The exocraft vechicles in NMS are all really cool. The walker mech is great fun to stomp around and fight in. All of them are upgradable and customizable. And all of them handle a thousand times better than any vehicle in Star Citizen. AND you can store them on your freighter, and call them down on any planet if your freighter is around, too. Very useful for exploring in extreme and hostile environments.
I mean, I have my first 100 hours or so in NMS since July, and really having a blast, but its in no way shape or form a replacement for the promise of SC. Granted, I didnt log into SC for a while now, as playing the same few missions over and over and over again gets boring, especially if you drop through the elevator at mission end.. there is nothing to explore .. contrary to NMS .. where I set out to do task A, and find myself 1k ly in the other direction fixing a sentinel interceptor.
I've played both games (though I've set Star Citizen aside for now due to its bugs), but one thing No Man's Sky lacks-and probably won't ever have, at least in its current form-is a true persistent MMO world. Unlike in No Man's Sky, where your progress is saved and paused, a persistent world would mean the game is always running, allowing friends to continue building a base even when you're offline, etc.
In your example I think you might be able to do that. I know that if you're online with a friend, you can build in his base and I'm not positive since it's been a while, but I think you can keep building if he logs off. You do have to have each other on your friends list and have the option to allow building by friends enabled. I know that you can visit your friends base when he's not online.
bro, friends build a base? Theres no base building. Look a the pace there will never be base building. And having multiplayer activated you can go visit buildings, entire towns made by other players in NMS.
And you’re okay with playing a game that doesn’t have any base building at all because of that? That’s questionable. You might not be able to let friends build to your base when you’re offline, but they can at least still visit and use the base when you are offline. All of which is better than having no base building at all
To clarify, I was simply noting that I’ve played both games. I apologize if it seemed like I was suggesting that Star Citizen has base building-it doesn’t. In fact, Star Citizen doesn't even have full persistence yet, though it is still considered an MMO. My main point was that No Man’s Sky isn't an MMO in the same way Star Citizen is. It’s not designed for large-scale multiplayer experiences like coordinating with hundreds of players for massive space battles, raiding space stations, or managing a player-driven economy. That said, I genuinely enjoy No Man’s Sky for what it is. While it’s not a persistent MMO, it doesn’t need to be-that’s not the vision Hello Games had for it. I do hope, however, that someday we might see a true persistent MMO within the No Man’s Sky universe.
You're aware that you can have first person on foot, in vehicles, and in ships? I think each one saves it's own settings so you could be in first person walking around and have it go 3rd person automaticly when you enter a ship.
I'm a No Man's Sky player. One of the reasons Star Citizen players hate No Man's Sky is the look of the game. No matter what game mechanics No Man's Sky has, it's simply not going to be good enough.
I'm not a Star Citizen player --- I desperately want a game like No Mans Sky, but not looking as ...goofy. I can't put it into other words. It just all looks so darn samey all the time. And I barely even played it. I got the game what, almost ten years ago and I still TRY to get into it from time to time but ... I fly around, look at 20 or so planets, and my brain goes to sleep.
Thay MAY hav been a point years ago. Now its just ignorant. Besides, it recently got a LOT better with Planets Part 1 it looks more realistic than SC. Water, trees, snow, vegetation anmials, all looking great.
I would play this a lot more if the whole universe wouldn't be so choc full with goofy looking stuff. Also, the gameplay loop with me constantly having to shoot rocks is so not my thing.
yeah, its looking a lot better, Just came cross a giant ass spider monster thing that looked straight out of a nightmare, not goofy at all. Different planets, lots of different biomes and creatures. About the mining stuff, eventually you just buy what you need, send your fleet, I mean you are talking about the 5 first minutes of gameplay to an hour or so, after that you mostly buy resources, trade, carry illegal goods, do missions and so on.
I recently noticed that I haven't had to use my mining laser in quite some time. I just buy the stuff I need and if the system doesn't have it, I refine it, process it or just jump to a new system.
Both are games, space games that claim exploration, progression, ships, capital ships, base buildings, resources, prating and much more. The difference is that you can do all of that and a ton more in NMS while in Star Citizen you can TALK about doing all of that one day, maybe, eventually, while using the most powerful graphic card known to man: your imagination.🙂👍
these games are a little odd to compare nms is on rails compared to star citizen. for example landing in nms is completely automated all you do is get near were you want to land and press E on a keyboard where as in SC you gotta guide it in. There is the autoland in SC but that requires you still need to get above where you are landing. the ship designs is another big thing this has nothing to do with gameplay so I could understand not caring but the amount of detail SC puts into them is insane where as NMS uses a part system where any part can be swapped out as long as is its in the same class. These aren't NMS being bad either these are just the games being different. NMS is a casual space rpg that procedurally generates stuff where as SC tries to be a Hardcore/realistic(as a space game can really be) rpg so the biggest thing is they are role playing games and I feel they equally achieve that goal.
CIG puts detail into ships... which later dont do anything. I would see your point if you could use the functions our ships have but you cant. they all do basically the same. Now compare it to a NMS freighter where you land in the hangar, see other ships, organzie the interior, send your fleet in missions. So while cant crash my Dreadnaguht against a planet I CAN use it to fly around, explore, carry my stuff, launch attacks from, have an awesome ship interior, etc. It all adds up to making the fregihters much better than any capital ship in SC.
yeah I saw one vid of SC that showcases from orbit to landing and taking off consumes 10-12 minutes of your time. How much more exploring the large planet. By the time SC is finished, backers would be too old to play that long. Or if they are really old enough, they could enjoy it in there retirement
@@gemreviews2840 While I agree that they have a lot of stuff we can't interact with but they are thinking ahead so they don't got to spend to much time remodeling old ship when they add those features
@@revakriid its about immersion different player base. The same people that want to spend 30 mins starting a plane in Microsoft Flight Sim. It is all about immersion for most backers. I get not enjoying it but bashing on the people that do is just rude.
@@menderus8801 who says I'm bashing the playerbase? Bro the heavy investors in this CS are probably In their 40s 50s now. Soon they wont have the time to "immerse" themselves. The game is taking too long. Can't really compare FS to SC when that is solely flying. You have a lot more things to do in SC. That includes travelling, micro managing, maintaining, and I don't even know what more things that require a LOT of time. SC are slacking for the amount of money they are making
When i played no man's sky back in the day, it reminded me too much of the teletubbies. Aliens look like child toys and when they "talk" its like grrrrr brrrrrr. Not for me iam too old for that crap! Iam 23 not 13!
SC player base has officially collapsed. Average live daily players has been less than 80k for Q1 2024. That's in comparison to roughly 300-500k average for basically the last 3 years. Spectrum is nothing but unhappy backers, and CIG can't keep up with the damage control. They even just banned me from spectrum again for asking questions. NMS kills SC in every way, and I spent $1368 USD seeking satisfaction and being conned, whereas I've spent $30 CDN for NMS. I'll never turn on SC again. It's obsolete, and completely unenjoyable. I also believe CIG is now intentionally killing the player base to make it easier to justify bankruptcy and walk away. 100% serious. Glad to see you're enjoying NMS. It's a shame what SC has turned into.
@gemreviews2840 They tried the Asian market as a last ditch resort, but it seems to have backfired. I think every human in existence wanted the game to just be finished, but it ain't going to happen. Not under CIG, atleast. They may figure out a way to sell off the entire rest of the project to a company that cares, but I think any other company will assess what they have done and say that it's not even worth recovering.
Where is the desync? where are the frustrating time sinks? why does the Ui make sense? I would have too much fun playing this and probably not spend enough money to justify it.
@@gemreviews2840 Thank you, for my own sanity, isn't it a little insidious that this game essentially predates on autistic people to throw away money at something they will never get. (i am Autistic, so i can discuss this without bigotry)
No mans is a great game, elementary in most all ways. SC is slowly becoming the greatest space game / boarding on sim ever developed. I would say No mans is no competition really, more like Elite dangerous vs SC.
SC is becoming nothing at all, a marketing gimick with pretty jpg ships that serve no purpose. NMS is already an impressive achievemnt like nothing done before in gaming and keeps getting better and better.
@@gemreviews2840 Its a great game sure yet flight and relationship with ships is poor at best, and same can be said for the space battles, try Elite Dangerous they get this part right, SC when its low pop server even better. SC will have soft launch in a few months 4.0 no longer Alpha and it will blow them all out of the water. Server tech has been the biggest delay and soon biggest achievement. Until then, no mans is a great filler and same for ED :)
@@tetchedskate3366 ??? even if you take this comments section, you picked the most flagrant comment to respond to, and the vast majority of the other comments are pretty tame and logical, be they for or against either game... you two found each other because both of you are the same type. tribal karens lol. go tell me about how group x always acts like x. very learned of you.
@@__shifty which is why I didn’t say all of you. You know damn well that there is a large group of the star citizen community that does not take any criticism of the game well at all.
Thanks for your coverage of NMS - Please do some Elite coverage especially with the new ships and Power Play coming. I do not think you will ever convince a hard core SC player to play NMS. They do not compare with each other - and only one is a released game. As a released game NMS will continue to grow and get better while SC is still figuring out what it wants to do and how to best monitize it. It is great how NMS mentions a release and features and you are playing the next day while SC mentions features but leave it up to you to test for months . Like I said only one is an actual game. It comes down to what you are willing to accept. Hours of gameplay or hours of technical frustration and hope. Its our choice but at the end of the day NMS does not have the content creator coverage of SC because frustration and hope gets more clicks and sells more than actual game play.
You could say I'm a hard core SC player. Basically Only think I played for a couple years. Backed and waited, not for the game to be completed but ANY content worth playing. Nms gives me that.
@@gemreviews2840 For all the bugs and lack of gameplay I find the hype around SC absolutely amazing. CIG only needs to show a picture of a base and there are so many content creators covering it and making assumptions then they would actually cover creating bases in NMS which is nothing new. Even bases underwater
Both games are great in different ways. Both have downsides. The biggest difference being accessibility and price where NMS wins big if it was a competition.
I enjoy NMS for what it is. Im not a fan of the random generation of the planets and everything on them. Also, all the vehicles look like toys. You cant beat the level of detail SC has reached, for all it's faults
Well.. ,indeed of. Yes, more details in the $100 cash ship, lol, but then again the capital ships I nms are MUCH better. As for the rest think of them as single seaters, which is what thry are. Some are more realistic than other, all space ships being fiction after all. Starfield has maybe the most realistic ones.
NMS is a survival/builder/space game and it's single player. I hate survival games, and I hate builder games like Minecraft. That being said I do enjoy NMS on occasion. It's fun to explore and find different planets. It's an extremely easy game. I always stop playing for extended periods of time after visiting the space stations. I'm the only human player there. The game is lifeless. If it was an MMO it would be my favorite game probably.
You need to activate multiplayer and visit the Anomaly. its FULL of people running around, go do missions with them, visit other player bases. You just dont seem to know about it.
I spend a lot of time in this game. I also enjoy the lore. But yea the graphics make the game different. Even starfield gives that genuine space feel compared to NMS. But NMS is just a way better game
I like the fps and gun play in Starfield much better, yes. I mean you CAN get a nice shotgun setup with the right long gun and upgrade, but nothing like Starfield.
@@gemreviews2840 Yea NMS's combat is awful lmao. I really hope we someday get a realistic No Man's Sky type game with good combat. That's what I was hoping for Starfield and Star Citizen, but both games have huge shortcomings. Starfield isn't like the worst at least. I've never played Star Citizen, but that game has sounded like a scam to me from day 1. They do sometimes hype me up with some of their tech videos tho.
SC hardcore supporters clowning on NMS gameplay that it's too gameified, cartoony, and want's a game that is more "realistic" would be shocked how much effort it would it take to take off/land, maintain, and drive your ship alone if it devs won't gamifiy this. It would take hours to just get off a single planet lmao
isnt that a good thing? But if it stutters a lot. Just play in enhanced mode. Adjust to DLSS or FSR. There's a setting like rendering distance where it lessens the strain on your card
NMS is an example beside many others of what's happening when you hire decent programmers to make a game. It just works ! being myself a dev, I can't understand how CIG is able to find such crappy programmers, they are all falling into the most obvious bug traps and this repeat everytime like they learn nothing. It's like they are coding with their foots to stay polite. I would force myself coding like an *ss and deliberately creating bugs that I would produce less bugs than what SC devs are able to produce. of course they aren't recruiting on fiverr, they have found somewhat of a way to do even worse. imagine a second how all the features you showed there would look like in SC 😅 How many bugs they would create by implementing 1% of base building features that we have in NMS.
@@menderus8801 nothing is complex if it's done in the right way with competent programmers, trust me, this kind of speech relayed by CIG fanboys is total bullsh*t SC level of complexity is comparable to NMS, and added multiplayer, server meshing etc could be handled easily with the right level of abstraction (which CIG seems to totally ignore as when you modify "A", a totally unrelated "Z" breaks) all that we see is - like GEM said in previous vids - a clear sign of no willingness to do things with heart & guts
@@gnos28 the multiplayer in nms and SC are completly different NMS limits the players that are actually visible and moving to I believe 16 where as SC aiming for way more now I will say however I have never seen them all together. SC def could do more in the way of optimization I do agree that their method of adding more content before optimizing is stupid though
I want to play NMS. But there is something I hate. The left side of the screen placement of the character. Is there an option or a mod to place him in the middle of the screen as it should normally be? Anyone help?
uhu, forgetting all about how hello games launch the game in an unplayable state while charging full price for it. forgetting how the publisher forced them to release knowing full well it was far from finished, forgetting also, how many years it has taken NMS to get to this point, forgetting that NMS is still not even close to what SC is at all. yeah sure buddy have at it /sarcasm.
@@TheseusMinorbro I think it took more then 12 years to become what it is today. I personally bought this game the day it came out... got a refund one week later. I don't think SC ever told me anything about a potential release date. These games actually have very similar histories and I hope very similar futures.
Its just amazing how much they have done without charging anything more. Rought start but god damn have they more than compensated for it. Creatures are super diverse and inteeresting now. sure you have some a bit more similar but still more than enough variety. Going underwater is another world in itself, under water BASE BUILDING! millions of solar systems and planets to explore.
Most players started nms when it got in sales with each free updates. Meanwhile most features you mention in sc makes the games lag at best if it doesnt crash even with a fcking 4090
MAGA Make America Godly Again... Welcome to our world interloper.. I have heard that Star Citizen has been crowd funded to the tune of $700 million. What have they done with all that money? I loved the Wing Commander franchise back in the day and was excited about SC at first. As the years dragged on, not so much anymore,
NMS is an awful game. There is nothing to actually do. You walk around pointing a laser at objects to get materials, then craft upgrades so you can do the same thing again. The combat is weak, all the enemies are easy to defeat, and there is no actual point to fighting them. All you do is travel to the same copy-pasted empty planets with nothing to explore. The worst part of the game is the derelict freighters, which have no enemies and you just walk around opening crates. You need to do this to upgrade your freighter, so you're forced to play waling simulator for hours hoping to get the salvaged frigate module. You can't affect the universe, the story is meaningless and you just travel from object to object. There is no progression, no reason to upgrade your ship, and nothing fun to actually do in the game. Any base you build is pointless, any system you explore is just the same boring empty worlds... Literally the worst game I've ever played.
I have to agree, NMS is very empty. I did like the story though and the ending, it makes a lot of sense and would apply to our reality too. Other than that, there's simply no game to compare SC with (sadly, actually, since there's no competition).
i am 2400+ hours in and i still have not done everything i want to. Yes, you're right. There's nothing to do. People talking about "meaningless" and do play streamlined games with a story, once played get's all the same every time. In No Man's Sky you create your own story, but some people just want to be told what they have to do. Fair enough.
I've had star citizen for 5 years an there is literally nothing more in then you described for this game great looks on things that dont work or work badly . They are called game loops for a reason
honestly most games have no purpose but the one you give to it. star citizen suffers from the same problem. call of duty suffers from the same problem. minecraft suffers from the same problem. most games have no more purpose then you give them now the question becomes with these games I listed how many of them can you give a purpose. Star citizen you can try to earn a ship, try to rp some cool encounters out, or just explore to see stuff. Cod you can aim for camos. Minecraft you can aim for a certain style of structure. all games have no inherent goal other then the ones you give there is nothing making you complete a game either nor stop once you beat a game.
@@ProgrammistMusic You have missions, events, weekeend events, gear and actual ships as rewards. Currnetly making some quicksilver missions and taking advantage of the weekend one. And we STILL have 4 more Planets updates to look forawrd to. And not "soon TM" but like soon soon with Part 1 already delivered. These SC fanbois crying about how boring a game they dont even play or know is has to be the saddest thing Ive seen in a long time.
Banned by Night-Rider CiG for having an opinion, and if you care so much about graphics enjoy playing tech demos with bad gameplay, where streamers get you banned for killing them, where the devs loathe there own players and community and have been gaslighting them for 14 years.,
@@leetbusBeen there done that too. 😂 7 days. Happens again I'll just give my honest opinions to Spectrum posts via RU-vid videos. I give kudos to Hello Games for what they have done with NMS even though I have no plans of ever playing it. Now the new game they have coming out, the title slips mind right now, that I'm interested in.
Graphics are now better in NMS than the aged, all the same people and empty planets on SC. Flying close to water is amazing in NMS. Enjoy your master modes and not being able to leave your hangar becuase of 2 hours of micromanaging your inventory. 😅
@@gemreviews2840 I don't know how long you've been a backer but it's been intended to be that way since 2015... There's no less than 9 years worth of research for you to have looked at prior to buying the tech demo Alpha it's at right now. Just because YOU don't want that doesn't mean the early backers don't.
