Posted on: July 25, 2018

paukku

Games: 271 Reviews: 6

Inferior product

Inferior version to the Steam version. Does not include multiplayer.

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Posted on: September 1, 2016

Schimski

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Games: 79 Reviews: 1

I am sad the game is what is is

No mans sky could have been a really good game, but it just isn't! All the promises that were given, all the hype that was created based on vague statements from Hello Games, all for a game that is nothing more but a hull of what could have been great! The first hours are really good, if you like the art of the game it's awesome to look at, it's fun to find new stuff on the planets and you look forward to the unknown. Then you start to notice that the UI is really bad, and you need much more inventory space. So you start grinding. You spend hours harvesting expensive materials, only to sell them again and you max out your ship and suit slots. It's fun for some time, but becomes repetitive after, let's say 10 out of over 40 repetitions (48 slots max on the ship). So, you finished the grindy part, which can be done on the starter planet, now to the fun part. Well, no, not really. What seems to be something like a story, be it the Atlas path, or the journey to the center, is just a big disappointment. Watch out, spoilers ahead, well, not really: The Atlas path ends in a Textbox! You travel to 12 Atlas stations and the final one gives you the opportunity to create a new star at the edge of the galaxy. You chose yes, and nothing, absolutely nothing happens! The End. So after this big pile of nothing I had to see the Center of the Galaxy. It's the aim of the game to get there, so be it. You travel for hours, do the same shit over and over again. You don't even look at the planets anymore, cause there's nothing you haven't seen 50 times already. You get to the center, do the last jump (4 times because the game crashes all the time) and.. you get a big "fuck you and thanks for the 60 bucks" in your face, as there is NOTHING again! You zoom out of your galaxy, into a new one, start with all your stuff broken at the edge of the next galaxy where the only difference to the old one is its name. This game needs stuff to do, it needs polish, fixes and a pricetag of 25€ max. What's good: - Artstyle - Soundtrack is awesome - First 4 hours of gameplay What's not: - crashes - view distance (this is not a ps4, give me some viewdistance hello games!) - nothing to do but grind - so many broken promises - no communication from the devs after the launch at all! Do not buy this game for what it is now.

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Posted on: January 25, 2019

Dark_Rane

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 4

Where did all the time go?

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.

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Posted on: May 10, 2020

BrookeBeignet

Games: 191 Reviews: 6

Meh

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.

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Posted on: December 23, 2021

Jazm

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Games: 270 Reviews: 2

Still a fundamentally flawed and not fun game to play.

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.

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