I just realized that. Basically, I just noticed how I wasn’t even playing the main quest – I’m here building my base, growing my settlement. Upgrading stuff, having new plans of a thing I wanna build… Friends come and go from my world to theirs, meaning that I sometimes play with friends, sometimes alone. It’s one of these games I can just hop in, relax, and leave whenever I can. It’s a soothing game, that I’m playing as (almost entirely) sandbox.

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It’s a feeling I had for minecraft ten years ago. Enjoying the sandbox, building stuff and going on adventures, with friends hoping on and off the server. I sometimes restarted minecraft, but never found this feeling back nowadays. And here I am, fifty hours in my No Man’s Sky main save (not counting expeditions) and I just realized that this is how I’m playing the game. With that good old feeling.

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It’s a nice game.

I just ordered a used copy of NMS so I can finally have a game to play with friends and family.

I was excited for NMS since it was announced and then because of the bad launch, I didn’t pay any attention to it afterwards. My friend has been bugging me for years to get the game and then eventually I moved somewhere where I couldn’t play games online for a few years, so once again I didn’t pay any attention to it.

With internet once again, I’ve been wanting a game I could get my friend and brother to play, I tried to get them to play Overwatch or ARK but neither of them cared enough to get involved. My friend kept bringing up NMS, so I started bringing it up to my brother because I knew he would love it, we both love space, both loved Minecraft, both loved the idea of ARK, exploring, etc.

After weeks of bothering my brother he bought it at full price and loves it, now he started bothering me about getting it, and after seeing the synth update and watching trailers…I had to buy it.

I cannot wait to have a game to spend time playing with my favorite people, exploring and building and whatever else. Looking at a few posts in this sub and I’m in awe of what’s possible. This might become my favorite game ever (speaking too soon, I know) and I have to give a kudos to Hello Games, the work that has been done with a small team is outlandish in today’s market, I wanna give them all a kiss, chlamydia for everyone!

But seriously, I’m waiting for my package like a little kid waiting for Christmas, I can’t begin to explain how happy I am to finally have a game that gets my friends and family involved.

I’m sorry, but I had to selfishly express myself, I would love to read your stories of your NMS experiences!