My big complaint with NMS was that it does some things SO WELL that I want to play it despite all of the things it does so poorly. The player combat feels awful and clunky, but ship combat is amazingly fun and exciting! Exploring is great, but having to constantly find the same resources over and over in order to get off the fucking planet, or have a massive stockpile, is really boring. I also don't like being forced to build bases, like if I wanted to accomplish something by shooting and making money, I would rather do that than play a half baked survival crafting game.<p>I really wish that a game would come out that mixes all of the space and exploration of NMS but with the polish of a rockstar game like RDR, with the immersion of being a space explorer. I want fun combat with cover mechanics, I want trade and crime with NPCs, I want story (even if it is procedural), I want all of these things that NMS doesn't have. I look forward to this game because presumably they will have to focus on player combat and immersion more simply because there isn't a ton of space combat or similar. It looks a lot more "grounded", both literally and metaphorically, than NMS