It all feels so thoroughly divorced from the rest of the game, and the money feels like an extrinsic incentive that is imposed from outside the scope of actual gameplay. The only reason that the player has to even bother with scanning and analyzing is because you're rewarded with in-game currency for scanning stuff, even though there's no in-game reason (that I could discern) for why you would be getting paid to catalog alien life or who it is that's putting the money in your account. There's nothing in the core gameplay loop or narrative that actually sets the game up to be about cataloging alien life. The incentives to catalog alien life feel extrinsicly-imposed and not a natural part of the core game experience.Īctually seeking out and cataloging the local wildlife takes a backseat - if you even bother to do it at all.
You harvest the raw materials that you'll use to refuel your space ship so that you can warp to the next planet to strip its resources for more fuel.
#SPORE PC MEGA PATCH#
Instead, you land your ship in a vibrantly-colored patch of minerals and plants, and you begin strip-mining the site clean. The core game loop does not consist of landing on an alien world to explore and catalog the local flora and fauna. Instead of being a game about exploring strange new worlds and discovering exotic wildlife and natural wonders of the universe (as I'd hoped), No Man's Sky turns out to be quite the opposite: a game about conspicuous consumption. Sadly, technical problems are only the beginning of my complaints with this game.
#SPORE PC MEGA PS4#
Apparently, the PS4 version also has numerous performance issues, including crashes. But in the meantime, if you're interested in playing the game, then the PS4 version is probably the technically superior one right now. Most of these problems will likely get fixed at some point (and some of them already have), and hopefully I'll be able to run the game at high graphics settings. So despite having a dual-monitor set-up, I can't alt-tab out to open up podcasts or play some tunes while I warp around the galaxy. If you alt-tab out, you'll have to kill the process in task manager and restart the app - which, of course, will cause a loss of any progress since the last autosave. The final insult is that the game breaks when you alt-tab out of it, which prevents you from alt-tabbing back into it. I'm talking, like half a frame per second, and the game dropping all my inputs. Upping the settings to high only results in the game becoming unplayably slow whenever I step into the cockpit of my ship. My PC is a few years old, but it more than meets the system requirements for the game, yet I've been stuck having to run it on medium graphics settings. Many rigs have consistent performance issues. It simply won't run on certain machines with certain graphics cards. In addition to having to wait three extra days for the game to release on PC, I've read a lot of reports of severe problems with the PC version of the game at launch. I, once again, may have been wrong in my choice of platform And I figure that the game will eventually enjoy a vibrant modding community that is likely impossible to spring up on the PS4, since (as far as I know) the PS4 does not support modding in any way. I assumed that the PC version would perform better and look better.
I assumed that the keyboard and mouse controls would be more comfortable, since the game is half shooter, half flight-sim.
After experiencing some annoying performance issues on the PS4 version of Dark Souls III (including a framerate capped at 30 fps), I decided that I'd hold out the extra three days for the PC version of No Man's Sky.
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