What Were Your First Impressions On Starbound?

When you first looked at Starbound, what did you think about it at first?

 

"i keep dying this is too hard my computer's overheating why why manti"

i was told to not even bother with terarria and just go straight to this. i love this game now

 

The artwork is stunning and pulled me into the site, and then the story and the developer's description of what they actually had planned, which I see is now hidden somewhere else.. perhaps because the goals have changed.

 

My first impression: "Hey look, a cute little monster! Now why is it running towards me? Oh, battle music, wonder why."

 

I think it something along the lines of: OMIGOD IM FINALLY PLAYING STARBOUND! IM SO HAPPY!

 

It was more like, "Alright let's do this! What is that cute 400-eyed fellow? Hell-arghisdjfn alkfnasf". Aww, there goes my 10 pixels.

 

That it is a game.

 

Assuming you mean when I first started testing?
About what I was expecting on a lot missing from the game. Oh that is kinda neat mining more then one. That is a /nice/ couple of changes to building. Oh sh- dead.
Repeat the last part a few times between building basic structures and /hating/ the crafting system.

If you mean when I read about it? My first thought was, This is ambitious but has potential. 15? Okay that is not a bad entry point, lets get ready to test this puppy "soon".
One end of the year later: See above.

 

Enemies were over-powered, 40+ Threat levels. My head exploded.

After threat levels reduced to 10? My head got better, and I enjoyed my life in Starbound.

After monster lag started? My head re-exploded.

 

I assume you mean after I purchased into the "beta" and had my first hands on experiences.

Cool potential, but still under-developed.
Nice tutorial structure, even at this stage.
Performance was better than I anticipated on my system, though still far from where I'd like to see it.
The mining animations weren't to my liking, but that's a minor issue (animation with the pickax ).
Wow, there really isn't any reason to dig into the underground yet.
Meteors strikes need some kind of warning.

That was session one in a nutshell.

 

That it is a survival game

 

My first impressions were anger after landing on a planet and immediately being bombarded (and killed) by a meteor shower.

 

I was so impressed with this game when I first played, I came from Terraria so this was mind-blowingly awesome. I LOVE sci-fi and this is just so amazing. I love the lore and all the species they have come up with also the creature capture too!

 

A great RP base. Hats are also good.

 

'This game is interesting, wow! Its more difficult and unforgiving then diablo 3 hardcore inferno' on perma of course.

 

I was one of those players who was expecting a glorified Terraria. It's turned out to be so much more than that in most areas but content, but that's understandable.