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No Man's Sky is both a cautionary tale and a redemption tale all in one, and Hello Games is not giving up on its title any time soon!

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I would love for some more variety on the one planet. I feel like once you've landed and explored a 100m radius you've basically seen everything the planet has to offer.

How cool would it be to land in a desert, then takeoff and fly across jungles, heading to the poles for snow etc.

They said, the updates they've made have been amazing. You can land on water and fish from your spaceship now!

[–] ladicius 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yep, that's my biggest gripe, too. "As vast as an ocean, as deep as a puddle", is the notion I heard about it. Applies to all procedurally produced worlds I've seen. Doing more different would be a great effort for the devs, probably too expensive.

I'd suggest having community designed worlds (with enough regulations and filtering to avoid the unoccasional swastika and the likes).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Idk, old Minecraft generation was excellent. All they really needed to do was make it literally deeper/taller and make the biomes wider. The extreme and weird landscapes were rewarding to explore on their own back then. Imo developers just need to be comfortable letting interesting landscapes from instead of boring, uniform ones like NMS does. The novelty would eventually wear off, sure, but it'd last a lot longer.

And community worlds is an excellent idea. Having custom planets, or hell even just things players have made in their games, show up would add a lot to any game like this.

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