Between this and Star Citizen, I am completely re-stoked about PC gaming. For YEARS it's been rehash after rehash of the same basic two styles of games... either a first person shooter like CoD or Halo, or MMORPGs like WoW or SW:TOR. I hope that now that games like Star Citizen or NMS have proven that you can create an entire universe and REALLY engage the players, we will see a lot more games like this.
I'm frankly tired of these games with limited amounts of content where everything follows a script and there are only so many places where you can go. I want games like this, where your actions can very well affect the game for YEARS to come. You leave your own indelible mark on the created universe by discovering a planet or altering the balance of power in an entire quadrant of space. A character that you create and develop can be the hero or the villain.
It's not just you doing a run-through playing a predetermined character like Master Chief or Revan, with the game designers determining what the canonical ending is despite your actions. No, your character is an independent character whose actions will either be forgotten utterly, or remembered for all time.
