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?
I'll defend it to a degree believe it or not because of the sheer effort of their turn around. It's not 'great' I'd call it average by now, but at least that means that the people who bought it ( Including me ) have something of a game to play.
That's the problem with NMS now, it is just an average open world game which isn't terrible interesting. I feel like for example they could do so much more with fleet encounters and stuff like that. They recently did an introduction of pirate barges which is pretty cool and I think introducing more capital ship style and fleet combat would drastically flesh out the space part of the game and also make it look awesome.