I picked up EGS years ago and I'm just starting to play it. Right now I'm just gathering resources but I don't know what my next steps are supposed to be as far as base or vehicle building goes. NMS looks interesting as well and it's half off on GOG for the next few days.
Does anyone have any experience with these games?
No Man's Sky was an over-hyped sandbox game last time I played it but that was years ago. I can't imagine it evolved into anything worthwhile short of them scrapping both the engine and the core game design to the point where it literally became an entirely different game.
There's supposedly a big redemption story with NMS's development. Its launch was a disaster but they somehow managed to turn things around commercially at least.
They added a lot of new stuff and made a lot more things worth doing and flowing, but its still the same sandbox genre.
The redemption is that they spent years working and fixing it after being completely thrown to the gutter, something no one expected. Its less "omg they fixed it and its amazing now" and more "for no real money, they kept grinding anyway just to try and redeem their product."
Its a principle and moral redemption, not exactly a production one.
Commercially maybe, but I'll bet it's still shit.
NMS is still as vast as an ocean and as shallow as a puddle. Once you notice how "different but the same" the procedural generation is the magic wears off.
Elite is NOT too big, every other game is too small. Elite's scale is exactly one to one. Just because it doesn't have a Sorting Algorithm of Threatening Geography like every braindead Nintendo game ever doesn't mean it is bad. The endgame of Elite is to put your name in the galactic records: https://edastro.com/records/ It's just not a game for you, so stop bashing my game.
You are a goddamn woman. You refuse to leave other peoples shit alone. Go away.
What was the problem with Elite Dangerous?
What wasn't. Outside of the flight model and basic combat, everything is shit and they keep making it worse, not better. And you can't even really enjoy the combat because of the engineering grind. Want competitive weapons? Fly to fifteen different rando goons across the universe and do their fetch quests, so you can spend tens of hours fetching more bullshit materials from unfun gathering spots, or be locked out of PVP relevance.
Don't want to engage in that content? Many pve enemies are tied to your player rank, and once you get high enough THEY get the engineered shit.