Got in 160 hours or so, enjoyed it and have no regrets buying it. I'll probably play a little bit again in the future, but not so much. So it was a fine game, but not their best outing for sure.
Give Vintage Story a shot! Like you'll go in with a MC mindset and slowly realize you're in a whole new world. It's dark and the wolves after after you and the 3 stacks of berries you collected have all rotted. Is that a bear? What does it mean "temporal storm approaching"?
(few weeks later you've mastered voxel by voxel claymaking, knapping, and maybe done gotten some smithing done if you've managed an avil. Winter is approaching, is your cellar stocked? Do you have warm clothes?)
(Been playing for years and still learning things, and the devs seem to outpace mojang in terms of adding features, you get modding built in, and the chiseling...by god the chiseling...)
Shrinkflation and possibly exstential dread I don't have the same life experience of a tube of chips!
I bet the new one also feels a bit more empty inside.
My body's just a flesh vessel for an immortal being whose name if you heard it would make you lose your mind.
I maded it to NG+11 I think, once you get Phase Time X you don't need to do go any further. Actually basically the last run I didn't buy anything other than some ammo, using whatever I found on the way and since you can have Phase Time on all the time, there's no challenge (other than the final space battle).
I'm done for now at 136 hours played, next time I get into it, will definitely start a fresh character!
I'm content with my ~120 hours played so far even if I don't play again. But I probably will, especially with mods or future content. It doesn't quite have the build flexibility of an elder scrolls game though. Hopefully they'll add more variants to the bases etc. Generally happy if a game has 40 hours of gameplay and there's easily 40 hours of content in Starfield.
The NG+ stuff is interesting but after playing it a bunch it's both a plus and a minus, like it's neat to have the options there, but also might've been better to start actual new characters.
Think I will wait for the new Grim Dawn DLC and Titan Quest 2 instead thanks
"Sir? Sir? You can't smoke in here, this is a hospital!"
(Seriously though it looks great!)
Empire was so well played, going from amicable to terrifying. Lee Pace makes that show!
Always reminds me of one of my favorite books (part of a series) The Collapsium by Will McCarthy. A big part of the book is their version of teleporting which does involve destruction and recreation, but while you're at it you could make more than one copy at the destination...
Literally just a rant on Zero Punctuation about "AC" games - Assassin's Creed, Animal Crossing, Armored Core, I forget the list. (Also Asheron's Call I guess)