TLDR: If the optimization wasn't so horrible I would give this game a 4/5. I love games about space exploration but since it's a bad port it gets a 2.5/5 Just wait until the game is more stable because it's not worth full price right now. I can play Witcher III on my gtx 760 in 1080p on medium to high settings with stable fps(1440p on low) but sometimes I can't even get 30 fps in NMS on low settings with everything turned off. Did they even test this game on some pcs before launch? I can run it fairly stable in 720p resolution but with lag spikes here and there. But how is the game itself? Grindy some would say. Repetative... maybe? Well, it's not boring yet after ca 15 hrs of gameplay. As i travel further in towards the center of the galaxy I can't help but starting to feel some things getting repetative but it's the new tech, planets and lore that keeps me interested. There's also the Atlas path but I havn't gotten far into that yet. I only wish there were more interesting side missions etc. Also, even though there are npcs in this world I still feel alone. You only find npcs standing still.... You will never see another npc land on a planet and go outside to mine etc. You can see lots of ships flying about though. You can't hire npcs either to maybe have as companions. Sure, there's the animals but they have very predictive behavior... either they ignore you, run away from you or attack you... that's it. I have probably played too much mass effect, skyrim, Fallout etc where you have a lot of interesting npcs with interesting dialogue and quests. There's none of that here. Would love to have teamed up with a IRL human. What if this game had a single, voiced side companion like maybe the ships ai to act as a sort of red line through the game. As you explore the AI learns more and can give you more interesting facts, show exitement etc. Maybe make you feel more emotianally invested. Idonno. Like the narrator in Bastion or Elizabeth in Bioshock Infinite maybe.
