Un-Savage Digitally Downloaded Review (No Man's Sky)

[SvennoJ]

I love the game but it's a 6/10, maybe 7/10 if it stops crashing every night.

Dunno what the reviewer is smoking but
"You’ll take off into space, and then it will hit you; an overwhelmingly existentialist feeling, almost melancholia, that there you are in a very vast space, and you really are on your own. There might be one or two other ships floating around, but it’s a lonely, almost empty blackness that surrounds you, and nothing comforting or familiar is remotely close to you."

Everywhere I jump a fleet of trader shows up 5 seconds later. Every system has a space station which fills with traffic when you land. Every planet is littered with outposts with a Walmart greeter inside. Blackness? Where? I can't find any. Emptiness? Where, space is floating rocks no matter how far you fly out until the game crashes.

After a few hours everything is familiar, only the scenery on the planets change. Which is I admit pretty relaxing to run and fly through and see some of those weird mix and match animals.

If you want all that remote empty hostile blackness, go exploring in Elite Dangerous. It's multiplayer sure, didn't see anyone for months while exploring the Galaxy. It gave me a real sense of how frigging mind bogglingly huge the galaxy is and what 400 billion means. Coming back 'home' to land after all that time was a real emotional experience. NMS feels like hopping between snow globes. It's fun, yet it gives me no sense of scale or where I am or have been.

I'm going to jump to the next snow globe now, this planet is too purple for me. Perhaps I'll try a green star next. Fun factor low, 75%!