Yet no one else has given you a spacecraft and then just set you loose to go explore the natural wonders of our galaxy with it, thereby giving you a more embodied sort of window onto our staggeringly magnificent and terrifyingly immense universe than any planetarium can hope to create.
Honestly this was what I loved about the initial version of No Man's Sky. It didn't have any pretense to realism but it really worked well as a non-game about just being a tiny speck in a galaxy much, much larger than you can really begin to comprehend.
Every update added more "gameplay" and made the player feel more important. And I guess that's more of what people want. But there was a magic to the pre-patch NMS that it's lost, and it's pretty much what that quote describes.
Honestly this was what I loved about the initial version of No Man's Sky. It didn't have any pretense to realism but it really worked well as a non-game about just being a tiny speck in a galaxy much, much larger than you can really begin to comprehend.
Every update added more "gameplay" and made the player feel more important. And I guess that's more of what people want. But there was a magic to the pre-patch NMS that it's lost, and it's pretty much what that quote describes.