I kind of feel you on this. I can build amazing things, find cool ships, kit out my freighter, and all that lovely stuff but theres no point to it. Theres no evil empire to fight, no galaxy to save, no dungeons to raid. Its a great sandbox, but not a lot of reason to be in it after a while.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's basically space Minecraft. Not all people like that kind of game.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

Significantly less fulfilling than Minecraft, as you have limitations on build area and terraforming simply resets after a number of days.

[–] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm glad they put the work in and I've gotten a lot of hours, but...certain things about the game seem broken by design. I just don't feel like buying a more expensive ship is letting me do things that I couldn't do without it. So personally I'm looking forward to their next game, and seeing what they do with all the lessons they've learned here. But I'm probably done with NMS.

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

What would be really cool would be if they made a companion game that took the work you do in NMS and ported that character into a combat game.