No Man's Sky

I'm really happy with a lot of the updates that have come to NMS, and I'm super excited for VR, but I think it's important to warn anyone considering to purchase it here on GOG that although you will be able to play with friends on GOG Galaxy, as of now you will not be able to play with any friends you may have on Steam. No Cross-Platform play atm.

The game runs terribly right now. I've watched streams of the PS4 version and the ones currently showing the PC version and it runs terrible for almost everyone. I'm running on a 4790k @4.2GHz a 780ti and 16gigs of ram. I've tried locking the game at 30fps, 60, 90 and max it just is all over the place frame rate wise. The FoV is no where near 100 like the settings says. Any time you mine something or shoot something you get massive hitching. It doesn't matte what settings you use the game just refuses to run smoothly. If you have the chance for a refund take it. This is unacceptable especially with TWO delays for this release.

I avoided this game until about 6 months ago and I gotta say its pretty awesome. It doesn't get the love in reviews that it should. The game runs incredibly well on my msi laptop, the game is beautiful, everythings unique in itself, the math used to make this game is SO MATH!, I mean literally endless possiblities, I get to discover and name plants that look like succulents after my wife who grows them, My kids find it hypnotic, Survival mode is tough and unforgiving if you don't pay attention, the basebuilding is simplistic enough but has a lot to offer, enough that I don't feel like I'm wasting time on learning it but enough that i feel like I'm getting somewhere, its not overwhelming at all is what I'm saying.

No Man's Sky is interesting. I has a lot of artistic flair and style despite so much of it being procedurally generated. It's clear that a lot of work went into the individual components so that they would create an aesthetically appealing whole. Problem is unless you're interested in multiplayer and the usual survival sim stuff there isn't much to do in a game that is supposed to be about exploration. I thought there might be something else besides the usual base construction and resource gathering of other survival games, but I was almost two hours in and was just doing the same dull tasks I've grown bored of in similar games. There isn't much to interact with or that makes each world unique in an interesting way. So despite being pretty the environments don't feel lively and complete. Instead I just was stuck with this feeling of being in a good looking but empty place doing drudge work. I'm sure this game will appeal to other people with tastes more in line with the core mechanics I experienced, but if like me you were expecting at least some depth then maybe save your money for something else.

I cannot recommend this purchase. This is not a PC game. At the moment of this review (release day) this game is a poorly optimized PlayStation port, hard-locked to 720p. The performance is abysmal on top-notch hardware. On a 4k ultrawide monitor this game looks as if it was VGA, or rather as if I connected PS4 to the screen. The developer's approach is incredibly disappointing , I feel that the game should not have been released in this state. I won't comment on the gameplay at this time, and in good faith I will not be requesting a refund.