10 years. I still have the game in my Steam library, waiting for me to try it.

I guess I will never try it, once you hit your 40s, games lose their appeal anyway.

john_strinlai 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>I guess I will never try it, once you hit your 40s, games lose their appeal anyway.

you say this as if it is a law of nature, but into my 60s, i still quite enjoy relaxing with a good game. no mans sky is one of them!

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steveBK123 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I think it's a free time by age thing?

Would be interesting in your observations on the other side of this, but to me it seems related to those studies showing the trough of happiness is on average the mid-30s to mid-50s.

Most studies ascribe this to being the overlap of peak career hustle, childrearing, taking care of aging parents, and personal health scares all hitting at once.

Putting aside the obvious emotional toll, to me it looks/feels like a dearth of free time. Personally I find it hard to find blocks of time to do anything "for myself" that are more than 30-60 minutes. Video games now, compared to my youth, seem to be much deeper and entail much longer time commitments.

	▲	john_strinlai an hour ago \| parent [-]
		i certainly played less in my 40s/early-50s than i do now, mostly due to lack of free time and other commitments, so i totally understand what you and the parent are saying. but i never stopped playing entirely. in those 30-60 minutes where my wife would watch her weekly show, i would pick up where i left off in a game. i find most games today are pretty well-designed around being able to play in spurts, even if the game is long + deep. for longer story games, though, i usually keep a notebook beside me to jot down some context to help me pick it back up if i know it will be a while (mainly because my memory isn't what it used to be).

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shagie 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Consider that it has a "Very Positive" review rating in Steam now.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/275850/No_Mans_Sky/

Its last major new content was released on May 27th of this year.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/275850/view/69538767...

A video from a gaming news channel on it... No Man's Sky Treated Players Right, Now It's Unstoppable https://youtu.be/jxxRXe1hRjQ

And the steam stats for it - https://steamdb.info/app/275850/charts/#6m

As I write this, there are 10,467 people playing it now. (The stats from 2017 where in the 1000 - 2000 players playing it).

Comparing it to Factorio (which is a great game) it has 19,103 players playing it now.

As a person on the far side of my 40s, No Man's Sky occasionally gets dusted off for some play.

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WarmWash an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The real killer is the inability to commit the time needed to actually get into something. Games that I used to bang through in 2-3 days now take 2-3 months, if I finish at all. It's all just a bunch of random pockets of 1-2 hours here and there, and you can't even really get into it because as soon as you do, it's time to stop and might be days before you come back.

	▲	Insanity an hour ago \| parent [-]
		+1, that's why I don't do Single Player (story-driven) games anymore. But a MP game (currently "The Finals") for me, works much better. It's easier to pick up for a few hours and then drop again for a long time. Sure, you might not be hyper competitive but that's fine. Also works pretty well for racing games (like Forza MotorSport / Horizon) imo.

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Insanity 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's probably more personal circumstances than age, and your priorities definitely shift as you get older. I'm not in my 40s yet (mid-30s) and my decisions around games I want to play has changed.

I get to play games maybe a few hours per week (mostly in the weekend), so the idea of starting a new Assassin's Creed and spending 80 hours (many months) on a singleplayer game is pretty unappealing. (TBH, I was never super into SP games, but the appeal now dropped to 0).

At the same time, I've been having a blast with "The Finals" since launch and it's pretty much the only game I play. Easy to pick up and play 1-2 rounds :)

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SleekoNiko 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No Man's Sky is great, but it does feel a bit too relaxed for the kind of experience I'm typically looking for in a game these days.

What kind of games did you play before and how do you enjoy spending your time now?

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StellarScience 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not true. I just bought No Man's Sky on a Steam sale a few months ago and have been having a blast with it - only very occasionally neglecting my adult duties because of it.

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sghiassy 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Agreed. Except for Cracktorio, I mean Factorio