Sahalarious

Cancel the void, the void was very much the people not the content. I need my vinny and Alex

Ark is one of those games that I refuse to admit I hate. But every few months when I try it again I hate it even more, the terrible looking characters, the bland environments, and just the whole craftiness of it all... And yet I am intrigued by this

Not only am I expecting a less than adequate upgrade, I am also imagining they make it an extremely difficult process to transfer my library. They have fucked me for so many years now with such terrible anti-consumer decisions that I don't know why I keep giving them my money. But I definitely will.

I was one of the many disappointed faces in the crowd when no man's sky came out and was barely a game. I was so excited as a space nerd, to have something less business like than elite dangerous to satisfy my stargazing needs.

After putting the game down being as disappointed as I was, I heard about updates every now and then, and with the release of every update, I would redownload the game, start a new file, and realize that the game was still a boring mess.

It got to the point where I stopped tracking these updates, but when I saw the most recent update that came out this week, I forced myself to give it one more try. Now I don't know if some of the stuff that I've been enjoying came from updates that you all are familiar with already, but this feels like an actual video game now.

Way more guidance if you want it, quests and crafting have become far more streamlined, and the amount of variation that they have added to the extremely dull initial offering is insane. I'm playing on an Xbox One x, in visual mode and it does chug a bit byt boy is it pretty.

I haven't landed on an obvious duplicate planet yet, the new social hub gives plenty of customization bullshit to enjoy, the space stations feel way more alive and the language mechanic is more fleshed out now, although it's probably still superfluous. Riding one of the also greatly improved alien life forms is a blast, have yet to track down one of the new flying mounts but I'm excited to try.

I think what I wanted from this game was adventure for adventure sake, and the third planet I landed on had an amazing ship with quadruple my cargo capacity that I immediately made my own and lost my old ship. What I didn't realize however was that every single spot in that inventory was completely filled with broken items that I would have to painstakingly remove one by one using extremely rare resources. Even the warp drive was broken. The amount of time I've spent just getting my ship and working order has not felt like a chore though, rather an actual adventure in space. I landed on the planet that had nothing but extreme lightning storms and mostly water hunting down some activated copper, and I can't wait to go back.

Not sure if anybody has the experience but I don't know much about the crafting of a base at this point yet, I'm kind of tempted to build it on this extreme lightning planet but I'm sure that would be kind of a bitch. Anyone else have a similar journey?

@pg77: it is a substantial upgrade and looks fantastic with hdr especially, plus the dlc gotta do it

@sarcasticmudcrab: I guess what I'm taking issue with here is your insistence that it was "clearly their intention" to make a game for children. Its just a videogame, some games have whimsy, some have f-bombs and tits, I play em all, as do many people. Someone here said BoTW was made "for kids" and thats just so fucked. Are we supposed to abandon our enjoyment of color at age 18? demand obscenities in all content lest we be pandered to?

Glad to see so many Duders enjoyed it, was surprised to see very little activity on here, especially given how deep the end game stuff is here. The fextralife for this is about as deep as it is in a Dark souls and that's awesome, I hope I don't burn out on this because I'm looking forward to mastering this on higher settings

@sarcasticmudcrab: what do you think kids are? I was watching goodflas, playing GTA, marveling at my Scarface collectors edition gator skin case, or even playing Manhunt. I also, as a 30year old, watch Adventure Time regularly. Quality is quality, these age brackets you're making are completely irrelevant.

Your post is certainly got me as close to buying it as I've been, but if it's still early access I just have to wait. I feel like I've been burned on a few games where I use all of my excitement and goodwill too early on before the content is there. But with your play time maybe I should just pull the trigger, I just think about dead cells and how much they added after I was already burnt out on it and I don't want that to happen here

I think a big part of the reason why we see such negative opinions about the overall good game that is DS2, is the replayable nature of these games. If I'm willing to continue syncing dozens of hours into one and three I just can't see myself going towards the lesser game. The world feels far more segmented as well which makes it less enjoyable to navigate through as you start learning everything because it's really just"levels" in a way that I find to be the antithesis of Dark souls 1. Dark souls 3 was segmented a bit but still had lots of sprawling environments that made that same connection