STARFIELD VS NO MAN'S SKY - WHICH ONE IS BETTER 

While playing No Man's Sky... I was repairing one of the frigates in my fleet, and had a misadventure where I fell over the side and landed on my capital ship. I was loosing life support fast, so I did the only thing I could think to do. Jumped over the side of the capital ship toward the planet it was currently orbiting. I had to pop life support packs like crazy to stay alive while I made my decent, and eventually got into the atmosphere (so my life support stopped draining) and was able to jet pack just before hitting the ground and thus surviving. I was then able to call my ship down and fly it back to my capital ship. Can you do that in Starfield?

NMS was built by an indie team of 15 people. Starfield was built by a multi-billion dollar company. Bethesda could have taken the exploration and freedom of NMS and added the RPG storyline elements they are known for. They could have done it in Bethesda's visual style. Instead they give you a linear story experience with side quests. No real exploration--despite what people claim. Ships are actually worthless and basically only good for RU-vidr screenshots. If you don't happen to enjoy the writing or storyline that's just too damn bad because without it you have nothing.

We all know NMS is hard core better lol

I am a new No Man's Sky player. It was only recently I picked up this game after I found that Starfield was limiting. I expected to be amazed, and amazed I was. The deep sense of exploration that's not present in Starfield is here. The spiritual themes, and sense of wonder as you learn words to communicate with the people, the quest to survive and become bigger - these things matter in No Man's Sky. And the sense of exploration is much better here.

You left out one of the most important differences. In NMS you're actually flying your ship around. In Starfield, you just teleport (fast travel) everywhere and encounter loading screen after loading screen. Both games have their strengths and weaknesses but this difference to me is one of the most defining features that distinguishes the two experiences each game offers.

Starfield is limited, where as NMS is not. With Starfield, although you technically can look at a planet in the sky and fly there, the process doesn't make you feel like you are doing that. You enter your ship, go towards the front cabin, and from there you are greeted with cutscenes and loading screens until you are out in space. With NMS, you can look at a planet in the sky, jump into your ship, and fly there. Hyperdriving in Starfield leads to more cutscenes and loading screen. In NMS, you are given an animated loading screen until reaching the next system. In Starfield, you are limited with how far you can travel (at least on foot, which is the only way you can cross terrain). Once you arrive at a "boundary wall", you are prevented from going any further. You have to return to your ship, go through all the cutscenes and loading screen to take off, enter space again and choose the terrain passed the "boundary wall", and then go through all the cutscenes and loading screen to land again (and the terrain is not continuous, meaning that a mountain that was there previously will not be shown in the new terrain tile). In NMS, you can walk or fly anywhere on a planet's surface. There are other examples, but I believe that the point is made. Starfield is simply an RPG with a "space" backdrop (or actually, it is a FPS with RPG elements that has a "space" backdrop). Starfield is a decent game, but it was overhyped and fell far short of that hype. Starfield was not "ground-breaking" as Bethesda claimed. NMS, at least at the time of its release, was ground-breaking (although, upon its release, fell short in many ways until Hello Games corrected their mistakes). There is nothing wrong with enjoying Starfield, for as I stated, it is a decent game. But it is nothing more than that. It is a cardboard cutout of every other Bethesda game. After 7 years, NMS continues to be a top-selling game. Starfield will be on sale at 75% off retail price in 6 months. Additional content (DLCs) will be nothing more than other missions, and you'll have to pay for them. NMS has given all its additional content for free. Although I may be wrong, I don't believe that Starfield will have the same longevity. Once people complete all of their missions in Starfield, they will simply move on to the next game.

If NMS had the ship building like starfield it would be perfect. If starfield actually let you fly land and take off in your ships like NMS it would be perfect. They both need the other ones strengths to make them perfect imo.

Starfield is not a bad game, but if you want to actually explore (and by explore I mean just fly around endlessly and discover cool stuff that isn't necessarily part of the story) it's a no brainer for NMS

no man's sky: • an insane amount of (procedurally generated) systems, each with planets filled with life • cool starships (also procedurally generated) • cool laser gun things (again, procedurally generated) • _insanely_ devoted fanbase and devs • plenty of cool bases that people built _and_ you can visit • gek starfield: • cool planets, but not very many and limited space • cool guns • buildable starships • british • buggy (in its current state) • no gek i think it's clear who the winner is

one is space exploration, and the other is an RPG set in space. I'm really tired of people trying to compare two distinctly different games in separate game sub-genres. the people who think it's okay to compare these two games are the same type of people who want to compare Mario Kart with GTA. just because it has a common element, doesn't mean you should act like its the same type of game...

been in NMS since day one and to this day I still stumble in to worlds where the view just takes your breath away...also Vr is a must and worth the time optimising

For me no man’s sky is better in most aspects except for maybe the story (nms story gets better every time and the lore is insane) and the combat (even though I prefer the alien weapons and unique weapon in nms)

Looking forward to checking out this Norman's Sky - thanks for the recommendation

After beating Starfield that game helped me realize that I missed no man's sky. No man's sky is awesome.

Best way I can describe it is: Do you want space Minecraft? Or space fallout?

NMS has way better exploration. Todd Howard advertised “unparalleled space exploration” when in reality it’s just a loading screen simulator.

I doubt that people will be playing starfield for years since the storyline ends at one point. Whereas no mans sky has unlimited replay with building bases being a big part of that.

My old laptop could run No Mans Sky NMS For the Win

No Mans Sky for me

NMS = creative/scenic sandbox, Starfield = narrative sandbox

As soon as people stop saying Starfield is No man's Sky without Atmospheric flight, and start thinking of Starfield as Mass Effect with the ability to fly the Normandy while in Space their expectations would change dramatically, never understood this comparison between NMS and Starfield. IMO.

I played NMS a while back (2020) but forgot about it. Recently tried Starfield and found myself so bored and gave up. Then I remember NMS and tried it again. I loved how you just jump right into the gameplay! No slow intro with boring NPC dialogue and faceless enemies. Just you and the infinite possibilities of outer space. I can see myself playing NMS for years to come.

Thank you for this, I've been waiting for a NMS expert to give an opinion.

I really like both games. They have similar concepts but they are very different games. The perfect space game for me is a mix of these two games. RPG mixed with unlimited exploration. Also, NMS has a fun slightly cartoon art style. Starfield has a real world art style. I personally prefer the NMS fantasy space look.

Seeing the videos about Starfield have made me appreciate No Man’s Sky so much more. I recently introduced a friend to it and was so excited by their exploration of the game. I told them to play it without updates, bare bones for a while and after getting used to it, let the updates rip. They were blown away! It’s like they got the magnitude of the games updates without even being here for the last 7 years.

I've played a shit ton of NMS and quite a bit of Starfield. Love them both, but for different reasons. I thought Starfield would replace NMS for me but that would be like saying I replaced Call of Duty with BOTW/TOtK. Starfield is much more streamlined and story based, which it does very well, but it doesn't hit the mark on its exploration. NMS is a vast and limitless game that immerses you into feeling the sense of being a true space explorer, albeit with lackluster story beats and missions that aren't nearly as emotionally effective as Starfield's. Since there's no instant teleportation from one planet to another in NMS (unless you use teleporters, of course), players experience a lot more dynamic and varied activities. While Starfield does have these activities as well, they do feel quite a bit less impactful and meaningful, simply because the game isn't designed around these random encounters like NMS is. Both games can learn from one another, but for Bethesda's case they did have those learning blocks to work with and fumbled, imo. If NMS adds ship building and maybe a bit more fluid on-foot combat, it might just be the perfect space game. On the contrary, if Bethesda had added seamless space/planet travel and actual reason to indulge in space flight, it would have been the perfect space game. Here's hoping Starfield's modding tools will give modders the ability to make Starfield absolutely insane, which I'm sure will happen.

Thank you for the clearedt explanation. If you hate exploration in starfield, no mans sky. If you like good narrative and ok across the board everything else, starfield.

I subscribed for the voice. Dude you have such a good narrating style and tone.

Disclaimer is: NMS is known to CONSTANTLY update their game. Right now, space exploration/survival alone, you can't beat NMS. It is simply better in pretty much every aspect. The pace of the game, NMS is better too, game movements, progression. It's' hard to judge the two, since both are like TERRARIA vs MINECRAFT, but I'm still hands down on NMS.

I like no Man's sky better just because I actually feels like you're exploring space and discovering new things versus no man's sky where it's just a fast travel simulator

Starfield vs "Norman's Sky"

I get that people want to compare the games, it's inevitable because they are both large Space games, that's where the comparison and similarities end though. Starfield is an amazing RPG, NMS is all about the exploration and ship hunting type stuff. They are both amazing games in their own way.

We need a star wars game thats like a mix of no mans sky and starfield

No multi player does it for me no fun to build a great base that no one else can visit

I like the beautiful sunsets in NMS.

Lets not forget it only takes 20 hours to get into starfield 😂😅

I do not hate either or, but I do like NMS the best

NMS 6 year head start, it will be interesting to see where starfield ends up.

2:45 That is a lie, my bro. No one cares after they fix their game and give the players free DLC, unlike Bethesda, which makes mods fix their game.

Honestly in my opinion if they could create something like a mix between the two games i think they would have it made exploration of no man sky hazards included, mixed with starfields game style it would be interesting to see what they could come up with. Starfield was meant to have an ending storyline which yeah that is fine but it shouldnt ever be an end because there is a vast amount of galaxy's for people to explore no man sky definitely nailed the transition from planets to space noticed that with starfield you have a bit of a load screen when it comes to taking off in your ship. So yeah if both combined ideas into one game they would be able to fix issues people have with either one

Bethesda just use the same engine to disperse Fallout dungeons into different locations disguised as planets, then force players to warp again and again, which is even worse than seamless Fallout or even Skyrim map. Yes Starfield is certainly better on shooting but if that's my goal I'd rather go back and play Fallout, also alot of other games can give you that gameplay experience on shooting and warfare. However the advantage of NMS is unique among all games till now, there is no replacement game possible. All their shortages compared with Starfield can be easily catched up by scalability because they dont touch the game engine, some can even just be some variable value changes.

Apples and pears, imo. Long-time NMS player here, with (thanks to prior experience) a deeply ingrained distrust of anything Bethesda. For the solo role-play experience, Starfield may have the edge although, as I understand it, the RP campaign has a limited run. NMS is open-ended, with a variety of play modes (including multiplayer) and a vast array of individual options Space hobo, base-builder, fighter ace, bug hunter, explorer, asteroid miner, hermit, fleet builder, whatever and whenever you choose. Procedural rendering makes a big difference. Granted, there can be a degree of repetition in NMS but, for the most part, you can randomly land anyplace on ANY world, and walk in any direction until you completely circle that world (which WILL take a long time, I promise), and the landscape will vary all the way. In Starfield, as I understand it, you have one fixed landing point per world, and if you walk far enough away from there, that's it. Then, finally, there are my issues with Bethesda. I love Fallout 3 and 4, but saw close hand the raging dumpster fire that was Fallout 76. With all these and others, Bethesda's idea of quality control has been consistently abysmal - games typically launched in a barely functional state, with the mindset of "Meh, let some modders fix it." I won't go into Beth's habit of venal penny-pinching, but I expect it to surface in SF soon enough. Refer their first try at FO4's so-called Creation Club, and all their shenanigans with 76. If Starfield is a success, and it is showing promise so far, I expect this to have a lot more to do with what independent modders bring to the party, rather than whatever Bethesda does to it next.

I loved NMS, but lets be real. If NMS release launched alongside Starfield, we wouldn't be having this conversation.. Its more than a little disingenuous to compare the two as things stand. Irrespective of the fact that only superficially, are the two capable of being compared at all. The closest relative to Starfield is Mass Effect, and even thats pushing it. I have no doubt thats purely because MS studio's were integral to the first trilogy, and likely learnt a lot in that collaboration to offer this one. - To me Starfield is more like Halo 4, with some Halo Wars II features included. Much like Command & Conquer came up with Renegade, to zoom in on the C&C universe. The game starts out very broad, and is clever about not bombarding the player with the full scope of the game. Its very ambitious, much more so than NMS. - In this game I've discovered that once you have your barings you can do a lot better than exploiting glitches; to the point that you are cheating yourself from achieving prowess. Whats more likely, is a combination of the two will define this game. To each their own.

I feel like there two different games. NMS is a sandbox. Starfield is not. Don't know why people are comparing these. There both in space but totally different games. It's closer to Mass Effect

Play NMS and enjoy the feeling of space exploration. Mine resources, take on and build up a settlement, find cool ships, run around in a mech, destroy Sentinels, get a living ship, be the owner of a freighter, enjoy seeing your ship collection inside your awesome frieghter, make an outpost and feel free to check out the lite story. When you get tired and want to do actual quests and hear a voiced NPC and have fun shooting pick up Starfield. Do the faction quests, piss off your annoying companions, marry one of them because it's slim pickings in space, get arrested, shoot pirates along with everyone else, board ships, build ships, build a few more and finish the main quest. Dabble in NG+ and make everyone float like Pennywise until going to "those places" starts to get unbearably annoying and seeing the dancers in the Astral Lounge again makes you want to nuke Neon. When you get tired of that and long for even better combat and an intense adult story with characters that are actually likeable pick up Cyberpunk and pretend you landed on Volii for the last time. Lastly, Jackie > all of Constellation

Let's just say that I paid for NMS, and it worked out just fine, I got my money's worth and then some. I won't be doing that with Starfield, it would be a massive mistake and a huge waste of my money and time. I've played Fallout[s], I have no desire to play any of them in space, TYVM. Plus, NMS has no ending, Starfield has a definite ending, so I'll pass on the endless DLCs [again].

NMS is a true survivor game with crafting, farming and fighting. You create your own story. Starfield is a Star War like game with a linear and boring story line.

You didn't mention anything about combat or voice dialogue character weapon space ship customization you didn't talk about Base building. I can't wait to see what star field looks like after six years of updates 😂

Honestly it's not even a comparison. There's nothing to do In no man's sky but walk around and scan plants and animals. A single 5 minute side quest in Starfield is more in depth than the entire storyline in no man's sky.

I feel like No Mans Sky has a better sense of Identity, it makes no apologies about its seeming unrealistic style, the Explore first scrounge, though planets survive and upgrade your ship base and freighter its a more survival explorer focussed space Minecraft.

I’m saying nms only because it’s the one I can actually play at the moment. Not buying an Xbox or pc just for one game

Lets just remember NMS at release.... This is comparing apples and oranges in my opinion.

Norman's Sky

I've got only 7,000 hour's invested in NMS and some 200 in StarField. So I've got a long way to go before stateing my selection.

PatricianTV did a whole analysis of Starfield and revealed that the dev team really didn’t have a plan. No design doc. A lot of issues make more sense in that light: the various development teams couldn’t coordinate around a single design. They literally had no way of making solid decisions. The game’s lack of cohesion makes a ton of sense when you know that.

NMS also has a modding community which has done thingsike change planet customization

So funny within the first minute of this video I realized that this said the complete opposite of everyone else. From everything I’ve seen and heard, NMS reigns supreme in this genre, with vast exploration, ship control, and I love playing it in VR.

I could play NMS for hours and not get bored just hunting for ships and companions alone, but I currently only have 6 hours on star field I bought it 3 months ago 😭

Like a space game, No Man's Sky is defenetly better. You can explore an infinite bunch of planets in hundreds of galaxies. There's also a big lore in this game. But starfield... Starfield like a RPG game is not very good. In space game Starfield is just nothing, in RPG its kinda weak. And yeah, Starfield is a weak game in all of the genres.

Starfield also have used procedural-generation

no man's sky is space Minecraft and starfield is like space Skyrim/fallout.

No mans sky right now is the best VR game ever existed. I think is a matter of time to be the best game ever. The just need to make a better graphic (more realistic) add more interesting quests and story line.

He says “completed twice” about starfield as if he 100% completed the first 2 universes including 100% scanning every single planet and system in the entire galaxy as well as every single side quest, secret quests, and powers before going in to the next universe 💀💀💀💀

No man’s sky got my vote

Ugh. Yes, they are both space games. But i believe they are so widly different from each other, that it is not fair to compare them. It isnt a case of which is better, just which one you prefer to play at the moment. They are both great games in thier own ways.

Norman's guy? Who is Norman's guy? Haha just kidding, love the accent & great video.

Performance issue, this game is having trouble at 4080.

What does it matter? Play what you want to play.

"No Man Sky" really made a comeback and saved their character and trust with their patrons.

No man's sky traveling actually feels like traveling..starfeild is just picking a menu item not satisfying at all I've been waiting for this game for a long time it blows!!! No man's sky is a way more complete game !!

For a game 25 years in the making from idea to release, they really should be ashamed of themselves for bringing out a cut and paste, pile of garbage like Starfield is at the moment, will this improve over time I hope so, but considering Ultimate Edition here in Australia has $170 asking price (non-sale or discount) is F'n disgusting especially how much they hyped it up and delivered a pile of POO, NMS is what half that price and has far more exploration to offer than Starfield ever will. While NMS might lack the in depth narrative Starfield offers; it far outshines on every other aspect, I love finding different ships that no one else has found, naming weird creatures, planets, systems and fauna to whatever I want makes you feel a part of the narrative, is it repetitive? sure, but that's its charm and with every 18 Quintillion planets to fully explore some having the most unique finds that barely anyone else would even come across in their 'lifetime' makes it more entertaining to go back too. I'm yet to complete Starfield so seeing people already have 100% it; seriously Skyrim at launch had far more to offer than Starfield and that's sad considering the time, effort and teams working on Starfield. NMS goes from strength to strength with every 'free' update but NMS isn't an RPG set in space, whereas Starfield is so they both do have unique features to offer but currently I have way more fun in NMS than I am in Starfield. So, considering the 125G Starfield install to the 14Gig NMS install yeah, I was expecting a hell of a lot more from Starfield than they claimed to offer and undelivered

Of all the praise I have for NMS, one of the things I absolutely wish more than anything that they do update is the procedurally generated worlds. It would be awesome if they programmed into the engine algorithms for creating worlds that more conform to geography and physics, creating more unique worlds. I want to explore beautiful planets that have rivers, lakes, mountains, forests, waterfalls and so much more. But you notice most of the best screenshots for NMS is in space because the worlds are themselves pretty boring.

Good video, but you don’t explain why the sky is Norman’s

so startfield is more linear like the outerworlds and no man's sky is more minecraft like? huh?

Starfield is an RPG set in space, No Man's Sky is Space Sim Lite. They're both great space games.

Allow me to summarize this video: Intro: "Today, we're comparing apples to oranges, let's see what results we can get!" Conclusion: "We have found that apples aren't really all that similar to oranges. It's up to personal preferences. Which do you prefer? Like and Subscribe"

It’s NO-MANS SKY not NORMANS SKY

Get a VR headstet, run NMS and you will know immediately :)

I love starfield, but I also hate it after 140hrs. I think I had more fun in NMS, I just wish NMS had the ship building, but at least it has capital ship base building. NMS is a space game, Starfield is not a space game, its fallout in space, and after so many hours I feel like starfield is a bit shallow. I can see myself playing it in the future with tons of mods to convert it into a real space game. There's already a mod that let's you actually travel throughout an entire system. Also starfield seems very repetitive, I've done maybe the same scenarios in space like 100x... All I want is starcitizen PU to be fully fleshed out and completed, and not a massive ponzi scheme, but the best space game I think in 2023 is X4 foundations.

I've been playing NMS for over a year now and it's been great, and I will probably get Starfield on sale. I think they're both great games, just depends what you are looking for. If it's story, go for starfield. If it's exploration/building/surviving in space, go for Nms. It's basically Minecraft in space

I have played both games extensively and agree with your perspective on both, but would like to add that NMS for me wins hands down because of the multiplayer options, and having just restarted the game in VR with the latest (free) updates, there is no competition. I love the realistic graphics in Starfield, and to a small extent the combat, but the overall experience of No Man's Sky makes me go back again and again, but Starfield has now been uninstalled..

I just flew out of the Anomaly to start a mission .I hit the warp and came out into the Trump-Carlson system. For me that was great but if that's not your thing at least it's funny af .

NMS is exploration/survival game, and that's what should be expected from space exploration, even in its caricatural, stylized form and backstory for it. Starfield is RPG, with soundstage locations imitating sci-fi space exploration. Bugs with trees leaving planet toghether with ship were final immersion breaking clues.

It's not that i don't like the NMS graphics or engine. But if NMS also has Starfield's graphics and ship building, this would have been a no debate and a clear win for NMS. I don't know about you guys but the freedom in NMS compare to Starfield already has a huge gap

I tried getting back into NMS last week but it still seems pointless. It's like playing farming simulator where you farm to get more and better equipment just to do more farming, repeat. Except with NMS, I am gathering\mining to get better ships and gear so I can do more gathering\mining.

I might not be able to build a starship like in Starfield but I can hunt an endless selection of various types of ships and upgrade them from basic ground speeds to neck breaking multi G hypersonic velocities. More importantly, I can fly those ships anywhere. That to me is an important feature in a space game. Otherwise it is just a soap opera in space with "spaceship" loading visuals. No thanks. I am a HUGE Elder Scrolls and Fallout fan and I felt super let down when I couldn't fly a freaking space ship in a space game. Like, WTF over.

"Starfield is just a copy paste of elder scrolls with a no man's sky skin." - old bethesda fan

Nms for space exploration also for living ships Starfeild for on the powers and unique planets

Beware there’s a lot of unstable people telling stories in the chat. Don’t believe everything you see/read 👀. Just play the games and enjoy them both.

They are both in my opinion great in their own right. NMS offers exploration, a sandbox, and is a great space sim with some story added on. But once the story has done its not really fun repeating. I say this after completing the main story line on three save this year. Starfield offers the ability to role play and interact with characters and a fleshed story line (So far for me). However in comparison to NMS there is planet exploration, system exportation, and space combat on a smaller scale. I am and will continue to play both for their difference and in my mind they are so different they are not really in the same realms other than space games.

I've watched several content creators stream Starfield and, to me, it's not much like No Man's Sky at all, which I have played nearly 2000 of so far and it is the game I always find myself going back to after trying out other games. I think it all depends on what a person likes. Like 1st person shooter games with a lot of dialog in a more "realistic" setting of humans in space, go for Starfield. Like a more sandbox survival game with space ships, freighters you can build up like a base, ground vehicles, pets to adopt (even flying ones if you have a PC mod or get an egg from another player), tons of planets to explore, seamless flight from space to planets, a little storyline, missions, multiplayer across multi-platform (yes, it does have it's issues but it is getting better), tons of things to do if you are self driven, then go for No Man's Sky. If you like to experience both, then do both. I think they are completely different types of games just with a similar space theme though No Man's Sky never was intended to be a realistic looking game and there are humanoid creatures but nothing you can actually say for certain is human. It just all depends on what type ofgame a person likes to play as to which they will think is better. As far as affordability, you did touch on one thing that is holding a lot of players back and, even if I did like RPG/First Person Shooter type of games, I still wouldn't play it because it would tax my GPU, as it is just barely on the minimum specs (the rest of the hardware is fine but this game is very GPU heavy).

Price alone is not a point of recommendation for a game any more than for a whiskey choice, some might buy BECAUSE the price is higher! Others might not find the higher price a real draw. Personally, what I've seen and heard about the games weaknesses tells me to at least wait till the price, newness and bugs have come down quite a bit....

So we could get No Mans Starfield which should be ideal game😂

Two good space games just play and enjoy variety is the spice of life 🎉

They r 2 completly different types of games dont know why they keep getting compared. The similarities start and end with that they are both space theme.

Starfield bored the shit out of me which is weird because NMS is also tedious yet I am compelled to keep playing.

And there is Elite Dangerous what does everything but nobody plays...

Do I remember ANY location from NMS ? No. Races/Factions ? No. Starfield on the other hand. It's not on Mass Effect level but it's there with some good stories. Ppl need to just learn to have more than 2 braincells. NMS -> Survival (somewhat multiplayer) game. Starfield -> Solo RPG.

NMS I actually feel like I'm in a space fantasy. Starfirld is grey, bland and feels like a unfinished demo. I'll wait for mods

If only NMS wasn't like a cartoon...