So i finally played the game...
You know how after an intense relationship and a messy breakup you'd think you would never be able to stand seeing her again, and yet a decade later you happen across each other and just catch up like old friends, as if neither ever happened?
It's a touch of that kind of feel here. Just a somewhat fun game, no hard feelings or regrets, no envy, no plans.
Guess i'm finally getting over it.
Can't say i disliked it - sure, there is not a shred of physics in NMS, but i kinda get why they did so. The story so far had been impersonal and scaffoldey, but guess how i handled it. Despite never playing it before, there is a persistent sense of familiarity.
The interface is a bit rough around the edges, feels like it's intended for VR or console-grade lousiness of controllers.
Haven't really played long enough to run into grindiness or to exhaust the procedural variation.
Having specific environmental threats on different worlds was a nice touch that never occurred to me.
Speaking of performance - was anyone else getting an ungodly long loading time at the start?
I have a fairly beefy system, and yet it still took several minutes of "loading" shaders and then staring at a starfield with no other messages.
