How The Heck Did I Get Addicted To No Man's Sky In 2022? 

the feeling of entering a new planet is very addictive even in vanilla game, this game has some magic that makes you want to live inside of it

I've been playing for over 2500 hours since day zero. Never looked back. And I've spanned two galaxies. Sean Murry sold his house, suffered an inundation that flooded his job site and wiped out his data, and put up with death threats when the game first game out. I know he believed in his game, so I believed in him.

It's a game I've been coming back to repeatedly since 2016, being a fan of sci fi from the 70s and 80s it captures that mood perfectly, I find it stirs the imagination and provides a really relaxing type of gameplay that no other game has. That said, a few criticisms of the game are justified, eg the Artemis questline, the first few missions are a tutorial which is fine, but much of the 2nd half of the questline is just pointless busywork: go here, collect that, go there, collect that, go here, talk to this NPC, go there, talk to that NPC. The other issue is the dialogue choices, they have zero impact on the outcome/ending, they might as well just be cutscenes. The only other minor issue I have, and this is just a personal one, I'd love to see planets with cities at some point. Within the logic of the game world, I find it odd that three different races who have mastered interstellar travel would only build small outposts and research stations on the planets they'd colonized! Anyway great vid, thumbs up

The same thing happened to me, stopped playing a while ago, hopped back on and now im hooked im so glad this was one of those games that got better with time.

The startling description of all games being a loop really hit hard ... quite comparable to our real world too, gotta keep up the activities that keep you distracted long enough that you dont see the meaningless loop behind it all.

I honestly get captured by the ambition and beauty of this game since the foundation update, and I fell in love ever since

its a whole new game right now it brought tear to my eye after 2 years of it being in the shelf

I've played NMS off and on since the Pathfinder update and seeing the universe evolve has been an absolute joy. Fair warning to new players, there's another update coming soon and the first couple weeks can be pretty buggy, but Hellogames has been very good at addressing them quickly. I'll also recommend finishing the story ASAP. It's not long and it teaches you all the basic mechanics of the game. But just the basics. There's a lot more out there to find that the game never explicitly tells you about. Every aspect of the game has become about exploration.

This is me right now, all these new updates and more..its good timing!

Honestly man, i never played it back when it came out but ive been playing it for more or less the past few weeks and its sooo good now; like i have almost 50 hours and i havent even worked on the quests too much lmao. So glad that they worked on it.

you can also find a living ship, do missions with others, build bases on freighters, find and ride pets on the ground and in the air! And there's a new update soon

I laughed at a text i sent my friend at 0:48 and it felt like you chuckled with me and fell out of character. 10/10 experience

i played this game back in the day .. with all the problems and missing tools/functions .. no multiplayer, no portals, big ships ... nothing... and i enjoyed A LOT... imagine playing it right now... wont do it,.... it is a really addicting game...

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels like this. I have played NMS on and off a little for a year or two. It hooked me a little and i would spend a few days playing non stop but then move away from it to another game or something. I jumped back in a week ago and now I really can't stop. I'm totally addicted this time lol

I bought this game on launch even bought the better edition which came with a steel book and an art book and so many of my friends at the time called me crazy for buying it and with every update I found more and more hope for nms and just started again cause of the most recent update and I’m falling in love with it all over again 🥰🥰🥰

No Man’s Sky is my favorite game. Ever. All the upgrades/expansions are FREE once you buy the game, even if it was back at original launch. The game has a wonderful, creative community of players as well.

Awesome video! Got me hyped to play

This wqs a nice way of explaining one of my fav games good job dude

Ive upgraded to ps5 not played the game yet but i can not wait... Have psvr and move controllers ready to go...

It's just a different version of Minecraft, to me. Unlimited possibilities, a sense of uniqueness every time, potentially huge social interactions, constant management of systems. The two games are fundamentally very similar.

I am CRUSHED! That would be a gravity well. Or a feed back loop.

I’ve been playing for 38 hours I love this game and the community

Great content. Keep it up mate

I bought No Man's sky at launch, pretty much put it down after 20 hours, Tried to get refunds. Now....Not regretting getting it. It's so different now, and it's so beautiful now.

To be honest it's still pretty much same game what they need is biomes and more things to do when on a planet. I love everything they have done to make the game better it's an amazing game but in my opinion it still suffers from not having enough to do while on planets.

Welcome back. I hope by now you've been delving into some derelict freighter's and working on building a fleet of frigates.

By far, my favorite game ever. Since day one it’s been an awesome experience, I knew it was gonna get better always trust Sean!!

Yeah loved playing this game until my high hour game suddenly won’t load and it’s an infinite loading screen before crashing. So I wasted all that time to have to start over. Sucks the big one. Can’t find anything online that will fix it so I’m just shit outa luck I guess. I wouldn’t recommend playing this game if you get attached to your saved files.

nms really gave me something ive always wanted in a game.i can happily say ive spent a good amount of time in its universe and have made a whole bunch of bases, auto mining machines and a full s class fleet and freighter. game was dogshit when it came out but now its borderline masterpiece

23 hours is what I logged in this game when I found Space Engineers. 23 hours is all I will ever log lmao

Damnit now I have to buy this, your review was too good

I recently started playing again and boom I’m Addicted

No Man's Sky is such a stress reliever for me!

Good question.

Well you and your friend might be building a city together when the next update comes out!👷🏼👷🏻‍♂️

Just started over the weekend. I am now 13 hours in...

Just wondering what you think about the game now? Three years later? It’s been a crazy year, and yes I am an addict. Played soon after release all these years. Try all the new games and keep coming back to this one. Can’t send money directly to Sean. So I bought the game on every platform (twice on PS). BTW big stuff coming & game is currently 1/2 price on steam, should be on on other platforms soon 😊

"on a planet size planet" excuse me?

I'm a bit uneasy about the way NMS succeeded by raising funds through pre-orders of a game that didn't exist. It incentives future developers to lie and cheat the public in the expectation that if they make a decent game somewhere down the line people will be OK with it.

Same bra ! Amazing game :D they really changed it to great game :D

It's on PC game pass, which is a pretty good deal.

To be fair, when you first start the game, isn't everybody always on the same planet with similar plants and similar goals ?

Of course you were the only soul ever to touch those planets...No Mans Sky had No multiplayer when it launched lol

The people that had been following the game since the beginning knew at release that the game wasn't ready That was Sony's fault

how have you only got 400 subs??

VR mode is even better

Correction, Center of Galaxy, not Universe**

I just want to build my own ship...

The planets are not planet sized. They're more small moon sized.

I want this game so bad but I don't think my RX560 can handle this 😫😩😭

the milestones are potential of life things so you should by a lot included it

don't forget the one thing that makes the game so fucking sick... You can colonise towns!!! this makes my European heart fucking JUMP its so insane!

If they only fixed the janky controls in the exocraft and in VR

"ON A PLANET SIZED PLANET" - The planet was that big eh? XD 0:30

First I was a space pirate. Then I was a megafactory builder. Then I was an animal wrangler. Then I was a ship collector. Then I was a race track builder. Then I was a cave explorer. Now I'm roleplaying as some sort of Indiana Jones, I go around finding artifacts on planets and exploring old ruins and derelict freighters. This game truly is infinite. I have 500 hours and feel like there's so much more to do.

This game is the definition of a comeback, I love it now and respect that they didn’t just take the bag and run.

The simple fact that the game is still being worked on and improved is almost unheard of for 5 year old game. Expansions like living ships and creature companions would never have been free from Bethesda or Origin or any number of publishers who's only mission is to leech every last cent from their customers, cudos to Hello games for that. A freighter with the Exocraft Orbital Materializer changed the game for me, that and the build camera.

Really enjoyed your style of describing the game. Have you considered doing a gameplay series?

Wait till you get a good freighter youcan build on it the interior, storage and other things. Which you can warp to any system the hyperdrive alows i made a farm on mine because its super useful to have a portable farm wherever i go god i love nms and the big anniversary update is coming out sometime which we still dont know what it has in it. Glad your enjoying thia beautiful game and welcome to the universe fellow traveller :)

This game has become one of the all-time greats. Truly an amazing story of redemption. Most AAA developers would not have even bothered to attempt to fix their product after such a rocky release

You can own a total of 6 ships. Seeing them all lined up in your freighter is a lovely sight.

i have chosen this masterpiece over sleep many times

"..the ones that keep you distracted long enough, that you never see the loop." Brilliant!

The new graphics the exploration, the building, the nexus, the companions. This us why nms is my favorite game

Judging from your current experience from the game you have barely scratched the surface! Can't wait for the next update Frontiers!!

The devs definitely shut me up. I wasn't giving out death threats, but I was pretty pissed at the initial release of the game. They've pushed through all the hate and made it right no matter what. Now the game is truly what we all expected and they're STILL doing major updates. Not just small bugfixes and minor content additions. It's truly an impressive comeback story for a game dev company.

No mention of taming and riding pets, owning a fleet or making music and audiovisual artwork? Colour me disappointed! ;)

i like the game too and hope they continue expanding it. I wish they bring a update that bring stuff as example when you go to a new galaxy then there are new stuff like new cool loooking ships a second different looking living ship new tech new eapons that look differnt and so on that woudl be so cool. So i hope they have plans and already working on new big content stuff. That did so many free big content stuff even if they make a expansion and charge money for it i'm fine with that. Now we have the game they promied and we got so many free content udpates its ok when they now charge a bit of money for bigger dlc's or a big expansion.

It’s too addicting lol. I’m literally constantly discovering new things each second.

No Man's Sky is my Life Game!

My highlight in the game was finding out I could build a mech and a river, and equip them with mining beams and guns to wage all out war against the sentinels. Then the sentinels sent their mechs and walkers to my settlement. I had my mech fitted with an AI unit so it was blasting away by my side!! Best invasion home defense I’ve ever played. I enjoyed it so fucking much.

This is definitely my favorite game for all the reasons mentioned and didn't touch on how awesome it is in VR! You REALLY become mindful on how you navigate exocraft in vr. The scale of your ship, bases and landscape is amazing in vr!

I didn't bother with No Man's Sky until almost a year ago, when a guy I know who got it on day one said "it's totally worth it now". And it it is just so good. You can explore, or hunt, or build, or just vibe on a cool planet and watch the suns set. It's a cathartic romp that keeps you distracted enough you don't really even notice the grind. Love it 5/5

I don't know how they would implement this, but they really need to add some sort of algorithm or make certain things show up more rarely or be unique to a planet. I mean, after visiting thousands of planets, they all start to be samey and don't offer anything new really. Are they ever going to give those border malfunction rings a purpose other than the same lore? What is the point of entering in data? Why are the exotic planets more boring than lush ones? Been searching for sandworms for a long time and found a worm-ridden planet, but still no worms. The black holes aren't black holes, they are more like worm holes. There is no event horizon, or disc or anything that resembles a black hole. Where are the space whales already? Why can't you build a city and populate it? There are no cities on planets? Infinite amount of space with not much in it that makes traveling to different planets different. I guess this is just like real planets...most have nothing interesting on them.

I love NMS. My favorite moment was the first time I took off in my ship

This game just has a way of sinking it's hooks in. One of my all-time favorite games.

Fun fact There are still people who think no man's sky sucks cuz of the launch

I made a nice house got the ships I loved and go to the next dimension. And I just didn’t see the point of playing anymore

The real reason i miss having a PC capable of running games! Bought as soon as it came out, i realised the flaws it had and was so sad and disapointed, but i found it kinda relaxed when i went mindlessly exploring planets and animals, ruins and words. I would get bored rather quickly, but somehow i would always return to the game. My computer fried the graphics card some time ago, and i was so bored with video games, that i actually sold the rest of the components. Haven't missed playing computer games since then, but i DO miss NMS! XD

I would say get it at full price to support the devs, since they never charge for the updates and have really upgraded this game and given it lot's of love. Great vid Jamster.

Try it in VR and you will be blown away all over again 😉

please, anyone who hasnt played this game on V.R, what are you waiting for?!!!!, its a whole different level of immersive experience to get you lost in your senses.

It sort of just happens. The automatic stuff really pulls a person in. You set up some system to mine, and leave for another star system. Come back hours later, and you have a bunch of stuff. It makes it feel very real.

Great review. You should have more subscribers. I'll help you along with one more :)

Now if they would only make native joystick / hotas control. I have thought about getting the game since it has VR support (which seems like a perfect game to play in VR), but from what I have research, its a pain settings up joystick/hotas controls.

i'm hooked as well.. send help please

biggest problem with this game is that it is extremely foreseeable (is that a word? you know what i mean). After like 10 hours you know exactly what will happen.. Also there are basically no challenges besides of grinding...

You’re a small channel but I can tell you worked hard on this video and I watched till the end so went ahead and liked the video! I’m pretty sure if you Keep making content in this style it’ll work well for you

If you really want to enjoy NMS you have to play it in VR. I played NMS a year ago for 100 hours before quitting it. Recently I started the game a fresh but am playing with my RIFT-S VR headset and its incredible. Suddenly you're not just seeing the worlds and bases on your screen, suddenly you're on the worlds and inside your base with everything happening around you. Its fantastic. It can be a little jittery in VR but if you have a good PC performance is not bad. However it would have been nice if you managed to get to the center of the galaxy and you met aliens and then had some real story based game play just to reward you for all the work you put in. Otherwise the only real goal is to upgrade your ship, weapons, and bases and once you've done that its game over.

i agree, just fired it up last week from 2016, tried to continue, and said f it, started a new game and holy shit, i put in like 30 hrs already lmao, so much fun now. I absolutely love it!

I tried for a week or so. I am done with it. All planets looked the same barren wastelands with orange/blue/green filter. Animals never looked natural or interesting, they look like spore failed projects. Ship handles like shit, and I grinded to make a different one, it still handles like shit. Not my cup of tea.

This game is like you either like it or you hate it depending on what type of games u like. Good combat and story if thats your priority then not your type. If you just like to build, collect and advance then this is the game for you. I would say explore but this game Its kinda dead after few first days since u can explore almost everything that matters in first few days.

I went out and bought this the day it was released and was extremely disappointed I've kept looking at it to see if any improvement would bring me back but no not until now that is today i installed it and have been pleasantly surprised what a difference it's now an amazing game loving it this game is why I bought a PlayStation years of gaming ahead of me it's an absolute joy

Well, ya got me downloading it, you wizard of gaming, you. I thought this was well informed and on point for what was offered, so I’m impressed. Gonna hit the sub button. I could use an Italian with hots but I’ll take a tuber who doesn’t waste my time or sound like they’re trying too hard. Good stuff, dude. Thank you.

I have no idea how anyone gets addicted to this boring game. Seriously the game says it has all these things to do but its the same thing over and over again. I thought Elite D was boring but this game takes the biscuit.

You want addiction? Try scum after you tried it tell me what do you think By the way i never played nms there are few better x4

I hated this game before played like a few minutes and I got bored. but one day I have nothing to play tried no man's sky again now I'm freaking addicted to it didn't know this game was so good really..

First off - I love this video, and if you do start a series on it, I'd certainly subscribe to your channel. I like your style of content, and I find that a lot of the other NMS RU-vidrs don't really make the game interesting. Also, I couldn't really find any *good* LPs of NMS either, so I think there's a wave to ride there :) Secondly, I got the game for 30 bucks on Humble Bundle, if anyone sees this, it also goes on sale for Steam Sales and like winter events too! I'm waiting :)

My fiance downloaded this on game pass for himself and I've skipped a Monday from work to play this and it's hard to share the console with him I'm a pc gamer

I find myself with what your said at the beginning right now. Like I've done everything and I'm like "what now" 😒