You know - they really deserve this. They just shut up and got to work. I love it.

No Man's Sky walked so Starfield could load screen

The gameplay loop of NMS is Minecraft's gameplay loop. You find a place and build with the resources you have collected. An intrinsic motivator for many in the community is trying to find a world that looks exactly like Earth and having dozens of other players join in to build a civilization as the game is pseudo-online.

No man's sky be cooking while starfield be microwaving

I don't play this game, but dam, I have respect for Sean and his team for keeping at it.

When others move on to the next project, No Man's Sky comes back to remake everything- *for free* ! It's a game where you buy it once and get everything included- *no DLC, no microtransactions* . I'm truly speechless! We don't see this kind of commitment from developers these days!

Hey Luke, I love NMS but it took a while for it to click with me, and it still may not click with you. You kinda have to figure out what you like, and what you want to do and pursue that. I wanted to find cool better weapons and ships, but in order to do that I needed to explore to get resources, I needed to do expeditions and quests in the community hub to get more money. Basically I wanted shiny new things so I could do cool ship combat and fight strong sentries, so I needed to prioritize doing things to get money in order to get the equipment in order to do those things. Later I wanted to build the perfect base so then I started exploring, getting the equipment I needed to travel further and further to find that perfect spot for my home. The game is essentially a "create your own adventure" identify what you want and then figure out what the best loop for you is in order to accomplish your goal.

I think Luke would benefit from playing the Expeditions. They’re relatively linear compared to the main game loop and kinda rush u thru a lot of the game’s mechanics within a 6-8 hr campaign

7:55 That's what Expedition mode is for, dude. It sets a clear goal to achieve each stages and a curated experience through hand-picked planets. I come back to this game on every expedition with a friend.

4:02 not todd howard saying "16 times the detail" lmaoo

If you're the type of person to visit the eiffel tower just to take a selfie and go back to the hotel then NMS isn't for you

Ships can now land on water? Is that part of the world’s update? That’s so neat.

No mans sky is what you make of it. Its not a story game, its a building and exploring game. I personally like the building. Theres no way it takes 80 hours to get into for anyone, for me it took minutes and you have access to near all gameplay loops within a couple hours

what luke dosnt relize is that no mans sky has had so many gameplay additions and changes in the years its been out and this update puts more ontop of the massive amount of content we have had in the years its been out Base building, exocraft, 4 stories, derelict freighters and much more

One of my best experiences in VR was launching off that barren planet into space at the beginning of the game. It was amazing and just draw dropping. But just like Luke said, I was overwhelmed with everything the game had to offer and knew it would take up too much time. I'm kind of glad I waited. Trust me No Man's sky in VR has to be seen to be believed and with this update, it sounds like it just got way better. Also, the integration is seamless, so whenever you get tired of playing in the headset, you can take the headset off and just continue on your regular screen.

NMS in VR is looking absolutely amazing with this update running on a 4070 ti / 13600k

This is the kind of dev team you want working on your game. They took technology they developed for their new game and thought, wow , thats cool, lets patch our old game also to make it better. I dont play it but I respect the dev team

What Sean meant by everything you see is generated by the computer is, that nothing you see is on the game disc, like the planets in this trailer are not on the disc, they are all generated on the fly around you by math. That is where once you get into a system there are no loading screens, its always being generated as you fly and walk.

An AAA studio, Bethesda, can't pull off something like this lol.

ONE hour? Let's call that the KZfaqr-syndrome.

This is what I needed from no mans sky. After a bit you start to see the patterns with explorations

No man's sky is a sandbox game, you have to make your own fun. The game doesn't "get good" after a certain amount of time. The truth is if you aren't having fun by the 5th hour nothing will change by your 500th.

NMS can be fun but you just have to find the fun. It’s kind of like Minecraft - it’s a sandbox survival game but in space and with some unique tech. Explore, build, survive, upgrade, repeat. It’s got interconnected systems to encourage emergent gameplay but it definitely doesn’t guide you to the fun like other games do. There are derelict ships in space that are kind of like raids, creatures and robots to fight, some quests to do, and a very loose mainline story that tries to guide you through some of the systems to learn and features to try. That doesn’t mean people who don’t find it fun are in the wrong and I don’t think Hello Games are wrong for not wanting to guide the experience too much, it just is the game that it is and some people won’t like it. I prefer narrative experiences most of the time so I didn’t fall in love with it but the part of me that has an unhealthy relationship with DayZ, despite the jank, does enjoy it from time to time. It is a lot more fun to play with friends for sure, if you can get the kinda broken coop system to work. The community is really great online though so if you did try it out, people are willing to help and give you things you need… once you get far enough along in the game to go to places where other players are.

Anyone wanting to know the loop of No Mans Sky.. You get lost. You boot up survival, (or creative to test the waters) and start building your sci-fi adventure. Do whatever you want. Become a miner, a space pirate, a freighter exporter, an animal tamer/farmer, a base builder/interior decorater, a deep space explorer, a tech giant, and SO MUCH more. AND, you can do all of this at the same time. In one save. THATS the gameplay loop Then add friends, expeditions & their missions/credit grind, and the CONSTANT updates the game gets, idk how anyone can't just get lost in it.

The cover of a scifi novel is a good description for NMS. The cover is nice, I wonder what the novel is about....

I preorderd NMS. It's come a LONG way, and I'm actually trying it again for the first time since around launch because it does seem like a genuinely enjoyable game now. This trailer to me seems like the LITERAL embodiment of Todd Howards "16X the detail" quote. Like cool you got water and air now, but what else is this beyond that?

I recently came back to it after originally playing it at launch. It really is a minecraft-esque gameplay loop. It takes a bit to get into it and then after awhile it opens up and more advanced things become available to you. I was 80 hours in and thought I saw pretty much everything and then it was like the ceiling opened up and I found out I was just scratching the surface.

I burst with that "16times...."

The fun is exploring the universe!

I think you hit the nail on the head with BGS vs Hello Games. Hello games really cared about all the negative feedback and really wanted to improve whereas Bethesda basically made money off of no hello games really cared about all the negative feedback and really wanted to improve whereas Bethesda basically made money off of Starfield and feel like they didn't do anything wrong. That's the major reason why I no longer trust Bethesda and will never buy any more games they make. They basically don't care about the fans they just care about the money and while they are a business they should remember where they come from always

How i have fun with NMS is viewing myself as a galactic pirate. I have my warship and a ton of smaller frigates to send on missions. And i made my goal to find earth like planets and build megaliths on them in the hope other players find them one day. I see how it could be hard for some ppl to get into, but I really get “create your own adventure” vibes.

Don't forget that in No Man's Sky, there are free, downloadable save editors online that give the advanced gaming users the powers of playing as God over beginners that are similar to that of computer hackers.

People jumping into NMS looking for "progression" and fun and I understand. What I learned about playing this game is that there is no line to progress. You just jump in to the universe ,besides the early tutorial of fixing your ship after that you're on your own. Make your own adventure. Craft your own piece of the universe. Theres not a mandatory line to follow. Sure there is the story but it doesnt lock you out of the rest of the content. You can go crazy as early as hour 1. This is my own experience so it might be different to others maybe used to normal games with crafted progression story.

I'm a no man's sky content creator and I recommend you jumping into creative mode first, this gives you everything for free so you can fully explore the game, creative mode will put you deep into the game at 300 hours plus at the start of the game, with no grind involved, and if you enjoy the game, then do the survival element. Hope you try it out mate.

Dooope. Gonna start a play through on PSVR2 👀

The complain about NMS taking a while to get good is side stepped by doing expeditions .. it's a easy way to start the game and it give you tons of freebies to do everything else quickly.

This game continues to get better. Its awesome to see that they never gave up and made this a must have game. There next game is probably going to be amazing.

NMS is amazing in VR. Getting caught in a storm really feels real and dangerous. Generally I play for 100 hours to get the best S tier weapon, ship, and what not, and then find a Paradise planet to make my final home on. Then I close the game and don't go back to it. Every year I start a new game and get another 100 hours out of it. Other than resources and weapons there's no real game play as such, and there's a feeling of loneliness to it as you're the only human running around on a planet trying to survive.

Mean while star field goes… listen.. best we can do is a feeble attempt at 60fps

The death threats to Hello Games are actually why they launched the game when they did. The death threats didn't come after launch.

I felt the same way I finished building my completely unnecessary base and then didn’t know what to do so I stopped playing

No Mans Sky is a vibe. Plain and simple.

I'll never get over that interest historian video on no mams sky 😂 master class of story telling

Expeditions were added several updates ago. FYI

A sandbox game requires a grind dude. You don't need 80 hours to enjoy the game. You need patience and a guide to make your experience easier. You can also customize your game to hit endgame quicker and sometimes instantaneously.

the thing with NMS is the start where you are repairing your ship is the best part because you have such clearly defined goals, after that you kind of need to make your own goals, there is no clearly defined over arching goal, so you have to decide yourself what your goal is or you could help other people, so yeah you could say its good or bad depending on your opinion but it definately lacks a structure. I think their next game will sell well and a lot of that is the trust and goodwill they have built up over the years, people know they will support it for a long time so theres no risk in that regard.

Dang! Already have 10,000 plus hours, ready to add more.

Getting into No Man's Sky takes a very special mind set. It's a very hands off, "have fun your own way" kind of game, where the journey is the primary goal, not the destination. If you aren't interested in just "doing stuff," for lack of better terminology, and need an outright goal or objective, NMS just isn't for you. Even with friends, that won't change. It's far more like a SIM game than it is a "game" game.

One of the things I can really appreciate, and almost blows my mind really, is that the few dollars I spent 8 years ago was all I ever needed to spend. I'll be checking out the expedition when it starts :)

They need to do a full story mode that basically mimics a Bethesda game with their own touch

When the game came out, I literally just explored and did that for hours untill I saw everything. Thats why im excited to come back to explore.

I find it interesting that Hello games had 15 people making No Mans Sky to launch with 1 load screen n BGS can't make a game without a bunch of load screens.

I find the gameplay loop to no man sky kinda like Minecraft you start with nothing and the more you explore and resources you gather the more well equipped you are to get bigger and better stuff. I find it to be a easy stress reliever especially in VR it adds that cherry on top

14:06. Can confirm, sort of. Not "only" No Man's Sky, but 2k+ hours on main save alone.

I got into this game when the NEXT update came out and it's genuinely been one of my best gaming experiences of the last 10 years. If you like this sort of game, it's delightful.

You wanna get into No Man's Sky? Try playing through the main story. You can also take as much time in between those missions as you like. Your first base computer doesn't have to be on the first planet your found the technology on either! You can take your time and find the planet you want to call your home and plop down your first base computer there. You might also want to do all the side missions for the base computer as it unlocks a lot of expensive things that would take forever to unlock yourself as a new player! Once you're done with the story, you have to decide what is fun for you! Do you want more storage space? You might need a bigger hold on your ship or expand your suit. So you need scanners or maps to find drop pods and crashed ships for upgrades. But then you need nanites to buy new tech so you go and hunt sentinels. But then you need a giant mech to keep you safe and enable you to stand up to an army of enemies. But then you need to upgrade your mech with new stuff as well... Starting to see the point? It's an endless journey! Don't try to reach the end. You just have to drift along. This type of gameplay is not for everyone.

No Man's Sky is more about inhabiting the world than it is about objectives. That's why all these updates to the tech and worldspaces are so key. It's also why some people just don't get it.

4:00 I love it ❤😂😂

I always believed that space would be my dream destination, UNTIL I played Starfield and No Man’s Sky. They produced enough realism to drive home the fact that there’s no place like home. Comfort food indeed. Now, if it was like Star Trek TNG, or even Mass Effect. I want to be an Admiral.

Sucks that expeditions are scheduled and time limited and come around once in a while. And once your done with the scheduled expedition, your done and you wait for the next expedition.

This game really is just about exploring and finding things, they keep adding new things to do and see.

I like the knowledge stone gathering part because I want to be able to fully understand all the cool alien races

I've played around 200 hours to No Man's sky, like 3 years ago and I really enjoyed it !! I will most likely go back at it in a few months (like after star wars outlaw and Assassin Creed).

it is amazing with amazing limitations, Sean has small team and with that he accomplished like no one other it seems... but the limitations, the entire universe is single biome planets with only small outposts, the creatures and fauna has some variety but that's pretty much it

Respect for the devs man Clap clap!!

NMS is a therapeutic game. You play it when you want to chill. Not to have a nail biting experience.

I definitely get the beginning of the game can be mundane and not as “flashy” as the trailers. But I think that’s where expeditions come into play. You start with a lot more materials, and it’s an excuse for the devs to take you on a grand tour of all the new things they’ve added. So if you’re struggling to get into it, that’s where I would start.

I find it wholesome not just the redemption of the game but the growth in sean murray himself. He is just so much more happier and confident now in this trailer than the launch days where he was noticeably shy and awkward. Nothing wrong being those things, I'm just happy for him.

Pulling the skyrim rerelease method of "wow look at the water"

It's a long burn relaxation game. It's not about 'x # of hours and you get into it' but by a certain amt of time you can endlessly explore bc you're upgraded enough and you have upgraded tools that let you do what you want a lot more easily. There are some campaign missions (multiple campaign style quest lines) that I would start with in order to have pointed goals to follow while initially upgrading but the type of game is very calm - discover the lore, find views, build a home, grow a ship, see all the different views kinda thing. Another commentor said "create your own adventure" and the also works it's very pure sandbox so you settle into a comfortable position w drinks and snacks and interact w the world in whatever way you want while enjoying the discovery and views along the way. As you do that, you find what intrigues you and start to follow your own path through. If you ask 10 different players they may be playing the game 10 diff ways, you decide what you do. The commonality is everyone is exploring planets and gathering resources in order to do those 10 diff things.

the journey is the experience. If you don't like the 1st hour of gameplay, you won't like the game. This is a game for the people who like to be curious what happens next and not wait for the next boss to show up. If you feel you're lost in this vast universe trying discover your purpose until you understand that your purpose is your journey, this is your game. It's a dream come true for everyone who was blown away playing Elite in the 80s. And in VR it's just beyond minblowing.

Even before this planets in NMS had variety

I'm soooooo excited and impatient for the new expedition!! Everyone do a lill dance for the update gods so it starts soon!!!!!

NMS is a vibe, it's my chill out game... just flying and exploring, the main quest, the space it occupies.. thats all part of the loop.. if ur not into crafting and building its prolly nvr gonna be ur type of game.. which is totally fine.. I just really appreciate the art itself of the game.. its like just a huge lonely, beautiful quest.. and the expeditions are just free bonus content..ps. u shld nvr hv to play a game for 80 hours for it to "get good" that's crazy lol...

Doing expeditions is when the game clicked for me lmao

But does it make the game "not boring?" For everything that NMS changed and worked with, it still is, at its core, fetch quests and spreadsheet simulation at its finest. That's great that planets have wind, waves, dust clouds, weather patterns, so on and so on. Does that actually give you something new to do?

i think the problem is he approach the game like a story driven one, this game is literally minecraft in space. you just relax and explore, unlock new ships and build bases, is just a sit, relax and enjoy kinda game

I think the best way to put it’s as what No Man’s Sky is universal sandbox to escape and make your own

10:15 you can skip the tutorial for 1.5 years now actually.

You should try doing the expedition when it comes out, it's a completely separate save, it's like a mini story mode, and if you only want to give it two hours to get good, that's the perfect way

Have you tried the expeditions? They are a more curated/guided experience. Missions, milestones, and objectives to bread crumb you along. It might 'click' better for you. I think the greater game at large is just a hunt for: a) perfect base and required mats, b) perfect ships c) perfect fleet/freighter d) just explore

It sounds like you should try an Expedition as starting point of this game, it gives you a goal and progress roadmap in the game. It usually takes 10hrs to complete and you can experience most of the game.

Something i really can recommend is to start playing when an expedition starts, it helped me to understand No mans sky much better than i did before expeditions can be seen as "tutorials" to the game which give special rewards for doing different things.

this is just part 1 of the new update, god knows what crazyness will be next, Light No Fire their next game is looking even better, if you;re wondering what to do there is so many random events that take u too places and quests that are so fun to do

Every update makes me look the game up. It seems so cool, but I just don't care about getting reasource 1 to build thing 1 to be able to get ressource 2 to build thing 2 and so on... But it's so beautiful and seems chill.

For beginners, the game makes sense once you unlock the Space Anomaly. That's were the story pretty much begins, and everything you can unlock and work tword in the game starts with the Space Anomaly. You can as well get missions there and learn more about the game and what you can do in it through those missions.

My favourite part of this game is the accebility of difficulties. I turned down building and buying costs so that's less grind. I am about 400hrs in and I really love it, but I don't think I would be interested if I had to grind everything. Great options got your back!

NMS is at core a survival game, that's why it takes more then 1h, at the beginning, to get started. Most survival games do this. I love survival games. They are so rewording and not for everyone.

For me the loop is trying to build up to the next cool thing and to ultimately get to a point where I can traverse a planet knowing my resources are all accounted for due to massive farms

Hats off to Sean and team. The only thing you can ever ask of someone is that they learn from their mistakes.

The look for no mans sky is really just exploration, it’s about finding new worlds, making money so you can buy better ships and gear as the story gradually unlocks and you enter a race to the core with certain NPCs. The side loops are base building and multiplayer fun

Its a game you either like or not it has some progressive loops but they dont lead into late game, honestly I would like a revamp of dungeons to be free to enter ,mini bosses, and quick silver and equipment from them. I also had hoped they'd make settlements better like being able to hire mercenaries and when you send settlers out on expeditions they can find random portal dungeons to do just some ideas.

The only thing i wish was overhauled was the combat.

When it comes to No Mans Sky it really is just one of those “You’re either into it or you’re not” kinda games. I feel like it doesn’t have a traditional gameplay loop and is more just about enjoying exploring weird looking planets, building bases, gathering a fleet/squadron, and all the other random stuff it lets you do. In reality there is a lot to do in the game but you don’t have to really do any of it. The game is what you make of it, a true open sandbox to just mess around in and explore. If the premise alone doesn’t interest you and you need more of the checkbox/mission style gameplay loop then you probably won’t get much enjoyment out of the game

These companies complain game sales are flat but at the same time want you to spend all your time playing one game

"but what is there to do???" Anything you want

I just started playing this game again like a few months ago. It's absolutely incredible and a spectacular, it's really a comfort game. compared to what it was at launch it's night and day how different it is.

How many hours/episodes would you give a TV series to get into? I gave a whole series 1 of something before and it turned out to but one of my favorites of all time. Sometimes it's hard to give the time if you cover multiple games at once. Great vid, I've subscribed 👍🏼

My pet theory is that Hello games is using NMS and LNF to fund their engine, and get it feature complete. From there they could sell it to other companies and let them use it. Imagine something like Daggerfall, Starfield, or Mount and blade, using this tech.

Gonna restart my game to see this progress. Been over a year since I last played.