No Man's Sky

The game runs great in 4K, I have read some of the reviews and I think to get the most out of this game it should be installed on a SSD, this is because of how the game randomly generates worlds and items anything less then a SSD will have longer loading times, also the first time the game loads the game will take time to adjust to the new setting 30 seconds or so then it will run with no real lag, also this runs fine on a laptop with a GTX 1050 4 GB with a SSHD Hard Drive.

I own the game on Steam, Have checked up on it from time to time. Currently, the game is repetitive. A lot of old reviews, while other people say otherwise, will actually probably still be pretty accurate. It's not bad, it's boring, which is maybe worse. There still isn't much planet variation, organisms are still copy pasted stuff, there is 0 characterization of any of the "factions", it's basically just a bad crafting space game. I'd say worth about $20 (US), unfortunately never goes on sale for more than 50% off.

After having had a blast playing through the Subnautica games back-to-back I still had a craving for more and No Man's Sky seemed to be the closest thing to it, and after having kept reading about how they turned the game around from perhaps THE biggest flop in gaming history to a "masterpiece", I thought it would be no-brainer and a safe pick. Now, I first played this game at the date of this review so I have no idea about what they supposedly have fixed, but I can tell you it's still not a good or fun experience and that hits you right off the bat. I spent the first half hour trying to get the game to not have such horrible frame pacing and mouse lag (...to no avail) and then finding a way to make it first person again like in all the promotional material I've seen. After having had to struggle with that to limited success, turns out my character is dying of atmospheric "toxic poisoning" (while in a space suit mind you) and I'm hit with a metric ton of hints to read guides hidden in menus within menus with semi real-time switching, I couldn't manually save for some reason and died. "You died and lost some items", ...excellent first impression. Well the game doesn't get better the more I play and understand it's systems either, I'm constantly having this growing feeling of "Why? This isn't fun. I'm not having any fun. I want to do something else". There is so much friction and distance between what is supposed to be fun and rewarding and the entire moment-to-moment gameplay you actually end up doing the whole time that it quickly accumulates to a wholly negative experience, this isn't helped by the fact that the game outside these constant tedious systems is very basic and shallow in an incredibly generic way, ensuring there is no hope for immersion driving you through the grind (like Subnautica managed to balance so well). My first impression is so awfully off-putting that I'd rather spend my free afternoon writing up this bitter review than playing the supposed "masterpice" I've paid money for and wish to never start up again. If you haven't yet, I'd rather say just play Subnautica, or just go out and grind away at a real job and balance your budgets in excel spreadsheets instead, it will be a lot more fun and infinitely more rewarding. This game seems like it's made by people who don't actually enjoy playing games and is not a fun way to spend your time, some will probably like it but I personally can't recommend it as it's poor in technical performance, gameplay and entertainment-value.

the game is a stuttering disaster and the "minimum system requirements" are nothing but lies. the game runs horrible on my 16 gb ram and gtx 960 machine.

so been playing for a bit. there is a lot of hate flying around for this. if you followed the trailers and the info around it, they delivered. Is it worth $60. no i don't think so. however, the developers did a hell of a job. i think long term if they do not get greedy with expansions, there is tons of potential. i hope they keep updating this. i really want to see where this game goes. Pros: - creatures are very unique, but not much use for them. - love the inventory system, you have to make some hard choices. -Thank you. I say again, thank you for not holding my hand with damn tutorials. i think they took a page from the minecraft book on this on. i love figuring things out myself. so far i only had to google one thing. Cons: - Frame rate can get sluggish (never unplayable though) - Planets are a little empty - space combat is a little lacking, easy to get your a$$ kicked fast - really captures the temptress of space