Starfield vs No Man's Sky

Dirt compares these two legendary games with an objective perspective that is not swayed by emotion in any way.

[abelingaw]

You take off from a planet - cutscene
You go to a different planet - cutscene

NMS: We don't do that here.

[John_Conner_]

Id say the biggest difference is that no mans sky is a great game

[siddbastard]

you can ride carl.

andreja cannot ride you.

[social_redd_]

WE GOT SHIP CUSTOMIZATIONS IN NMS BABY

[tslater]

I stopped Starfield after 3 hrs playtime. I bought NMS 3 days ago and allready 40 hrs hooked, says everything to me.

[jasoncallow]

In NMS you can discover planets and name them after famous gerbils or your shoes or even Carl. Other players will see the name of your planets and say "seriously?"

[tekky]

It still amazes me how, in no man's sky, you can fly anywhere without any loading screens.

[theazurefire]

One thing I really like about No Man's Sky is that a lot of the technology that you'd normally unlock by playing the story can also be unlocked by spending resources. If you chose to ignore the story mode and play for the sandbox features, you're not punished by having technology locked away behind a story mission. It's cheaper to unlock the tech through the story, but you can also spend nanites or salvaged tech if you really want a launchpad for your base *now.*

[SNPRGhillie]

Starfield:
A game that's about exploring the unknown in space.
Which you do with a spaceship.
You build your own spaceship.
Now you fasttravel and teleport everywhere you need to go.
You don't spend any time at all in your ship.
You can't fly to planets, land or take off with your ship.
Starfield is like a racing game, but you fast travel to the finish line and don't actually drive the racecar.

[weirdochristoffel]

no mans sky is way better than starfield sorry todd but you cant compete with british

[dickidyang]

Don't forget one of the most important element: Multiplayer. No Man's Sky wins BIG TIME. (No Man's Sky supports VR, which makes it 10 times more immersive.)

[scubasteve]

I think the music is actually a draw at best. NMS has really underrated music. Sure, it’s not as “dramatic” as Starfield’s, but it creates an amazing vibe while you play that really feels like exploring a strange planet or floating around in space.

[greattitan]

The little creepy jingle after certain NMS missions made me feel more than any of the Starfield soundtrack ever did.

[xboop]

When i played starfield i honestly couldn't tell it was supposed to be a space exploration game.

[silvercat]

No mans sky actually gives you what you expect. You fly about, you can think about where you land on a planet, you can find actual stuff from other players that was left years ago. You can actually land on big ships, or own a big ship and have crew....and can spot those ships in the actual universe going about the missions you have sent them on. Also vehicles, which are genuinely fun and alien pets.

I remember finding a planet in NMS where players had met in the old days when that was rare - there was an item floating there as a marker, as such meetings were celebrated in that way. I had no idea what it was and many players i went to had no idea either, i had found a genuine ancient relic on a forgotten world and could research it as it had their names on. Eventually i learned the lore of these unusual creations. I really was doing some in game space archaology... in a real ruin as some of the placed items nearby were still there, a broken stair and some walls....and what appeared to be a bridge that the two players had met so that they were both standing on the same coordinates years ago.

Starfield though - they had all that money and talent - and others had made mistakes they could learn from and avoid, including their own studio...and yet....everything went backwards. Its such a tragedy, it could have been so good. Should have been so good and instead all we got was a busted version of elder scrolls that was more like a knockoff copy.

[itsmaxmint]

Can‘t wait for the in-depth comparison of Carl vs. Andreja

[kenjohns]

6 months later and this whole video needs to be updated. You have to thank Hello Games for that.

[CC-ygqt]

Wait till he sees what happens with orbital

[thatidiotoverthere]

I couldn’t disagree more with the music one ngl, No Man’s Sky’s background music is what makes it special to me.

[tiestofalljays]

And now No Man's Sky just got "Worlds: Part 1 update." If it wasn't over for Starfield already, it is now lol.