No Man's Sky

Ok so this game is trying to live up to it's expectations a year too late. It is a 4/5 stars game RIGHT NOW. Not a year ago. with 60% discount and the atlas update, the game is GREAT! I love it. However I had to wait a year for it to reach the height it deserved. Like getting an early access game only I had no Idea I was getting an early access game. Anyway I'm glad it's close to being complete. Still waiting for much more stuff to be added. BTW. I read reviews about the graphics stuttering and getting frame drops? I play the game on a macbook pro and a desktop that is core 2 Quad with an 960GT Nvidia on it. The game has no frame drop issues ever!!! It is really smooth. It's true that settings are not cranked up to max but AA is on and textures are at high as well as most settings are at high and medium. (reflections and shadows are at high). I don't get where the negative reviews concerning the graphics come from. I even occasionaly play it on a radeon HD5500 (ok most settings on that machine are on low but still) and have no issues other than the low settings. What machines do you guys use to game?

What Can i say Hello games hit the nail on the head with this one I LOVE IT!. Good job hello games.

NMS has been contentious - I'm probably about 20 hours in and enjoying it. Based on other input it may be excessive to buy at full price, but for a sale it's worth it. The early game is a lot of fun, genuine tension, the feeling of a truly alien world, and the slow piecing together of what is going on. The forced slow learning of language is a part of the game I love. It does seem to be at its essence a crafting oriented and a bit grindy, but if that's what you enjoy I would recommend it. Performance is fine on a 780Ti at 1280x1024. My largest criticism would be that the interface is fiddly - the star map is a chore to navigate, there's a lot of keys in use, the flight model is awful, and there's a lot of inventory management due to the limited number of item slots available. As far as I'm aware, animals such as the long necked dinosaur were never implemented in the game, and therefore some of the GOG screenshots are deceptive. Even so, there's a lot of impressive fauna out there; you'll love it the first time a dinosaur like beast saunters past.

I do not own the game on GOG nor on PC. The price is to steep for this mediocre game. Instead I bought it on PS4 for 12 euro on a sale with PS-plus discount. The game is nothing like the trailers. After visiting 20+ planets and moons, they all look the same except different color palettes. Planets designated as forest planets may have 2 trees in a square mile if you are lucky. And it's boring. It's so boring I can barely push myself to login and try to explore. I really hope the NEXT update will make most of it better. I hope for fun co-op with a friend and hopefully more dangerous creatures on a planet or something. I use the cheap PS4 version just to see if it will eventually be worth it. If it will get better I might pick up 2 copies for PC so i can play with my son or wife or whoever want's to co-op explore. But I still think 70-80 euro is way to steep.

I've played this game for countless hours on PS4 and have bought it again for my laptop so I can play it on the go. The graphics are not hyper realistic, but stylized so that almost every procedurally generated place you visit looks like a beautiful peice of sci fi art. Learning the languages and stories of the alien races, trading for profit and searching for the coolest ships are some of my favourite activies.