The Combat Is Unimpressive
This is yet another aspect where Destiny might have ruined things for No Man’s Sky. The two games have a few things in common, and Destiny has become the gold standard when it comes to space exploration and games that have tons of people going online. Where does Bungie win big in the comparison between the two? Combat.
While there are pirates that can pop up and try and raid your ship, and that gameplay’s decent, most of the combat No Man’s Sky players are going to find is against tiny floating drones on a planet’s surface. There isn’t a great deal of suspense when it comes to these battles. The drones will simply come up and attack you if they don’t like you gathering elements.
As a general rule, they aren’t particularly hard to fight off, and when you do lose, it’s more annoying than anything else. Clearly, the game’s developers wanted the focus to be something other than space battles, but that doesn’t mean they couldn’t have added something more in that area. It would almost certainly make No Man’s Sky more appealing to a wider audience. It doesn’t seem like it would have been a huge tweak to have an alien or two to fight off, rather than just learn their language.
