Is it okay to play starbound as creativity game, not story game?

[H4R4W1]

i've played cracked version of starbound once.
and since then i know the ending.
but when i bought the actual game on steam, i kinda focus on creativity and sandbox rather than story and survival.

did i play the game in the wrong way?

[ナオヤ]

It's hard to play sandbox games "wrong".
Starbound as a story and a certain progression (start with iron, end with solar or w/e highest tier is called). I think most players had similar experience - play around exploring, building, doing missions once in a while to let your creativity brain cells take a break.
Once I've completed a story (I had to cheat to beat last boss, 'cuz game kept crashing if fight took too long) I started focusing on building crop and animal farms but mostly playing with circuits (Starbound's Macrochip mod is 70% responsible for me learning how CPUs work at their lowest levels).
Usually it's a good idea to complete the story so you have all NPC services available and unless you need to create new universe save, you won't need to complete it again.

tl;dr: do story once to unlock shops and do whatever the heck you want, you can't go wrong

[H4R4W1]

oh wow thanks.

i'm currently working on a colony :3

[Bits]

Play it however the hell you want, Some people play it as a porn game... no seriously. Mods.

[Okwam]

I finished the game with my friends at around 50 hours, (I know that's long but we all wanted the same armour at the same time)
And ever since then.. 650 hours of building and messing around..

[Teraterrier]

You can do what ever you want. https://starbounder.org/Starbound_Wiki The wiki says that there's no wrong way to play!

[GrandRiser]

There is no wrong or right way to play the game as long as you enjoy it. It's made like that so you can enjoy it however you want.

[!?!]

No. It's wrong. You must play the story.
You're wrong. Wrong!

[H4R4W1]

oh really?
well guess what. the story ended. i can do anything i want lmfao

[Sofia's Library]

There is no wrong way to play the game. You can either play through the story and search for the artifacts, or you can explore and build at your own leisure.

[The Traveler]

Building isn't that much fun for me. I wish you could do more stuff after beating the final boss that doesn't involve building. Starbound is a sci-fi space exploration game, why isn't there more stuff worth exploring? If you enjoy building, good for you, I wish I did too.

[Thamalandis]

The problem is the games static progression idea. If resources were more random, enemy strength more varied etc. and not tiered by biome you could actually explore and it could be worth it.

Sadly many games throw the exploration value away with tiered resource/mob systems... or worse the other way around, scaling to your power level. It all feels extremely unnatural.

Still a decent game.

[Ω Spriggan Ω]

there is no time limit ingame just play the way you want.
The ruin will honestly wait just for you. what a champ.

[Mayo]

Its a video game
The whole point is to kinda play them how you see fit.
I didn't really know there was a way to play any kind of video game "wrong".

[LordBlade]

Originally posted by fatputtycat:

I didn't really know there was a way to play any kind of video game "wrong".

Tell that to the people who play online shooters and just blow up their own team.

[The Traveler]

Originally posted by LordBlade:

Originally posted by fatputtycat:

I didn't really know there was a way to play any kind of video game "wrong".

Tell that to the people who play online shooters and just blow up their own team.

Multiplayer is a different story. We're not talking about Multiplayer.