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by Gibby » Mon Aug 13, 2018 9:14 pm
So, I haven't played this since I last posted about it, and I feel no compulsion to go back to it any time soon. For a while it is a great experience, lots of eye candy and fun moments for the inner Sci fi nerd to lap up. But its lack of depth starts to show fairly quickly once you see the same interiors over and over, the same creatures made of the same assets, etc. The gameplay loop of refilling everything gets tiring very fast, and ultimately there isn't a lot to DO that other games don't do better. Furthermore, nothing really means anything - infinite galaxies means nothing matters in any of them, ultimately.
I have fifteen hours of play time. For twenty quid it was worth it. I spent more than that on two tickets + snacks for The Last Jedi, an equally shallow laser show but one that didn't last as long.
Long story short, it's worth a bash at sale price, but for the true Sci fi itch, scratch it with Subnautica for a planet full of alien creatures and a great story. Elite Dangerous or one of the others of that genre for space RPG, and Space Engineers for making epic ships and such.