No man's sky first 100 minutes review

[another random person]

Well, one day after the launch date, after a reinstall of windows and after causing many bluescreens. No man's sky is finally playable on my PC. Now, how was it, because that's what everyone wants to hear. My personal opinion; not as bad as many reviews say, I mean like I did pre-order so I got a head start but still, I played through the whole fix your ship and retrieve the hyperdrive thing before I switched out to the pre-order ship, which BTW looked absolutely badass, now if only it had weapons to match, rather than the stock laser. So far I have only clocked up less than 100 mins on this game but so far its gotten me attached to it and in the following weeks, my steam friends will see my gameplay time creep up. (I still attend school, so I have my priorities sorted). When you start off like me many players do get lost a bit but once you get the hang of things the game is rather fun and exciting to play and there is a decent opportunity that you will get heaps of hours of gameplay. trust me, this game is awesome, but, is it worth the $60 you pay for it? The fact of the matter is erm.... it depends, it was for me as I got a free ship but if you want it cheaper, there is a chance it might. Note MIGHT. go on sale for the steam winter sale. The game can be improved with set objectives and instructions on how to achieve it instead of throwing you into the game with the objective repair launch thrusters. Even without guidance I still managed to figure out how to achieve the objective rather easily but as the game progressed I did get a bit lost, as in warp cells and antimatter. that was the point from where I had stopped playing to write this review.  As mentioned earlier, all personal opinion and everyone's opinion will differ from one another, that's all for now but I'm looking forward to continuing my journey in No man's sky. (after I finish my homework)

[Robitzu]

Is it worth playing that game or not?

[another random person]

2 minutes ago, Robitzu said:

Is it worth playing that game or not?

It depends on you and whether you like slower paced exploration games, like Minecraft a bit except slower paced and a bit easier to survive based on starting planet. For me, it was because I like slower paced and I got the preorder special. I would recommend waiting for the steam winter sale because it is still badly optimised. From what I've heard a guy with state of the art hardware couldn't run it smoothly at all.

[zMeul]

at exploring planets, it's strangely "addictive" - I like to explorea each planet as much as possible; at one time I spent 1h+ gathering Carbon an learning words from a Gek 

but one you get in your spaceshit .. immersion breaks

 

ps: the word learning is not random, I reverted a save and strangely enough, it tough me same two words

[astrosheen]

15 minutes ago, another random person said:

Well, one day after the launch date, after a reinstall of windows and after causing many bluescreens. No man's sky is finally playable on my PC. Now, how was it, because that's what everyone wants to hear. My personal opinion; not as bad as many reviews say, I mean like I did pre-order so I got a head start but still, I played through the whole fix your ship and retrieve the hyperdrive thing before I switched out to the pre-order ship, which BTW looked absolutely badass, now if only it had weapons to match, rather than the stock laser. So far I have only clocked up less than 100 mins on this game but so far its gotten me attached to it and in the following weeks, my steam friends will see my gameplay time creep up. (I still attend school, so I have my priorities sorted). When you start off like me many players do get lost a bit but once you get the hang of things the game is rather fun and exciting to play and there is a decent opportunity that you will get heaps of hours of gameplay. trust me, this game is awesome, but, is it worth the $60 you pay for it? The fact of the matter is erm.... it depends, it was for me as I got a free ship but if you want it cheaper, there is a chance it might. Note MIGHT. go on sale for the steam winter sale. The game can be improved with set objectives and instructions on how to achieve it instead of throwing you into the game with the objective repair launch thrusters. Even without guidance I still managed to figure out how to achieve the objective rather easily but as the game progressed I did get a bit lost, as in warp cells and antimatter. that was the point from where I had stopped playing to write this review.  As mentioned earlier, all personal opinion and everyone's opinion will differ from one another, that's all for now but I'm looking forward to continuing my journey in No man's sky. (after I finish my homework)

I mostly agree with what you said. This game is not going to be for everyone. It is very much based on discovery and exploration and not in the traditional way that we have gotten from games in the past. A few reverse have pointed out to the fact that the description of this game was rather vague and people took that and imagined a game so amazing and perfect that it just wasn't really possible in turn the butt hurt ensued . 

You make the comparison with minecraft which is totally spot on (when playing minecraft solo).  I like the exportation and mystery about the "story" and think that adding the more objectives and instructions would defeat the games purpose.

As for the performance it runs relatively well on my system with 60fps with stutters every now and then. This normally happens when moving fast and loading/generating new areas and terrain (which is understandable IMO). But as many have pointed out i seem to be in the minority. 

Graphically the game is ok, not great not terrible. It seems most of the dev time went into the generation of the worlds rather than how the look. I would like to see this improved over time along with the games stability. 

I would also recommend waiting to purchase for similar reasons. It's a $40 game at this point but with future patch's this game could be the start of a new type of game with the world creation and the complex procedural generation.