I've tried for over 5 days to get this Game to Work and it refuese to run. Farthest I've gotten into the games was a crash report screen that wouldn't tell me the issue because it to would not work. Considering this came out a few months ago and there is no fix tells me that that who ever made this release doesn't care at all.
All performance issues aside. This game is just lackluster. After you have explored you 15th Desolate Rock Planet the 18 bazillion planets all just seem to look the same. There is no sense of progress. No way to leave your mark on the planet. Gameplay wise is feels like a basic Unity Game. Ground combat is just dull, And space combat is a joke. I know it was meant to be a more relaxing adventure game, but the space combat isn't even comparable to Battlefront II a game that came out in 2005. The game also looks like a late PS2 game. The lighting is ugly, I can't stand to look at something for more than a few minutes because it just looks so bad. This is a $60 game for maybe $15 dollars worth of content, content that looks like placeholder assets. And even then I've played so many $15 games with much more content than No Man's. Starbound comes to mind. Apples and Oranges I know but I'm comparing the actual depth of the content, not what kind of game they are. Starbound you can make colonies, fight bosses, decorate a ship, play with friends. In No Man's You go from one planet to another, with no way of stating this is my world with the occasional Space Station Visit. The trading system has less depth than Albion Prelude's nividium exploit. Its just a boring game. That not to say there isn't fun to be had. A friend of mine enjoys the hell out of the game. Personally I was hoping for a Star Trek Experience (Discover new worlds, and life forms, explore space with a crew on a nice big ship) but it came up short. Its no bad, but its not good. There is nothing worse a game can be than mediocre.
