No Man's Sky: A COMPREHENSIVE PRIMER BY SAMPRIMARY.

[Reg]

I played Eve for years. I can't imagine Elite has a worse learning curve. Still, thanks for the warning. I'm not sure I'm ready to put that kind of energy into a new game right now. Maybe I'll pick it up at the Christmas Steam sale.

[schild]

NMS is a good game for what it is, just a lot of people think it's something else.

No. A lot of people were flat out told it was something else.

[Rendakor]

What schild said. No Mans Sky is False Advertising incarnate.

[Mandella]

Is Elite: Dangerous any good in solo mode? I have zero desire to play another MMOG right now.

The big warning however is that Elite Dangerous has a massive learning curve. At first you struggle to even fly your ship or land it. And you do a lot of googling and reading wikis.

That's true, but it should be noted that if you have any experience with flight sims and you own a joystick you shouldn't have any real trouble. It's easier than any WWII aviation sim I've ever picked up, for instance.

That said, I own it and haven't played in a while. It is a colossal time sink, and you don't really build anything in it either.

[Kitsune]

So, just as a curiosity, the initial article that caused the thread is inaccessible.

[schild]

yes, correct

we don't have a frontpage

[Yegolev]

NMS is much improved from before.  For one thing, I can transfer stuff from my current ship directly to a crashed ship.  You can also summon your ship to your location.  There is more gameplay; I restarted and there is at least more gameplay in the early parts.

As usual, I will say that I didn't read anything about this game before I bought it.

[Samprimary]

the best way i could describe the difference between NMS today and NMS at launch is that today's version is an actual game

[Yegolev]

You are being generous, but I agree in spirit.

[Samprimary]

well I mean I wouldn't say a particularly great game, but .. a game. like, with a release that wouldn't go down like the world's most oversold tech demo

[Xanthippe]

I just bought it on sale. I like it.

I have not read much about it, including the first article in this thread that is inaccessible.

[Yegolev]

This is the correct way to play this game.  It really is alright, but it isn't what was advertised.

[Mandella]

I have a friend that bought it when it was new, then put it aside (like everybody else did) when he experienced how much it sucked.

Lately he jumped in and gave it another try, and confirms that there is indeed a playable game there now, except that he has some sort of bug that suddenly and randomly catapults him out of a system at hyperlight speeds every once an a while. Apparently it can throw him so far as to be outside normal space and time.

So be advised.

[Yegolev]

I advise starting a new save.  Too much change in the program.