No Man's Sky

Sadly, what others have been saying aligns well with my experience after >30 hours of gameplay. I'm not saying it's awfully boring, but after a few hours it does get repetitive. Space stations look exactly the same, you do the same thing everywhere and I didn't even mention the overly poor performance of the game. Some sort of memory leak still exists after months of release, since my first 10 minutes in every session are quite smooth, then FPS starts getting lower and after about 30 minutes, when I enter my ship (or jump to another system) the framerate suddenly drops to 3-4 (from about 20-30 that's been going on for the last 20 minutes). The game can still be fun though: I love exploring new worlds, the lore is quite interesting and learning new words is actually a fun thing to do in No Man's Sky. Also, once I found a star system that had really beatiful and different planets and I felt like "why can't every single system be this beautiful?". That was a fun point in my gameplay, but in the end, I still feel like I didn't get what I was promised (plus Hello Games is being looked at for false advertising and they've been silent for a month now), especially for the price of an AAA title. This was the very first game I preordered and I've pretty much lost hope in prepurchasing anything ever again. I'm really sorry about this whole thing, I wanted to support the devs because this game was introduced as something truly ambitious and unique, yet it turned out to be quite an empty, repetitive game.

Repetitive and not very interesting. Nice visuals though.

I was excited to say the least with promise of infinite universe and all that diversity that came along with it. I actually played it first on PS4 - sure frame rates were not that good with barely drawn landscape below you as you fly high speed, but it had something - enough to keep me interested for about a month. Then i had misfortune to read about great ending (not going spoil for those who did not read) and it kind of went downhill. It would be a good indie game to be sure. just not enough content in it for a full blow game, not even with DLC. I guess people including me expected more "bang" for their buck. I still want to come back to it, but keep postponing it all this time. Probably would get second life as VR title though.

A year on and the Atlas Rising update now installed into my game, it still runs as poorly as it did then. The gameplay has gotten a lot better, as I do feel like I have something to work toward when it comes to upgrading from my first ship. There's some easy ways to make money, but it will only get you by for a little while. I'm running AMD graphics (R9 280X) and the game's textures are consistently foiled. I went into a settings file and adjusted the size of the texture file (set it 2GB) and the textures came back (for the most part). Looked nice. But soon after, the controls fell apart. My controller stopped working properly (right-trigger is acceleration, but also the firing button). An improvement, but this game still needs a lot of fixing.

Well, here we are. No Man's Sky has received a really great update. Unfortunately, not for us GOG buyers. The multiplayer mode will be released later this year, if at all. The information policy for publication was = 0. I have been active here for many years and have never experienced anything like this. This should be a lesson for GOG, as well as for all players and potential buyers. I love this platform and all titles published directly from CD Projekt Red. But this? Don't go at all! Please do not support this policy and avoid this game. At least in this shop here...