After sinking just over twenty hours into No Man's Sky on PS4 I've come to
the conclusion that it's got a lot of potential but at the minute it's just not
the game it was made out to be. The hype around this game was crazy and
I was pretty sure it would'nt live up to it but as the game stands currently
it doesnt even live up to 10% of that cra cra hype.
Pros:
(Some) beautiful scenery
Planet scale is on point
Learning alien languages is neat
Cons:
Combat is bland
Spaceship flight is unengaging
Ship customisation is nonexistent
Lots of bugs, mainly random crashes
Most animals look the same and are not a real threat
And my biggest gripe is the crafting system. You can only craft something
once you have learnt the recipe and the actual amount of materials
requred to craft something is stupidly low. Minerals can usually be found
in big clumps on a planets surface. Mining all of said clump usually takes
no more then five minutes, I have yet to get a recipe that has required me
to use even a tenth of said clump so you just end up going from planet
to planet mining sh*t and then selling it for money to buy a ship that
has more storage then the ship you currently have.
And what do you store in the extra storage of your ship? More f**king
minerals that you hang on to in the hope you'll actually need them
for something.
