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No Man's Sky Review Thread: The Scores Have Arrived (read OP)
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Hello Games saying they just expanded their QA team now makes me think they needed to get the game out the door in order to make the money necessary to get the game where they want it to be.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
i dont think this is going to get many GOTY awards....
Anytime I read this I can only assume 2 things. 1. You just really want this game to be good and do good, which is fine, but it's not the case... Or 2. You don't often read metascores. Given the way videogame reviews work the only scores that really matter are 5 and up. Generally 90 is rare, top tier games, 80s are good games depending where it lands. Mid to high 70s are passing grade, but pretty mixed. Low 70s and 60s are reserved for what are thought by most to be lousy or at the very least disappointing games. Anything below that is Terrible.
Sounds just about right, very average game at best. I mentioned around E3 that this game was far far too ambitious for its own good and that a game like this needs a heck of a lot more development time to make it worthy of long game play time which this kind of game requires and the final product really proved this. Its way too bland, far too repetitive and feels very generic to be honest. I just knew inside that this game wasn't going to be that good, and honestly, its not.
'Biggest Disappointing Game of the Year' award goes to...
I love the game so far, about 15 hours in. I would probably give it about an 8, with the potential to reach 9+ with some fixes and more added features that they plan on adding. There is definitely a lot of room for improvement. I thought it would score a bit higher like upper 70s meta critic. Oh well.
Hope it is very successful. I want them to keep working on the game for a year or two and then hopefully turn everything up to 11 for NMS2 with an OST done by Imogen Heap.
Hope it is very successful. I want them to keep working on the game for a year or two and then hopefully turn everything up to 11 for NMS2 with an OST done by Imogen Heap.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
Mighty no.9
The main similarities between the two are the lofty expectations, not e3.
Mad Season
Banned
Saw at friends house. Incredibly shallow, boring and repetitve.
Anyone remember Evolve? lol
Nocturno999
Member
Dat introduction/question...
Can't say that I'm surprised by the scores.
The game was a low point at every game conference it was shown and I didn't buy the arguments about it not demoing well. It looked boring. My brother said he really likes it despite the scores(dont think he's seen the reviews yet) so hopefully others are too.
But PS+ for me. I'm not paying full price for nice art direction.
The game was a low point at every game conference it was shown and I didn't buy the arguments about it not demoing well. It looked boring. My brother said he really likes it despite the scores(dont think he's seen the reviews yet) so hopefully others are too.
But PS+ for me. I'm not paying full price for nice art direction.
I never understood how anyone thought that game looked interesting.
SolidChamp
Banned
Hey look, someone who can make a sensible post without wishing the game turn out to be a complete failure.
This is, like, a novel idea. Someone who doesn't qualify for the "haters gonna hate" badge? Could it be?
entremet
Member
Game of the Year?
Yep. It's not like there's anything challenging in the game.
Omega Kirby
Member
Requested a refund. Game runs like shit and it doesn't seem to be all that enjoyable
blankempathy
Member
Also helps that minecraft released in alpha to the public.
SolidChamp
Banned
I know, shocking right? Some people actually have a very high opinion of the game. It's really not what most of you want to see.
Naw that spot is reserved for The Witness.
Why do you think people want this game to be bad?
Two Worlds 2: Game of the Year Edition
Sniper Elite V2 GOTY Edition
Bullshit especially on Sniper Elite.
SlaughterX
Banned
Glad that most reviewers didn't let the hype get to them. The game looks really boring to me but I had akready decided it wasn't my cup of tea with the early previews. I need a game that's more to the point because my time is limited.
travisbickle
Member
To validate what they see as the correct way to design a game. It's the same reason people get angry when a game scores high, they don't have fun with what it does so it's wrong.
Maybe, I think there's also people being super defensive about anything bad being said about the game, makes it a hard game to talk about
SolidChamp
Banned
rakkadakka
Member
Damn this sucks, was looking forward to picking it up on PC.
Seems like solid steam sale material.
Seems like solid steam sale material.
SolidChamp
Banned
There's balanced critical discussion and then there's straight up vitriol and hyperbole. I'm reading more of the latter.
There's a contingent of people on both sides who are always hoping the exclusive games on their competitor's console are not good games.
CrunchyFrog
Member
It's about everything I expected, big on flash, little on substance. It's a shame because it really does nail the aesthetics of what a real space-sim should be. I really think this game was a victim of its own marketing. It blew up much bigger than they had imagined, on top of obviously being revealed far too early. Probably could've used another year to add in some solid curated content and progression. As it is it's a glorified sight-seeing sim, though there are obviously lots of people here ok with that. Dunkey makes a great comparison to Starbound which seems to have suffered a similar fate with the 1.0 release
Portugeezer
Member
Was hoping for better. I'll still get it in the future, too many other games coming in the next few months though.
dangeraaron10
Unconfirmed Member
Looks like it's being torn a new one on Steam. Only 50% of the reviews seem to be positive out of 14,123 reviews as of now making it a "Mixed" rating. Most of the negative reviews are centered around or factor in the game being unable to run well on a wider range of computers. I absolutely know I can't play this game on PC if the game won't run at its minimum recommended settings.
MythicReclaimer
Member
I pretty much agree with Polygon with the exception that I find the visuals to be mostly lackluster (the franken-fauna is laughable) and about as boring as the paper-thin gameplay. I was done at 6 hours in and quite puzzled by how poor my experience was with it only to convince myself I must be missing something and that there must be more. After 20 hours of play my initial thoughts remain.
I love all sorts of sci-fi (classic, modern, etc) but this did next to nothing for me. Incredibly disappointing.
Fess
Member
I really want to know what state this game was in when they decided to delay, especially with the remaining technical issues.
What exactly did you expect?
What exactly did you expect?
CrunchyFrog
Member
It was extremely tiresome to hear those concerns repeatedly brushed aside with the idea that there was this intended aura of mystique. If this game hadn't been front and center at a Sony conference it would have quite literally flown under most people's radar. Though I do hope this doesn't discourage Sony from throwing their weight behind promising indies once in a while (as it shouldn't considering the smash success of stuff like Flower and Journey)
cleveridea
Member
IGN score if it was rated right now
As someone with the PC version that locks up my PC 6/10 is generous
As someone with the PC version that locks up my PC 6/10 is generous