Like many others, I have been severely dissapointed with No Man's Sky.

I encounted somewhat annoying performance issues - though I don't have an amazing system, I can run other demanding titles such as GTAV / FO4 / DOOM 2016 much much better than NMS, and I expected a lot more given the percieved visual quality.

The diversity of the planets is extremely disappointing. After only a few planets you will pretty much know what to expect, and new planets will most likely just be different colored variations on things you have already seen.

A big problem is that each planet is basically the same small piece of enviroment repeated over the entire planet's surface. This is not to say that it is actually repeating or tiled, but each planet really only has like 3 or 4 colors and there is no point at all to explore more than a few minutes on any particular planet, once you land you pretty much know what the whole planet looks like.

For instance, there are only a handful of different types of vegetation and rocks, and you will see them all pretty quickly. From there the variation will only be in size and color. I will say the animals are relatively interesting (compared to everything else) however they are basically useless in terms of gameplay and you also quickly see animal parts getting reused (t-rex body, wings, etc)

Theres also a lot of interface/control issues and graphical bugs that just make me amazed that I paid $60 for this game.

If you just want a good sci-fi space exploration game like I did, this is not it and you will just have to wait for another game.

(If you must try No Man's Sky, wait until it is very cheap on a sale and has been patched a lot, don't pay more than $20 for this.)

[h1]The world is dying for a great space sandbox game, and this is not it.[/h1] Like many others, I have been severely dissapointed with No Man's Sky. I encounted somewhat annoying performance issues - though I don't have an amazing system, I can run other demanding titles such as GTAV / FO4 / DOOM 2016 much much better than NMS, and I expected a lot more given the percieved visual quality. The diversity of the planets is extremely disappointing. After only a few planets you will pretty much know what to expect, and new planets will most likely just be different colored variations on things you have already seen. A big problem is that each planet is basically the same small piece of enviroment repeated over the entire planet's surface. This is not to say that it is actually repeating or tiled, but each planet really only has like 3 or 4 colors and there is no point at all to explore more than a few minutes on any particular planet, once you land you pretty much know what the whole planet looks like. For instance, there are only a handful of different types of vegetation and rocks, and you will see them all pretty quickly. From there the variation will only be in size and color. I will say the animals are relatively interesting (compared to everything else) however they are basically useless in terms of gameplay and you also quickly see animal parts getting reused (t-rex body, wings, etc) Theres also a lot of interface/control issues and graphical bugs that just make me amazed that I paid $60 for this game. If you just want a good sci-fi space exploration game like I did, this is not it and you will just have to wait for another game. (If you must try No Man's Sky, wait until it is very cheap on a sale and has been patched a lot, don't pay more than $20 for this.)