or "DLC".

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Posted on: August 30, 2024

nikdo58

Verified owner

Games: 1 Reviews: 1

Amazing game

After more than 1400 hours in, I now mostly just play expeditions. Great game, it is always a pleasure to return to it to enjy the colours, the vastness of the universe. Hello Games continuously adds new content and keeps making the game even better. With the new trading system introduced in 2024 some items became perhaps too easy to obtain, but that is OK, I am not complaining about it.

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