Board 8 > Is No Man's Sky worth buying now?

(+) Yeah! (+)

It certainly looks cool, and I like the idea of being able to hop into a starship, get into a dogfight on the way to another star system, then land on a whole new world and start building a base there, but... it's still got a lot of negative reviews, and I can't tell how many are accurate and how many are just the internet hate machine refusing to let go of one of its favourite chew toys.

I'm also not a huge fan of directionless games, so does NMS have a plot, or at least something to give you a reason to do something/go somewhere beyond just playing around for the sake of it? Compare, say, Minecraft to Dragon Quest Builders- freedom is nice, but adding context and reward makes it feel much more satisfying.
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i just bought this the other day to try....i feel almost obligated to give it a chance after it being the subject of one of the greatest youtube videos of all time. i've watched this like a million times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5BJVO3PDeQ

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If you like the pitch, you should buy what they're selling!

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Here's my take, when it came out, I was interested in it, so I bought it. And I pretty much never hated a game more, in my life. Ugly, bland, janky, aimless, and annoying. Completely loathed everything about it.

Every update, people would say "oh it's so much better now", and I would redownload it, and I could tell it was slightly better, but I still absolutely hated it. It made me want to vomit, just looking around.

Haven't played it in a year or so though, so it could theoretically be good now! I still feel the temptation to try it again, even after all these disappointments, because I do love procedural generation so much, fundamentally.

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CoolCly posted...

i just bought this the other day to try....i feel almost obligated to give it a chance after it being the subject of one of the greatest youtube videos of all time. i've watched this like a million times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5BJVO3PDeQ

Quite a nice video. I remember a number of the youtube folk's negative take on the game at the time, and even hearing the game was in a much better place I wasn't particularly keen on giving it a go. Might have to reconsider that now. Regardless, they've at least earned some respect from me for the turnaround they were able to pull off.

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