After having read and heard nearly unending criticism for the condition of the PC release of No Man's Sky, I decided I would take my chances on buying it tonight to test how my system fared against it. I knew, sooner or later, I'd be getting the game either way, and so I went ahead and downloaded it. I lost, in the best way, two and a half hours of my time this evening. I had no intention of playing it for such a stretch, in a single setting, as I was half-sure it was going to perform atrociously and be enough to force me to wait for a few patches down the line. Not so, at all. I lucked out, and have experienced (for the most part) excellent performance. I do run into occasional lag/brief frame-rate decreases, but it's been so very enjoyable to play, and I spent most of my time on the planet on which I began. It could, and I hope it does, stand to improve in the performance department a great deal (the system I'm running should be getting a solid 90 FPS at all times with this game, and it's not), HOWEVER, the atmosphere and immersion I've experienced, shaped by the beautiful color palette, art style, and choice of ambient soundtrack, have been more than enough to help me gloss over the, in my case, mostly minor bugs delivered along with the final release. I am writing this not to sway people to purchase it, and by all means you should probably wait a couple of weeks so a couple/few more kinks are sorted; I'm merely writing that, contrary to nearly everything you have probably read/watched up to this point, it is possible to fully enjoy this game and perhaps achieve a perfectly tolerable frame-rate and gameplay experience. I'm loving it thus far. Have fun!
