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I found with NMS that I couldn't really see a game in it.

The planets were lovely, the creatures fascinating, but other than grind fuel and occasionally get eaten by something, there wasn't much gameplay.

With the later addition of base-building I was able to ... build a base. W00t.

Lovely tech, pretty planets and stuff... not much compelling to actually do.

> Lovely x, y and z... not much compelling to actually do.

This is pokemon go in a nutshell yet it seemed to work for niantic.

The deception aside, people have different expectations of mobile games..

I think the compelling part of pokemon go is not the game its self, but the social interactions it created.

Much like Zombocom, the only limit is yourself.