No Man's Sky

I like this game. It's a good game compared to where it was multiple years ago but there are still so many issues with the game, and some of that has come from it being worked on for so long. Nothing in this game is fully fleshed out. There are a lot of things that are tried, and to a various degree even succeed at keeping me engaged for a while. Most of the game mechanics are like this for about 2 hours, then you kinda top out and get bored. Let's rapid fire through game mecahnics that aren't fully fleshed out. Units are the worst. Either you are a slave to the navigation maps that provide almost no units, you do some trade system stuff that doesn't make that many units, you can have an S tier settlement to make almost no units, or you can just scan stuff through a visor after eating a magic donut and you make billions per hour. Nanites? By far the best way to make nanites is to farm mold. Is it fun? no. but if you want to progress at anything other than a snails pace, you don't have many options that are fun. the fix: nerf mold farming, make the best way to get nanites to be exploring the galaxy. the nanites you get from discovering creatures and fauna just needs a small buff to be more viable, and raiding outposts needs to be harder but more rewarding. Settlements is a big pain point for me as they have so much potential but are completely left to dry in so many ways. When you get an S tier settlement you have options of what gets produced for you, but since units don't matter unless you are exploiting mechanics, it's almost worthless. It provides no other real benefit for all the time you put in. Combat is good until you realize when you are fighting a pirate dreadnought for the first time thinking "this will be what the combat is like in this game?" then you warp to another system, get that same fight again, realize it's the same fight again. And once you have good modules it's just over for anybody you see. Corvettes are cool. I spent a lot of time to make a pretty good one. I'll give hello games that but even that system isn't fully fleshed out. The main mission is just a bunch of fetch quests with dialog about being alone, and honestly I think the game would be better without a main story at all or the option to skip it. Your characters movement is horrible, you bump into everything that is tiny and it makes your camera move pretty violently if you are clipping, the quests make me upset because there are permanent side quests that you cannot get out of the "side quest" page. If you take every major update, you see that this game has "transformed into something new" and that's true, it has, but it's also a mess that needs to be cleaned up. it's overwhelming at first when you learn there is a whole cooking system put in the game, but once you get a few pretty basic ingredients you can cook almost anything in the game. I hope the next few updates for a while calm down the new features and expand on the existing ones. Thank you for still working on the game Hello Games.