Why I Needed No Man's Sky 

the funny thing is that it is quite difficult to get tired of this game because when you start to get tired of the game, HG releases a free update that makes you keep playing

This video was really quality and made me consider checking this out again 4 years later.

One of the best gaming comeback stories

Games like nms and Minecraft makes you feel relaxed and calm cause there is no sense of urgency of completing the story or the need to it. It's just your desire to endlessly explore the universe. Can't recommend this game enough

I found the coolest base location, I can't even describe it.. On an icy world with a HUGE cave system, hundreds of metres tall, god rays of light flowing from the ceiling, trees growing peacefully contrasted with the snowstorms outside. The cave entrance is actually halfway up a mountain, so I built a landing platform going out the side of the mountain, overlooking some red lakes at the bottom, with my base buildings hanging around the 'roof' of the cave. I love this game.. I build a tiny base everywhere I find that's beautiful, so I can come back later.

I actually got this recommended nice

Another update has even been announced for next week. No Man's Sky Origins

Man, now Origins is out and it's EVEN better!

This game has changed my outlook on life I swear, I'm already a science nut but every night I look out my window and spend at least half an hour thinking about everything that could be out there thanks to this game, it peaks my creativity and curiosity and I will be forever grateful for the endless hours I've spent in it. Not only that but it's also heightened my standards for games in terms of what to expect from a dev, I won't be standing for games like gta or anything ea shells out being full of transactions and dlc designed just to grab your money with no quality control

best thing about NMS is the random animals. I had some weird angry school of fish ... BUT THEY WERE LAND FISH

It's good enough that I just ordered parts to build a new gaming computer yesterday so I could crank up the graphics. I'm a tight a**. I don't just spend money for no reason. This game was worth it. It is a game you can get lost in. Exploration, pirating, trading, mining, farming, base building, missions, and even a little bit of ranching. Like commanding a massive fleet of ships you can send out on missions? Got that. Like having a massive ship that you can build a base on that you can have follow you around from system to system? Got that too! Love that show Stargate and were pissed it was never made into a game? We got stargates! Seriously. Love driving vehicles, submarines, or even a walker suit? Here you go. You can even play with friends. 18 quintillion planets. Planets with weather. Rain storms, fire storms, lightning storms, ice storms, wind. And ya, the lightning hurts. You know those giant worms on Dune? Got those too, and they fly here. What more do you need?

This game has been restoring my faith in gaming and ive only had it for less than a week. It feels like im playing a game as a kid again.

8:06 Dark Souls is absolutely a game that makes you feel though, the dread of walking up to a fog gate, the joy of beating a boss, the excitement of stumbling upon a new area, the relief of finding a bonfire, God I love that game!

Ended up here from Recommended. When you said you hadn't uploaded in 8 (*10) months, I went to check upload date...then I saw channel name...then the sub count...then the Unclicked sub button...then I felt sad. You totally fit in with most of my favorite YT channels; Voice isn't annoying. Quality of video and sound is solid. Humor is humorous. Editing is good. Overall narrative (meaning the delivery style/method and the actual end result of that) is on-point... You deserve more subs, my dude. And here's +1.

And just 5 days later the best update to date dropped and made the game twice as good. Damn.

With Origins release, this is probably the best time to start playing nms possible

Literally no other game can make you feel like the universe in front of you is infinite. I wish I could travel space in real life all the time, always said I was born 500 years too early. This game captures that for me. Love the video my dude, just subbed 👉😎👉

I've been wanting to play this game for a long time, but only until this year I could buy a computer that could run it. And I'm so glad I did: I'm 300+ hours into No Man's Sky and enjoying every bit of it. The Artemis storyline is great and there are many things to do. But what I find myself doing the most is simply jumping into a planet in which no Traveller has been before, taking pictures and relaxing. How weird is that you play a game to do sightseeing and just chilling. My biggest worry was that, due to its procedural nature, the planets had started to look pretty similar. But the Origins update has fixed that in a wonderful way and I feel as if the game has started again for the first time. Your review was insightful, funny and overall excellent. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

The biggest thing about this game is that even the most seeming repetitive tasks are inherently different. Do I send groups of my fleet on missions from my freighter? Yes but reading what is done on each mission is different. And my yields are different every time.

Unpopular opinion: No Man's Sky was pretty good from day 1, and very few people parroting that "No Man's Sky was horrible but now it is finally good" ever played it until recently. It's certainly a *different* game now, and probably a *better* game now, but back then it was just a game about exploration. There was no base building and no vehicles--you had no reason to stay on a planet. You were constantly on the move, just stopping long enough to refuel your ship, take in the sights, scan a few things for money, launch and then move on. It was not a bad game. It was passionately loved by those who loved it. Everything was special and interesting, from the oceans to the mountains to the caves, from the cold nights to the firestorms to the acid rainstorms. It was beautiful and unique, yet you couldn't stay--somehow you knew you didn't belong and needed to keep moving. Yet, you couldn't rush too quickly, because there was no ending; your journey just repeated in a different galaxy. The point was the *journey*, not the destination. The universe felt like it was created for you to enjoy, but it was so much bigger than you could ever hope to completely explore over your entire life. You would enjoy and appreciate the small part you had access to. Explore caves. Trek through snowfields. Park your ship on a canyon and watch the sunset while relaxing to the sound of rain hitting the canopy. Those are my most precious memories of this game, and they were all there in 2016. Check out Noah Caldwell-Gervais's video about No Man's Sky for a different perspective right around the original launch.

Bought this game little over a week ago and consistently, I have been going to bed at approximately 230 to 3 AM every night. Each time I tell myself I’m only going to play an hour and then proceed to tell myself after that hour just one more system just one more system just one more system.

Love the video man, subbed! I played No Mans Sky at launch and dipped. About a year ago I returned and was astonished at what was added. I spent about a week just messing around with the creative mode and finding all the craziest stuff I could, and it was really refreshing from the “numb” games I had been playing. Finding things like crashed freighters and redacted planets was so cool, and it got me on a bit of a sci fi phase for a while.

And there's even a new, large update coming out sometime in the next few days. Like, the work and dedication Sean and the team have put in to essentially apologize for the initial release, is ridiculous, and they're still going. They even said this new update is "just the start" of something bigger. Meaning there's even MORE already planned.

Are you playing on the new update that just came out yesterday? “The joy of discovery” has increased tenfold

I've been keeping watch of No Man's Sky for a while and you just convinced me and my roommate to buy it. Cheers mate!

I played this game from day-1 and i love it to death. both on ps4 and pc it's such an unique experience and gets better and better every time

Maybe hot take: NMS is one of those games you really enjoy for the first 20 hours, then you either get bored by the repetitive content and lack of significant depth in the game's mechanics, or you end up completely sucked into the game and spend another 100 hours on one planet just feeding wildlife from your weird little space farm.

As silly as it is to say, this game has kinda brought me out of a dark spot in my life. No Mans Sky has become my home away from home.

Dude, great vid! you're so on point with this. I felt THE SAME with Destiny 2's extended season, the grinding! I was so burned out. Then the Origins patch hit and I was hooked. I'm making a point to do the OPPOSITE OF GRINDING with NMS. I don't collect units, nanites, I dont have a stablished base, or farm. I have a maxed out explorer and a freighter and all I do is visit planet and scan everything. I visited 240 system so far accross 4 galaxies. My goal is to reach the last center, but eventually.

Benny Boy you just made me get back into this game! Subscribed.

Actual loved the video. I've been working on NMS for a few months now and just got an video card upgrade. It is fabulous and so stress relieving that I also lose time and forget to eat. And I'm sixty six years old. It's great to see someone else enjoying it for the same reasons. Have a great day.

The beauty of No Man's Sky is that you can play it any style you want to and create your own story and adventure. Each day I play I try and do something different: Base build, discover new planets, farm resources, upgrade my ships, look for relics, etc... It's very absorbing and relaxing after a work day just to transport into this alternate universe - especially in VR!

Started playing No Man's Sky, my first time playing was in Virtual Reality and I will probably keep it that way, Actually running around, from actually controlling the ship is so much fun and the planets are so beautiful I can't stop playing!

This video spoke to me man. Lately I’ve been playing all of those games I skipped over because I had another daily to do or another trickle content quest to do on one of my live service games and I haven’t been happier with gaming like this since I was a kid!

This video was exactly what I was searching for! I got super hyped since the first release of the game, but I got a bit disappointed... and I suddenly forgot it until I saw this new big update (I thought it was a new game, instead of an update). I don’t need to know what items have been added, it doesn’t matter, but in this video you talked about exactly the perspective of someone that got a bit disappointed and now is curious about this update. That’s exactly what I needed!

i like your commentary, it makes you feel something haha seriously, this is one of the most honest and most awesome video ive seen. So thank you!

4:55 you earned a sub for that bit right there

Great video man, really well put together. Keep up the good work dude

The Orgins update was amazing to add. The only thing I really want now is a combat update. I want to be able to dodge/roll out the way. Defeat new enemies such as hostile Vykeen that will hit you with a powerful punch if they get too close. Be able to use flares when an enemy fleet or ship uses a potent lock on missile. ECT. This game is immensely enjoyable but the combat is the only thing it's lacking to keep me on when I grow tired of building and collecting items

Already been playing NMS since August and I got this great video recommended to me anyway, good stuff!

This game has truly been a one of a kind journey, the latest update is making me have the most fun i've had yet, and I can't wait to see where it goes from here.

WAIT? THE NUMBERS ON THE RIGHT OF YOUR SAVE MEAN HOURS? I thought I had played about two hours overall or so since I got it. But uh... apparently not. That makes sense.

8:23 - Extremely well put! This is not a game I have had an easy time trying to explain to someone else. After the main story missions are done, possibly earlier in the game too, you've asked yourself "what's the point?". Even semi-early stages in the game can leave you without any direction, and for the most part it's down to you. Aside from all that there are a couple areas to geek out on ingame like cooking, refining, base building, exploring & documenting fauna/flora. Missions inside space stations & the Nexus is another. But seeing how many various community driven projects there are, various sub reddits (NMS cords exchange for MTs, starships, fauna etc. among others), Galactic Hub Project (I think) ended up in the game. Another is the Galactic Atlas site for Euclid which can be used in real time...

Just like no man's sky made you try new games your videos made me interested in watching other gaming related stuff, thanks dude.

People stay subbed not for the videos but for respect. People have respect for you as big or little as it may be. Respect is somthing worth more than gold

Wow !! This video was really well edited ❤️❤️. Nice content 👌

Yoooooo, I've missed your vids so much! Was kinda scarred you've dropped yt or something happened. Games that I can recommend on scale from discover to feel: - Subnautica - Breath of the wild - Hollow Knight - Nier: Automata All of them great positions that you should definitely check out at some point and again, so glad to have u back!

I haven't touched the game since it was released, maybe I should ...

This channel is severely underrated plz post more dude :(

You gain my sub bro you changed way of thinking on a game with this video now im hoping back in to enjoy the world of no man sky

you summed up exactly how I feel about the game keep doing you bro.

I stopped playing games around 2010 -2012 just because life but i got back in games around 2018 and i been knew about no mans my best friend had it and i saw it and i was like o.0 i must play! but it was so hard :( but it made me want to play and the story was wild like i know little kids are not playing this game. I put in over 400 hours over the years and im doing great in the game now its been worth it!

FOR REAL!!! No Mans Sky somehow fills me with a loving warm feeling every time i come back to it. it has somehow served as a really nurturing experience every time i have played it. its mysterious, and intangible, but yeah dude, i feel it too.

The return of the King

This was an amazing video. I have a couple recommendations for games. God of War, Hell Blade, Ps4 Spider-Man and I just recently started playing Genshin Impact and I highly recommend that aswell. Each of these games evoked that sense of "feel" gaming just in a different way. Genshin just being the latest. The whole video I was thinking that if I made a video like this it would be about Genshin Impact. I have been playing the same mindless games and it was getting to the point I didn't want to play. Genshin came out and it was like a breath of fresh air into my gaming life.

Hey i just wanted to say that i just found your channel and was absolutely amazed at how produced and hq your videos are in relation to your sub count, but i see that youre kinda blowing up and also that you seem to be getting a lot of ads so thats also great. Keep up the good work, i subbed with notifications on so waiting for the next video (also that loaf of bread is adorable)

That moment you discover just horrifying planets and get like a sinking feeling never gets old, the same when finding beautiful mind blowing planets, true discovery at its core.

Feel this. I lost this feeling at some point and was able to hold on a bit longer to it by listening to music with it. Also you should check out Starbound if you want recommendations. I booted that back up yesterday and felt the feels again, it was awesome

BENIS BREAD RETURNS damn this is a good video tho

I started loving the game in August of 2016, watched it live streamed over 1000 hours and then bought a ps4 pro and began playing with Foundation. I'm over 1000 hours played and mostly bored the last few dozen updates. I'm glad people loved them but I loved exploration and not grinding collectibles. This update (another free one) has put that feeling of wonder as you explore again. Finally, HG has "remembered the face of their fathers". (And I'm part of the Gek Nip Gang..a few hundred nms lovers that came together 4 years ago and now play all kinds of games).

Been a player since 2016. Never gave up on them and its nice to see some appreciation for their efforts.

great video bro, I feel the exact same haha. it's been like 4,5 days and I have so many hours already. I'm spending every waking moment either playing it or just looking up gameplay tutorial and other tips and tricks video. I really enjoy the excitement it brings me whenever I stumble into something new. it's like relearning everything all over again as a child. anyways just wanted to say good video and you've earnt yourself a sub friend :D

One of things I think the game succeeded at that no other game has is they made everyone an explorer with infanite places to explore. It's literally a brand new feeling. Lewis and Clark could only explore and discover so many things. And once they discovered it, everyone else is just a tourist. This game lets everyone be a Lewis and Clark. My only hope is that they put more in regarding the different races, find planets that have cities and are populated. Maybe not always by advanced races either but tribes or something. If you have not yet, I do suggest trying it out in VR.

There are a lot of things I love about NMS. The third person gameplay, the base building, the AMAZING visuals and atmospheric worlds, the detailed cockpits that are specific to each ship...but there are also a lot of things I hate. The look-alike ho-hum station interiors, the inability to choose ships from a single "store"-like location to purchase or customize them to your liking, the ABYSMAL galaxy map functionality, the ENDLESS grind (I mean do we really need two completely different types of fuel for each of our ships that get drained like we're flying space Cadillacs? Not to mention jet pack fuel, weapon energy, O2, life support etc in a universe where you should logically be able to buy everything you need from the gargantuan space stations that are in every solar system) and the inability to find specific locations without having to fumble your way through learning how to use the rip-off Stargates. Every place NMS fails for me, Elite: Dangerous, it's much more serious older brother, excels and vice versa. I bounce between the two a lot and, while I love them both in their own ways, I find myself wishing that there was a way I could mesh the two together into a single perfect space game. (Yes, I know that Star Citizen is technically the thing that I'm talking about but I'm a platform gamer, not a PC gamer, and I'd like to have a game that's not perpetually in Alpha/Bata that's constantly eating up thousands of my dollars with no true release date on the horizon.) Whenever I feel like launching from my personal carrier group, flying around all willy-nilly to take out some bogies and breaking atmo on a new planet through the clouds, I pop in NMS. And when I want to do some hard core RP with no story holding my hand (other than what we're given via Galnet) in a 1:1 Milky Way and do some grunt work for the Alliance, it's E:D all day. But what I wouldn't give for a console based space game that gives me everything I want in one package... By-the-way, if you haven't given Elite: Dangerous a try...you should. Once you get past the learning curve (or, more appropriately, learning cliff), it becomes something wholly unique in the console space even if you sort of have to "make your own fun" with it. Who knows? Maybe one day when gamers are finally tired of SC's cash sucking and force its developers to drop the product, maybe we'll get a console version of it on the PS8 and the XBox Infinite or whatever we're playing on when that happens two decades from now.

ive been so stressed out lately and i got back into this game recently too because it wasnt just another kill fest. its so relaxing

I'll be getting this game soon, always wanted to, but now I will!

I couldn't agree more with your sentiment, I fact the game was playable from day 1 like that but I think all of us appreciate the effort that Sean Murray and the team have put into this, a fantastic example of how a developer can turn it around, I wish there were more gaming companies like this

The ground gremlins made me chuckel, hope to discover similar creatures. Also hope there is some content with the hinted "glass" that was back in the game as flavor text lore in abandoned outpost logs. 7:13 how you know his landlord coming to steal his family pies is true and not a joke?

Dude, I never ever comment on videos, but amazing bloody work! Earned a sub!

Man i found myself in the same situation. LITERALLY the same. I downloaded the game last week and already have 20 hours of gameplay time. And there is still stuff to do in the game. You are so right about the fact that some games make you feel really numb regardless of how good they are and i feel that especially recently.

I would love to see you make a video of some co-op play. Great video BTW

i feel ya on so much on what you said in this video! great game and the updates keep you coming back

It made one helluva comeback though. I literally don't recognize it from when I first played it in 2016.

Just got it and I've only been playing it in vr. I'm really enjoying it.

Suscribed. Quality content over here. Keep it going, please!

I just got this game last week before the sale I’m disappointed that I wasted a lot more money for an awesome game.

Ditto on the reinvigoration of my love for games. I had fallen by the wayside with just plain....boredom. I found myself dumping hours into this game and enjoying every bit.

Subbed! Pls cover more games like this, really enjoyed it

I gotta say, the vastness provided the escape I needed. Quarantine was irrelevant when you could take to the stars.

Damn it's really been that long

Exactly how I felt about.. few years ago. I went back to playing single player games and I remembered what games used to be like. It took me back to my days with the GameCube and PlayStation 2. I see my bro and some of my friends stuck in today's game structure: you have to play this game so that you can get the [in-game currency] and if you don't you feel bad if you don't get your "dailies". So then what's the point of playing if it becomes a chore. I picked this up and am playing it only on PCVR. Graphics look even worse, but, oh boy, the experience is breathtaking.

7:30 I totally agree , since one of my favorite things about Warframe is remembering to just enjoy the feel of the gunplay as you headshot grineer, blast angry corpus into space, or suck squealing infestation chargers into a vortex. For me, it's the little things, and the SUPER detailed environments in some places. For a game that has such fundamentally pleasing basics, it then is purposefully designed to numb the player's brain with the distractions of "what goal am I grinding for." Some of the "numbing" games must be enjoyed with a strong will to experience their other joys. And hey, I love the challenge of grind sometimes, that dopamine high of pumping resources out of a defense mission, but grind MUSN'T replace our original reasons for gaming.

I've always wanted a career in space and this game reignited that passion and now I'm pursuing a career in astrobiology. Thank you hello games 👾👾

Really confused how you don’t have 100s of thousands of subs. I don’t say that often but the quality of this video is awesome. Keep up the good work and I reckon you could easily make a living off this

I reinstalled the game since the new update, but hadn't gotten around to diving back in again. thanks for convincing me to take the plunge!

All of your descriptions of this game (the feelings) are exactly how I feel on this and Death Stranding. These two are my favorite games of this year, and neither came out this year 😂

Really enjoyed the video so I'm subscribing to see what you make in the future. Hope you're able to make like Kronk and see it all come together.

I'm a little late to your video but I share your sentiment. I've been through many video games while hiding from covid. Even sandbox ones like Snowrunner. But after a while, every single game is a grind. But NMS is special indeed simply because it allows me to goof around, horse around & just go off somewhere with no objectives to fulfill.

I needed this video as a reminder to stop playing games that don't engage me as much. Play games not to be numb, but to enjoy. Thank you. Also, I'm so happy for you, you're at 7k subs and I know for a fact that, that is going to increase substantially soon. So that will be a fun thing you have to look forward to :) Edit: what microphone are you using?

I bought it in March, a friend and I started together. He didnt care for it, so I never played much more. I started a couple weeks ago and I am addicted, Ive even convinced my friend to give it another try.

One thing I've always been obsessed with in this game is discovering/scanning everything...especially animals! You'll always find something new you've never seen, with this update its waaay better with the diversity, bringing in the anomaly and other new aliens are amazing but yeah the story and quest and everything else is so meek, I only play so I can collect everything (mainly s-class exotic ships, they have so many different variables which makes the 6 ship gap really fucking frustrating... Wish they gave a garage or inventory so you could own all the ships or guns.. Seriously imagine just being able to pick from your garage inventory to warp ANY ship inside your freighter BUT you can only have 1-3 on the freighter at a time, so you can still bring ships in and trade with them.. That'd be 10x better

Hit the nail on the head about fps feeling like a chore booting up just for the same rewards. I have been playing all those games you mention and stumbled across a game called satisfactory which is why this video may be in my recommended. Satisfactory is my go to game now but may try this one out to. Thumbs up from me.

I just picked up the game before the Origins update came out. This game made me feel what Skyrim did almost 9 years ago. Telling my friends over xbox live all the cool shit I found while exploring caves and all the cool shit they found while doing quests. I don't really look at games the way i used to anynore. Im not all about which one's better developed or better liked by the critics/players or which one has a competitive community. I like games that relax me and this one feels like therapy when I start it up after dealing all day with angry or annoying customers.

I clock 220 hours and I don't really call nms making me feel, cause some games evoke strong emotions on me. But to think of it, nms did make me feel, it is just more subtle. Even after 220 hours, there still sense of wonder and some sort of meditative quality to just sink into the atmosphere. Then there are the hours of tediously trying to get the perfect planet for settling in or finding S rank stuffs, lol!

I have over 1000 hours in the game and I'm still learning, still choosing my path according what I want to do. It's brilliant!

I just got into it a few weeks ago and what you said about forgetting to eat really hit home. I've already got problems with remembering to eat and damn this game did not help lol

Yeah, I have been finding myself wanting to play more games like this lately. Before I decided to pick-up No Man's Sky on game pass, I had pretty much given up on MMOs and switched gears into playing more single player games. Ironically, I found myself gravitating towards Minecraft more and more because I can get the experience I wanted out of it instead of waiting for the game to give me the stuff I wanted and never getting it.

Great job on the video! Just subscribed!

Very rarely has a videogame made my jaw drop. But when I loaded my game up in the new Origins update, and saw the shear and utter beauty of the planet I was on thanks to the update, I almost cried. It easily dropped my jaw, it was like seeing Avatar (2012) for the first time all over again for me.

that burnout of grinding needed to get an upgrade is why i "fling trainers" - they often have feature of 16x xp gain - i have no time to grind working and having a child etc. but that x16 xp gain is what allowed me to enjoy a lot more of assassins creed grindfest that were 2 recent games