Spoiler warning:
The graphics look nauseating in all the screenshots I've seen of NMS. Who thought garish colors were a good idea?
I don't think you're missing out on much.
Lots of reviews read something like this:
Touch-down with your starship, look for some carbon, name a creature you discover something offensive, go mine for some carbon, get attacked by a drone that gets pissed when you try to get carbon, mine for plutonium to recharge the mining laser you exhausted fighting the drone, go back to your ship and leave without having done anything different from the last 25 planets you went to, and finally repeat ad nauseam.
I saw this coming from miles away. Never even considered buying it because I knew it wasn't a game for me.