I think I may finally be at the point where I dread No Man's Sky threads in the same way I dread David Cage threads.
Just something about this game gets people really, really fucking angry. Nobody seems to understand anybody else's excitement or disinterest in the game, so the threads devolve into bickering about the most unimportant of nitpicks.
If the game doesn't interest you, it doesn't interest you. If the game interests you, it interests you. I've mentioned it in another thread, but when I was a kid (this would be in the 80's), I used to imagine a game where you could start on one planet, look up, and see another planet in the sky, then hop in your spaceship and fly to that other planet and explore. In my head, the game had like, maybe four or five planets that were massive, and you could just wander around and find weird creatures and ruins. I'd dream about that game. Talk about it with friends, and we'd have a great time imaging what a game like that could be like.
Fast forward, quite literally, thirty years. I'm 37 years old, and now a game like No Man's Sky exists. But instead of four or five massive planets I can visit in my starship, there are 18 QUINTILLION of them. More than I'll ever be able to visit in my lifetime. Some of them will be full of strange creatures and ruins. 7 year old me could only dream of this. 37 year old me, in just three short weeks, will actually be able to live it.
That's why I'm excited for No Man's Sky. That's why I don't give a flying fuck if there's aliasing, or pop in, or floaty combat, or arcadey ship controls. It's why I don't care that there aren't a thousand different jack of all trades, master of none gameplay mechanics, or a radiant quest system, or deep RPG mechanics, or cinematic cutscenes, or carefully designed set pieces. There are hundreds of games that do just that. There isn't a single game like No Man's Sky. If there was, I'd be playing it right now. So no, it may not be the game for you, and that's fine. But it sure as fuck is the game for me.