No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"

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• EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This game has added so many systems over the years, but it still just doesn’t hasn’t really grown into anything of substance. It’s a game where the only real “thing to do” is mindless busywork. 200 new systems, all created to a standard of absolute minimum viability, none of them are very rewarding on their own, and none of them really create interesting interactions with each other.

  It’s a really bizarre product.

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  • deacon@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It isn’t a game I play. It’s a universe I visit from time to time. I fucking love it

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  • killerscene@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    thats the perfect game for some people.

    would have liked to play this, but its just too much to jump into now. would have been nice if it was functional from the get go.

    ill probably end up giving light no fire a try as theyre probably more in their element as developers in regards to a game of that scale

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    • onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Eh, I picked it up last year and had no trouble hitting the ground running. I did make it harder on myself by skipping the storyline and just figured things out as I went, though.

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  • Butterpaderp@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    To me, it’s a similar game to animal crossing. Lots of things to do and customize, not alot of depth. But, some people enjoy that, and that’s okay. And I gotta give them credit for adding so many updates over the years.

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  • Auntievenim@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My dude, you sound like a south park character. I’m not even kidding. Just dont play the game if you dont understand how to create your own fun.

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t play the game, I prefer games that are fun on their own without me having to create my own.

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  • Coyote_sly@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This describes literally every single video game ever, though - there’s never a reason to do literally anything beyond “I want to” because it’s almost entirely time wasting entertainment anyway.

    Now, these procedural games often fail to create much of a reason to ‘want to’. But sometimes I prefer that to the transparent, skinner-box optimal game design in many other genres.

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t agree with that at all. Giving your players a rewarding reason to interact with the games systems like a foundational pillar of game design.

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• Metz@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I got 150 hours out of this game and I think that is very much all i will ever play

  . For a good while it was even quite interesting because there were still a lot of new things to discover.

  But then you started to do things just to get them done not because they were particularly fun or interesting.

  If they don’t implement some fundamental new way to play this game or combine existing mechanics better together I don’t think anything could pull me back.

  Entei hope these Wall procederal Generation things start to die very soon. Flowing the same basic ingredience into a mixer does not give you something new but more of the same. It’s boring.

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  • k2r@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Couldn’t have phrased my NMS better. It was interesting at first then it got boring / repetitive

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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean if it was 150 hours (or close to) before it got repetitive, that’s better than 98% of games.

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  • ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I absolutely love the vibe of playing the game, but yeah a lot of the systems they add feel isolated and rather pointless. There’s a settlement system where you can basically be the mayor of a settlement, developing it and managing its growth - but it doesn’t really lead anywhere. They have fishing, crop growth, cooking - but it doesn’t really support anything in particular. There’s an extensive creature taming/breeding system, but creatures don’t seem to do a lot afaik.

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• ushmel@piefed.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They've released a ton of content and game enhancements since 5 years ago. I just picked it up a couple of months ago and I'm floored by how good this game is. Yes, it's all randomized/procedurally generated and that's why it's so vast. The story is okay but not AAA amazing, but definitely check it out if it's been a while.

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  • wisely@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There is a story? I just remember it saying to get to the center of the universe and when I got there my ship was destroyed leaving me stranded. I dk I was one of the people who preordered and played it on release lol.

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    • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes there’s a story, and it’s decent. At release you wouldn’t have even experienced the full story, iirc. So if that interests you, you could try it out again.

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  • extarion@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Might hop on with a few friends in a few days, I’m already excited to see the current state of the game!

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• CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I keep being enticed back to trying the game again with each new release but the gameplay just doesn’t grab me and there’s such a limited amount of story that it doesn’t get its hooks in me. I guess I’m just not a crafting/survival type.

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• ZMonster@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Look at these comments 🤣

  Oh boy do people love hating NMS. I get it. But like it or not, there is literally no game out there doing what this game does for its players at absolutely no additional cost.

  For those who aren’t aware: The problem with this game has always been its fans. Not the players, but the fans.

  "ThIs GaMe WaS aLl HyPe¡!” Then why did you hype it?

  "iT wAsN’t WoRtH tHe PrE-oRdEr!” Then why did you pre-order it?

  “It’S nOt EvEn A gAmE” Murray literally said it wasn’t a game, in 2015.

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  • crimsonpoodle@pawb.social ⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Not to mention it was a rag tag game dev studio who through that hype had their dream come true, did they’re best to deliver it, and have continued to work on it for over a decade now. People are human; and they’ve more than shown it wasn’t ever intended as a grift.

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• pycorax@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  When I tried it a few years back there was this really strange field of view and input lag that felt really clunky when moving around the world. Anyone knows if that’s been fixed?

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  • communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    They’ve fixed the fov (although maybe I used a mod) input latency was better than before but still not perfect.

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• UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I really don’t know what to think about this game. It definitely has come a long way, but to this day, it feels… Shallow.

  It’s a sandbox game where building, crafting and trading are not great, not terrible. It’s also an adventure game, but the story is overall very predictable and combat is again, not great, not terrible. It’s a multiplayer game, except no, not really, since you don’t share quest progesss and almost never meet random people (if you aren’t close to the center of the galaxy).

  I’m about 200h into it and still can’t tell you if I like it or if it just keeps me busy. I have high hopes for Light No Fire tho.

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  • sanpo@sopuli.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well, you’ve spent 200h on it, so clearly you must enjoy it.

    Nothing bad with enjoying a shallow game.

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s a really bold assumption lol.

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  • trashboat@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    During my first time playing it (not long ago), it was pretty obvious where new content was layered on top of old, mainly because none of it really works together all that well. It feels like there’s a lot of stuff to do, but none of it is all that cohesive

    Also the building system is like pulling teeth (on console anyway). I can never get anything placed where I wanted it if my build was at all complex, particularly stairs as I can recall

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  • oxideseven@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I go back to it like yearly, hoping it will stick and it never does. I dunno why. Too alien maybe? Too empty or soulless?

    Someone about it just doesn’t feel right and I can never stick it out

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  • Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    First I’d heard of Light No Fire, wow yeah, that looks great. Honestly, I think their style lends itself more to fantasy than SciFi, this could be great.

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  • epicsninja@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’re mistake is thinking it’s a sandbox game. In my.opinion, it’s barely even a survival thing.

    Sure, over the years they have added a lot of systems, but as you noticed, they’re all pretty shallow, and on top of that, have basically no interaction with each other.

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• morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve had it on my wishlist for years but my laptop would probably run it at like 20fps which is just low enough to be miserable

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How sure are you? It runs pretty well on some pretty low specs.

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    • morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well I haven’t tested it so I can’t be sure. Also depends on res. I might get decent frames at a lower resolution, 720p maybe, but that’s also a compromise.

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• kazaika@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nooooo i cant play right now, the fomo is getting me

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• PoorYorick@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I want to like this game so bad. On paper it is exactly the kind of game that I love, but trying to play it multi-player with my partner is just an experience in frustration. It seems so perfect for multi-player, but so much of the interface just seems setup for one player only.

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The UI design has always been a weak point in the game. Through all the revisions.

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It really says something that like the first mod that was ever published after release was the one that eliminates the damn hold-to-confirm mechanic that is on every. Single. Stupid. Interaction. (At least this became an official feature and you can natively disable it on most interaction prompts now.)

      The fact that basically none of the inventory and crafting screens are consistent with each other is one of the main things that still bugs the hell out of me with NMS. Especially when you’re using refiners and so forth, because the dumb popup they give you that only shows you like four options at a time doesn’t even arrange the items within it in the same order as they are in your main inventory. They should have just stolen the paradigm from Minecraft and used it for everything.

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• LostWanderer@fedia.io ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I haven't played in a while, this is piquing my interest again! I love how vast this game is becoming, more major gaming studios need to follow their example when it comes to rehabbing a game that came out initially as the worst version of itself. Still haven't even gotten to the center of the universe, I might try again as the path is really weird.

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• FlihpFlorp@piefed.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I hoped on lemmy to look up some news since I saw the steam artwork changed and here was this post at the top

  Haven’t read the notes yet on what we get but I’m excited

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• sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think I’d like this game if the art style wasn’t so lame.

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• Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So far all my attempts have culminated in a freeze followed by a crash after one to five minutes of play during the tutorial sequence. Let’s see if that update changes things

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  • Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve tried two times to get into No Man’s Sky, because the concept is exactly something I would enjoy. Every single time I get stuck in the tutorial looking for some fucking broken ship on the other side of the planet and an inventory of random minerals.

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