My overall review of No Mans Sky

[MattyKaratty]

Literally a copy and paste cause I got it via steam family sharing so I can't post a review. HehexD

Game's been updated constantly yet it still fails to grab any possible attention.

Pros:
- Spaceships, Space Battles and SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE

- Can go from planet to planet, solar system to solar system and so on

- Black holes have amazing sound effects, and look great from the outside

- Epic soundtrack

- Character customization ranging from the armor you wear to the race

- A cool freighter you can use as a portable base

Cons:
- Space battles are terrible; You control it with your mouse and it feels so jerky. You're going to spend a good amount of time trying to learn to properly control your ship.

- Spaceships look the same, and it seems the only difference is the inventory space you can get and cosmetics.

- Spaceships have no cosmetic system, meaning you can't make your ship look the way you want, so finding a ship that's in your style, and is actually useful, is entirely luck based.

- No way of transferring modifications to your ship to a new one, so if you put an S-Class upgrade on your ship, you have to leave it on that ship and get it again. After 18 hours of gameplay I had only about 2000 nanite crystals, and each S-Class upgrade costs about 400 each.

- Boring storyline. It might appeal to people who like really existential complex novel-like storylines, but it just makes me sleep when i'm meant to be flying around in space being cool

- Language system is convoluted. You have to go find knowledge stones, trade a certain resource to learn one word (eg. 10 copper for a word), or find ancient ruins. Only issue with that is that there is 2368 words in the entire game. After about 22 hours of gameplay, I'm still yet to learn enough of the Korvax language to understand it. (Which has 680 words you can learn).

- Frigate system is stupid; You can send ships out to expeditions to earn stuff which seems cool enough, but the only issue is that there's a 90% chance of those ships getting injured halfway through, meaning you need to end it prematurely, and if you decide to have them push on, you have about a 60% chance to lose that frigate entirely. Frigates aren't cheap, either, the ones I've bought were around 2 million units, and I was ONLY sending them on low to low-ish difficulty missions.

- Planets. Are. The. Exact. Same. After your third solar system you'll notice that the variety of animals is lacking, and every planet just looks like a copy from one you've seen before.

- Player Cosmetic System, while extensive, relies on these weekly community events that haven't been happening for the past six months or so, meaning you're stuck with the cosmetics you have from the start and that's it.

- TRIPLE A PRICE? You want me to pay $84.95 AU for your game? The game that's not only getting close to 3 years old, but isn't even really close to FINISHED? Seriously?

This game's not worth the price they've given it, nor is the game worth half price. It's worth about 20 dollars AUSTRALIAN at MAXIMUM, and not one cent more.

[Absentia]

NPCs just stand in place n do nothing

[hanleymark]

Long time players already know all of this and have learned to work around the shortcomings and still find ways to play that fit their particular style. I hope you find one that fits yours. I like this game. Warts and all. Perhaps one day you will too. Pleasant journey traveller.

[Johnny in the Clouds]

Originally posted by Wof Sosig:

Pros:
- Spaceships, Space Battles and SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE

- Can go from planet to planet, solar system to solar system and so on

- Black holes have amazing sound effects, and look great from the outside

- Epic soundtrack

- Character customization ranging from the armor you wear to the race

- A cool freighter you can use as a portable base

For clarity your comments are quoted in italics. There is a lot to your review that many, many players will disagree with:

Cons:
- Space battles are terrible; You control it with your mouse and it feels so jerky. You're going to spend a good amount of time trying to learn to properly control your ship.

They are not terrible and work extremely well with a mouse and are intensely challenging in modes like Survival and Permadeath. On a PC the mouse is actually more accurate for targetting and turning. A PS4 type controller can also be fun for a relaxed flying experience.

- Spaceships look the same....
No they do not. Class types are different. Haulers, Explorers, Exotics, Fighters look nothing alike. Within those classes you may find similar looking ships, but they are still very distingushable with visual characteristics between one another.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1788580152
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1783409054
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1729500971
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1783409918
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1783408817
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1752966789
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1746818086
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1752966466

- Spaceships have no cosmetic system ... is entirely luck based.
The game is not designed to be a glue-kit game. One challenge is to visit the correct systems and biomes to increase odds of finding the style of ship you want. This is quite easy to do with plenty of glue-kit upgrades you collect as you play the game. It becomes very easy later in the game once you have most upgrades.

- No way of transferring modifications to your ship to a new one, so if you put an S-Class upgrade on your ship, you have to leave it on that ship and get it again. After 18 hours of gameplay I had only about 2000 nanite crystals, and each S-Class upgrade costs about 400 each.

You do not need to transfer upgrades. You can destroy them for resources to easily rebuild new tech. Nanites are easy to come buy and extremely lucrative if you increase the ranks of your Mission NPC. Visiting POLO with discovery data will drop upgrades you can sell for nanites. Nanites are plentiful from scanning and so many other methods, even refining. You can speed through rankings by repeat feeding them resources you can purchase in bulk or find in crates at Trade Posts. Install an economy scanner to find TPs efficiently.

- Boring storyline...

The storyline is not boring but doesn't have the first person drama of a dedicated first person story led AAA title to make revisiting the story worthwhile. The No Man's Sky ARG from 2018 was arguably more interesting and interactive. For repeat play you can click through the story U.I. texts.


- Language system is convoluted. You have to go find knowledge stones, trade a certain resource to learn one word (eg. 10 copper for a word), or find ancient ruins. Only issue with that is that there is 2368 words in the entire game...

There are faster ways to learing the languages. By visiting the Atlas Anomaly you can 'speed' learn words as you progress through the storyline. You can stand in front of a NPC and with the right resource (You can buy lots at some trade stations) just repeat feed the NPC to reveal words.

- Frigate system is stupid; You can send ships out to expeditions to earn stuff which seems cool enough, but the only issue is that there's a 90% chance of those ships getting injured halfway through, meaning you need to end it prematurely,...

Frigates rarely get damaged if you send them out with more star value than the mission requires. Collect resources to craft the bonus items needed to balance missions. If you collect the game recipes from playing generally then you will be able to craft high value items from the loot brought back from fleet missions.

The fleet missions bring back millions of units. More than enough to purchase new frigates. You do not need to buy S class frigates as all frigates with experience increase their statistics. Some S Classes have poorer stats thab C-Class. Over time the cheaper C-Class are superior.

- Planets. Are. The. Exact. Same. After your third solar system you'll notice that the variety of animals is lacking, and every planet just looks like a copy from one you've seen before.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1787499678
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1783408628
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1735266601
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1746821458
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1735505405

Planet biomes do have flaws but with enough exploration some unique planets and especially the 'last' rare animal discovery can be rewarding to find. There are billions upon billions to choose from and even other galaxies. All types of colour stars potentially have rewarding planets to find and build on.

- Player Cosmetic System, while extensive, relies on these weekly community events that haven't been happening for the past six months or so, meaning you're stuck with the cosmetics you have from the start and that's it.

Community Events were never meant to be an on going thing and quicksliver or some alternative will almost certainly return when the next update arrives. You will then be able to get any cosmetics that are available. If you can not wait there are plenty of other cosmetic items scattered among anomaly planets to find and you could even deaperately use a MOD to achieve what you want.


- TRIPLE A PRICE? You want me to pay $84.95 AU for your game? ...but isn't even really close to FINISHED? Seriously?..

This game's not worth the price they've given it, nor is the game worth half price...

The game has been on sale several times. The AAA price reflects the alternative business model adopted for the game from a smaller independent publisher which is very happy to provide 'free' updates from the upfront sale. This way you get a game the developers want you to play and why you bought it from them. Inlike a large developer led by micro-sales not interested in their art.

Originally posted by BLooD MoNeY:

NPCs just stand in place n do nothing

That doesn't stop the game being fun as key NPC's we have to interact with do have animations, besides they are to have more animation in the next update, 'Beyond'. Animation is memory hungry and players forget much of No Man's Sky is procedurally generated on the fly.

[MattyKaratty]

Originally posted by hanleymark:

Long time players already know all of this and have learned to work around the shortcomings and still find ways to play that fit their particular style. I hope you find one that fits yours. I like this game. Warts and all. Perhaps one day you will too. Pleasant journey traveller.

idk bro
im fine with working around a couple pimples
but this is like an entire forest of pimples

[Fluffy]

I beg to differ. Most things you typed as cons are making me think you just started playing the game. If its truth, you will come to change your current opinion. If not, then what else can i say than you had a bad luck.

That being said, lets mention only one "pro" that this game has that not many do. Good updates.
Updates community want and suggest, and surprises. Most updates, what ever you throw in them, can only improve the game. And not many can ruin it. Seems like they are doing good job by far with it.
And not to mention other games out there, companies, that dont give a damn about you, what you like, want and would enjoy. All they enjoy is selling hats and throwing in some random updates that community didnt even ask for, but completely avoid fixing the broken things.
You spend tons of money on them, just to get same hats every year, no improvements in game it self. Thats sad.


All i want to say is, these guys deserve more than you think.
After all that, you might not like it because of something so you found some "flaws" that seem bad to you. If you are FPS type of player, then this is not a game for you. No matter what they do to the game of this genre, it will always be bad for you. Not attacking you, just giving my opinion.

If you are this type of a player, give it a shot and i really hope you get some luck to see your current opinion change. Wish you luck mate.

[Pul Myfinger]

Originally posted by Wof Sosig:

My overall review of No Mans Sky
Game's been updated constantly yet it still fails to grab any possible attention.

Another useless rank, based on nuthin'. Try some facts before you start flappin' yur lips.

Yeah, no attention"? It is ranked #92 at this moment on SteamCharts. And that is out of 30,000+ games. You have no idea how wrong you are. Come back when you can talk facts.

https://steamdb.info/app/275850/graphs/
https://steamcharts.com/top/p.4
https://www.gamerevolution.com/guides/482431-how-many-games-are-on-steam-2019

[Pul Myfinger]

Originally posted by Fluffy Bunny:

I beg to differ. Most things you typed as cons are making me think you just started playing the game. If its truth, you will come to change your current opinion. If not, then what else can i say than you had a bad luck.

That being said, lets mention only one "pro" that this game has that not many do. Good updates.
Updates community want and suggest, and surprises. Most updates, what ever you throw in them, can only improve the game. And not many can ruin it. Seems like they are doing good job by far with it.
And not to mention other games out there, companies, that dont give a damn about you, what you like, want and would enjoy. All they enjoy is selling hats and throwing in some random updates that community didnt even ask for, but completely avoid fixing the broken things.
You spend tons of money on them, just to get same hats every year, no improvements in game it self. Thats sad.


All i want to say is, these guys deserve more than you think.
After all that, you might not like it because of something so you found some "flaws" that seem bad to you. If you are FPS type of player, then this is not a game for you. No matter what they do to the game of this genre, it will always be bad for you. Not attacking you, just giving my opinion.

If you are this type of a player, give it a shot and i really hope you get some luck to see your current opinion change. Wish you luck mate. :prolBingbong:

"After about 22 hours of gameplay"

You are so right +Fluffy. Buried in his wall o' text, he claims 22 hours.
And he is sooo wrong about so many things ... his list of Cons reads like a list of stupid ... errr, I mean inexperience. ...

[_Nero_]

My overall review of your review.

Pros.

Nothing.

Cons.

Everything.

Overall this review is not worth me typing anymore.

[Fluffy]

Originally posted by Pul Myfinger:

Originally posted by Fluffy Bunny:

I beg to differ. Most things you typed as cons are making me think you just started playing the game. If its truth, you will come to change your current opinion. If not, then what else can i say than you had a bad luck.

That being said, lets mention only one "pro" that this game has that not many do. Good updates.
Updates community want and suggest, and surprises. Most updates, what ever you throw in them, can only improve the game. And not many can ruin it. Seems like they are doing good job by far with it.
And not to mention other games out there, companies, that dont give a damn about you, what you like, want and would enjoy. All they enjoy is selling hats and throwing in some random updates that community didnt even ask for, but completely avoid fixing the broken things.
You spend tons of money on them, just to get same hats every year, no improvements in game it self. Thats sad.


All i want to say is, these guys deserve more than you think.
After all that, you might not like it because of something so you found some "flaws" that seem bad to you. If you are FPS type of player, then this is not a game for you. No matter what they do to the game of this genre, it will always be bad for you. Not attacking you, just giving my opinion.

If you are this type of a player, give it a shot and i really hope you get some luck to see your current opinion change. Wish you luck mate.

"After about 22 hours of gameplay"

You are so right +Fluffy. Buried in his wall o' text, he claims 22 hours.
And he is sooo wrong about so many things ... his list of Cons reads like a list of stupid ... errr, I mean inexperience. ...

We dont need to insult people, i think he got the point. I didnt even look into his profile, just presumed based on what he typed. Im new too, but i hold another opinion since i seen some things by now, and i know the background of this game.

[MattyKaratty]

I mean I've played 90 hours total lol.
I'm completely fine with giving it pros but it's in no way a game I'd ever recommend.
You're either ignoring the constant similarities between each planet or have the attention span of a fly.

[Pul Myfinger]

Originally posted by Fluffy Bunny:

We dont need to insult people, i think he got the point.

Apparently he did not get the point as he continues to post his ignorance.
I wouldn't call my comment an insult ....

[Monstervillia]

Originally posted by Wof Sosig:

I mean I've played 90 hours total lol.
I'm completely fine with giving it pros but it's in no way a game I'd ever recommend.
You're either ignoring the constant similarities between each planet or have the attention span of a fly.

i call it "gacha system" if lucky, you got what you want. but yeah im looking forward new planet biomes like lava planet with giant volcanic mountain ,double ring planet, trypophobia planet, meat planet with tentacle XD, or the entire planet was living being like EGO or Hellstar Remina and etc.

[MattyKaratty]

Originally posted by Pul Myfinger:

Originally posted by Fluffy Bunny:

We dont need to insult people, i think he got the point.

Apparently he did not get the point as he continues to post his ignorance.
I wouldn't call my comment an insult ....

ok boomer

[Pul Myfinger]

Originally posted by Wof Sosig:

Originally posted by Pul Myfinger:

Apparently he did not get the point as he continues to post his ignorance.
I wouldn't call my comment an insult ....

ok boomer

ah, you must be a millennial ... that explains everything.

[MattyKaratty]

Originally posted by Pul Myfinger:

Originally posted by Wof Sosig:

ok boomer

ah, you must be a millennial ... that explains everything.

bro do you watch rick and morty
i can tell you have a high iq