No Man's Sky

First, an advice - go watch youtube let's play. First 3-5 hours of gameplay won't contains real spoilers and you will know what this game is and what it is not. That is very important because amount of legends and (miss)information that built up is stupendous. This is not a game for everyone because: - This game does not hold your hand. It gives you basics and practically let you off. You won't have constant nudging in plot direction. In 8 hours I've played it gave me one nudge and tutorial. You will have to come up with stuff to do by yourself. - Inventory management. For first something like 5 hours (give or take depending on player real life intelligence) this will be irritating. When you figure out what to do about it, it will be much easier. - Combat is bare bone, relatively uninteresting and actually a nuisance rather than anything else. This game can be boiled down to one thing. Exploration in big scale. Again, this is a difference between what players are used to - something to find in every little corner - and what this game gives you - something to find every "little" while. You will not find stuff everywhere you look and what looks like a dead end is actually most often then not a dead end without any goodies. Looking long enough you are sure to stumble on something atypical. Be it unusual and funny animal, nice scenery or interesting technology. Diligent looking under every rock will actually be very, if not extremely, inefficient. Speaking about technology - at that moment it appears to me that technology is very limited. I'm not sure if this is because i'm slagging off and keeping to outer rim of the galaxy or it is actually a limit in the game. On the other hand, this game is IMHO extremely relaxing. There is no rush to do anything, you can just goof off wherever you want most often than not without any combat.

I wanted to believe the hype. I really did. I have only written a few reviews ever and none of them about a negative experience until this one. There are literally pages of things that were shown that are missing and gameplay is lifeless. I found myself excited to explore the worlds and running into creatures and space battles along with interstellar travel. I found that I can't even name my ship...Every ship is the same except for the amount of item slots and cosmetics. The main focus of this title as it stands is to gather resources...To go to more planets and just do the same thing again. In one video they show a giant snake on a planet. Well that snake literally does not exist anywhere on any planet that could possibly be generated. All life found on planets is reduced to small creatures about as large as a dog. Planets do not rotate and there is no sun. Moons do not orbit their planets. There are no ringed planets. Again several things missing. I created this review not based on what I was told previously but how fun the game is compared to the things I then looked up after the fact. Come to find out that this game is extremely bland. When you come into contact with other life it is so meaningless that you'd best not even bother. They can give you health, recharge your shields or give you something small. Things that you either don't need or wouldn't even care to if you saw them lying on the floor. Bottom line is this. If you like survival or craft games. Go play ARK. If you like flight and space battles go play Elite Dangerous. If you want a large universe with ships and decisions that will actually matter and planets to explore then wait for star citizen. This game has little to offer aside from exploring lifeless and boring planets.

No Man's is a very intriguing concept of a game, for the type of game that it is, it does things well. Make sure your computer has better specs that the minimum recommended and you will be fine. I am into it about 5 hours (not a lot) but I have enjoyed the game, it is repetitive , but at times, that is what your brain needs. After a hard day working, in my case coding, I am down for some mindless collection resources, upgrading my ship and making friends with the local animals... Beaware, there are still bugs in the game, after 5 hours of play, I have blue crashed twice. Hopefully they will be releasing a patch soon. NVidia's new driver seems to help a bit... I would recommend this game, just play it and forget about all the hype and all the negative that is going around. I mean, how would you know if you like it when you play it with other people's preconceptions. Happy Hunting!

A very boring and bad game, A friendly advice: DON'T buy it.

No Man's Sky is not perfect in its technique or gameplay. And of course it is not, what most people thought it would be. But personally, i enjoy it very much. I am 10 hours in and maybe i will play it only 10 more but it is a very pleasing and relaxing experience for me. No epic story, no state of the art graphics, performance problems (runs at 1440p at around 50-70 FPS on high with my R9 390X with some drops) and so on, but a great art style, interesting exploration, i have had many great hours and counting, and i think many more gamer can enjoy the game when changing their expectation :)