No Man's Sky as a NEW Player in 2024 is... Unbelievable 

Cool video, but part of me dies every time you call stars "galaxies".

I'm really enjoying watching you play games for the first time! Make this an official series and I'll keep watching :)

No wayyy!, just came from ur Sea of theives video

I think something that puts the game into perspective is knowing that it's an indie game originally developed by a team of 12, much smaller team compared to AAA experiences, hence the text dialog instead of having cutscenes and voice acting, they put their priorities in other aspects of the game.

The really fascinating part of this game is how the world isn't infinite it's like 8 or 18 Quintillion stars

Space combat in this game can be really good! Getting into the more chaotic fights, with decked out ships with all the different weapons, being attacked from all sides, having to fix your shields on the fly as you go, is super fun!

It must be crazy to get close to a planet in VR, to see that sphere getting more and more gigantic.

Depth in the game come from the story and quests, and understanding the lore and so on. It is a deep game in many ways. But that isn't for everyone, many want to build and do their own thing. I am hundreds of hours into the game, I have like five different small bases and don't care much for building. I run a settlement, and found that a little fun. But more than anything, my main thing in the game has been doing quests and the story at my own pace. All this while trying to become as rich as possible, and making myself as OP as possible. Upgrading and looking for new things while just chilling is so relaxing. And I may turn on my ps5 on a Sunday morning, start playing and suddenly realise it's eight hours later.

I think this was a fair take on the game - when you don't fall in love with it over certain aspects, this is pretty much where you end up; enjoyable, chill but repetitive and heavily reliant on vibes. Only thing for me: (S) for your ship to find targets is a support mechanic that can be turned off (and the combat difficulty up), so in that point I think its a bit unfair to act like space combat is "too easy" when you choose to use the aim and follow assistant and flee from the pirate freighter battle where you do have to use a strategy. That makes me go: "you say you want harder, more complex combat, but you don't actually choose it when offered."

It's a really good video. However the depth of no man's sky (to me) comme from the story and the quests. Reading the dialogues immerse you so much more in the universe and make you discover a brand new aspect of the game. For the ship combats you choose to play with the guidance but you can also choose not to and you ran away from the combat with difficulty so I don't really think it's fair to say that space fights are too easy 😊

The ship part in chapter 7, you could use X if you're on pc, then select summon other ships, it's a quick way to switch from different ships you have XD

The one thing you should keep in the back of your mind with No Man's Sky is that it is an indie game. The reality is, this game was created by about 13 people and Hello Games has only barely doubled that since release. During it's lifetime, they made and released one other game, The Last Campfire I think. And for the past few years have also been working on Light No Fire which has yet to release, but takes what they learned making NMS and are making a fantasy world to explore. It's not a AAA game, but even tho it feels like one, it will never have that clean experience you get from having hundreds of employees working on it.

I caught the game relatively early and had an underpowered system, so it was a slow reveal for me, lots of mysteries that I slowly unraveled, the updates got better, but my interest started to wane as even my self-directed goals started to feel a bit forced. I feel like interconnecting systems might help, or more planetary variety, or special things to find in each system, more ways to interact, more species, some sort of meta thing going on that you can involve yourself in. I dunno. It's a game that's several layers deep as far as the development cycle, but like you say it PLAYS broad. I'm happy I have it but still have trouble unreservedly recommending it

Just finding new stuff to do is half the fun.

You should play modded no man's sky. Holy phuck!!

I think you should play spaceborne 2

please play more

I just build huge buildings, don't care about story

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And given enough updates and in the right places.. it can have more depth one day. That. Or Light No Fire will be that depth. We'll see.

I advice, to don't play this game ! I am few min into your video and already i am pissed ...You don't like the story but you expect to understand the surroundings...HOW!!