Kenshi didn't seem all that unpolished to me, and I expect it's been improved since I played it. The graphics ARE low fidelity for sure, but that's obvious in the screenshots. As its Store page makes very clear, you start off weak and will need to run from many, many things at the start of the game. Also, the world is HUGE!
I quit the game when the crafting recipes required some items that were guarded by critters that were too much for my little group. Still, I had almost 40 hours of fun getting to that point. Somebody who likes the game more could easily get hundreds if not thousands of hours out of it by building settlements and starting up a tribe.
But let's talk about me!!
I'm still pretty early in the new game I started up. I've got a "base" (read: shack with a teleporter and a landing pad next to it) and I've only seen a dozen or so planets. I briefly got over 1 million credits, but quickly spent down to 600k. I was exploring a toxic planet when I found a wrecked starship. I've seen these before - they have their engines broken and many of the slots for inventory items and upgrades are broken, too, but you can get one for free. Being early in the game still, means I can only have one ship, so my current ship vanishes if I claim this ship I found - I would need to fix it just to take off again.
But this ship was GREAT! Most of its slots were broken but, since I was still using the starting ship, it had as many working slots as my current ship. What's more, while the engines were broken, the items needed to fix it were things I had... back at my base, in another solar system.
One annoyance in No Man's Sky is that there's no way to just mark a location as a waypoint so you can come back to it later. However, it is a game that lets you have lots of bases and, being a new player, I wasn't remotely close to the limit. So, I built a base! I also managed to scrounge up enough junk around the location to build a teleporter and a little power generator to keep it running. Then, I simply walked through the teleporter to my own base, got the stuff I needed, came back, saved the game, and fixed the ship!
But just the engines, guns, and shields. All the slots with dark red backgrounds and "!" icons are broken slots that I can't use until I get some stuff to fix them up. I've already done a few, but it's going to take time to get them all.
Sound's like most of the play is on planets' surface, is that right? I like the sound of NMS as long as there isn't much space time.No Man's Sky
Crap. Now you have me wanting to play NMS again. I love that game. I'm not starting over, though, unless I'm forced to. I've got my multi-million dollar microchip business set up exactly right, and I don't want to have to do that again.Kenshi didn't seem all that unpolished to me, and I expect it's been improved since I played it. The graphics ARE low fidelity for sure, but that's obvious in the screenshots. As its Store page makes very clear, you start off weak and will need to run from many, many things at the start of the game. Also, the world is HUGE!
I quit the game when the crafting recipes required some items that were guarded by critters that were too much for my little group. Still, I had almost 40 hours of fun getting to that point. Somebody who likes the game more could easily get hundreds if not thousands of hours out of it by building settlements and starting up a tribe.
But let's talk about me!!
I'm still pretty early in the new game I started up. I've got a "base" (read: shack with a teleporter and a landing pad next to it) and I've only seen a dozen or so planets. I briefly got over 1 million credits, but quickly spent down to 600k. I was exploring a toxic planet when I found a wrecked starship. I've seen these before - they have their engines broken and many of the slots for inventory items and upgrades are broken, too, but you can get one for free. Being early in the game still, means I can only have one ship, so my current ship vanishes if I claim this ship I found - I would need to fix it just to take off again.
But this ship was GREAT! Most of its slots were broken but, since I was still using the starting ship, it had as many working slots as my current ship. What's more, while the engines were broken, the items needed to fix it were things I had... back at my base, in another solar system.
One annoyance in No Man's Sky is that there's no way to just mark a location as a waypoint so you can come back to it later. However, it is a game that lets you have lots of bases and, being a new player, I wasn't remotely close to the limit. So, I built a base! I also managed to scrounge up enough junk around the location to build a teleporter and a little power generator to keep it running. Then, I simply walked through the teleporter to my own base, got the stuff I needed, came back, saved the game, and fixed the ship!
But just the engines, guns, and shields. All the slots with dark red backgrounds and "!" icons are broken slots that I can't use until I get some stuff to fix them up. I've already done a few, but it's going to take time to get them all.
Oh you could be right, I don't know myself eitherit doesn't seem like your type of game
You definitely don't! As long as you remember how to get around, you'll be good.Crap. Now you have me wanting to play NMS again. I love that game. I'm not starting over, though, unless I'm forced to. I've got my multi-million dollar microchip business set up exactly right, and I don't want to have to do that again.
Been there, done that - works even better in your freighter. Sometimes I won't even be thinking of buying, I just want to see how many slots it has.Others won't see the joy in this, but one of my favorite things to do in NMS is to just hang out in space stations and watch for interesting ships to come in so I can make an offer on them.
It's very nice not to be in the starter ship!Speaking of the ship you found, it doesn't look overly valuable as a sale item, but it sure is nice to get a free ship. And if you move it somewhere else, a new one will pop up every so often. Depending on what level it is, it may or may not be worth your time to continuously fix these up and sell them, but it can be a decent starter income.
Not too long of a while - there's already been mention of glyphs, but I haven't gotten any yet. (And, of course, I could always load my other save and go wherever.)You know there's a website that gives the coordinates of all the cool ships people have found, but if you just started a new game, it will be awhile before you can travel through portals. Or, if you are like me, you'll get distracted for 200 hours doing random things and never get to travel through portals at all.
ok…Rimworld … starting to enter the medieval era … with the assault rifle I got
All right!kitchen was suddenly filled with 31 ducklings
Uncle, uncle! You've convinced me, I must have another look at this game I had it marked 'Ignore' on Steam for some reason.socially inept … gives them some melee experience (plus more experience for my doctors)
I don't own the expansions, exactly because they've never been discounted by much. So far I don't feel like I've been missing out on much, especially with the amount of mods available.Hoody blell, it's got 97-98% on Steam!
Oh dear, not Patient-friendly [despite the doctor buffs you mentioned] for a 5yo game—never been below $20 for base, and is $100 tops with the expansions.
How important are the 3 expansions? Biotech, Royalty, IIdeology.
It was in early access for 5 years before 2018 (one of the first ea games; it was called something else initially) and never went on sale the entire time. They don't like sales much, but they don't have to. They've had over 1400 reviews in the last 30 days. When you consider that it's been on Steam for 10 years, that's darn impressive.Oh dear, not Patient-friendly [despite the doctor buffs you mentioned] for a 5yo game—never been below $20 for base, and is $100 tops with the expansions.
I imagine this was mostly incompetence and carelessness rather than intentional wrong-doing.Fortnite: Parents in US offered refunds for game purchases
Fortnite: Parents in US offered refunds for game purchases
Millions in compensation will be paid out after the game tricked players into making unintended purchases.www.bbc.com
Overall, I could live without the sentinels and usually pick planets where they aren't very aggressive to put bases on. The "high activity", or whatever they're called, places would be miserable with this bug.It seems that the 'hunt you forever' thing is some sort of bug. I don't know if it happens all the time, but it's happened both times I picked a fight with the sentinels so far. It's not too bad as all I need to do is get into a cave (or dig out my own with my trusty digger gun), drop a save beacon, use it, and immediately re-load. It's a frightening thing for a new player, though!
That's what turned me off from Factorio!Satisfactory is constantly getting requests from Factorio fans to add alien invasions, for instance.
The metaverse is going to happen. The idea preceded the tech, the need, the desire, and, honestly, a viable idea of what the metaverse would be and why anyone would want to use it. The only people who wanted a metaverse were the people who were trying to make a metaverse, and they didn't even know what they were making or why anyone would want to be there. The whole thing was as stable and substantial as a puff of smoke.I think something that Bethesda games and Spore have in common is that they both have game mechanics which are very simple compared to games that focus on those mechanics, yet the overall experience is more than the sum of its parts.
Perhaps it's also why the metaverse idea seemed interesting. Even if the games that supported it were simpler than similar games, just having a sense of shared progress between them adds something special.