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?
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