I've been anxiously following this game ever since I heard about it last year.
No Man's Sky is the first game in 30 years that I feel will capture the awe and wonder I felt when playing the original Starflight on my family's Tandy computer back in the 80s.
The vast emptiness between systems, the uncharted nebulae, the wormholes, the topology/bio scans, mining, specimen collecting, and the mysterious force that was at the heart of the plot. Those things kept me engaged to the point of aimlessly sweeping the entire star chart coordinate by coordinate, scanning every planet, encountering probes, the risk of encountering that alien race that could almost always destroy you, finding ruins and logs left by past explorers, examining the stats of every colony of fungus and biped I could find within the fuel-range from the ship my rover had. The thrill of being able to land near a major mineral deposit without dying because the gravity was juuuust on the cusp of your lander's tolerance. It was like exploring with the crew of the USS Enterprise.
Maybe my 40-something self will never be as receptive to such mundane, non-action exploratory gameplay as my tween self, but I hope, hope, hope this game delivers even a fraction of what I loved about Starflight. The first-person nature and the multiple climates and biomes promises a much more interesting experience of exploration than Starflight ever had. The gameplay we've seen thus far is absolutely beautiful.
No Man's Sky is the first game in 30 years that I feel will capture the awe and wonder I felt when playing the original Starflight on my family's Tandy computer back in the 80s.
The vast emptiness between systems, the uncharted nebulae, the wormholes, the topology/bio scans, mining, specimen collecting, and the mysterious force that was at the heart of the plot. Those things kept me engaged to the point of aimlessly sweeping the entire star chart coordinate by coordinate, scanning every planet, encountering probes, the risk of encountering that alien race that could almost always destroy you, finding ruins and logs left by past explorers, examining the stats of every colony of fungus and biped I could find within the fuel-range from the ship my rover had. The thrill of being able to land near a major mineral deposit without dying because the gravity was juuuust on the cusp of your lander's tolerance. It was like exploring with the crew of the USS Enterprise.
Maybe my 40-something self will never be as receptive to such mundane, non-action exploratory gameplay as my tween self, but I hope, hope, hope this game delivers even a fraction of what I loved about Starflight. The first-person nature and the multiple climates and biomes promises a much more interesting experience of exploration than Starflight ever had. The gameplay we've seen thus far is absolutely beautiful.
I am very hopeful.