Posted on: July 24, 2018

WITCHER_12997

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Games: 221 Reviews: 1

Completly Worth it's Money

NICE!!

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Posted on: December 30, 2016

Toccatta

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So much potential...

Because of early bad reviews, I put off purchasing this game until after the Foundation update was released and the game was put on sale. To be honest, I didn't really get what the previous complaining was about, but I suppose most of it was fixed in the Foundation update, so I didn't see the problems that early purchasers were seeing. That said, I developed a love-hate relationship with this game. So much was done very well... and I did have a great deal of fun playing for a while. But so much was done so poorly, that I found myself constantly frustrated. All the annoying things were small things; the big things were what Hello Games got really right. But enough small problems added together can ruin even the best game. Unfortunately, the list of small annoyances is overwhelming, and if I only put a word or two about each one, I'd run out of space in this review well before I got through the list. Eventually, playing the game ended up being like the ancient Chinese torture Lingchi - "Death by a thousand cuts". I'd give the game five stars for what Hello Games got right, but until they start eliminating problems from the long list of annoyances, I can only see giving it three. Some highlights from the list: * Be selective. The control-lag added to key-presses and mouse clicks isn't needed everywhere. Use it when an action isn't easily reversed, but leave it off things like menu navigation. * Don't EVER take control away from the player arbitrarily (e.g. milestone and new location cinematics) * Don't NAG the player. I know my video card isn't recommended. I know my game is modded since I was the one that did it. I don't appreciate being bludgeoned by tutorial banners every few seconds telling me to do something I cannot or choose not to do. * Improve the galactic map navigation, and allow the player an easy way to see or access previous locations. * Don't force the player to follow the story line by removing the ability to get certain blueprints unless they do.

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Posted on: May 1, 2017

Gylfe

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Games: 1776 Reviews: 54

Average

I, like everyone else, was very excited for this game's release. There was a lot of information out about it, but it seems much of it was misleading. They showed massive space battles with capital ships, but this never actually happens. I think it was the way it was marketed that made people infer what they thought was going to be in it and then were disappointed, at least that's what happened to me. There was a lot of misleading marketing as well. As far as the actual game, it's not horrible. It's definitely not worth $60, but it's not a complete loss. Your main objective is to reach the center of the universe and do what you want along the way. There is a lot of grinding rocks... literally just walking around a planet and firing your mining laser at rocks and plants to collect resources. Any time you use your ship, or even just walk around, you have to use resources that need to be replenished. The planets are very barren except for some monuments that are uninspiring and some small bases. You'll usually never see more than one npc anywhere you go, and they're statically stuck in place. You can talk to them, but that's the only interaction you have. You collect pieces of language, but there are no factions to join or any alliances. Really it's just you traveling around. The planets themselves are pretty for the first couple of hours, but after a while they all look relatively the same with slight differences. There's basically lush green planets, rocky planets, desert planets, and icy planets. The one variation was a planet where the enforcer drones were nuts and constantly attacking me, this was actually more annoying than anything and I ended up just almost immediately abandoning the planet rather than exploring it. Some of the wildlife is interesting on planets that have it, and it can be fun to go around discovering new things, but after a while you've seen every animal and plant there is to see. You wouldn't expect two planets from very different star systems to have the same wildlife and plants, but they just change small details about them and call it a new plant or animal. Flying through space is pretty fun for a bit, but there's not much to it. It feels big, like you're actually in space, but it's just boring. You can again mine rocks, but you sometimes get attacked by some sort of pirates. They're just random npcs that go aggro and shoot you down if you have some cargo of value. When you shoot another ship down, they drop their cargo. You will either defeat the three ships that attack you, escape, or die and just respawn in the last station you were in. There are three or four freighters near every planet that is near a space station. They just sit there... I tried to attack one at one point, but it was just too powerful. There's a space station that you can dock on and speak to the one person occupying it, which is basically just a vendor. If you sit in the docking bay, you will see other ships coming through. The ships are a limited type of ships, that are all piloted by the same npc, even if there are two of the same ship docked at the same time which happens often. Many others complained of the performance, but I had no issues with this. The game simply wouldn't work prior to the first emergency patch they put out. One thing I did enjoy were the graphics, the sound, and the performance was great on my five year old Alienware desktop. I ran the game on an Alienware Aurora R4, with an i7-3820 @ 3.6ghz, 8gb RAM, and Windows 7 64. I played the game for around 12 hours, bought a few different ships, upgraded the stuffing out of my backpack, and explored some systems. The one thing that annoyed me is that there was no way to trace the path I took through the galaxy. There's a 3D map you can look at and find every star, but I could not find the stars on it that I previously visited. This really annoyed me because it doesn't make sense, but I also missed a part of the story in the first system and wanted to go back to do the story. Honestly I was hoping some bit of a story path would make it more interesting. What I was looking for was a game that I could feel like I was in space and exploring a galaxy, but I was hoping an inhabited galaxy with interaction. It's not bad if you enjoy survival games because each planet has different levels of environmental hazards and different types of hazards, so you have to find ways of improving your suit to survive longer. There's not much more to it. I was hoping for more action, factions through the galaxy, or even just planets with cities and inhabitants. To be fair, I haven't played it since the first major content update. I was just not inspired. I really hoped after all the public backlash, they would really add the content they promised and make it closer to something I would really enjoy. When I get bored of what I'm currently playing I may go back to it at some point and see how it is with the updated content. I may even edit this review if it's warranted. It's not horrible, it's just not all that interesting or fun.

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Posted on: July 23, 2018

CarbonSeed

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Games: 277 Reviews: 13

An experience

No Man’s Sky is an experience like no other; it goes beyond a simple game. If what you are looking for is something else, something unique, you have found it. If you, as I did, always dreamed with exploring an infinite universe, discover the secrets it could had, wander like a nomad among unknown planets, discovering its flora and its wild live, build your home on a lost and lonely planet surrounded by the stars... this is the experience you are looking for, there is nothing like this. The feeling of being the first person landing on a planet, the feelings of known that no one could ever see it, and probably never will, is simply indescribable. It’s a beautiful game, the color palette, the design, the impressive soundtrack composed by 65dyasofstatic Yes, it had its problems at release, I preordered it, played for a good number of hours and my feelings were mixed. Later with the following updates, the game became one of my favorites, in that unique experience that I imagined when I first heard about it, better or worse, but certainly unique, something that deserves to be experienced. Finally, NMS and its biggest update to date are in the way: "NEXT", and that’s the reason why I doing this review right now, I think it's a good time to talk about the great job Hello Games has done, the effort they have put into achieving their goals, to bring us what they promised in the first place, even when everything was against them. In case someone doesn’t know anything about the game, i make it clear: NMS is a quiet and beautiful game of exploration and discovery. A mix between a walking simulator, survival and an adventure game… But there are also space battles, trading, crafting, base building, driving, there's a story to follow (or not) you can buy freighters, trading ships... don’t let the bad reviews, or even the good ones, or even this review tell you what you have to think or feel , just discover it by yourself, live the experience and probably you will not regret it.

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Posted on: August 27, 2019

Kampfzwerg18

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Games: 684 Reviews: 3

Bought the game as a sceptic...

and got a complete suprise - in a good way! It is by far not as complex as the X-Series, but nontheless it is a fun mix of exploration, trading and fighting. The possibility of building a fleet and exploring planets, harvesting plants and minerals as well as building up a base and upgrading technology really makes a difference. You can actually feel your progress, though it can get a bit grindy in the beginning. TldR: PRO - Nearly endless exploration - Trading is fun - Feeling of Progress - Upgrades! CONS - Mainstory Questline can get a bit confusing (Where is this place Im looking for?!) - Bit grindy at the beginning - You have to give the sandbox a meaning by yourself (really a con-for some maybe?!) NOT TESTED YET - Multiplayer (you can explore the universe with your friends)

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