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Will I like No Man's Sky? It's on sale right now and considering it and one other game.

Is No Man's Sky a good game after all the updates and fixing and adding all the stuff they promised?

I love space stuff but am not the biggest fan of Minecraft style crafting/mining. I don't mind it in Stardew and factory games are a favorite genre of mine, for reference. Basically I like the mechanics but it matters how they are implemented.

I've been trying to find a game that I can just turn my brain off and chill after a long day and right now Stardew is starting to get a bit stale(or I'm just dreading winter since there isn't much to do).

The game looks beautiful and I did spend maybe 100 hours on Starbound, which is like 2D NMS I think, but even on sale, it's at the upper limit I'd like to spend.

The other game is Hyperlight Drifter and it's $6 right now so I'm probably gonna get that one regardless.

Edit: I went ahead and grabbed it. I think my kid will also enjoy watching me play it.

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  • I keep wanting to get back into it. I would say yes it's really good now.

    • I might grab it and put Hyperlight Drifter on hold even though it's super cheap right now. Is it combat heavy or is that not really the point?

      • not the person you asked but ive played a lot of nms so i figured id chime in.

        it's not combat heavy unless you want it to be. Just dont mine resources in front of or shoot at the space cops and theyll leave you alone (and avoid planets that are labeled "aggressive sentinels", theyll shoot you on sight on those planets. Also dont pick up gravitino balls.)

        The only time combat is required on foot is if you follow the main storyline (and tbh its mostly just to get you used to how combat works) or if you do an expedition that requires combat. And even for those scenarios, you can usually get around it by just getting the required materials elsewhere.

        as far as space combat goes, you have to do a little bit of combat to get a free freighter, but space combat is way easier than on foot imo, since you can use an auto aim feature. Pirates will occasionally chase you, but you can literally just run away from them and warp to another system, or land in a space station to get them to back off.

        I dislike combat in nms, not because its bad or anything (it's actually really fun once you get a decently upgraded multitool/ship) i just prefer to be sneaky rather than go in guns blazing for roleplay reasons, so i try to avoid it as much as possible.

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