No Man's Sky Fans Are Fed Up With Inventory Management And "Lifeless" Planets

Lifeless planets, repetitive dialogue, and constant inventory organization are just a few things No Man's Sky players wish were better.

[spambot0815]

the opposite: too much life as far as i'm concernd. similar to real space, finding lifeforms should be absolute rarity. if let's say they made life-hubs and the rest is empty 99% of the time, i wouldn't mind.

[Armyofdarkness]

Starfield is here for you lol

[jwillj2k4]

This sounds good in theory, but at the end of the day we’re playing a video game. While you may be a purist, most gamers want to be entertained, rightfully so. A game slider could take care of this but the real problem is the value of said interactions.

People want no mans mass effect: gta edition

[smolinsk]

Couldn't agree more. The excitement and magical feeling of finding life should be really rare. But with today's gamers that don't want anything to be a challenge it's not gonna happen unfortunately.

[NotoriousWhiz]

Some of us play video games to escape reality. Too much realism will not appeal to us. Most importantly for me, is that I need games to respect my time. Padding for the sake of padding is not worth it for my limited gaming time.

[KaoticBrock]

How does not finding life make it more challenging?

[Tapani]

I also think that these types of games have a problem: They keep changing all the time! I bought the game, tried it when it came out, and dropped it. Tried it once more, wasn't there yet, but it was almost a different game. I just keep waiting for it to become the final version so that I can play it from start to finish finally, a form that does not change anymore.

I don't like games being continuously developed, especially space games. In the old days you got games like MegaTraveller or Elite II: Frontier. They felt vast, but were complete, and still confined in the right ways, not too open for their own good.

I think some space games are way too open, they should be more restricted, who wants to aimlessly wander in dark and cold -270C space that kills everything and everything that floats out there other than special human-made materials, certain particles, rocks, light and dark matter. It should be tied to discovery of something meaningful to the story and the characters. Who do you wander for, and why? Why is it important? Who really does care if you get to the goal? It's the journey of those emotions that make stories interesting, and space games would do well not to forget it.

Humans simply don't like stuff that does not have humans (or at the very least humanoids!) as the center of everything. Non-human stuff becomes alien and impossible to relate to. Even animations about toys or monsters understand this, they put human characters into that form to make them interesting and relatable. Games should do the same.

No Man's Sky's biggest problem is that it is too "alien" to me, there's nothing to relate to. It's just aimless wandering. No matter how good or complex the systems are, or how many multiple vast the worlds there are, I can't relate to any of it if there's no humanly relatable drama in it.

[isarai]

I mean that's how it was at first, but like a couple years after they did that 1st massive overhaul update that changed all the biomes which made baren planets waaaay less common. I also miss the original crafting system, the current one is just iver convoluted for no damn reason

[Adrian_v01]

Second that. Discovery in Elite dangerous felt way more rewarding and that game is barren as hell in comparison

[Armyofdarkness]

I started this again but then after 5 ish hours I realized it’s the same game still. That’s on me, I recognize it’s good but not my cup of tea. Awesome to see the devs supporting it and I’ll check out their next game for sure because there’s something here!

[QuarkZ]

Yup, it's a freaking bore and they made it completely opposite to what it was supposed to be at first, which I guess makes sense, they catered to the few players remaining.
It still all just feel like doing the same things over and over, just getting new resources.

[RaiderNation]

The problem I have is the environments arent interesting and varied enough to carry it when exploration and discovery are supposed to be the selling points. The game is a million miles wide and an inch deep. And frankly, the game needs more planetary combat besides sentinels and hostile wildlife. I'm not saying it needs to be Destiny, but there needs to be a middle ground between this game and that game.

[Abear21]

The grind is real and crafting and gathering resources by grinding are too much for me, already spent too much time hearing that laser…eventually you do unlock tools that ease the grind, but this is the gameplay loop and it hasn’t changed with this update.

[RaiderNation]

Agreed. For as much as they've changed/added to this game since launch, the one thing they haven't changed at ALL is the tedious gameplay loop! It always cracks me up that when using the refinery, the game makes you wait literal time for it to complete. Something like that should just be instant. There's no value in making you wait around for materials to be produced. It's a completely arbitrary task.

I swear this game must be for OCD people on the spectrum lol.

[LucidIllusion]

Only the dumb people are complaining about a game that simulates reality. Please take up another genre of gaming where you're more equipped to speak on and enjoy. Most people don't deserve opinions. Why not play the inferior Starfield?

[thesoftware730]

Lucid:

"Most people don't deserve opinions"

Then you proceeds to give your opinion.

"Why not play the inferior Starfield?"

Me thinks someone thinks a bit too highly of themselves smh.

[LucidIllusion]

Actually I stated a fact. That's not an opinion. I'm quite reasonably sound btw.

[Aussiesummer]

I'm really hoping there next game has missions and things to do and considering it's on one planet then perhaps it will.

[Daeloki]

It has missions, as in bounties set out by space stations and outlaw stations, but also longer expeditions that are more or less seasonal.

[Aussiesummer]

the game is nowhere near out yet so what the hell are you on?

[Daeloki]

"the game is nowhere near out yet so what the hell are you on?"

My bad, I thought you were implying NMS doesn't have missions.

[lelo2play]

Extremely overhyped game...

[Demetrius]

I honestly had plenty of hours in this game but eventually stopped playing, the graphics are lovely, the traveling around is dope but I wanted more to it. Some type of quest system, reading subtitles didn't bother me it's just there's nothing much to do. They still did great in supporting it tho most devs need to learn from them instead of giving up on titles quick af.

[Daeloki]

It's my go-to chilling game. I play it for the sole purpose of winding down, just flying around and enjoying the views and looking for cool ships and stuff.

[Zenzuu]

At this point, what the game really needs is more variety in regards to NPC's, & missions. Even a procedure generated NPC/mission structures on planets would add some flavor and more incentive for players to explore the planets.

[VincentVanBro]

I do think this feedback is valid. It’s just worded like the fan base is upset when I think it’s the opposite. Everyone is pleased with No Man’s Sky at the moment.

[ChasterMies]

Players are so fed up with his they are only playing 300 to 500 hours of No Man’s Sky.

[Pyrofire95]

Something I feel like the planets always lacked is that the entire planet is the same uniform style and there aren't biomes at all. I know that'd make everything way more difficult, as it is planets are just random numbers but if there were polar biomes and such I think there'd be much more calculations needed for a planet and drastically raise the demand to represent all that from space. They also feel small for planets. Their new game has, allegedly, just one planet but it's actually full size. The current ones just also feel very flat, everything is pretty level with no real mountains which I don't think any game has really captured to be fair. All this is to be fair really. It's a game, there's limits, manpower, processing, or otherwise, there's limits.

[z2g]

yeah, no mans sky! all you've been doing is just giving us huge, free, game changing updates! Which is practically nothing. Sure its a completely different game than it was at launch and you kept all your promises and more, BUT NOTHING IS EVER GOOD ENOUGH!

-Average entitled gamer

[Moegooner]

Gamers are fed up from these ridiculous hyperbole pieces by thegamer.

[Jin_Sakai]

Exactly. Just some Reddit comments made into another ridiculous article. It’s getting old.

[OMGitzThatGuy]

Just by reading the title I knew it was “videogamer”, guess they just threw on a new coat of paint to hide the AI generated stench.

[Daeloki]

And once again a case of Fans = a couple of reddit comments

[dveio]

Since the World P1 update, I've been playing it again for the first time in 2 years.

The part of exploration, fauna and flora and especially the chemistry with all those minerals/elements have always just clicked with me, and it still do.

And I do really get lost in visiting stations, settlers, finding ruins, graves, crashed ships or following lost signals.

In fact I still get lost too much in it, causing me to even barely progress in any mission (still haven't completed 2 of the main missions, apart from 'Atlas Path'.)

What I truly miss is more interaction with the population. Or maybe bigger and more crowded settlements.

Like, I miss a little injection of some kind of RDR, GTA, BG3 interactions with NPCs. Not too much of it, just here and there, they could be even designed to be very rare to be found.

I also love it to find abandoned space stations.

They give me some real good Alien/Dead Space vibes with the sound mixing. And I wished they'd have done a little more with it, like in Metroid Prime, investigating scenes and solving the mysteries behind it.

So, yeah, I kind of share or understand the criticism.

However, No Man's Sky has become such a huge game.

All the game mechanics are just mindblowing. I find it astonishing how they've been able to put all of this into the code.

[XBManiac]

Remember Starfield players Fed Up With Inventory Management And "Lifeless" Planets

[Lolly]

Hey all, Big NMS fan over here. I play on PSVR 2 and i can say for myself this headline couldn't be more false.

[Noxxicity]

Breaking news: Players still surprised empty game is empty