>>721326794
no.

Play it if you like lego block base building

>>721326794
Honestly couldn't stomach more than 5 hours of this game that I ended up spending most of my weekend playing Astroneer instead. I consider NMS to be a cool technical showcase of what video games can do and their commitment to fix the game is awesome but I just can't get myself engaged with it.

Is cool but not for me. Pirate it or if you have Xbox gamepass try that before buying.

>>721326794
yeah it's fun for a while.
worst thing about it is that all the exploring is more or less for the sake of itself, all these critters and rocks you scan basically are setpieces in a boring version of pokemon snap.
The "economy" is basically
>farm plants
>harvest metals and gases
>build the two retardedly expensive things with it, sell, repeat
if you imagined anything like larping as a space trader, kiss that idea goodbye.
Also it's grindy as shit, you need ages to upgrade your freighter to max.
overall it's neat but everything is shallow as fuck and there is no problems to solve in the game.

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>>721326794
The many systems they've implemented over the years all feel as shallow as a puddle and you'll be aiming at and shooting rocks a lot. Some of the exotic planet biomes are really cool to find and explore, however.

>>721326794
the space flight part is empty, its just a basic combat sim that gets boring very quickly. and there is nothing interesting to visit bizarrely, just planets.

Even after all the update there is no real story, worldbuilding or characters so its hard to immerse yourself in the universe.The sidequest are really bland and boring.

I started playing again recently. It's not great but I've had moments where I just started playing then it's 5 hours later. It's fun enough. It's collecting a bunch of crap that I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with while modding my Corvette. Finished the expedition it was fun. I dunno if I'll still be playing a few weeks from now but I had fun. If I drop it then pick it up a few years later whatever

>>721326794
Is this game worth a play if I don't like exploration?
I love space, love Skyrim, but didn't love Starfield like I hoped I would.

>>721326794
>exploration in NMS
It's either scan and hold W to nearest collectible, or use ship's pulse drive as a glorified fast travel to quest marker because walking there would take 12 hours. There's no real exploring of things to be found and surprised by.

Literally every planet is the same with the same locations to explore. Every space battle is the same. You need the same materials. Every spaceship is the same. You only play this game for comfort of playing the game you know how to play instead of bothering to learn a new system.

I loved the 20 hours I put into it earlier this month. I didn't do any building other than the tutorial either. Total nomadic lifestyle. Didn't use the big battleship. Proper inventory management without storage, and just drifted through space, occasionally encountering something cool, until I felt drawn to Atlas and finished His questline

>>721326794
The new shipbuilding is nice but the galaxy is boring as fuck, combat is piss easy and the story is ass. I prefer ED because for all its flaws, it has by far the nicest galaxy to explore and some neat lore tidbits scattered around

the biggest downside of the game is definitely its 'procedural generation'
which is ironic since thats kinda the entire point of the game

>>721326794
It's a fun game if you like pure sandbox games. It has pretty much nothing to do that you don't have to make yourself do, there's no storylike to follow or goal to work towards, so you really have to set your own goals or be content to just fuck around aimlessly. And the core gameplay is still as bland as it ever was. For me that's not a lot of fun so I got bored with the game very fast (even after all the updates that made the game "good"), but I can see why a different kind of player would enjoy it, since it is a huge game with tons of shit to do and find. It's kind of the Minecaft experience. If you like it you love it, but if you don't it's really unbearable.

>>721330294
Or you just play on creative which means you don't need to pick up every useless pos. Then you can enjoy what you are looking at. Yeah these small different looking rocks on different planets give the same amount of resources when mined but they look different. You can just go there and look at them. Which is kinda fun seeing stuff you haven't seen even if the function is identical.

>>721326794

The pace is shit, the story is essentially non-existent.

There are sparse things that seem interesting at first glance, abandoned stations, unique worlds, certain base mechanics, the Atlas, but in the end they're nothing much in their current iteration.

I say current because they keep throwing things in this game, that maybe someday they'll throw a game into it.

>>721326794
No, it's shit.
The only reason it isn't rated as negatively as it should be is because norrmalfags are mongoloids who think that adding free patches somehow redeems it, even if they don't make the game good.

>>721326794
It's a survival game pretending to be space game. If you love survival games you'll enjoy NMS, otherwise - who knows.