Posted on: August 13, 2016

FerksBerks

Games: 2 Reviews: 1

Great game, no issues whatsoever(-ish).

In a world, ruled by gamers moping about game performance and making Tumblr pages where they cry about their agonizing experiences, No Man's Sky is a very welcome escape. The player enters a vast universe full of undiscovered planets where one can amble around, mine for fish, chat with the "locals" and feed and document the animals. Once in a while, you will be attacked by a weird looking creature and if you kill it, you may be attacked by a guard drone. Yes, NMS would not start for me as well, but my problem was that my graphics card was simply too old. I got a slightly less older card for a tenner (which also did not meet the minimum specs, btw), set the graphics quality accordingly and the game started up without a glitch. So, in accordance to a TL;DR standard; If you are looking for a 8K, Michael Bay-pewpew kind of game, carry on and buy yourself another game. Take your loss and stop whining about it. If you are looking for a quiet exploration "hey what's this, let's poke it" game, go get. Specs: Intel Q9200, 6Gb DDR3, AMD Radeon HD7850 1 Gb

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Posted on: August 14, 2016

dragonowl

Verified owner

Games: 57 Reviews: 1

A good kind of different

I like the game so far and I think this ambitious studio will make big improvements to the game over time. It is very different from many games, but that’s kind of refreshing. Am I going to say all games should be procedurally generated? No. Handcrafted levels/scenes will always have their place. In many game it’s the characters or story that make the game, but this game has a different feel. It is about knowing there’s an endless universe to explore and that you might be the first and only person to ever land some planets. Some planets are duds, but that’s kind of realistic and it doesn’t take too much to find another livelier planet. Also, it makes you feel more inside the space that you can fly far out from space and fly all the way in to land on the surface of the planets. If they don’t exist already, I hope they add some land vehicles/hover craft to the game as switching vehicles like that would be a cool way to traverse the planet surfaces. I had to lower some graphics settings like aliasing all the way down, but on a triple monitor setup at 5760x1080 on a GTX 970 I can run at 30fps solid. (Hopefully they set a way to center the hud instead of stretching it out) If I set it to 1080p instead it can do 60fps pretty consistently. Some will find the game boring and others will call that relaxing. I really lose track of time when I’m in the universe right now, thinking just one more planet before I stop. Perhaps it will get redundant faster than I’d like, but it’s too early to tell. I’ve tried Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen, but although space action is typically more my thing, I’m surprised to say that neither of those has grabbed my attention the way this one has.

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Posted on: August 16, 2016

EvilSmoo

Games: 257 Reviews: 3

Mile wide, inch deep.

Do not buy. Too much money for too little depth. Can be addictive, if you really like it, you can get SOME mileage out of it, but humble bundles offer 10x the games at a fraction of the price.

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Posted on: August 16, 2016

keith_flinte

Verified owner

Games: 61 Reviews: 2

Boring. No minecraft in space.

I am really disapointed. Boring as hell. Was a follower on twitter since the first time and cannot get, that they had so much moments for happiness.

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Posted on: August 16, 2016

AnnikaBrock

Verified owner

Games: 161 Reviews: 1

No Problems Here

A lot of people seem to be having issues with performance; I get very mild occasional lag but for the most part everything runs smoothly on my machine. Granted I did just buy one not that long ago that was a build optimized for this specific game... BUT enough of that. For me, personally, the game is all I ever expected it to be and all I ever wanted. I know a lot of people are complaining that it's almost entirely exploration with maybe limited space battles, but as far as I'm concerned it's pretty much as advertised. Don't think I ever remember the developers saying or pretending that it was going to be anything more, except for the potential promise of DLC. I understand why it could be a turn-off for a lot of people, but the combination of me wanting to be an astronaut for literally as long as I can remember and an insatiable amount of wanderlust (in addition to being a sometimes-obsessive completeionist) make this basically perfect. For example, while most people I've seen have kind of blasted through the starting planet really quickly, I spent probably 4 hours just there before I ever got back to my (by then functional) ship. And I still didn't discover everything!

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