No Man's Sky - Entry #001

Well, it's been a week now since I delved in Hello Games' universe and I'm pleased to say that, out of 18 quintillion star systems I have managed to travel through... 3.

Yes, 3 whole star systems! However my good friend who started playing when I did hasn't left his starting planet yet, so, compared to him, I've made some progress! But, fair play to him, he's playing it properly in terms of trying to discover everything.

Anyway, I when I started I decided to forgo redeeming my free spaceship awarded to me for pre-ordering the game and set out into the purple and red bushes of my starting planet to figure out how the hell I should repair my damaged starter spaceship... after some fudging and fiddling I got it repaired and launched off into the ether.

Along the way, so far at least, I've had my trials and tribulations... I've met a couple of alien species and learned some of their words and when it came to deciding what I wanted to do for my play style I chose to follow the path of the Atlas (the other option was open, free play)... it's a path that I hope will be an interesting and fruitful one, in gaming terms at least!

Anyway, here's a picture log of my progress so far... first up, the AI's skills at landing are quite impressive:

Wow... just wow!

I found a planet, loaded with gold... great mounds of gold! Needless to say I mined the shit out of it and after several trips to trade stations became, as Dell Trotter once said "A millionaire!"

Ooh1 Shiney!

From gold... to cold! The next planet I was on was so cold that when it got dark AND a storm came in I faced temperatures in the -200 degrees ranges, which kicked the arse out of my thermal protection... however, despite the harsh environment I managed to catalogue every species of creature and a shitload of plants and waypoints, it was not without it's scary moments though:

That thing scared the shit out of me...

...and it seems that Hello Games have their work cutout with the bugs, this alien was doing a jerky handstand dance:

A cow-like thing doing a dance... very bizarre.

After that I found my first Atlas waypoint (a large diamond-like space station) which set me on the path... along which I came across a system which some 'tard, who had gotten there before me, had named it "John Cena" ... what a twat. Anyway, there, I found an 'anomaly' which turned out to be a large spherical space station, in it I found an alien which gave me three choices: 1. Help me with finding resources so I could bugger off and explore, 2. Give me help with the Atlas path... or 3. Show me how to find Black Holes so I could skip millions of light years in my quest towards the centre of the galaxy.

Naturally I chose the Black Holes... I mean, who doesn't want to fly through Black Holes? They're frikin' awesome!

That's it for this first entry... next up, hopefully my first jaunt through an event horizon!