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NMS is a mile wide and an inch deep. Nothing you do feels like it has meaning, the story is meh, the gathering feels like it's a placeholder, ships are only collected for looks, the graphics are ok.
This isn't a good comparison.
Yeah but I'd honestly say the same for Star Citizen. Nothing you do feels like it has any meaning as they wipe he servers twice a year and the only way to make real progress is to spend real money, there literally is no story outside of world building and subtle lore, all the missions and mining feel like they are placeholder and more than half the time don't even work depending on the update, ships are mostly just for looks and the majority of the features inside them are bare bones at best, and the graphics are pretty good if you can even run the game at 60 fps and ignore all the glaring graphical glitches.
I've probably played the same amount of time in both games and my opinion of both is usually the same with "this games could be so much better." The only difference is that I actually have fun in NMS whereas in Star Citizen I spend most of my time fighting the game in an attempt to come out the other side with any sense of actually having fun. Star Citizen is such a time suck that most days I'd play it I'd come out the other side and realize I literally didn't even do anything besides constantly play catch up because the game fucked me over in some way.
You may not like the comparison but NMS is a finished game, it was released in 2016 and has since improved massively while 14 years later and a billion dollars and Star Citizen is still a broken mess.
NMS is boring. I'm trying hard to like it but nothing you do feels meaningful. You get handed anything you want. Fly through a few systems and heres a free freighter. Set up a mining outpost and money means nothing anymore. Watch a twitch stream and get s+ ships for free. Nothing feels rewarding because it's all handed to you.
I mean, it's a sandbox survival game. If you don't like that genre, you're not likely to enjoy NMS no matter how much they add or improve to the game.
Project Zomboid is a sandbox survival game. NMS is a shallow lake that you get tossed into that has floaties within reach everywhere.
None of the pieces seem finished, yet they keep adding more.
Still, I've gotten way more than my money's worth out of it.