Should've been this price at launch. I'll wait for £4.99.

Pop your teeth in and go for it

You've been ripped off if you've paid money for this game.

FFS what is it with all of you losers? Everybody is slagging off this game but they haven't even played it and have no idea what it's really like. You joke about believing in the hype but you've been doing the exact same thing by jumping on the hate bandwagon and believing all the lies about the game developers. You haven't read about any of the circumstances or how the game is going to be upgraded soon.

See it in the video here!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvAwB7ogkik

FFS what is it with all of you losers? Everybody is slagging off this game but they haven't even played it and have no idea what it's really like. You joke about believing in the hype but you've been doing the exact same thing by jumping on the hate bandwagon and believing all the lies about the game developers. You haven't read about any of the circumstances or how the game is going to be upgraded soon.

See it in the video here!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvAwB7ogkik

Smyths Toys - Oldbury have it 4.99 preowned. they also had Fallout 4 preowned for £4.99.
Two games for a tenner makes me happy.

Picked this is up a lunch from smyths its 4.99 preowned (watford)

Just grabbed it from west one store, dropped to £4.99 for me

cold, save yourself £7.99 and go watch some paint dry for free.

Completed it mate.

Still a better game than Scalebound.

I put in 30 hours at launch week, on it every evening and the weekend and I paid full price, enjoyed what was there but then sold the game a few weeks later. I liked the art style, the concept of the game and the inventory management. I was bored at the eventual lack of variety, no reason to go to the center of the Universe, pointless aliens, no people and clearly no desire of the developers to talk to gamers.

It is very frustrating as the basics are there but the thing that makes a game enjoyable long term just isn't there.

It needs this:
1. Comprehensive Base Building - Like a typical RTS mixed with Age of Empires, grow a village in to a town then in to a city.
2. Co-Op, ability to easily find your friends.
3. When you get to the center of the Universe you ''become god'', i.e warp around the Universe at will, unlimited inventory, destroy planets, make planets etc.
4. War or peace/Good or evil. It literally is beige, nothing good but nothing bad, just a bit of grief if you mine something too much.

The fact that this is this hot is pretty amazing. You just know there's bound to be plenty of salty haters who will have downvoted this because they hate the bad, bad man, Sean Murray. This would probably be well over 1000° TBF.

Not one for me unfortunately. I saw some previews just before it was released that kind of highlighted what kind of game it was. Just dont have the hours these days to dump into games like that.

Its getting to the price I am willing to pay now but only thing stopping me is should I get it on the PC? (although its still considerably more money on the PC then PS4) Have a feeling that if it builds a decent modding community they could turn it into a great game.

At the end of the day it was a tiny inexperienced team caught in the headlights with big ideas they could not complete in the given timescale (god knows what timescale they would have needed.....). Probably not in a position to p*ss off Sony with delays. Its happened with games in the past and will no doubt happen again.
Main issue with this particular game is its concept appealed to many gamers. Many people were blinded by hope and a want for the game to succeed and achieve its aims. That this game would change the pattern and achieve everything it set out to do and more. In reality that rarely happens. And definitely not where a game has ideas on such a grand scale.

Its still an ok little mining/resource gathering game, worth a tenner, which many people can still get many hours of happy wandering out of.

(If you want a game which does what it says on the tin. Hungry Horace. You cant say that the box art work sets any unreal expectations there...... In fact it reminds me of a planet I visited in nms....)

Got this on ebay at weekend for £7 was supprised how much i got into it only played for just over 3 hours but has me comming back for more defantly work it for under tenner

Heat for description!

It wasn't the hype that was my bane, it was the blatant lies by the dev team and the release of a beta quality game as a AAA polished title.

I still believe fines should be brought against the company. Why should an game product be treated any different from any other product you buy. When someone pirates their game they expect the law to treat it as theft, yet they wan't to be able to mis-sell an unfinished product and get away with it? Double standards.

Say a car manufacturer lied about emission levels on a car, they would get into trouble and fined... oh they do, or if you bought an Ikea wardrobe and the contents didn't match what box said it had, you would take it back and compain.

In its released state it should have been at a £10 indie title price point or an £15 early access, not a AAA final polished product. Even with the patches and bug fixes its far from a polished AAA product.

There has been a bad shift in the consumer gaming market in the past five years. The mentality of get it out the door and we will fix bugs as they arise. The mentality of 'why pay beta testers and have a through testing ethos when we can get our customers to pay for the privilege.'

Is it a good game? yes.... and no.... It seems to be the current Marmite release
If it worth the £7.99 deal price tag? yes
Should you play it? I suggest watching someone else play it on twitch for 6 hours, you will have seen 95% of the game by then. :smiley:

Regards
Flea

Wow you can tell when people care to much about the comments left when the essays come out.:laughing:

Great price to buy at if you fancy a go. As for all those who did preorder did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is...

Yes I played it.

bit pricey.

Not played this, far too into Elite, but is this like a sh*t version of Spore (which I quite liked actually!)

still £7.99 too much

wait a minute, you mean I can't go out and buy a game myself and form my own opinion? I have to listen to a load of strangers scream their opinion at me on the Internet? get over yourselves. If people want to go out and spend £8 on this and get 2 hours of fun out of it, that's up to them.

opinions are like ****, everyone has one and most of them are pretty ****.

"I dont know why you still argue there is multiplayer but Hellogames already confirmed it doest"

You saying it's fact doesn't make it fact. There is nowhere where Hello Games have come out after launch and said "there's no multiplayer". Find me a video where he's come out and said there was a huge fleshed out multiplayer experience? Find me a video where they later retracted that statement. No? You can't. This is what he actually said in "that" interview:
https://gamerant.com/no-mans-sky-no-multiplayer-explanation-826/

But i guess some people just wanna hate eh? You and all the other angry Redditors who had unreal expectations.

"How is that even a argument? they said multiplayer is there, but its not. doesnt matter if its great or crap"

Because it is an argument. If 2 players via the internet can theoretically meet in a game instance, no matter how slim the chances, then that's a multiplayer game. You could argue that if all you could see was the named planets from other players then that is a multiplayer game also. Just look at a lot of the multiplayer experiences on steam, there are a tonne of games that aren't multiplayer in the traditional sense.

If you and anyone else expected some Call of Duty style group of buddies blasting space cows on a planets surface and joining up to attack freighters multiplayer type experience, then more fool you. There's not been a single quote where that was implied. Its peoples misinformed beliefs of what the game was going to be, and jumping on the massive hype train, who are the ones who built themselves up to be disappointed.


"yes lets blame Sony for everything because its not like Sean Murrays when on number of interview, mainstream one at that right before launch and lie about features that is not in the game"

I said that Sony are responsible for leaving that original trailer up on the PSN store which showed an inaccurate representation of the final product. That IS Sony's fault, they're responsible for their store page, just as Steam has the final say on what is shown on their product pages. Sony dragged them to E3 to show that game, Sony will be the ones pushing for a release date etc etc.

I'll say it again, it's not remotely a good game, but nowhere near as bad as it's been made out to be, and I've not touched it since the Foundation update and have little motivation to do so. I'm not defending them because I like the game, I just think a lot of the anger is totally over the top. They hadn't remotely helped themselves by having a complete media blackout after launch.

But, if anyone had actually watched ANY of the Youtube coverage, or even the 2 months of IGN gameplay coverage and details prior to launch, you would have known EXACTLY what you were getting when you bought it.

Great price but personally I would prefer to wait until it is this price or less on the PS Store, with all the patches required and it only being 6GB on a physical disc it hardly seems worth a blu ray.

But is it worth £8? For me that's a yes..

I wish it was a deals only site but people keep flooding it with turds such as this one

Isn't it suspicious that a game that isn't even a year old to be sold for £7??? It's because it's just a steaming pile of dog poop

​Yeah, but it's fun to watch the fanboys argue! :wink:

One day I dream that this site is just a 'deals' site and not a game review site :smiley: Heat added!

I dont know why you still argue there is multiplayer but Hellogames already confirmed it doest

"The multiplayer was never widely pushed, it was always labelled as a solo journey and you're clearly buying the wrong type of game if you went into this expecting some fleshed out multiplayer experience which was never pitched in the first place."

How is that even a argument? they said multiplayer is there, but its not. doesnt matter if its great or crap

"To be fair to them their PR was terrible and the hype was driven by Sony etc. I can't even be angry about the original trailers, games changes constantly from original trailers and accurate gameplay trailers were available 6 months before release showing exactly what the final product looked like. The problem arose with both Sony and Steam leaving that original trailer up showing an inaccurate representation of the product."

yes lets blame Sony for everything because its not like Sean Murrays when on number of interview, mainstream one at that right before launch and lie about features that is not in the game

Im from the future, wait so you them Free from the stock dump, its like what they did with E.T game but with No mans sky a lot of people taken the games from the dump.. Well they will,

£8? Nope, i may give it a go if they pay me £8 to play it

£24.99 in Smyths Birmingham

I bought it at launch for £45, if I had just shredded the money I'd feel better about it.

For £7.99 go buy yourself a double mocha guppachino from Starbucks and give the 5p change to charity, you will feel better about it

I found a fantasticly lush planet to call home. full of diverse creatures and lovely blue grass. I wanted to check something out somewhere else now I can't find the bloody planet again!

since that planet every other one I've busted has been a rocky, desolate hell hole.

Great price and I am enjoying playing it too!

Bargain, I've sunk a ridiculous number of hours into this. My 10yo son loves it too. However, I can definitely see why anyone who played it prior to the foundation patch would hate on it. The base building introduced in that patch is one of my favourite parts of the game. Without it, it'd probably be quite dull.

To add some balance to the argument, the "lie" has been neither proved nor disproved.

If you're referring to the video where two people were on the same planet but different time zones etc and couldn't see each other, and if you have some knowledge of how instanced multiplayer works, then it's not out of the realms of possibility that they were in the same places on different instances, exactly like other major MMO's etc. That doesn't mean that "multiplayer is a lie" it could just mean that they were on different instances and draw your conclusions from that.

Most big budget MMO's instance players in pots of anywhere of 50-10,000. Now apply that amount of players in a region that holds 18 quintillion planets. You can see why Sean Murray came out and said "it's extremely unlikely players will ever meet", the odds are very slim indeed. That's assuming they don't break up their universe into regions etc.

The multiplayer was never widely pushed, it was always labelled as a solo journey and you're clearly buying the wrong type of game if you went into this expecting some fleshed out multiplayer experience which was never pitched in the first place.

To be fair to them their PR was terrible and the hype was driven by Sony etc. I can't even be angry about the original trailers, games changes constantly from original trailers and accurate gameplay trailers were available 6 months before release showing exactly what the final product looked like. The problem arose with both Sony and Steam leaving that original trailer up showing an inaccurate representation of the product.

I'm certainly not a fan of the game, I ground out a ship with max slots and same for my backpack, the story was a joke that I did in about 20 minutes and I had 0 motivation to make another couple of hundred jumps to the centre of the universe. That being said I didn't expect too much more from it. It should have been an early access game. It sounds like the latest updates have improved it a lot but it'll take a lot more than what they've released now for me to be remotely interested in playing it again

Got to be worth £8, this was always my biting point when it was £12 in Cex back in November before they announced the updates and it went back up in price. Heat OP

Wouldn't buy this if it was £5!


I already have a copy :stuck_out_tongue:
Heat if you can find a copy :smiley:

PS+ game before long? :stuck_out_tongue:
heat added, might bite soon

I would not be surprised if there are a lot of USED copies of this game out there soon enough...

I'll wait for £7.98 :stuck_out_tongue:




(Heated)

You played the game? I found a good number of the planets very samey, but also that just enough were substantially different (especially when warping to high class systems with the upgrades) that it has kept it interesting enough for me. I find it more of a switch brain off and relax type game like euro truck or similar, with very little overall point to the game. Its a nice distraction from the stresses of dark souls 3 etc..... which in comparison demand high levels of concentration.

One planet is repeated almost ad infinitum, once you've done one planet you've done them all, and getting to the center of the universe is a con as you just go to another procedurally generated universe with the same tedious awful gameplay.

You've been ripped off if you've paid money for this game.

I bit at £14 when Tesco reduced the prices. I've been playing it since last Saturday and so far I cannot say I'm hating it.

Yeah this is me taking the bait... if its in my store they have a deal...

heat

Just for the other side of the argument (I posted this in the previous deal when I picked up the game):

"So I picked it up and sank around 10-15hrs into it this weekend. Not as bad as I was expecting. Can see the arguments on both sides, but it seems to play very similar to other games like Terraria, Junk Jack that I have previously played and enjoyed, with the edition of 3d worlds and (limited) space flight.

Don't seem to have any problems gathering resources, and you don't seem to need that many to build a particular item. Each planet has around 5 types things to do or find (reoccurring many, many times on each), find wrecked ships, find suit upgrades, monuments and atlas stones, and small labs/abandoned buildings. Money is really easy to get once you either start farming or stand around a space station buying low/selling high for around 30mins.....

I have noticed that as I play more the planets have tended to look better and the creatures/plants get bigger and more diverse, although the range from 'actually quite nice looking' to dreadful is quite spectacular. Planets with lots of grass like cover look good but the pop-in distance is outrageous. In terms of the creatures it is actually pretty funny seeing the oddball creations. The space combat / flight however is very, very poor!

Overall good little time killer for those who haven't seen/believed/bothered reading the hype or enjoy wasting time in a huge universe in my opinion. (Again this is only my experience with the game)"

Still dipping into the game. Yes, its not surprise after surprise round every corner, but can still be quite enjoyable. I think you have to play it with your own little goals, otherwise I could see it would be pretty tedious just grinding your way to the centre if that's what you plan to do.

Good find FD, tempted at this price. Do you happen to know if it's usable or playable without a PS+ sub?

I enjoyed this game, but was not worth the 40 quid i spent on it. Well worth this price however.

More like no mans lie..... what nobody has made that comment already. God dam people. £8 for a PS4 game that at worst might be a few hours to see what all the fuss is about. Most of the people moaning about this game would still pay £4 for a coffee or £40 for a call of duty. Just give it a go (although I am yet to play my new £12.99 copy from Smyths last Friday)

mega lolz

Once the novelty of traversing a few galaxies wears off it's very repetitive and very lacking in any actual gameplay and no amount of "base building" will change that... especially when that becomes completely pointless after you leave that planet

Should've been this price at launch. I'll wait for £4.99.

I've used my time machine and one day they'll actually pay YOU to take the game away and play it :laughing:

Ta.

Internet connection, obviously :smile:

Would bite if I could! Heat!