No Man's Sky was the fiasco of an industry - but recently it released its biggest update. Is it enough to bring back a player or is it all still just hype?
Despite No Man Sky's rocky launch, Hello Games managed to turn it into one of the best space exploration RPGs out there.
I hate the whole concept of "comeback story" because at the end of the day it doesn't remove the core issue we had in the first place, that we were lied to, it was disappointing and it launched with bare content to what was promised for years.
Any bad game can have a comeback story if it's supported enough after launch but for me if you launch in a terrible state then you had your chance. I can applaud you for what you've done after but at the end of the day there's not much of a choice since most gamers would blank your next product if you ditched your last game so fast, it's not about repairing the game but spending your time repairing gamers trust before you launch your next product otherwise it would be dead on arrival.
With these stories and the games being updated, the only way is up most of the time so of course it's going to improve the game and feel better over all, getting better and better as time passes. No Mans Sky, Sea of Thieves, Fallout 76 etc but then you have games like Anthem, Suicide Squad, Redfall and The Avengers where the devs just clearly moved on, now if they have another product people won't be as exited for it, I mean hell Guardians of the Galaxy was a great game but because of the Avengers it didn't help its sales since people were obviously still sour at that point.
I still think despite the improvements to games like No Mans Sky and Cyberpunk along with being better now overall the games are still not up there to what was promised and hyped as for years.
If we keep celebrating these “comeback stories” then unfortunately it only strongly supports the concept that these studios / publishers can continue to push half arsed broken products out for the sake of quick sales instead of waiting until they are fully finished. We need to condemn this awful behaviour or sadly we lose all voice and power as consumers.
I really enjoyed it at launch and had every trophy by August 2016.
The experience I had is no longer in the game: It was just me and my ship. It was a survival game and the feeling of loneliness in the universe was pervasive. There was no way to ruin too far from your ship and, in an emergency, you grenaded a hole in the ground to survive.
I miss that aspect, but since then, I love what they've done.
Orbital update drops today, also bringing with it engine improvements and UI refresh.
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If you're wanting more PSVR 2 support, you should probably buy all of these games.
Speak with your wallet!
I'm trying to decide if it's worth holding onto my psvr 2. I enjoy what it has currently, but it seems unlikely to get anything else. Might be better off just waiting for something with more support if that ever comes.
GT7 surprised me, because I hate racing games, but i poured 100 hours into it way too quickly.
I’m looking forward to the Metro VR game this year, and I hope that WW2 dogfighter game releases eventually.
I have most of them 😅
Waiting for a sale on Synapse and Arizona Sunshine 2.....also Metro coming this year looks great.
Why does everyone call this game a disaster? They lost everything in a flood and had to near enough restart the game....they should be applauded for getting the game out at all.
Iretrouk, the game was a disaster filled with misleading trailers and unfinished content. I rarely, RARELY agree with gangster, but this is one of those times. I don't care if a team is big or small or a team of one. If you say this is your game and this is what's in it and it doesn't have it, it's a big @$$ lie.
I even sat there listening to him at the first Playstation Experience and he still backed what he said would be in the game. Those big dinosaur creatures were not in the game or reacted like what was in the trailers. There were no large warms in the desert. And I spent hours trying to open a portal that didn't even work. And found out from gamers who finished the game that it didn't even function. And when you reached the center, there was nothing. Minecraft gamers might like the continued grinding and crafting for nothing special. But I found the hours of shooting at rocks boring. And having to worry about shooting too much or get attacked by robots.
If we're not going to excuse Microsoft on Sea of Thieves or Crackdown 3, we can't excuse a developer for misleading the public. And then, didn't even have the balls to say anything for months to let us know what was going on. I didn't return it. I just left it on my drive collecting dust. They have since fixed the game to have more content, more interaction, and somewhat deeper game play. But let's not ignore how the game launched.
I'm still looking forward to playing in VR after all the solid updates they put in. I applaud them for that. But at launch, I was just as disappointed as the first bad game I bought on Nintendo called Hydlide. Or renting LJN X-Men decades ago. It was that bad. If it wasn't for trade ins and Mega Man, I would have cried. Don't try and sugar coat it. Being playable didn't mean it was good.
"But No Man’s Sky also launched to nearly universal disdain and hate, with some outlets offering refunds and many developers on the game receiving death threats for what they had done."
it blows my mind that ppl would threaten to kill someone over spending $60 on a video game and being disappointed. I could see if someone killed your family, swindled you out of your life savings or various other terrible things, but for being pissed about a video game? those ppl must have little to nothing going on in their lives and definitely need to develop some emotional maturity.
The game was great from start til now.
Why praise them for doing what was expected? When I get in my car and turn the key I expect it to crack. I’m not going to praise my car for doing what the engineers designed the car to do. This is a game creation studio and they are expected to create playable games