My review of No Man's Sky. Spoilers.

[PerfectLife]

First of all, I have played the patched version, on PC.

Second of all, some people will be very angry after reading this.



-No FOV sliders.
-Console friendly textures.
-The exact same pop-in as the PS4 version (which is better now after the patch but still bad for a PC game.
-After about 50 hours the game starts getting really boring except for the main storyline. (more on this later.)


So, when you first start playing and everything is new, the game is amazing. Sadly this doesn't last. It's no spore, but it is a mile wide and 16 inches deep. You meet the NPC's and for the most part they're all the same. All interactions are done via FTL style pop up text boxes so if something blows up the room and catches everything on fire, that doesn't happen, you just get a text description, take some damage, and nothing has changed. The mining mechanic is mostly useless except as a short cut out of caves. The multi tool feels like they found the worst rifle, shotgun, and smg from FPS games and made them "sci-fi" like. I could go on and on...

There's zero customization and since everything is procedural you will give up that cool space ship for a stupid looking one, because it has one more slot. The sprint and jet pack mechanics are very limited and just become frustrating to use. Run speed is glacialy slow. Swimming is slow. You can't even duck or sneak. If you want to reload something, you have to open your inventory and manually load what ever fuel it needs, this includes weapons and shields. Guess what is not fun... doing that in the middle of the middling combat. Did I mention combat was lack luster and boring. No locational damage, no damage indications other than a flash on your cross hair, no real feedback at all. It's so bad even the upgrade that makes shots home in will miss due to horrible pathing and slow projectile speed.

The language mechanic is largely useless because there's never a time when picking the wrong option will do more than ding your shields a bit and there's very little alien dialogue, it's mostly just text descriptions. Animal and plant life are diverse but even Spore had more unique aliens. In NMS you start to notice the same animal or plant parts being repeated constantly. In fact, some plants are 100% reproduced many times in the game. The little bush that spikes you, or the tentacle whipping vine.

Overall, the depth in NMS is based on how easily you are tricked. The terrain generation is amazing but unfortunately every other aspect of the game is predictable and less than impressive.

I'd give the game a perfect score of 5/7.

[Tactrix]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Harawanagangsta:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Tactrix:

Yers but in order to get any update at all it has to be made, it was made on the PC, ANY update that is made is on PC first, then it goes to PS, which means regardless of when PC launches it will always have the latest version.

Thats not actually how patches work. GTA is different across all platforms.

That is exactly how NMS works though, they code it outright on the PC and test it there before porting it over. And if you think it's done differently then you're seriously misinformed about how debugging and coding works.

[PerfectLife]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Tactrix:

Opprinnelig skrevet av PerfectLife:

Well considering I've tested the game, and you haven't (I get it you don't believe me) I can promise the PC version is 1.0 (watch it be 1.1 just to spite me, lol)

Well considering you're full of ♥♥♥♥ and I'm not I guarantee you it will be the latest version.

No need to swear at me, everyone is being chill, why ruin it?

[Tactrix]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Harawanagangsta:

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Well considering you're full of ♥♥♥♥ and I'm not I guarantee you it will be the latest version.

Dude, You're wrong on this one.

Prove it.

[Tactrix]

Opprinnelig skrevet av PerfectLife:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Tactrix:

Well considering you're full of ♥♥♥♥ and I'm not I guarantee you it will be the latest version.

No need to swear at me, everyone is being chill, why ruin it?

You're a troll wasting more forum space with useless lies.

[PerfectLife]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Trevor:

The trolling on this forum is truly the likes I have never seen! It's obviousely a troll. Go to his name and look at his level... level 0. Even if it was a level 0 and the Troll said something nice, there is clearly a hidden message behind it. Just stop messaging and let this discussion die.

I'm private so it says level 0... I don't want people harassing my friends or posting stuff on my wall.

[Tactrix]

Opprinnelig skrevet av PerfectLife:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Trevor:

The trolling on this forum is truly the likes I have never seen! It's obviousely a troll. Go to his name and look at his level... level 0. Even if it was a level 0 and the Troll said something nice, there is clearly a hidden message behind it. Just stop messaging and let this discussion die.

I'm private so it says level 0... I don't want people harassing my friends or posting stuff on my wall.

You definitely are a private. That much is true.

[PerfectLife]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Tactrix:

Opprinnelig skrevet av PerfectLife:

I'm private so it says level 0... I don't want people harassing my friends or posting stuff on my wall.

You definitely are a private. That much is true.

So we can stop going around about version numbers?

[Harawanagangsta]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Tactrix:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Harawanagangsta:

Thats not actually how patches work. GTA is different across all platforms.

That is exactly how NMS works though, they code it outright on the PC and test it there before porting it over. And if you think it's done differently then you're seriously misinformed about how debugging and coding works.

You do realize you are implying the PS4 patch isnt going to be out till after friday right?

[Tactrix]

Opprinnelig skrevet av PerfectLife:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Tactrix:

You definitely are a private. That much is true.

So we can stop going around about version numbers?

You can stop anytime.

[Solid Grim]

Opprinnelig skrevet av The Timelord Victorious:

Good review. I like to see all these fanbois triggered so hard, very satisfying.
We all knew the game would be shallow.

Shallow doesn't stop Bethesda games from being popular.

[PocketYoda]

Give me a source of how you played this before release or you're just blowing hot air.

[Tactrix]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Harawanagangsta:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Tactrix:

That is exactly how NMS works though, they code it outright on the PC and test it there before porting it over. And if you think it's done differently then you're seriously misinformed about how debugging and coding works.

You do realize you are implying the PS4 patch isnt going to be out till after friday right?

No, not even close to what I'm implying, I said the PC patch will be the same as the PS patch when it launches.

[CelticGibsonTheBoss]

Or Ubisoft games .... eeek..

[ChaosGremlin]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Tactrix:

Opprinnelig skrevet av PerfectLife:

No need to swear at me, everyone is being chill, why ruin it?

You're a troll wasting more forum space with useless lies.

Wasting bytes on a server farm? Tell me more about how it matters.

[Tactrix]

Opprinnelig skrevet av CelticGibson:

Or Ubisoft games .... eeek..

Ubisoft is loved by everyone, those who don't love it have an "accident" from a group of wall climbing men in robes.