I have to agree with Magma: No Man's Sky is for the time being only a good-looking procedurally-generated space exploration game. The only couple of gameplay trailers I've seen don't hint at a gameplay-rich game. I fear it has been over-hyped.
Starbound is definitely not as good as Terraria, but it's getting there slowly. I try to avoid the drama surrounding it, as I'm trying to not base my perception and appreciation of a game based on IRL drama.
Say what you want about Star Citizen but, it is certainly picked apart by enough naysayers to have any amount of hype, unlike NMS in which hype is essentially the most tangible, concrete aspect of the thing.
That second part of your post made me cringe, I pray Starbound is never
"as good" as Terraria. I own two copies of that game and yet, I could only stomach less than 20 hours. if Starbound ever becomes
"as good" as Terraria, I'm going to have to go back and
un-play 980 hours of it. People obviously love Terraria but, I don't get the appeal, it's like some disparate mish-mosh of features half-remembered from a secondhand account of a 90's video game nostalgia induced fever dream clumped together by a very same-y procedural generated world and eldricth horrors,
because Lovecraft. FYI: eldritch horrors are just hipster zombies dressed in a guise of flimsy literary esotericism sewn out of pretentious, pseudo-intellectual elitism.
Enough with them already!*Eyes Starbound incriminatingly* Starbound is certainly incomplete but, can we stop pretending Terraria is some sort of Holy Grail?
!!!OPINIONS!!!