alt Hacker News10 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.
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Consider that it has a "Very Positive" review rating in Steam now.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/275850/No_Mans_Sky/
Its last major new content was released on May 27th of this year.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/275850/view/69538767...
A video from a gaming news channel on it... No Man's Sky Treated Players Right, Now It's Unstoppable https://youtu.be/jxxRXe1hRjQ
And the steam stats for it - https://steamdb.info/app/275850/charts/#6m
As I write this, there are 10,467 people playing it now. (The stats from 2017 where in the 1000 - 2000 players playing it).
Comparing it to Factorio (which is a great game) it has 19,103 players playing it now.
As a person on the far side of my 40s, No Man's Sky occasionally gets dusted off for some play.
The real killer is the inability to commit the time needed to actually get into something. Games that I used to bang through in 2-3 days now take 2-3 months, if I finish at all. It's all just a bunch of random pockets of 1-2 hours here and there, and you can't even really get into it because as soon as you do, it's time to stop and might be days before you come back.
It's probably more personal circumstances than age, and your priorities definitely shift as you get older. I'm not in my 40s yet (mid-30s) and my decisions around games I want to play has changed.
I get to play games maybe a few hours per week (mostly in the weekend), so the idea of starting a new Assassin's Creed and spending 80 hours (many months) on a singleplayer game is pretty unappealing. (TBH, I was never super into SP games, but the appeal now dropped to 0).
At the same time, I've been having a blast with "The Finals" since launch and it's pretty much the only game I play. Easy to pick up and play 1-2 rounds :)
No Man's Sky is great, but it does feel a bit too relaxed for the kind of experience I'm typically looking for in a game these days.
What kind of games did you play before and how do you enjoy spending your time now?
Not true. I just bought No Man's Sky on a Steam sale a few months ago and have been having a blast with it - only very occasionally neglecting my adult duties because of it.
Agreed. Except for Cracktorio, I mean Factorio
>I guess I will never try it, once you hit your 40s, games lose their appeal anyway.
you say this as if it is a law of nature, but into my 60s, i still quite enjoy relaxing with a good game. no mans sky is one of them!