No Man's Sky

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What an amazing game these people have made. It's space minecraft without the building. I've read and heard all the reviews that complain about framerate, PS4 vs PC graphics, crashes, etc. None of that has affected me. Here's my build... MOBO: GA-990FXA-UD3 CPU: AMD FX-8120 (OC'd to 4.1Ghz) RAM: 16GB DDR3 SSD: Samsung 840 240GB GPU: GTX 580 (yeah, still rockin it) Monitor: 1920x1200 Samsung T240 PSU: 1250WATT (Don't ask) Works great, can't complain. 20-30FPS doesn't bother me with such a grand game. Settings are at high with Shadows and Reflections at medium, FOV at 95, everything else is default. Never crashed. Get your refund or enjoy the experience. $66.95 CAD is much less than I spend at a night out drinking (....I drink a bit more than I should) but if it gives me 20 hours of fun, hell, it's worth it. To be completely honest, this is just to tide me over until Star Citizen. Still great

Yet another majestic flop designed along Molyneux's formula. Let's promise everything, let's spend millions on advertising, and let's deliver a half-product that's not even remotely close to what an alpha should look like. Monies check out, Moshe, so what's the problem? It's the ultimate case of a typical non-game advertised as the Second Coming, quick pre-order now and spend a life time playing this game. Except it's not even a game. Someone confused "nothing at all" with "sandbox". The exactly same experience one will get from browsing deviant-art (with the parent block turned on). You just browse through a colourful set of images and that's it. I don't even start on the laughable performance issues on high-end specs in a game that looks like something released back in 2008.

This is a pretty good game for a niche market, the niche of survival games that have an emphasis on exploring. The game does get repetitive, and I feel like there should be a bit more meat on the bones, but the fact I've thrown 20+ hours in already shows to me that there is a lot of promise. Hopefully hello games makes good on their promises of more content in future updates. I would wait to buy it until that is done, though, unless pure exploration is what you want. (also, yes, this game is a bit of a technical mess) Also, those system requirements are a bit off. 8GB of RAM is the bare minimum. I noticed that NMS was still filling up that 8GB readily, and loading several GB into a page file on my SSD, hammering my storage constantly. Without a page file, with nothing else running, the game will crash quickly and randomly. I'd recommend 16GB minimum for this game. I feel that systems with 8 or even 12GB of RAM are having serious performance problems because their RAM is filling up, and their storage drive is getting hammered constantly with page file, hence why the game has a tendency to hitch when loading new areas.

Waiting a long time to review this game, there have been plenty of patches and most every one added yet more bugs and trouble. The game was nothing like it was advertised and should be avoided unless you are a sadist in need of disappointment. One star is far too generous but it is as low as you can go.