This was my impression, too. I've been reading years of hype, so I bought the game a few months ago, and I was unimpressed. But the fact that it's kind of an ob

This was my impression, too. I've been reading years of hype, so I bought the game a few months ago, and I was unimpressed. But the fact that it's kind of an objective-less sandbox wasn't what got me. I've played plenty of open world games and enjoyed them. In fact, even in games like Morrowind or Starfield or Grand Theft Auto or the like, which have big worlds and specific objectives, I've always found myself ignoring the quests and preferring to explore on my own terms. I remember hopping around in Morrowind as a kid, trying to become as powerful as possible, and seeking out baddies to best. Then in Grand Theft Auto I'd go on epic crime sprees to see how long I could elude the authorities. And in Starfield I built an incredible network of trading posts that spanned the galaxy to see how much I could enrich myself. What made these games fun is that, despite not following any missions or objectives, I was able to do impressive and interesting things and have fun. Perhaps that's possible in No Man's Sky, but in my first couple hours of playing, it didn't seem like it. It seemed liked I'd be going around doing boring and uninteresting things, and that it wouldn't be fun. So it's not that it was a sandbox that bothered me, but that it was a sandbox devoid of fun.