It's not like any other fandom in this world is in any way more mature. No matter how much gaming enthusiasts grow up they will always be labeled as children.

Ill wait for some more reviews. Might wait for a price drop now.

if people havent figured out how bad the user score is by now, there is no helping them

It seems I have been hit with the pre-order bug. The tutorial quest glitched when I finally gave in to the nagging "redeem your bonus content" and now I have no way to get anti matter. Stuck in a system with 4 planets, infinite universe my arse.

All ships for trade come with an empty hyper drive, the galactic market doesn't stock it, I tried buying it from 30 different ships at least, none have it, no one on the planets sells it, blue print to make it only shows up in the second star system according to any online help.

Verdict after 8 hours, 3/10. Tiny game, nothing to do but collect words. I do not feel like starting over and grind all that stuff back again.

DO NOT USE THE PRE-ORDER BONUS, DO NOT ENTER THE CODE, BURN IT

I'd argue Jim is the closest thing the gaming industry has to investigative journalism. Despite the ridiculous persona.

If you actually follow his content, you'll notice that he has a lot more positive content than one might think (he has a show with the expressed purpose of creating positivity around select, deserving steam greenlight games for example) and his rewiews are generally carefully thought out and raise valid points.

He is far from a clickbait rewiewer that just does things to get a rise out of people. And while his negative coverage seems to be what he's famous for, seeing that he mostly covers problems with the industry on his jimquisition, that's far from the only thing he does. And even if he 'trashes' things he usually presents a well balanced and well argumented viewpoint underneath the cum- and pissjokes.

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(And I like NMS, but I wouldn't score it above 6/10)

That's the problem I have with Jim's review. While other reviewers are trying their best to play enough of the game to write a proper review, he releases the first review and gets all the clicks from people eager to read anything about the game. He may be right, but negative people, too, are sometimes right. If you're negative all the time, you're bound to be right at some point. That doesn't mean you reached the conclusion properly.

The way I see it this dude didn't play the game long enough to release this review but he knows damn well that this is perfect for him. More clicks, more exposure, more people talking about him, the haters (people who haven't even played the game) find some ammunition. Couldn't have worked better for him.

I believe the entire point he was making in the review is that, despite its size and "variety" due to procedural generation, it's all show.

That interactions with each world and creatures are the same, despite their variations, so it doesn't take anywhere near as long as promised to experience No Man's Sky.

That's what I read from the review anyway, and was my biggest worry about the game, due to its focus on prcedural generation.

Why the fuck is wrong with kids these days. An internet critic doesn't like the same thing you like? Who gives a shit? People are way too sensitive about everything these days.

Yeah, I get all that it most certainly could be the case, but I have my doubts. Why exactly did it him so little time to play the game, write and post the review first while all the other reviewers were still playing the game?

For all we know he played just enough to get an idea about the game to post his review first and capitalize on everyone clicking on it.

It's also very likely that he missed out on some really important things that happen in the game when you play a bit more. Some planets amy feel very same-y and others could be vastly different. If you play for a limited time and are out of luck, you may only visit too similar planets.

Of course, I haven't played the game so I have no idea if that's really the case. I'm just wary of his decision to post a review of such a massive game so soon. What kept all the other reviwers from posting theirs?