Got 1700hrs in it; 42 bases across a 30+ galaxies. Mines for Sodium, Indium, Phosphorus, Rusted Metal, Sulpherine, Pyrite, and a few more. Built a few architectural wonders, too. Good times

202 hours so far, and I recently picked it up again. I really love the worldbuilding with the aliens, and the exploration is very fun. My main gripe is that it's not very conducive to multiplayer, since you're constantly on the move with little need to maintain a consistent base. I tried using my friend's corvette as a main hub but defaulted to my own planetary base after a while.

PS5 or Switch 2? Which version do you all think is best?

Yes, hello fellow no man’s sky enjoyers

Ship ship! Ship ship ship ship ship. Ship.

I was a day one buyer. I gotta say i miss the old game, before it became multiplayer. The loneliness was great. Black holes used to mean something. Now you can just teleport anywhere you want to.

Corvettes are one of the cool things they added, and somehow halfassed it. I don't mean that in a horrible way, just that the ship partss are all over the place. But that got old pretty quick.

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Recently did an almost full playthrough for the first time.
I'd tried a few times over the years but this one stuck.

I returned to it when the corvette update dropped. Might come back when there's another huge update. I usually lose interest after two weeks of playing it, because things start to get repetitive.

Yep! 1000+ hours across PC, Steamdeck and Switch 1.

I just enjoy wandering and discovering, and looking for the perfect planet. I'll occasionally try variant survival saves, like freighterless (using exocraft for additional summonable storage).

I don't mind the corvette ship designing feature, but I enjoy discovering and acquiring the procedurally generated ships more, or journeying to a location from NMSCE which has a particular ship or multitool.

I like that the game mechanics aren't wholly intuitive - it occasionally adds surprise, like finding the settlement towers have a once-a-day scan function or that a particular foodstuff in the nutrient ingestor can increase mining yields.

It's barely recognisable from the below average game that released in 2016. There used to be nothing to do in it, now there's so much to do that it's overwhelming. It's a very good game now, and you have to give credit to Hello Games for what they've done to make it what it was always supposed to be.

Still some things I don't love about it, but on the whole it's well worth playing if you're into that type of game.

I hop in and out whenever a new update comes out, feels like I slip into my usual grinding routine, collect resources then sell resources. Then a new game comes out and I drop off again. I did get it for the Steam Deck and appreciate the cross save feature and they really do deserve credit for the ongoing updates. But it’s a sandbox and same game mechanics as FarmVille sometimes.

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I love the game. Just don’t have the time to play it anymore.

Every few years I give it a try, but I can't really feel it.

I play it in bursts every few months when I feel that space exploration itch. Usually there's a new feature or two whenever I pick it up. So yeah, fan of the game and the company behind it.

No, man...looks sadly at the sky

It is definitely great for what it is, and I do jump in every new update. Plus, it's one of those games I can just throw on when I'm not feeling a particular type of game to play, and it usually does help me get in the gaming mood. :)

I enjoy it. It's a relaxing, peaceful game. I just wish there were more objectives. The idea of just exploring and finding things doesn't appeal to me all that much. The game has a lot of potential for combat, both in the spaceship and as a FPS, but both of these areas feel like they could be expanded a bit. Overall, I just wish that there were more combat-focused missions after completing the main storyline.

But it's still pretty good and I enjoy it when I want to relax.

I liked it briefly, but it fell off for me. I feel like there needs to be an area to go to, or missions to pick up, or something that is a higher difficulty. I feel like a mid-range quality ship and weapon will do everything in the game without issue, and when you continue to get upgrades and suddenly everything the game has to throw at you poses so little of a challenge you could afk while being shot at with little issue... Well, it didn't hold my attention anymore unfortunately. I really want to like it more than I do.

i like nms but i wish each individual planet had more to do than just mining, scanning stuff, scavenging, and selling stuff. theres just no reason to do anything on any particular planet in your area unless you need resources it has and its a huge missed opportunity.

bought it some time ago but only played for like 10hrs. I was either lost or bored most of the time.

I like the variation in planets they've added and have always really wanted to like this game. I also like how they added a more casual mode that doesn't require constant grinding.

The main issue is that it seems like every mission is fly to a planet, land, interact with one of a few things, then leave.

It was alright but it felt like the flight mechanics was on rails compared to like Elite or x4. I got my money's worth and may come back in the future but it never really got it's hooks in me.

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ialways come back to it when i want something chill. i am building a corvette to be a flying greenhouse, and spend too much time fishing and cooking lol

I haven't played in about a month, but the Corvette update really got my interest renewed. Soon as that dropped, my first thought was how Hello Games basically out-Starfielded Starfield. Having completely walkable interiors on near-infinitely editable ships made things a lot more fun, although also a smidge OP. Methinks I should jump back in! Really need to try VR mode again too.

Played for a while, a few times, but there's not much challenge so I don't stick around that long. Got strong enough to kill all the sentinels easily. Got a freighter and billions of credits. Lots of resources.

I can imagine deeper stuff they could do, and maybe they will one day.

I should give it a try again... Release was not perfect but I hear so many good stories about the game. Then again, I just started my first playthrough from the Wild Hunt which(er) takes enough time....

I know I’m wilding but I actually liked the launch game more than what it became. But that says more about what I look for in a game than the quality of NMS. It objectively became a better game than it was at launch, but it pivoted to become more of a crafting and building thing than an exploration game…. And I’ve been done with crafting and building for a long time

Too boring for me to enjoy it. I can’t really get into open world sandbox games in general though so that’s more of a personal preference view point than anything.

Its weird I know I shouldn't but I kind of love NMS. Its such a broad but shallow game but I cant help but spend hours on it. Being able to just jet off to a new system and explore is excellent.

I enjoy the exploration and vibe of the game. Have a ton of hours on it, but I am always left wanting more end game. This is likely a situation where the game doesn't want to offer what I am looking for, and that's okay.

I play once a year, or so, to catch up on the updates and have a ton of fun every time.

Edit: welcome to Lemmy.

Have they fixed the movement so sprinting doesn't disable when the terrain rises 2 cm? And so you don't have to melee-jump to get everywhere at a decent speed?

Are there more than 2 space station interiors now? And more than 3 hostile plants across multiple galaxies? And actual geography like rivers or ice caps?

As you can maybe tell I wanted to like the game but wasn't very impressed when I played ~2 years ago.