No Man's Sky

[keg in kc]

I've so far spent four hours doing nothing but exploring my starting planet. At this rate I'll make it into space sometime next month. Just kidding. Sort of. Ship's been prepped for flight a couple hours but I keep getting more unknown location prompts. Surprising variety so far. At least three kinds of ancient artifacts, a couple of abandoned outposts, a couple of manufacturing plants, a few shelters, a hub that looks like an airport with multiple landing pads and a big seating area with a galactic market terminal, about 20 korvax language markers and what seems like about 50 waypoints. And I'm guessing I've actually explored very little of the surface area.

Love it so far.

[Pants]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

I've so far spent four hours doing nothing but exploring my starting planet. At this rate I'll make it into space sometime next month. Just kidding. Sort of. Ship's been prepped for flight a couple hours but I keep getting more unknown location prompts. Surprising variety so far. At least three kinds of ancient artifacts, a couple of abandoned outposts, a couple of manufacturing plants, a few shelters, a hub that looks like an airport with multiple landing pads and a big seating area with a galactic market terminal, about 20 korvax language markers and what seems like about 50 waypoints. And I'm guessing I've actually explored very little of the surface area.

Love it so far.

I feel like I've seen you say you're [an almost OCD] completionist when it comes to games. What's your plan on tackling this? Are you going to just completely explore everything possible on each planet you visit until you're done playing the game?

The only reason I ask is that I'm very similar in my approach to games and am strongly considering getting this.

By the way, the completionist approach rules because it usually means I get incredible bang for the buck in terms of hours of enternaiment per dollar spent.

[Buck]

Originally Posted by Pants

I feel like I've seen you say you're [an almost OCD] completionist when it comes to games. What's your plan on tackling this? Are you going to just completely explore everything possible on each planet you visit until you're done playing the game?

The only reason I ask is that I'm very similar in my approach to games and am strongly considering getting this.

By the way, the completionist approach rules because it usually means I get incredible bang for the buck in terms of hours of enternaiment per dollar spent.

You haven't got your money's worth in any game until Buck TK's you at least 10 times in said game.

[Pants]

Originally Posted by Buck

You haven't got your money's worth in any game until Buck TK's you at least 10 times in said game.

MW2, thems were some good times.

Feeling all the feels now...

[Swanman]

I have been tooling around my first planet and getting a lot of stuff done. I found some deposits of Emeril (bam!!!!) so sold that at the space station for some good coin. I just get in my shape and fly around until my scanner detects a question mark then I go in and land. I upgraded my suit inventory around 4 times and got an upgraded multitool with 8 inventory slots and have learned about 10 words.

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by Pants

I feel like I've seen you say you're [an almost OCD] completionist when it comes to games. What's your plan on tackling this? Are you going to just completely explore everything possible on each planet you visit until you're done playing the game?

The only reason I ask is that I'm very similar in my approach to games and am strongly considering getting this.

By the way, the completionist approach rules because it usually means I get incredible bang for the buck in terms of hours of enternaiment per dollar spent.

Yeah, that's me. I've probably played 12 hours now and I still haven't left my starting system yet. I've just arrived at the fourth planet of six. One didn't have any life on it at all (so yes, that can happen after all) so I didn't spend much time there. Otherwise I've basically just analyzed, mined and looked for schematics.

Let's put it this way: the planets are unbelievably huge. I have no idea what percentage of surface area I've covered but I'd guess it's tiny. I only stay long enough to identify a certain number of species to net a large credit reward. Which hasn't been easy so far (trying to analyze flying creatures is particularly difficult). I'm kind of glad each planet has a uniform biome because I don't feel obligated to stay after I've finished scanning. There seems to be some point of interest within five minutes walk from anywhere on any planet's surface, at least in my first system, so I could probably meander around forever on one planet.

Inventory wise it hasn't been too bad. One benefit of my playstyle is that I've come across numerous exosuit upgrades (have 20 slots IIRC), gotten two free multitools (current one has 8 slots) and found three crashed ships, although none yet better than the preorder. Well, one had 17 slots but it looked like a pink and white dildo. So no...

Saw a 28 slot ship on one of the landing pads but I didn't have three and a half million credits. But I'm sure I'll find another derelict that I like eventually.

My last planet was amazing. Beautiful scenery, abundant resources. The one I'm currently on looks like Texas. No bueno.

No awe inspiring moments really, outside of scenery oohs and ahhs (lots of those so far) but I didn't really expect there to be in my first system.

So far zero regrets on the preorder.