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New single planet fantasy game from Hello Games
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Unless they've fired the absolute moron(s) who designed the crafting and alien language system in NMS, I say stay far away.
I mean, combining dihydrogen and oxygen yields... NaCl? And you learn alien words literally one at a time? Oh but they have procedural generation! Except every single space station looks identical.
IMO This is a developer who does not respect their players. And somehow they've convinced a lot of people that periodically adding more shallow grindy fetch quests means the core gameplay isn't garbage.
This is the worst take I've seen in a LOOONG time. The language learning is one of the best systems in NMS. The developers literally spent YEARS adding to the game, completely for free, but they don't "respect their players"?
Not every game has to be for you, bud.
What are you talking about? The player literally learns nothing about the alien languages. All you do is walk up to a NPC, button mash through absolutely inconsequential filler text, and pick the option that says "teach me a word". Then a popup says "You now know the Korvax word for 'THE'", except it doesn't even tell you which alien word was translated or explain any grammar or context or conjugation or anything. Your character just does a magical substitution from that point forward.
Or you can do the same thing by walking up to the black pillars if you'd rather trudge around a planet surface for macguffins.
How in any way is that a good system? There's zero skill or challenge or reward or even real gameplay here. A word search puzzle would have 100x more depth.