No Man's Sky: The Abyss [PC, PS4, XBone]

[Gibby]

Still, in five more hours I'd have had 1 hour of entertainment for every £1 spent, which is my benchmark for whether a game was worth it or not.

I reckon my 'cost per hour' for the Baldurs Gate games must be something like 1 or 2 pence.

It translates therefore that BG is awesome doesn't it? My system works!

[Maturin]

True. It's also perhaps an indication of obsessive behaviour on my part!

[Gibby]

Nah. I've got similar Baldur's Gate/2 play time. Still don't think I've seen and done everything either.

[Gibby]

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.

[Sly Boots]

+1 for Subnautica, easily one of the best games I played this year.

[Jez]

Subnautica is an amazing game. Definitely one of the true kickstarted successes.

I played NMS for a few hours the other day. Still underwhelming in many ways but fair play to them they are still plugging away at it.

[Medicine Man]

https://www.nomanssky.com/2018/10/no-ma ... the-abyss/

Whilst most of the team have been busy on weekly updates, a handful have been working on something else, our first titled update since NEXT.

A new free update is releasing next week for all players. We’ve called it The Abyss, because it focuses on some of the eerier elements of No Man’s Sky, in keeping with the theme of this season.

[ManBearSquid]

I'm definitely intrigued. I bought into the game after the NEXT update and have had fun exploring, dog fighting, and managing a modest fleet. I don't play it all that often but it's great when I wanna relax into a game. I play it completely solo and just enjoy taking my time.

[Jez]

I felt disappointed with the Next update. People raved about it elsewhere and it wasn't "bad or anything but it didn't change things up in the areas I thought it would.

I will probably not go back again.

[Medicine Man]

[The Jackal]

For an abyss, you can see pretty bloody far.

I'm reading The Kraken Wakes for the first time atm and this has annoyed me now.

[sohei]

Ah that's a classic book. Spent long nights in dark empty telephone exchanges reading that and giving myself a good old scare

[The Jackal]

Ah that's a classic book. Spent long nights in dark empty telephone exchanges reading that and giving myself a good old scare

S'great innit? I read Triffids just before, and really enjoyed that. Unlike with that, though, I'm going into the second book with no clue of the story beyond what's on the blurb on the back.

[sohei]

Ah that's a classic book. Spent long nights in dark empty telephone exchanges reading that and giving myself a good old scare

S'great innit? I read Triffids just before, and really enjoyed that. Unlike with that, though, I'm going into the second book with no clue of the story beyond what's on the blurb on the back.

Really atmospheric writing imo. I get a physical sense of the environment in his writing. Absolutely superb.

[The Jackal]

I just got into Phase Three.

Fuckin' bathies, amirite