I was looking at the most recent threads and found nothing about this gem, even though it's currently making the buzz all around gaming websites.
If you have never heard of it (or the corresponding hype train that it unknowingly created),
No Man's Sky is a procedurally generated space sandbox / sim, where you can
now step into the shoes of one of four races: Gek (small shrewish birds who love profit), Korvax (dickish supercomputers), Vy'keen (noble warrior race) or Humans/Anomalies (us/also us). You can discover stuff, harvest plants, sightsee planets, create galactic hubs or blow things up as a pirate, among many other things.
It is currently on its 1.5 iteration, Next, which brings a squad-based multiplayer and random encounters. PvP capabilities have yet to be seen.
This is the scale and distribution of one of the many (255 afaik) playable galaxies.
The rather infamous
reddit community, where all the flames started, is now a startlingly upbeat place. Has lot of screenies and additional info.
Did you buy the game during release and stuck with it? Were you caught in the refund wave, only to have purchased it back on discount? Is this all new and enticing to you?
Discuss (edit: and let's keep it civil, please).
Good to see that people can talk about NMS without a thread getting locked again.
Will update accordingly with links and additional info over time.