alt Hacker NewsI 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.
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Same. Played thru the original version. The overall vibe of the game was great and incredibly polished for a game half done, but yeah it was stretched very thin and started to lose feeling after a while.
That said,idk if I would like the fame at all now. Base building seems antithetical to the original nomad-like setting. And there's only loss to have adding identity to the protagonist after having played it as "yourself"
I think that's the limit of procedural generation. What you're asking for probably requires gen-AI or similar.
Have you played somewhat recently? They've had a few expeditions that addressed variety in planets.
And apparently this is one of the main criticisms of Starfield. The Bethesda designers either never played No Mans Sky to understand the problem, or they simply believed a large enough budget could mask these problems.