It needed to be early access. No one would hated it.

No Man's Sky needs procedurally generated alien civilizations, with cities and the like. It would be difficult, but it would certainly add atmosphere.

I got stuck on a planet with no resources to repair my ship. That planet, like every planet that I visited, was so bland. It just bored me too much.

goodbye games

IMO NMS needs: -a proper faction system -multiplayer -a purpose/goal -a reduced price tag

i hate to see games with great potential that was released to early, so by the time it is a great working game has been made, everyone has long since moved on.

Is it bad when i saw the title i was like, "oh i remember that game"

Has anybody here even heard about the game Empyrion Galactic survival? It's an open world game where you can build ships, build bases, explore, raid, player together with other people and more. It's amazing. It's what no man's sky wanted to be, you can even make custom planets which isn't so hard. From the beginning the game has 7 planets, which all are diffrent. All of the planets have stuff to do, the only downside of the game is that it's early access and ridled with bugs.

Create planets with incredibly hostile enemies that will swarm at you and eat your brain. Create base defenses. Now you have a mini-game where you have to build a base on a hostile planet and defend it against marauding monsters. Different planets have different monsters. Some flying, some burrowing, some that are big, lumbering beasts that will smash through smaller walls, some are small critters that swarm you. Each planet would have you changing your defense tactics. That in itself would give you a little more to do in the game.

Incredibly sweaty dev lying at high speeds

Spoiler alert: *NO*

It's a skeleton of a game. It could be taken in literally any direction. I think the best thing Hello games could do is license it as an engine, and allow someone who actually knows how to design a game have a crack at making something interesting. I also think Hello games should be forbidden from having anything to do with it from this point on.

What is absolutely far fetched and never going to happen but would be absolutely amazing is if different people could settle on these planets and build systems and then the factions could be governments for the planets and the different factions would be warring for control over the universe

I believe No Mans Sky should incorporate mass base building. Yes, there already is base building but not limit you to a small circle. You should be able to build whenever you want and how far you want. Bring in aliens to live there and basically create a city on the planet. Add new weapon designs and functions, in which aliens can sell to you as you bring them in the city. Have hostile animals be drawn toward bases and try to attack. Even better if multiplayer can't be a thing, have the servers save your creations and if someone finds the planet you were on, they could find the city they built and discover who the previous explorer is.

I can't be the only one that KNEW from the start that no man sky would be a massive disappointment

All the 18 billion planets are the exact same

No man's sky should've been an early access title, rather than a rushed out cash grab title.

Just download Starbound.

Just stumbled upon your channel, and have to say great review man. Very well put together, keep it up. You've earned a new subscriber.

real reason why there is no multiplayer: there are no player models. you're just an invisible game camera moving around.

This game is not worth pirating...

To answer the question: Hell No. No Man's Sky still has the same core problems it had before the updates: the gameplay is a pointless grind, combat is rudimentary, the story is convoluted and often resembles young adult science fiction, the variation is random and meaningless, and the content available for "exploration" is unintelligent. Walking around a randomly-generated and sparsely-filled landscape may qualify as "exploration" to the industry, but if there's nothing interesting to explore besides slight variations on things you've already seen, most of which you also won't be able to use or interact with in any relevant way, is a pretty shitty rendition of the concept. The game had a lot of potential, even after release... but Hello Games needed to jump in, communicate with the community, and start tackling the core issues that caused even the players who claimed they liked the game to stop playing in boredom after 15 hours. HG needed to wake up from their mixed emotional rollercoaster of bliss over becoming millionaires and shock over being generally reviled and having their product trashed by consumers... and revise what clearly didn't work. Instead, over the past year, they've added superficial updates with *more toys* like dune buggies and derivative survival game staples that clearly didn't fit the game and were scotch-taped on top of the existing game, like their version of pre-designed-room Capsela base-building. Is the game saved? steamcharts.com/app/275850 And that's only because of the attention generated by a high-priced ARG ...which as of yet has had zero impact on the game and may still turn out to be nothing more than a hype/marketing ploy with some RL swag as rewards. Before the ARG, the daily logins maxed out in the 500's. If the coming update adds portals and more story, will that save the game? Probably not. It would take a lot. The ARG hype implies that's what they're offering, but their track record, frankly, sucks.

how about they make all the stuff they lied about real and add some sort of quest system and proceedily generated alien cities or something

Hey, good timing. Just found this vid, thought I'd check out the store page and the update came out today. IF anything they said in the update trailer and the release notes can be trusted then this might be promising. I'm still not sure if it's worth buying yet for myself(even at the current cut price of 24€), but I'm once again interested to hear what people'll say about this game. :)

it's too late the damage is done

Short answer: no

Great video! I haven't played since release but I might try this again.

The hype almost got me on this one. Even after it launched I thought it might we worth it knowing what I'm getting into ahead of time. Glad I can say today I still haven't put a penny of my money or a minute of my time into this game.

They should add dungeons and raids. Build upon the open world of the game.

I wish they just had maybe 10 planets that had a large scale and depth rather then Quintillien planets that all look the same and Ill never play on anyway

Well thought out video, great work

This game need mods

I love how the base building is just copying subnautica

The only thing entertaining about No Man's Sky was the parody videos.

Lets be fair: No man's sky is a scam

Great vid!... My thoughts: First thing I'd do is incorporate sentient alien NPCs. They could give you tasks (help our planet, do a galactic survey, alien safari, etc) that not only give you rewards but serve to progress the game; and like you said possibly steal your stuff, or you could pay some NPCs to guard your stuff. Could have peaceful planets, agressive planets, xenophobic planets, plague planets; in addition to plenty of deserted planets. Also, comms and a life signs detector would be a must. Distress beacons that are in legit need of help, dead crew and thus you can take supplies (possibly a mystery to start a storyline), or a space pirate trap. Of course, there has to be an overarching mystery to solve; if it were me, I'd repurpose and incorporate those alien language stones as part of the mystery. Probably, put a galactic barrier in place and you have to find some way to get through to the center... I have an idea on how to unlock it btw. I'll be honest, it's hard not to just copy/paste tropes. And of course, multi-player. I had an idea about messing with relativistic speeds; of course not real-time, but you slow down when you enter lightspeed. This would only be adopted on multi-player mode btw. Just some thoughts.

I would not like to buy this game at all just because I don't want to reward companies that cheat people so blatantly. Good thing that came out of this though is that people will think twice before pre-ordering.

It doesn't matter how good No Man's Sky is anymore. Most people will forever be salty and never give it another chance.

I actually dodged most of the hype for the game, first time I ever saw it was a live stream with sean murray talking about the special aspects of the game. They had some footage of the game playing on the screen and it looked nothing like the way Murray was describing it, and I thought "Wow this must be beta alpha 1.000001, can't wait for the full game- I guess I can wait until 2019 for this awesomeness." I then looked up the release date. "Oh shit it's coming out next week"

I got bored of this game in like 20 minutes and I've never touched it again

I bought the special edition of this game for $135 NZD. Biggest waste of money for a thirteen year old ever

No one knows what i commented.

Having never played the game, I'll throw in my 2 cents bc it's the Internet. Have "quests" or "missions" where some one needs something special. Something in particular. You either have to find it or make it. Some times its a multi step(or multi planet) quest where you have to get different resources from different planets to build something or even have a particular order of things to be discovered so you can solve the mission. Maybe for this to work, there has to be a home land that you really care about and want to develop and protect. If someone finds it they can attack it. So you have to find new items or technology to bring back to develop new defenses or on the flip side new weapons to conquer other people's bases

This was very well said, I appreciate that you assess the game's pros and cons without attacking Sean Murray and Hello Games.

But is there any update about Tod... I mean Sean Murray whereabouts?

This game have a lot of potential and I hope that they will correct their mistakes and make this game like it should have been.

I really appreciate the honest review. So many people drop themselves into either the full-on hate groups or the groups that claim their favorite developers can do no wrong. You presented an argument about the state of the game that was truthful and fair, both to the developers and potential customers. +1 from me.

They're still updating it surprisingly. Hell I might actually rebuy it in the future if I get internet within a year or two

Still not buying it. Rather buy a banana and pretend its onision getting an expensive knife and stabbing it.

NMS doesn't even know what it wants to be. What do you do in No Man's Sky? Do you build a pretty base? Do you fight big monsters? Do you complete quests? Do you just fill a encyclopedia with all of the galaxy's living things? The question is, is this even a game? Gathering resources and travelling to gather more resources to travel and yadda yadda is as much of a game as playing poker vs yourself. This being said, it's nice that htey have managed to make the "navigate to other, procedurally generated planets" system, but it only ends up as a shittier version of Space Engine.

Hey Nate, a new update came out recently and it seems to be a pretty good game finally! And yes, multiplayer is now a thing on it.

No , No mans sky is 15$ in india

they should make it into ark survival kind of thing and multiplayer were you and your friends can make huge fleets with flyable big ships that you can dock your smaller ships in. You should be able to create bases in space as well as on the ground with turrets to protect it. yYou should be able to create some kind of AI that controls one of the smaller ships and fight for you kind of like in the game from the depths were you have that AI. just realized that I am describing star citizen with added details

what is that outro song?

I was thinking include multiplayer, but have like certain areas have more abundant rare materials to make more advanced ships/weapons with higher/ more advanced life. So more players come to certain areas of galaxies (or have a single multiplayer galaxy) and people can actually set up huge bases to farm the rare material areas. They should also change the store/trading system and make each solar system bring different types of traders or the space stations have more significance. Cause they're these huge stations in the middle of a solar system but it's just a landing area and a single room

Thanks for the video, I was wondering if I should re download No Man's Sky. I think I'll wait for now though (I did not know they added land vehicles since the last time I played it though. Maybe next time they could add underwater vehicles and basses. Or the ability to make space station that orbit planets and you could transport with you. I wanna see someone make ships from other games and movies when THAT happens)

No Man's Lie is long gone. Star Citizen is the new attempt to create a universe that can be fully explored.

No offense to anyone who wants to build bases and thinks that improved the game, but in my opinon base building is a step in the wrong direction because it's completely contrary to what the game was supposed to be about: exploration. You can't fix a game by making it an entirely different game; far better for them to take that exploration theme and expand on it, giving people an actual reason to explore different worlds. Of course that was doomed the second they decided to push the "quintillion worlds" idea. Procedural generation is never going to result in memorable, specific content.

I think it would be fun if they added a BSG situation, where you have to find a place for your civilization to live and they keep encountering things on these planets that threaten that goal. Combine that with the galactic center and perhaps that's where you finally find a place to settle down and live, though quite possibly with settlers and bases on many different worlds.

I went out today and got a burger. Was a good day. The best part was the employee named Steve. He is the best cashier I have ever met. His customer service and smile were genuine and it's obvious that he sees the bright future in his eyes.

Honestly , the reason i can't really hate the people at Hello games despite all that bullshit is because they're at least working to fix the game with some free updates , and didn't just leave with the Buyer's money leaving them with a husk of the game that NMS could end up becoming if they work really hard on it ...

I bought it two days again assuming it would be bad because of all the gate and I was actually pleasantly surprised

👏👏👏👏👏 Great re-review...!

You made this right before another massive new update. Multiplayer starting to form. I think it's looking up

lacks the challenge of a typical sp survival - hostile creatures that actually threaten you in any way. Make planetside creatures react to you trying to settle/invade their home. make different creatures types that would react differently (hostile/welcoming etc..) lacks lore that would suck the player into the story - the existing lore is just plain out not interesting enough to bother with. if planet exploration would trigger some events to something interesting other than yet another pointless POI exploration would be someing worth bothering with. Make the different races into factions that mean something. With their own goals, pproach and agendas that at times colide giving you the choise to take a side or stay out - then add faction reputation that would dictate how they treat the player.

Holy shit this was amazing. I cant believe you only have 25k subs not 100k+. The quality is through the roof, keep it up!

I would like to see multiplayer, which would obviously most likely not come into play until you get close to the middle of the galaxy. This would give you time to prepare yourself by upgrading your ships while you make your way there. Then maybe at/near the middle of the galaxy you could join a pvp faction or start your own? Maybe you could build large space stations for your faction/guild that could be attacked and defend itself. Could make it timed so it's in the evenings for most people so a group of shut-ins doesn't go around taking everything over. From there you could have events and battlegrounds, lots could be done I think.

They need to make it basically a galactic faction conquest if that makes sense. Like, make a few servers for everyone to play, add alien civilizations that pose threats to yours, and add weapons as you conquer planet to planet

Should have waited the month, this update is nice.

give us co-op. then the game would be way better

My 2 ideas on relatively simple things to give more "point" to progressing in NMS are 1: have the range of creature go up to being incredibly difficult/dangerous, to give people more incentive to upgrade their equipment. I also see this as a necessity BEFORE any mutliplayer is added in. 2: a leader board. It could list the biggest creature discovered, the most planets, that kind of thing. It could be in game or even just on their website.

Something that could really boost interest is psvr compatibility. The whole universe scope feature of no man's sky doesn't translate well to a TV screen, but it'd thrive in the vr setting.

I'd rather get hit in the nuts every day and twice on a Thursday than play this game.

Bounty Hunt throughout the Galaxy.

The Atlas Rises update definitely helped the planets look more unique, and leaked data suggests the next upcoming update will probably add multiplayer, so there's 2 (probably) problems solved.

I've never played this game, but I think maybe adding unique civilizations on planets that have quests for the player to do might help.

Don't know if the updates have saved the game or not. The biggest update for the game is gunna be available in less than 4 weeks so come back and let us know then :)

Should've waited a month, bro.

My two cents: if they add a teleporter to your bases so you can jump between them and feel like you're building a network would add a player made 'Civ' in the game. Then add multiplayer and yeah you could literally have nations but let's stick with single player. The add some new mechanics where you can have allies work in your bases, discover more types of ruins and add a generator for ancient ruins that have cool tech you could use to possibly grab one of those kick ass space stations and I could get on board for some space piracy and ancient plundering.

Well thought out. Thumbs up

How can you like a developer team that have stuck their heads in the sand? they blew it, its as simple as that. Their lack of dmg control and cowardice have ruined the potential future of the game.

i have a blast in this game because its very relaxed and its nice when you come home after a long day

IMO what this game needs is a deeper faction system with actual relations between the factions, and actual wars. Have the possibility of taking missions from different factions, sometimes conflicting missions putting you at odds against an enemy faction, and then have patrols of different factions here and there. You could add a system where certain planets are under this or that faction's control and have patrols and shit. So you'd have to either avoid them or confront them. Add actual cities to some of those planets, again, owned by the various factions (and have independent cities). More space stations that you can visit, large fleets of ships from two different factions attacking each other, etc. etc. And if you add perks and ranks to the factions, maybe have discounts to buy things or get access to upgrades on ships and new ships (being more useful now that there are enemy ships to attack and run away from), where you gain more possibilities and have bonuses, that would make the game feel a lot more ALIVE and it would give more incentive to do things.

Would have been best to hold off on this til August. If you haven't followed the NMS sub reddit, there's an ARG in progress set to end around the actual anniversary. Right now we still have no idea what 1.3 is going to bring.

I think the game was great at launch. People bought into false hype and jumped on the hate bandwagon. The game itself was still a big accomplishment and a ton of fun. Just my opinion.

Oh, I didn't even know that No Man's Sky was planning on bringing another update out soon, that's pretty cool!~ I've actually been thinking about giving it a bit more play time lately, yeah, I hope that one day Hello Games will bring multiplayer into it. Larger, more-dangerous creatures would definitely be good to have, and a reason to keep your base well-defended would definitely be nice, too, indeed. I'll be rooting for Hello Games, as well, dude!~

before the pathfinder patch and the revamped teir system I had the best weapon and fully decked out ship for travel (not space). took a break only to come back to find I have bottom teir max gear. such b.s. if there is another big update I hope it makes things more interesting

Faction warfare, with npcs and players. And as uou get closer to the center the amount of threats would naturally be more frequently. Because all the players with their npc factions would be trying to become the most dominant force and would be a nonstop struggle to maintain the foothold they have taken (by force) in the galaxy.... but thats just a thought.

Why do games like Minecraft, Terraria, Starbound, draw people in?

The claimed from the beginning it was an MMO, the game has a pause feature demonstrating it was never intended to be an MMO, they lied, they did it with forethought, they deliberately concealed the facts of the game before release knowing that they hype they built by lying was the only thing that was going to sell the game. It was criminal fraud, beginning to end, plain and simple.

Make an API to utilize the *engine* of the game, and possibly some resources. What also is pretty interesting to me is the fact that while we see mostly the same creatures on multiple planets with just minor alterations... different *people* find *massivelty* different creatures. Its like they royally fucked up their random number generator, so that seed values that are close to eachother generate almost the same numbers, and then just increment the seed value each time you visit a new planet.

ok honest opinion, do you think its worth buying this game on ps4? i have got it on my laptop (torrent) but it runs like potato (10fps) as my laptop handles other big games easily but yeah but was looking to see if i should get it?

this would have been the problem from the start even with all those fake promises. that guy pointed out," what the obj. of the game? what literally can you even do? all that bs excuses of saying you can do anything is very false. in the end you are just grinding and exploring and role playing in your heads/ with your friends. lol this is a huge flaw in every sandbox MMO and survival MMO. in the end theme park MMOs are overall better because in truth they offer more

When the No Mans Sky craze was going around, I thought it looked neat, but I asked people what there was to do, and they said "explore the universe!" "But...what is there to DO when you land on planets? What tangible thing is there to accomplish?" No one answered me, and I ended up being dead on right. I hope the future update makes the game actually playable because I really want a fun space game, I was hoping I'd be wrong about the game, but I wasn't, and that made me sad lol If the next update makes the game worth a damn, I'll probably buy it tbh

Mass city building, multiplayer with PvP, and very creative ship building. You should be able to build a space hulk with friends if you get the resources. They add those things and the game would bring back half the people it lost at a minimum

I'm looking foward to the update! I think what this game really needs is multiplayer and findable secrets in form of items and bosses like terraria and minecraft to name the most known games, also as you said more species that represent a danger besides the guardians drones

When you reach the center of the galaxy you should have two options 1 start again and 2 go to comuniti area wher you can create a planet and be able to build it if you wont name it, and create amazing bilds for other ppl, I think that would be fun, but I can be wrong

Just play elite dangerous for half the money and 3x the content .

Add space pirates, add a goal (like reaching your homeland after being kidnapped or banished or something like that), add alien npc's which will give you quests/weapon rewards, add an incredible big creature to the universe which tries to fuck with you from time to time, add some sort of civilizations (at least little tribes, at best large cities) on several planets, add an antagonist

I got the game for 20 dollars from gamestop a few days ago and I'm already loving it, I mean there's a lot wrong with it mechanics wise but besides that it's a good game, one thing they need to fix is that when you make a storage container it only has 5 inventory space but I don't know if you can upgrade it yet