Why I'm Calling Time On My No Man's Sky Adventure

Why ScreenGurus Shaun feels it's time to end his No Man's Sky adventure for good.

[hells_supernova]

I am slowing mie down personally and I am going to wait for some major updates, have really enjoyed the game so far. But I just need something more to do, ill keep coming back until some newer games release

[yeahokwhatever]

I planned on NMS being filler between games, or short boredom plays. If you get home from work and you're tired or whatever, just boot it up, wander around, maybe kill some space ships, warp to another star system, and power down. lol Its perfect.

[Shubhendu_Singh]

As good as that planet to space transition feels, the game after some time is devoid of things to do. (which all of us feared before going into this game)

NMS is ok in short bursts. In long stretches, it gets really boring really fast.

[Dixiedevil]

I witnessed first hand the amazing, jaw dropping end of the atlas quest. Still reeling from the experience the next day, I ended up seeing what happens when you reach the center, online. I don't know if I can handle the excitement and amazement of witnessing it first hand. Sarcasm is more fun when it doesn't cost $60. Seriously though. Fade to black and a middle finger isn't too far off.

[gangsta_red]

A fade to black and a middle finger would have been a more well thought out ending then what NMS provided.

[Orionsangel]

Retail bin for $15.99.

[XanderZane]

This paragraph pretty much summed up the whole game.

"The experience of discovering a world, finding intricate cave systems or just having a good old adventure feels entirely pointless when the dawning realisation hits you that there’s nothing to actually make that world feel alive. There’s nothing to see that I haven’t already explored a dozen times already – no sense of real danger outside of random pirate battles. It’s this lack of fear and danger that truly harms the experience for me – I never feel as though the game is testing me."

The whole game is pretty pointless. The goals for the Atlas Stone and the Center of the Universe is all a waste of time. The game will be in the bargain bin in another couple months, if not sooner.

[Majister-Ludi]

Yea great point. It's like the have the beginning of a game but forgot to give it purpose and that's a shame. Huge disappointment for me.

[SniperControl]

I was very disappointed with the game if being honest, my seven year old has got more interest in it than me, i have around 25 hours in the game but have no motivation to go back to play it, ah well, another £50 down the drain.

[lastking95]

Tried to tell y'all, my gaming foresight is A1. Haven't neen burned by a bad game since the ps2 era.......besides fable 3 lol

[Christopher]

August 20th: "I’ve spent the best part of two weeks exploring No Man’s Sky’s universe."

August 25th: "The sad thing is I don’t particularly hate No Man’s Sky. For all the flaws that I’ve come across in my near-two weeks with it; "

Amazing, 5 days later and hardly any, if any at all, more time in the game and you come to the pretty much same conclusion you did then.

Look, you can have your opinion, but this author is saying pretty much the same thing he did on the 20th in his article titled "No Man’s Sky Shouldn’t Have Been A Full-Price Game" and this one seems more an attempt to ride that click train on the hype to hating NMS than it is being of worth putting out as its own article.

I'm not going to judge his opinion, but as a person who examines journalism, this one seems unnecessary and more aimed at getting people to click and comment once again on a game with many negative points.

[ScreenGurus]

I respectfully disagree.

When I wrote the "No Man’s Sky Shouldn’t Have Been A Full-Price Game" piece it was because I was playing the game and after about 15-20 hours, I'd come to the feeling that it should have been priced closer to Journey. This is because I felt the experience was comparable and that was a point I wanted to articulate in my article. I do that by discussing the points that made me reach that conclusion; which includes the negative aspects.

This article serves as a jumping off point for me. I've tried to stay the course and I feel that there's nothing more for this game to give me - despite the fact that its very design should give everything to gamers for as long as they want. The fact that it's the games negative points that made me reach this doesn't devalue the opinion - it only articulates that No Man's Sky lacks the content to justify:

a. Being a full price game.
b. Being played beyond the 20 hour mark.

I understand what you're saying - "Why hasn't his opinion changed, it shouldn't be a whole new article". Why not? I don't feel you can review this game and it amazes me that so many video game journalists bulleted through the game so they could land their reviews quickly and hover up clicks - not experiencing the game properly. If I was here purely for the clicks, I'd surely have gone the route of saying "Here's why you should stop playing No Man's Sky now" or " Here's my top 10 list of reasons why No Man's Sky isn't as long as you thought it was".

I hate it when people say that opinion pieces = clicksbaiting. No. Rushed reviews, misleading titles, rumor baiting and endless top 10 lists sprawled across 10 slides with minimal content. That's clickbaiting. Guys who rushed up guides on the first day of No Man's Sky's release then didn't bother to come back two weeks later to reevaluate the situation because they'd had their fill of that clickpile - those are the journalists that are here for the clicks. I played No Man's Sky - I liked it but there was a declining sense of return and I wanted to say that. While playing No Man's Sky a week earlier I felt it shouldn't have been a full priced game, so I wrote about it. I'm very unlikely to offer up a review of NMS because I don't feel confident - so this was me digesting my experience into a form factor that I felt was appropriate. If you felt it was too close to the previous article, that's fine.

If you're going to call me a videogames journalist (And I don't personally call myself that, I see myself as a commentator much like any gamer could be) then surely the point is to critically digest and articulate the goings on in the video games industry as they happen. Even if that opinion is widely held and thus not unique.

[TheDivine]

I played for a few days and got bored. The crashes didn't help. Maybe il pick it up again after more crafting, building, combat, quests, and hopefully coop is added. Until then.... Prob not.

[joab777]

I'm not calling it for good. I sownt a lot of time on it, maxed everything out etc., did everything and now I am excites to see what comes next.

[x_BlackRose]

The game has its flaws, sure. But in my experience, playing the game with the true intent to explore and discover has kept me going, some planets dead, some in the middle, while others are teeming with life. Knowing that there is always something to be discovered is motivation enough for me, because I never know what I will find unless I look. In the experience that this game already provides, graphically, sound wise, game play wise. It will always be a winner, and I know it will get better. I just like to pretend I am an explorer myself. To discover, explore and trade to survive a vast, unforgiving universe. Why should there always be an endgame anyway folks?

[OB1Biker]

'Why should there always be an endgame anyway folks'
I havent played the game yet but in my mind I always thought (and I said it before and was downvoted) when you explored a galaxy and reach the center it would make sense to be able to keep going and explore another, and then another etc.
I feel like people reaction is like 'Wow the universe is infinite? What a rip off' mind blown.

[FoxyGotGame]

So now people think it pertinent to write articles that more or less amount to band wagon style game bashing, and announcing they're done with certain games..like seriously?? ...this outlet is supposedly 'News For Gamer's' ..but this site seems to allow any Joe with an opinion to submit any tripe they want! ...yeesh

[Nineball2112]

Yeah, we do, as long as it's gaming related. It's up to the community whether they want to approve these types of articles. If they don't, then it won't hit the front page.

[x_BlackRose]

Preach brother. You're right, and the NMS bashing truly is a bandwagon movement by people who wanted it to fail from the very beginning, and those too ignorant to realize what type of game this is and who it appeals to.

[rocketpanda]

This is a game that will be better played in a few months time, IF they add what Murry bullshited about. The potential is there. Make it happen.

[finite]

if they have finished the game, they had promoted via many interviews and gameplay showcases, this game would have alot more playability, currently in its release version, it just does not have, what we all expected from how Hello Games publicly promoted, which is a shame.

[VintageVideoGames]

I still don't know whether to recommend this game, I'm 30+ hours in and although it's a great game more variation would have been better however, I think now matter how much variety they could have added it still would have become samey after a certain amount of time.

[Dfooster]

You could tell months before release that this is how the game was going to end up. People believed a lot was being withheld from the media and it would be a deep experience but none of the interviews or gameplay videos suggested this to be the case. If anything some of the marginally deeper gameplay mechanics promised were removed. I removed myself from the hype train awhile ago. I see ign have also gone mysteriously quiet on the game after they had all the early access rights. They haven't even issued a review yet from what I can gather which says it all.

[ULTp0ltergeist]

Well that was brief

[NXSwitch]

This game should have been a launch title for NEO.