Comment on Do we have No Man's Sky fans here?
Psythik@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No.
The sameness of every planet was a major turnoff for me, plus the scale of the universe pretty much guarantees that you’ll never run into another player organically. The game is basically just Minecraft in space, except worse.
This is the reason why I don’t like procedurally-generated games. What’s the point of a big, massive universe, if it’s nothing but a bunch of generated sameness? Environments that weren’t handcrafted are a major turnoff for me. As someone who sees video games as art, it just feels soulless and empty. Like AI-generated art, except it’s an entire game.
danhab99@programming.dev 2 days ago
You can run into players organically?? I thought you had to go into the Nexus for that
Psythik@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I don’t think you can, but the game is so boring that I never played long enough to find out. That’s the point I’m making.
FatVegan@leminal.space 1 day ago
So you don’t know, you just claim stuff
NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
These days running into other players is far more common on the Expeditions fue to all the players having the same goal and quest pathing, but you still bump into real people the closer you are to the galactic center in the regular game modes.
In terms of the ‘boring samey planets’ when was the last time you played? Because with the current terrain generation, water effects, gas giant systems, fully submerged worlds and new fauna/flora generation I’ve yet to find any planets that were identical.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 days ago
Why is this even an issue for you? Just play it like SP without thinking about online factor. Maybe you will stumble upon some player after a month of playing, giving you a proper “holy fucking shit” moment, but realistically why even think about it and why turn it into a turnoff?