Started into No Man's Sky after failing to be engaged by Starfield (Because I still have Game Pass due to Lies of P coming up) and because I've wanted to give it another try as I tried to play it a year or two ago and it didn't run great for me, but it seems to be doing okay now. Right off the bat, No Man's Sky does a much better job nailing the whole space experience. It actually did a good job of this initially all those years ago, kinda the one right thing it had, that experience of traveling off the planet, into space, jumping to another planet, is seamless. It's still great.
It's the complete opposite of Starfield, which is basically just a cluster of zones you warp to and never really feeling like you are traveling towards. I can also land anywhere on the planet, use my ship to get around and while planets can be barren, they feel more involved, better procedural generation for the terrain. On the other hand, I think Starfield being more of an RPG, it does make the questing and interactions abit more interesting, I'm not gonna say it's always great, but it generally does have stuff that feels more like actual locations, known cities, voice acted characters, that sort of thing, being able to scour an abandoned base for all sorts of resources, or weapons, and gear, the standard Bethesda experience, that aspect is kinda missing here from the few hours I've put in.
I don't know about everything they've added to the game over the years, I know it's become way more involved, lots of content of all sorts, and while it's not super catching me yet, it's much more chill and nicer to play, doing a much more fun and exciting space theme, so I'll try to play for awhile longer to see if I can find some of that new content to really hold me in.
