Decided to get into No Man's Sky again.
I've had it for a while now and played through it once. I got it on sale, probably through Humble Bundle, but I don't recall exactly. I know it was a few months after it launched.
Once again, this is a heavily modded game. I haven't played it in a while, and wanted to get a game in before the big upcoming update. Despite the bad press and rough launch, it's actually a halfway decent game now. I don't know that I'd recommend buying it at full price at this point, but it's worth picking up on sale at least.
On its own, the game is still not amazing, but with mods it's a lot more fun. We'll see how future updates might improve things.
Added a Reshade and a bunch of textures, plus quite a few gameplay mods, and stuff that makes the galaxy more populated with both NPCs and Ships. A ton of extra ships, more creatures, better and more varied biomes, gameplay tweaks, better creature AI, better space combat, etc...
You can't mod your ship to be a particular one as far as I know, so I had to rely in RNG to get my current ship.
Pretty sure I'm going to keep this one for the majority of the game. Once I buy a freighter I can have several ships, so I'll probably keep this one until then. It's a mid range ship, and I'll keep it for joyriding, but will need a higher level ship at some point for actually playing the game once I start traveling to the more difficult systems towards the center of the galaxy.
As I understand it, the Enterprise is one of the Freighters I can obtain, so I'll be keeping an eye out. Not sure if there's a Star Destroyer Freighter or not. I've also run across X-wings, the Drop Ship from Halo, and a Star Trek Shuttle. Someone basically took CGI models and tossed them into Blender [a 3D modeling program] to add them to the game.
I've already maxed out my money by mining and trading, both of which are vastly improved thanks to mods, and I am just waiting to come across a decent freighter. I'll probably buy a placeholder until I run across one of the more interesting ones added by mods as it lets me get to the more interesting systems sooner. I'm just waiting until I come across one with a decent amount of storage. I'd have to upgrade my hyperdrive on my standard ship a couple of times to get to the better star systems, but a Freighter can jump to any type of star by default.
That big creature in the last shot is about twice as big as the space station. It looks smaller than it is in the screenshot. It's a fair distance behind the space station, not in front of or beside it.
I'll probably post another batch of screenshots later on, once I find some of the more interesting ships and planets. I've really just started venturing out into the galaxy and spent most of the day grinding in my starting system, which turned out to be decent for resource farming for cash. I was also able to learn a good bit of one of the languages while I was at it. The Gek language, which is the little frog looking critters in one of the shots above.
Tomorrow I'll probably find a planet to build a base on, as that will give me access to several upgrades reliably, and provide even more storage, which is paramount in No Man's Sky. The inventory issue has been largely addressed at this point.
Managing inventory is still a bit of a pain early on, but you'll find yourself with plenty of space to stash stuff before too long if you spend a bit of time on a planet with decent resources near to a space station, which isn't that hard to find.
I'll probably mod Fallout 4 or Witcher 3 next. Not sure which. I doubt NMS will keep me occupied long, as I'm really just messing around with it. I don't really want to do a complete runthrough until after the next big update, and that will probably break most of the mods for it and require some patching as well, so I'll give it a bit of time before I bother after it drops.
There's also Subnautica, but that game is still in the early stages of its mod life, and doesn't really have anything that makes it look nicer aside from a reshade. They haven't released mod tools for it yet, but have mentioned that they will eventually.
Still messing around with Skyrim as well. I've finished it once, but have a few mods in that I didn't get around to messing with. I installed some stuff that reworks vampires for example, and a few quest mods. Plus I've added a bit to it since the shots above so it looks even better than it did then, even if only a little. Still haven't managed to break it, which is nice.
I did manage to finish GTA V at least, so there's that.