No Mans Sky....

Like pouring a drink and continue to pure even when the glass is full; No Man's Sky is overflowing with the amount of changes, updates and alterations to content which it's continually received. Too much of a good thing? Too much for me to get back into by a long way. So much new that even trying to keep up with the changes makes me feel line I'm drowning. If it was a game I was continually into(one and only) I'm sure I'd be all over 4.0. Keeping on top of things.

I uninstalled NMS, not that long ago. Not much has changed for me with how I 'feel' about the game. Nothing I've seen makes me want to get back into it. I still stand by what I thought/said before, it all still stands for me now. "The time I settled down was taken away from me. So I wandered on.... Aimless. Disinterested". I still stand by the posts in 2019 here, 2020 here and last year here, here and here. It's all so personally subjective.

Long story short I got a gut punch from the game at the start of the 'update/changes' phases of the games development(the post launch forgiveness tour that hasn't stopped). My journey was warped, 'my' planet, base and progress was 'moved' and removed. No wonder I lost a lot of drive to play. Yet even today I still have a small niggle that I'm missing something. A splinter of an idea that won't go away(as a need to blog about it?).  I've not reinstalled the game despite the recent updates so maybe there's hope of a clean cut altogether. 

My main source of community reaction to updates is via Jason Plays, who's almost over enthusiastic but definitely all in on No Man's Sky on a practical level. His review of the games Switch port was interesting. His take on the latest updates(here and here), lead to also checking out Beeblebum's video on the initial 4.0 Inventory changes. All of which makes me feel like the devs returned to doing something so radical I'd have had flashbacks of being burned from 'my' time around. Their videos are all old news at this stage, as the patch to the patches patch has undone and redone 'things' to make players(for the most part) 'happier' since the 4.0 patch. 

All the changes, all the emotion and I'm just an onlooker with a side interest in it. I can't see myself ever reinstalling it. Yet the game has so many new alterations that it's been made very playable from all angles of difficulty and playstyle wants and needs. Unlimited resources and no combat if you want. In a lot of ways that has had the reverse effect on me. All the work I'd put in back in the day is now even more meaningless because it can be redone so easily today... My Journey with the game as it was, was a moment in time that can no longer be rekindled. The new changes make my loss even more importantly defined, more real, more of a loss. It meant more back then. I can't be unsucker punched.

So yea I'm left with melancholy feelings of loss for what was and what could be yet what can never be the same again....