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TisebLem

exploration spatiale dantesque

Reviewed in France on June 30, 2019

Ce jeu est top!
des milliers de systèmes avec différentes planètes habitées par d'étranges créatures.
Vous pouvez tomber sur une planète radioactive, ou bien recouverte de champignons avec une atmosphère chargée de spores, ou encore une planète tropicale remplie de palmiers bleus, ou bien une planète océan etc...
Vous pouvez choisir de construire une base façon minecraft en collectant différents materiaux et plans ou bien faire le pirate en attaquant les convois spatiaux... voler en tandem avec vos amis...
Décrié à son lancement, de nombreuses mises à jour lui ont fait remonter la pente en beauté!

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Mr Tech

So much a better than early reviews suggested, keeps growing & with PSVR, YOU are flying in space.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 10, 2017

Edition: GameVerified Purchase

I keep having to re-write this review as I play the game. If you want space flight true physics + a space shootem-up, AND ONLY THAT, then go to Elite Dangerous.

If you want a game where you charge around shooting every thing in sight then find something else.

If you want a game you can finish in 15 hours then find something else.

If you want landing on planets, repairing stuff by getting stuff yourself, feeding dinosaurs, getting eaten by dinosaurs, seeing exotic plant/creatures (huge yellow butterflies today), trading for other stuff to build stuff, have conversations with aliens (a bit limited but necessary), land/takeoff, get shot at (not managed to hit anything myself as running is a good option (also works with killer dinosaurs), build bases (decide one planet is your home or if you get rich enough have as many holiday homes as you can afford anywhere in the galaxy), travel by Stargate (yeah really), figure out what you need before you need it (this involves "Oh cripes, I should have bought that Platinum back there, now I'm stuffed) or having to fix your own mess and generally live a life out there with all the consequences & rewards then this is your game.

Real life can be tedious and NMS is a lot less tedious but boy can you still mess up with wrong decisions. As you can play this game with no consequences (Creative) you can learn what you are trying to do without pain. Normal mode lets you die (quite often really) but you can usually retrieve what you lost. Then there are 2 harder levels the last of which is one mistake and you die and you stay dead.
Since the Atlas upgrade there are some decent story lines you can follow or you could just fly off in any direction and try to make your own way.
One great option is you can have 5 separate lives going at the same time. I use creative to figure out where I went wrong but it is a separate life with its own game time. These lives are not forks in the road you must start a new one each time.

This game is fun. You will need resolve to progress but there is just so much to try on route. If this is for a child then it is not gory even though occasionaly one creature will kill another.

What is most important about NMS is that the authors keep adding stuff that makes the gameplay better and potentially more complex so adding years to its playability.

Ask yourself 1 question. "What would I do if I found myself crash landed on an alien planet with lots of deadly things around (e.g. acid rain); there is no hope of rescue but the planet has all you need to repair your ship and leave.

Actually you need to ask yourself a 2nd question. Now what? Not withstanding fuel limitations you can just do what you want and be as wrong as you want as often as you want.

Returning to Elite Dangerous for a moment, if you really want to fly in space then it has supposedly true physics but if you have ever seen a tanker try and slow & turn then you will see ED is not a realistic as it says.

Hopefully I have given a flavour of this game. Every game gets boring eventually but this one should take a whole lotta time to get that far.

AND NOW FOR PSVR.

In the space flying bit of the game it is wonderful. You have virtual hands that operate a virtual throttle and joystick (assuming you are using Moves not Dualshock). You can look anywhere your neck will twist to and then you can have a swivel chair like me. Woo Hoo!

On a planet it is a bit harder and where I got my first travel sickness. But your real world hand points your virtual world weapon when under attack (or for farming/mining etc). Yes it is a bit blurrier than perfection but hey you are on another world and jumping off a mountain is, well, jumping off a mountain. If you look down you are obeying gravity and the ground comes to meet you and you will suffer damage, but you should survive.

The controls are intuitive to use but hard to learn. If you are starting with Moves it should be easier than unlearning Dualshock. You can play in either.

Wow! Really Wow! I have an 8 metre creature that I can look up and walk through its 8 legs. I have The Creepies that scale wise are fantastic ride. You can feed, milk & get eggs and their excrement is useful. Big (4 Metre Cats) and ravenous smaller creatures that hunt in packs.

And did I mention YOU can fly in space.

The graphics may not be as good as some much more limited games but really this is the bees knees until PSVR2 & PS5.

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Alex

Un juego para un tipo de jugador muy específico

Reviewed in Spain on June 1, 2017

Edition: GameVerified Purchase

Con la recientes actualizaciones ha mejorado mucho en cuestiones de jugabilidad, pero sigue siendo un juego que a tiende a un tipo de jugador muy específico que le guste los juegos de exploración. No tiene la acción de un fps, ni la historia de uno de rol. Se trata de un juego más similar a una especie de Minecraft en Singleplayer, donde la exploración y la obtención de recursos resultan los protagonistas de un juego de desarrollo lento y relajado.

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PSeeCO

Fantascienza, esplorazione e... Minecraft.

Reviewed in Italy on November 13, 2017

Edition: GameVerified Purchase

Ho seguito la genesi di questo gioco fin dall'annuncio, fin da subito ne sono rimasto affascinato ma poi sappiamo bene com'è andata, un sacco di bugie e promesse disattese. Dopo aver letto le prime recensioni decisi di tenermi i miei soldi... Fino ad ora! Complici diversi major update ed un prezzo altamente allettante ho deciso, finalmente, di acquistare questo gioco e devo ammettere che è stata una scelta azzeccata! Se siete amanti della fantascienza, dell'esplorazione ed, in un certo qual modo, delle meccaniche alla minecraft, questo gioco fa certamente al caso vostro ed il suo acquisto è fortemente consigliato! Ho già accumulato una quarantina di ore di gioco e, praticamente, non ho ancora visto niente!

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CHOVEAU

Bon produit

Reviewed in France on January 27, 2024

Edition: GameVerified Purchase

bon produit et bien protégé

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Stefano T.

Ottimo!

Reviewed in Italy on August 13, 2017

Edition: GameVerified Purchase

Comperato a gennaio 2017. Appassionato di astronomia fin da piccolo, nonostante che la critica lo abbia stroncato, adoro questo gioco. Miliardi di pianeti da visitare.
Con l'aggiornamento 1.3 è migliorata notevolmente la grafica è vietato hanno inserito delle missioni secondarie. Ho dovuto iniziare da zero la partita perché è cambiata la storia, hanno modificato modificato i pianeti e dove avevo la base, praticamente non c'era più nulla.
Peccato ma va bene.
Consigliato a chi piace l'esplorazione senza limiti.

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Mike

What a difference to the game at release date

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 1, 2016

Edition: GameVerified Purchase

Updated as of 02/01/2021
I've repurchased the game and played it for some months now, it truly is a different game. My previous review (below) is now no longer a reflection of the game in its current state.

Best of all, there's new updates to the game which seem to be ongoing even on to next gen.

Would definitely recommend but this is your info open world, open end space sim type games.

No Man's Sky (PS4) Wow, so much disappointment, where to start... Firstly, Hello Games you should be ashamed of yourselves, in particular you Mr Murray, in nearly every interview you did you hinted at online capabilities ("the only way to know what you look like is for another player to view you" - he says, can't get much bigger a hint than that can you). As already mentioned, players have met on the same planet in the same place looked at the same moon/planet in the sky from the same point AND COULD NOT SEE ONE ANOTHER. But hey, I didn't buy this for multiplayer so I'm not that bothered, only.....

.. I craved someone to shoot at, trade with, even speak to as after just a matter of hours this game is soooo repetitive. There are only three alien races in the whole game and they hate you.... well hated me anyway.

The cycle is this, farm this rock and/or plant to upgrade this part of your suit > "NO FREE SLOTS IN SUIT INVENTORY", oops better upgrade, oh I have to farm more stuff to then sell it to be able to afford the exosuit upgrade, but i have no space!!! I'll run back to my ship and put it in there > "NO FREE SLOTS IN SHIP INVENTORY" Damn this is annoying... oh look a crashed ship with more slots.... wait, it's broke, I need to get it flying but... you guessed it more farming rocks and/or plants. All this effort for a ship that really only hase one or 2 slots more which after you've got it off the ground you've spent an age farming.

Discovering is boring, the universe is just too big and this algorithm the developers banged on about with 18 Quintillion planets before launch means every creature or plant is only very slightly different form the last.

There are no big space battles, a few little ships attack the freighters and you can attack the little ships, they drop some stuff but guess what..... "NO FREE SLOTS IN SHIP INVENTORY"..You see where this is going...

Before I returned this game for a refund as it got so repetivie and boring I had a decent ship with around 34 slots however I'd added loads of upgrades so could still only store 6ish items on the ship, my exosuit was maxxed out but I installed every available mod meaning not much space. If you like micromanaging your resources and docking frequently then you will like this. I don't.

Why can't I burn up in the atmosphere if flying in too fast, why can't I slam my ship into the ground and vaporise the stupid creatures I'm aiming at?! The game won't let me, I don't like it, this isn't flying.

Draw distances..... These made me physically sick, even 'flying' with the brake on travelling at 50u (upgraded pulse engines) the images in front of me wouldn't appear util I was almost on them, making looking for outposts give you a headache as they just pop up so you find yourself staring at nothingness in the hope it is something to point your ship at.

There's so many things that were seen and shown in the promos before launch that aren't in the game, check out "Sean Murray Liar" on youtube and see for yourself. Put quite simply, without the content I saw before launch there is just not enough to do in this game, yes its vast but my god that vastness is boring..

Oh and the ending, don't worry no spoilers here but prepare to punched in the balls and be told your dad who made you into the man you are today isn't really your dad and that.. in fact..... your real dad is Sean effin' Murray.

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Cliente Amazon

Muy recomendable

Reviewed in Spain on April 4, 2017

Edition: GameVerified Purchase

El juego viene traducido al español, exactamente igual que la edición española. Un juego muy recomendable si te gusta la exploración tranquila y sin prisas. Gracias a los parches que ha recibido, hay más contenido y una pequeña mejora gráfica. Sin duda, es un juego de nicho que no va a gustar a todo el mundo por el ritmo que tiene y por su jugabilidad pero, para mí, es un juego muy bonito y relajante que se disfruta muchísimo.

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Gameaddict

Big beautiful, yet empty and lacking emotion.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 19, 2016

Edition: GameVerified Purchase

Crash landed on an unknown planet, low on resources, your only option is to gather these resources and thus begin your No Man's Sky journey. Billed to me by friends as "Minecraft in space", "Spore done right" with the aim of reaching the galactic core , I was optimistic but not overly so.

I'm now roughly 20-30 hours or so, explored several systems and multiple planets. Take a step back and look at no man's sky as a game made by a tiny studio with 18 quadrillion "unique" planets and you begin to get an idea of the scale of the task that Hello Games had on their hands. Is No Man's sky perfect? Not at all, it's far from it.
But the vast landscapes and the simple scale of the game is astonishing, but the real question remains apart from achievement is there a game there?

I've spent most of my time searching for resources to build the vital parts of my ship, having to make a 20 minute or so round trip to the necessary resources on my first planet. The controls for collecting resources are simple and resources are collected from a pretty far off distance with the resources coming to you throughout, however, the sentries who patrol and protect these planets often feel like nothing more than a nuisance and give up after 30 seconds if you run away. There's also need to gather the necessary resources to survive and support life support systems, these resources are so plentiful that little to no effort is ever needed to actively focus on surviving.

Inventory management quickly becomes a fundamental part of your game plan, only because you've so little space, throw in the potential to upgrade your systems further to make your journey simpler and allow you to survive the various different temperaments planets have and you'll soon have so little space for resources that upgrades have to be chopped and changed. As fundamentally these upgrades take up slots within your inventory systems and I'm simply overwhelmed with upgrades that I don't have space to install on my ship, exo-suit or multitool. And I'm now seeing the same upgrades again and again whenever I discover a new shelter, trading post and so on. Alongside only encountering multi tools and ships that offer the identical number of space as my start out ones (although I realise I may soon encounter others), I'm feeling stuck in terms of my ability to manage travelling and gathering the neccessary resources to travel, having to make pitstops often to gather more resources to continue my jounrey. However, this balance is somehow appealing and has presented a few tough choices when it's come to upgrade my rather sorry looking exo-suit and ship.

I'd begun the search to understand the multiple languages that exist within the game, but the conversations lack emotion or meaning and seem to revolve either around giving the various alien races the correct element, units or doing nothing that the onscreen prompts are often more than helpful enough that continuing to seek out knowledge stones lacks reward. For all it's vast planets, alien life forms are sparse and seem to offer little more than a few more lines of conversation. I was hoping to uncover vast cities or similar but so far nothing more than a small settlement of a building or two with always one alien in remains the norm.

Built on a formula that resulted in 18 quadrillion planets, No man's sky offers you a vast vast galaxy to explore with more planets than you'll ever be able to physically visit. However, environments feel samey, creatures and plants look identical to those I saw in that other galaxy millions of miles away, the most appealing planet I've found wasn't even a planet. It was a planet's moon! I spent hours there because the environment was so captivating and I stumbled upon multiple structures next to each other, however, otherwise, planets are feeling similar and traversing them isn't always an enjoyable experience. I'd like to be able to run for longer than my current upgrades allow and getting back to my ship often feels like a chore (homing device anyone?).

Despite this, I'm captivated..being able to fly from planet to planet within a video game is something I've always longed to do, without loading screens is enjoyable although there could be complaints towards the fps and the screen merging that takes place. It's also important to note that No Man's sky continues to crash, like no other PS4 game that I own. Yet still I'm sat mining iron and carbon (and others) to allow me to continue to the next galaxy in the hope of understanding who and what is Atlas. And damn I'd really like some Atlas passes! To open some of those sweet looking facilities and drop pods...

How long no man's sky will hold my attention for is for another time (I'll update this review with time), I'm currently heading towards the galactic core hoping to uncover whatever lies there....

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Ignacio

Mejor de lo que esperaba

Reviewed in Spain on May 3, 2017

Edition: GameVerified Purchase

Despues de leer tanta critica negativa (por otro lado justificada, ya que la expectativa sobre el juego era muy alta), he de decir que me he encontrado un juego indie bastante completo, con infinidad de espacio para explorar, cierta profundidad en el comercio y no del todo carente de hilo argumental.

El precio fue bueno y el servicio de amazón excelente

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