Posted on: May 20, 2020

Johnny_Hazzard

Games: 65 Reviews: 3

A Good Game with Horrible performance

I have played No Man's Sky from the beginning, when it was still under-developed. It was a fun game with short life-span, because of it's limited, repetitive management of resources. Flight was horrible, and seemed rushed, just like another feature that the Developer wanted to add, but didn't know how to make it work. The worst issue was performance, but that could be corrected with mods that removed post-processing and grass effects. It was playable. With Next update, things seemed much better. It was becoming a fun game to return, once in a while. Flight continued a mess, but it could be made better with some Mods. Space combat was just a sad event to avoid. With the Beyond update, and the change in graphics' API from OpenGL to Vulkan, the game just became impossibly slow. It's not the post-processing, or the grass generation any more. Reducing the screen size to 800x600 doesn't even offer a final solution. The frames drop is there, and it reaches the point of causing motion-sickness. Don't buy it. It's not worth the trouble and health issues to your eyes.

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Posted on: May 28, 2020

Medsylicious

Games: 55 Reviews: 11

Still flawed despite significant updates

NMS has been making the rounds again across the internet for its continuing updates and incoming content from the ever diligent Hello Games studio. I bought it a few months ago for a friend and myself. And despite my friend's hardware being better, the game runs very poorly. They have better hardware than I do in every way - an SSD over an HDD, a desktop over a modest gaming laptop, etc. And for some inscrutable reason it refuses to run smoothly on their system, having choppiness and stutters every second. Their rig has **never** had issues with any other game. In 2020, 4 years after release, that's a huge flaw. NMS is not guaranteed to run on your system regardless of performance. A dealbreaker for most. The game's core gameplay loop - exploring, adventuring, and looking for things to do, is very one note. It doesn't take more than 20-30 hours to have "seen it all" because it's all procedurally generated. You know everything you're doing and getting, upgrades, ships you see, their color schemes, the plant flora, life, ALL of it is completely RNG. You have very little way to influence this exploration or even the way your gear and space ships looks, if any. Sure you can upgrade your ship infinitely now, but if you want to find something that looks the way you like, you're going to be wasting literally hours waiting for ships to land, and hoping they're high rank. If you want to base build however, and do stuff that makes 0 use of their world generation system, you can do all that. It seems most people who like the game enjoy this type of content which is why it has so much praise. If you're looking for intense space exploration, you'll want to look elsewhere. Also - the UI is designed for the controller but the game controls better with a mouse. Performance is garbage. Feels like an early access game that's adding more "things to do" but without fleshing out WHY to do them at all. 3/5 is generous given egregious performance problems.

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Posted on: August 13, 2016

Pabluzcu

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Games: 380 Reviews: 10

I dont get it...

Really dont understand all the negative feedback. Maybe the fact I started playing games in the 90´s so I dont give a CRAP about playing games with Antialiasing X100 and 4k and all the NINJA PC stuff. I know I will be downvoted but I dont care. Im playing with a 5 core cpu, 8 gb Ram, Medium GFX. In a 24inches monitor. 1920x1080, all graphics stuff on HIGH, deactivated FXAA (I dont care). The game runs FINE. Not 60FPS fine, but FINE. Being playing for 2 hours. I started in a HOT planet, my suit protecting me from 50plus degrees celsius. After a while I decided exploring a bit, I jet-packed over a nerby hill. Temperature drops to 31 degrees. I think "nice! The ground was hot, here Im higher and it´s cooler!" Then I realize the sun is setting, and I start to see stars. Night time! That´s why it´s cooler!" I collect some Iron from rocks around and I repair my "Scanning device" and then I see a strange creature. I scan it and name the species and upload it. The thing is jumpy and nervous, and goes away. Later I learnt how to feed it, what they eat. I interact with it and feed it. A happy face icon shows up. Now sounds like happy screams, not fear screams, and now follows me everywhere. Now I call it "Timmy", and I guess its my pet. ALL THIS happened within 100 meters around my camp, I havent started even exploring the WHOLE planet. I dont understand 99% of my inventory, and I LOVE it, cause Im learning stuff. I have already repaired my ship, and learnt and alien word from a nearby alien structure I found (I know how to say "interloper"!) I guess people unhappy have a right to be unhappy, who knows. But Im loving this game. It doesnt have multiplayer!" IT WASNT SUPPOSED TO be a multiplayer experience. Maybe it will be someday, maybe not, but it{s not the point of the game! "It doesnt run perfect in my very expensive PC!" Well, maybe some of us used to play doom in "low definition" and a small window in a 486 in the 90s. And we care about gameplay, not 4k monitors.

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Posted on: February 7, 2023

Hyperboleprechaun

Games: 4 Reviews: 1

A new game every year

Having played since launch on various platforms, accumulating over 2500hrs of exploring, exploiting, discovery and building, I can honestly say this game has been a new experience every year. I was excited for launch having been stuck playing TES and toxic FPS games for so long. They accomplished at launch what i wanted next, and have only improved upon the game since. There wasn't much in the beginning, but they have consistently turned the entire game upside down several times to revolutionize the ways people can play. It's basically an open multiverse with a big focus on building, and discovery. They probably could have left the game where it was in 2018, and most people would have been happy with the $60 they spent. They maybe should have started work on a NMS2 instead of increasing the minimum specs with the 4.0 update, but it's still better than current competitors by far. The fact that it runs *almost* as good on my switch as the PC i built to run it in 2016 is pretty incredible, to me. I don't think this game will ever be shelfed, certainly not in this generation of gaming.

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Posted on: July 21, 2024

486dx4

Verified owner

Games: 119 Reviews: 7

Explore Where no man has gone before :-)

This is one of the greatest exploration games you can buy. The Skyrim like feeling that you can visit everything you see, no loading screens, go from the planet surface directly to space and then land on the moon or your huge Star Destroyer is like nothing else. A good written story that tingles the SciFi fan is also there to enrich the detailed world. And last the updates that keep on coming and making this game better and better. A must have.

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