History YMMV / NoMansSky

* GoodBadBugs: [[VideoGameDashing The Dash Jump.]] Performing a melee attack while walking/running makes you lunge forward, giving extra momentum. Use the jet-pack just as you do this and you retain your added momentum while flying through the air. It's useful for crossing large gaps as well as general movement, as it's faster than your standard running speed, and doesn't consume [[SprintMeter stamina]].

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: [[https://youtu.be/uTTPlqK8AnY?t=17m39s During an interview with Sean Murray]], the interviewer jokes about how the game's ending (reaching the center of the universe) would be a SmashToBlack, akin to ''The Sopranos''. Murray and the interviewer then crack up and comment that that's a funny idea. [[spoiler:Well, [[EndingAversion no one really found it funny,]] [[{{Understatement}} to put it mildly...]]]]

** In previous versions, additional personal inventory slots were available for purchase only at drop pods, which are fairly common across most planets. The first extra slot is free, [[AdamSmithHatesYourGuts but each additional slot past that one costs an additional 10,000 units.]] By the time you've maxed your inventory at 48 slots, you will have shelled out a cool 6.3 ''million'' units. That's more money than you would likely pay for a decent-sized ship! This was averted in later versions by making drop pods on planets give you inventory space upgrades for free, provided you have the materials on hand to repair the damaged drop pods. You can still purchase inventory slots on space stations near the multi-tool vendor.

** A less-noticeable one occurs earlier in the trailer when a goat-like creature runs from the player-character and clips through the wing of his ship.

** A meta example: UsefulNotes/{{YouTube}} cracked down on videos of leaked copies being uploaded, so the leakers turned to another video hosting site. What site? ''Pornhub''.
** One Youtuber [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVbV5A_MYeg uploaded a montage]] mixing his reaction to the game's ending with fragments from an interview to Sean Murray. Everything is just hilarious, from his comments about what's happening to the $5 donation with the text accompanying it saying [[spoiler:"You've been Rick Rolled".]]
** A famous [=YouTube=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvAwB7ogkik clip]] which shows the footage from the 2014 E3 demo while playing the majestic ''Film/JurassicPark'' film's score, [[spoiler: then switching to the actual in-game footage of a goofy-looking animal while changing the music to a very off-key rendition of that film's theme]].

* HypeAversion: during the time leading up to the game's launch, many gamers were turned off by the sheer amount of press the game received, though this wasn't without reason: like with ''VideoGame/StarCitizen'', the game reached [[Creator/PeterMolyneux Molyneux]]-levels of promises when the trailers mostly showed exploration or one specific aspect of gameplay (say, trading or a PortalNetwork).

** With the Foundations Update, some are happy, but some are saying it's too little, too late, arguing those features found in the update should have been in the game to start with, and that putting them in now won't help the game much, if at all.

* EndingAversion: Mere weeks (or even days!) after the game was released, players had already managed to reach the center of the galaxy. And what did they find? [[spoiler:Absolutely nothing. Instead it begins a NewGamePlus, [[AWinnerIsYou where the player is teleported to another galaxy without any kind of reward or plot revelation]]]]. Obviously, people who found out about this ending decided the game was ''not'' worth buying.

** A meta example: UsefulNotes/{{Youtube}} cracked down on videos of leaked copies being uploaded, so the leakers turned to another video hosting site. What site? ''Pornhub''.

* GameBreaker: Any planet that features an abundance of some super rare, high value material, such as gravitino balls, albumen pearls, or vortex cubes. Doubly true if gathering these does not provoke an immediate Sentinel ambush, and you can get a price markup in your favor when selling the resource. It's entirely possible to fly away from such planets 10-20 million units richer.

* HypeAversion: Many gamers were turned off by the sheer amount of press the game received, though this wasn't without reason: like with ''VideoGame/StarCitizen'', the game reached [[Creator/PeterMolyneux Molyneux]]-levels of promises when the trailers mostly showed exploration or one specific aspect of gameplay (say, trading or a PortalNetwork).
* HypeBacklash:
** The August 1 leaks resulted in the game's Reddit community going into a meltdown so filled with hype backlash (due to buggy gameplay that also draws into the fears of the game being puddle-shallow) that posters trying to preserve the hype started doing detective work to "prove" that the leaked copy of the game wasn't a retail copy as stated, but in fact a 'demo' or 'non-final developer copy'.
** The confirmation that review copies would not be given pre-release raised some eyebrows, as this practice is common for games that don't expect to do well when the hype cycle dies down (See ''Assassin's Creed Unity'' as an example of this). While people thought it would be a BrokenBase case (as the same thing happened with ''DOOM 2016'', which had been received well with both critics and fans), it would show in the ObviousBeta that both versions had in the final release.
** Still others are off-put by the survival sandbox-esque gameplay akin to ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' and its extreme length.

* SacredCow: A very, very extreme VocalMinority of fans took to [[HePannedItNowHeSucks attacking any critic that had anything negative to say]] about the game. For example, one journalist was sent [[DisproportionateRetribution death threats just for announcing that the game had been pushed back two months.]] This [[BrokenBase further fractured]] the game's reception.

** It is possible to purchase additional personal inventory slots at drop pods, which are fairly common across most planets. The first extra slot is free, [[AdamSmithHatesYourGuts but each additional slot past that one costs an additional 10,000 units.]] By the time you've maxed your inventory at 48 slots, you will have shelled out a cool 6.3 ''million'' units. That's more money than you would likely pay for a decent-sized ship!
** The way achievements are implemented. The announcements take up a good chunk of the interface and take away much of your control; it will almost certainly get you killed more than once.

** The scaling of ship prices as you increase available inventory slots is so expansive that the only viable option to max ship inventory space is to play the crash site trading game. An early game vessel can run from 1 to 2 million units, which isn't that hard to make. A ship that has around 20-25 inventory slots may be around 12 to 15 million - steep, but doable. Ships with more than 40 inventory slots? ''Over 60 million units.''

* SpecialEffectFailure:
** A brief one during the "Infinite Worlds" trailer for the otherwise [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome amazing looking]] game: at one point, the player character emerges from an alien ocean to look up at a nearby planet in the sky while some native wildlife runs away from him. The wildlife looks noticeably clunky and poorly-rendered, and if you pause the video and look in the upper-left-hand corner, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0APP5WcX8v8&t=1m you'll see that the planet in question]] is named "[=Planet1=]" in the HeadsUpDisplay! It's probably from a pre-alpha of the game, yes, but why include it in a trailer that shows content from a later prerelease of the game in the first place? Kind of jarring for a trailer with much better-looking content for the game.

* ThatOneSidequest: To get the Extreme Survival milestones, you have to stay on a planet with extreme weather conditions for 32 "Sols" (in-game days). And if you leave the planet for any reason, that timer will reset, so don't expect to get the milestone by just stopping off on your way to the center. Depending on the planet's day-night cycle it can take up to 16 hours to reach level 10 for Extreme Survival! The only saving grace is that you just have to be on a planet with extreme conditions, you don't actually have to be out and about, so you can just find some shelter and camp out for a while.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Some critics agreed that the fleshy alien-like corruption that surrounded certain planets would lead to a recurring enemy that becomes more and more of a threat as one gets closer to the center. Sadly, nothing like this was ever implemented.

** The July 24, 2018 ''NEXT'' update brings in the promised multiplayer. Thanks to this update, which follows two previous years of free content updates, many players came back. Consecutive player counts on Steam alone reached a peak of nearly 98,000 people on July 29, 2018, a massive surge from an average of under 1,000 people before the ''NEXT'' update.

* HolyShitQuotient: It was omnipresent from the VGX reveal trailer, but it's best exemplified with the "Galaxy Map"[=/=]PSX Trailer, when the galaxy map itself is brought up. After highlighting the system that the player is currently in, the camera pans out... and out... ''[[SerialEscalation and out... and out,]]'' until it stops and then zooms back in for a ''good 20 seconds'' before settling on a destination.

** The early pre-release marketing being somewhat vague about the gameplay led to the phrase "What do you even do?!" becoming popular within the fanbase. It has since been used ironically.
** Photoshopping the game's box art to show a picture of Newman from ''Seinfeld'' and editing the game's title as ''Newman's Sky''.
** As the game suffered backlash, plenty of names rhyming with and mocking the title came out such as "No Man's Buy" or "No Man's Lie".
** Due to the lackluster content at release and subsequent content being introduced in updates, players have joked that Hello Games basically release the DLC then slowly add the full game later.

** No Man's Sky NEXT seems to have finally done it for them. As of July 25th, 2018, the reviews on Steam have 84% positive reviews, while the all-time reviews have risen to 40% recommended from an all-time low of 12% recommended. The update added proper multiplayer with drop-in and drop-out with other players, revamped dogfights, the ability to visit other players' bases, parties of up to 12 people, and the ability to customize your freighter to make it a mobile base.

** The July 24, 2018 ''NEXT'' update brings in the promised multiplayer. Whether it'll bring back the players, it's telling the team has spent two years on free updates.

* ItsTheSameSoItSucks: Despite the plethora of added content culminating in ''NEXT'', a number of players are frustrated that there haven't been any meaningful changes to the game's focus on [[ScrappyMechanic repetitive resource grinding and inventory management]].

** The July 24, 2018 ''NEXT'' update is set to bring in the promised multiplayer. Whether it'll bring back the players, its telling the team has spent two years on free updates.

* CriticalDissonance: On their initial launch on August 2016, the [=PS4=] and [=PC=] versions from critics on Metacritic were 74 and 61 respectively, which are [[SoOkayItsAverage fairly average]] rankings. User reviews? 4.1 and ''2.8'', respectively. Steam's user ratings were ''worse'', with a low of '''''12%''''' of the people giving positive reviews. This became one of the most disastrous launches of a game known.

** The Atlas Rises update is this [[UpToEleven in spades]]! On top of adding even better visuals than was already in the game, there's now improved space combat, dramatically increased likelihood of planetary ship dogfights, low flight, functioning portals, an overhauled and much more user friendly interface, missions and factions (and the wars that come with them), new worlds, ''A NEW STORY'', and the biggest feature of all: '''''MULTIPLAYER'''''. Although players cannot directly interact with each-other yet, especially given the enormous distances between individual players, the fact that it is now possible for 2 travelers to meet is a HUGE CrowningMomentOfAwesome on the part of the developers.

** No Man's Sky NEXT seems to have finally done it for them. As of July 25th, 2018 the reviews on Steam have it at 84 percent approval of recent reviews and their total reviews are now at 40 percent recommend. Which is a long way from their recommend rate was only 12 percent. The update added proper Multiplayer with Dogfights, visiting other's bases, up to 12 people grouped together, and the ability to just drop in and drop out of other player's games. Plus the ability to customized your freighter to make it a mobile base.

* CriticalDissonance: The [=PS4=] and [=PC=] versions from critics on Metacritic are 74 and 61 respectively, which are [[SoOkayItsAverage fairly average]] rankings. User reviews? 4.1 and ''2.8'', respectively. Steam's user ratings are ''worse'', with only '''''[[EpicFail 12%]]''''' of the people giving positive reviews.

** No Man's Sky NEXT seems to have finally done it for them. As of July 25th, 2018 the reviews on Steam have it at 84 percent approval of recent reviews and their total reviews are now at 40 percent recommend. Which is a long way from their recommend rate that was in the 20's before. The update added proper Multiplayer with Dogfights, visiting other's bases, up to 12 people grouped together, and the ability to just drop in and drop out of other player's games. Plus the ability to customized your freighter to make it a mobile base.

* OvershadowedByControversy: Of the "deceptive marketing" variety. Many promised or alluded features were not in the game when it released, leading many people to think they have been deceived, something which is reflected in both professional and user reviews. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement Leave it at that.]]

** "Inventory full" is another one you're quickly going to hate. The only one that's worse is "No free slots in suit inventory" meaning you just picked something up, but it [[LostForever vanished into nothingness]] simply because you didn't have enough inventory space.

** "Inventory full" is another one you're quickly going to hate. That all of the announcements are in this monotone droning voice doesn't help.

* NeverLiveItDown: It is going to be ''extremely'' tough for Sean Murray and Hello Games to shake off the backlash of [=NMS=].

* NightmareFuel: Some abandoned buildings on planets are overrun with some kind of fleshy, tentacle-laden... things. Most of it is harmless. Some, not so much. And the not-so-dangerous things you can find in those overrun buildings? You will routinely find them outside on the planet's surface. This begs the question of whether those tentacles are part of the natural ecosystem, or TheCorruption.