No Man’s Sky was released 7 years ago yesterday (August 9th) on PS4 in North America, today (August 10th) on PS4 in Europe, and August 12th on Steam.
How long have you been playing and how many hours have you played?
I started around Beyond (2.0) and have almost 3800 hours played.
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Started playing on Xbox when Next released, moved to the Switch version when that dropped. I probably have about 400 hours across both consoles.
I still get excited when a new update or expedition drops. Usually I’ll end up putting in another 10-20 hours with every update, playing through the new content and exploring a few more star systems on my main save.
It’s just nice to have a chill game to wonder around in, that’s not forcing me to keep logging in every day to grind out missions. Even in expeditions there’s usually loads of time to complete everything at a relaxed pace.
I remember back then all the coverage Total Biscuit made (God I miss the guy)
Could never get into it. There’s always the overarching question of ‘why am I doing this?’
Woulda been cool if they had actual enemies and cool combat and shit.
They’ve recently added far more difficult enemies. Combat could still use some work, but groups like the Galactic Hub (my civilization) host PVP competitions. Fighting another player is way harder than fighting a Sentinel.
Always considered trying it, but that terrible first impression they made killed it for me.
It’s alright now, in a sale. I got bored around 50 hours into the game tho.
Give it a go on sale. It’s one of the very few studios that went above and beyond to actually fix a PR fuck-up (and it was mainly that). Compare that to most studios with far more resources and reputation just throwing shit at the wall like Anthem and whatnot…
I preordered on Steam, and I actually enjoyed it even way back then. Never really got into the hype, so I guess I was never too disappointed with the launch. It’s still a game I go back to just to chill. I highly recommend playing in VR if you have a headset.
Same. All I wanted out of it was flying off planets to other planets. And that was in and fun enough for 40 hours after release on my end.
Haven’t played in a couple years after steam auto-updated the game and broke my mods and fucked up my saved game.
I bought the pre release just a some days before the Steam release and played since, even if sometime I had paused for some months.
And I bought it again on GoG, mainly because it not force you to be always updated to play, so every new release I let the steam players to be the beta tester 😁
I started playing right around launch. I return now and then and probably have a few hundred hours in total across platforms.
I wonder what I would have thought if I had been told 7 years ago what the state of the game would be in 2023
You probably would not have belived it
