Imo the game still lacks a lot of depth but at least they did it for free.

I agree. They've widened the pond but it's still an inch deep. And the procedural generated creatures are still generally kind of...boring.

The gameplay loop in general just doesn't do it for me. It's the same issue Starfield has, I think...the idea that you're exploring a galaxy is somewhat undercut when there are outposts and trash everywhere you go. You're not braving a few frontier, you're playing interstellar janitor.

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I've never played, but that's the general consensus I've seen. The game itself is still fairly shallow, but the fact that they actually bit the bullet, did the work, and did all of this shit for free is very commendable. They could have stopped way before this, but they've gone above and beyond the amount of free updates

I gotta tell you it's an inattentive ADHD 's dream game though. You can drop it and pick it right back up a year later. The lack of depth means I'm ok to play for an hour or less. I have no worries about forgetting the story, forgetting what I was doing. I can do anything I want to at the whim of my silly brain. Just chefs kiss for this very particular kind of brain.

Still not a game for me but, them not giving up and putting out as much content as they did is honorable.

They still need to hire someone from iD Software to revamp their entire ground combat, then dump a full expansion that makes 100s of procedural side quests to do while in space.

My biggest issue has always been the gunplay feels god awful, the UI is god awful, the tedium is still there, and the story and side quests are terribly bland.

Once they fix those things it may go down as one of the best games ever made, but until then it's still a 7/10.

Idk why it's popular as it is. It really is just still super empty and tedious to do everything with a horrible ui.

I guess I beat the main quest of the game but I still have no clue what the frick is going on or what the point of anything is.

Good for Hello Games. I'll still never forget Sean Murray straight up lying about multiplayer prelaunch tho. Kinda crazy how they weren't sued into oblivion for that. Definitely not buying their next game at launch. I'll wait at least a year or two.

But Sean Murray lied up to launch, during launch, and post launch, and never has actually apologized for this. There's no excuse, he was on Stephen Colbert on Launch Night and said the game had multiplayer and you could see other players, though the chance was small.

That turned out to be a lie entirely, as the game has no netcode at all, no way to do what he claimed it could do. And it didn't, for a long time.

Besides the fact that he said the story was really interesting and the secret at the center of the universe would "Blow everyones minds", when in reality all it was is the same STARTED OVER in a new universe, it really felt, even for a few years after launch with updates being added, that the game had no real purpose.

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