I never thought this blog would amount to much, No Man’s Sky’s hasn’t been a particularly popular game to say the least. It is however my personal favorite game of all time. I’m certainly not saying it’s the best game out there, but for me it has everything I could ever want in a space exploration simulator.
To provide a bit of my own gaming history and context to why NMS is my favorite game, I submit to you this story.
When I was younger I had a copy of Star Trek The Next Generation for Sega Genesis. In this game you could take the Enterprise around to different star systems and observe the planets around them. I would keep a small notepad next to me and write down the names of all the star systems I had visited and what planets could be found there. Of course the game had a mission structure that would take you to planets that you could land on and walk around. But I just liked the freedom of going anywhere I wanted and could only wish that I could physically go down to every planet. Then comes No Man’s Sky, a game that at its very core gives me that basic experience. Explore a vast galaxy, freely jumping from one star system to the next, landing on and documenting a variety of planets, each unique in some way. I’ve been hooked ever since.
Keep Exploring the Stars!