I played No Man's Sky for a few hours tonight, the longest I've played it for in about a hundred years, because I can never really get into it because they forgot to put any video game in the goddamn thing, but at some point since last time, they did sprinkle some in there, not a lot, just a little, and that's all you need. It needs to be reactive and it never was, and this time I played for like, 4 hours and 2 reactive things happened. Which is a record! I was able to get into it.
The first thing was I shot a random spaceship that flew overhead, and the fucker turned around and kept swooping me until I finally refueled my launch thruster and took off and shot him down. In my day shooting these guys didn't do anything. The second thing was I mining lasered an egg, just one of a million weird objects I laser in a day, only this one was an egg and I got attacked by a bunch of scary animals whose egg it was. Good shit. It's still an exercise in frustration in a lot of ways but not as much as it was. One of those games makes you want to make your own one of it.
