My Ten Years in No Man's Sky

Such a frustrating game. Feels so big but it’s so insanely shallow. Mechanics abound, but they just don’t interact.

Does anyone know what the roughly square-aspect monitor in the middle of his 3-monitor setup is? Looks interesting but I can't zoom in far enough to see a logo, and the Upgrading the Gaming PC[0] post. Thanks

[0] <https://nmsspot.com/2023/01/20/upgrading-the-gaming-pc/>

I actually really enjoyed the game on day 1!

Unfortunately, even with all the updates - they never fixed my main gripe - each planet is just lifeless, and it's basically the same few square kilometres copy and pasted over the whole planet (I'm about 120h played).

I wished they somehow made it more exciting to explore.

I was so pissed off by the lies around the launch of this game and subsequently being refused a refund that I never went back to it.

The scary thing about this article is how quickly ten years can pass—especially if you are in a video game world for many of those ten years.

Slashdotted: https://archive.ph/RnExB

I can't believe how little this article says about the game itself. It's basically the author taking a victory lap for being the game's #1 fan since launch. If I didn't already know what the game looked like, I would leave still not knowing.

Never played, but it seems to me that this shares the same problem with Holodecks, from Star Trek, which is why would anyone ever want to leave?

https://archive.ph/RnExB

10 years. I still have the game in my Steam library, waiting for me to try it.

I guess I will never try it, once you hit your 40s, games lose their appeal anyway.

One of the most interesting talks on the math behind procedural generation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9RyEiEzMiU

That presentation was foundational for me personally wrt quite a few things.

"The Galactic Hub" is the best. Very active community, ongoing ambitious projects (many completed), it's really so much fun. It's also easy to get in to it. They have a "taxi service" on discord where a user gets on the mic and coordinates with you to bring you to the hub worlds so you don't have to do it manually.

If you're remotely considering it, join up. I hop on every month or two and it's a treat.

Hug of death already I think