No Man's Sky

http://www.polygon.com/2016/8/4/12343898/no-mans-sky-how-long

I'm still trying to figure out why you would spend $1300 on a video game that everybody else is going to get for a fraction of that about a week later

well here you are talking about it, knowing the guy exists

the best part of that is they're resetting all server progress for the day 1 patch *MWAHAHAHA*

I should think so really

The prospect of resource gathering and crafting admittedly makes me want to rip my eyes out.

On the plus side whilst I live for the day that somebody can make a space exploration game that doesn't involve stock market work - the obtaining rare resources and selling them to strangers, that I saw in that video, wasn't too annoying.

I'll definitely be waiting for more reviews and, more importantly, the thoughts of iLGers before I snap this up

who's gonna be the ILX guinea pig here?

it's me! i pre-ordered this ages ago, forgot about it, and my copy arrived early today.

only played about 20 minutes so far but initial impressions aren't great - limp combat, the collecting / crafting mechanic seems like it'll get incredibly boring very quickly, and it does quite a poor job of explaining what i'm supposed to do. and the narrow fov made me feel kinda queasy.

it's not fair to judge it on the little i've played so far (in the early stages of a migraine, too) but i'm not exactly rushing to get back to it :(

thank you for taking hte hit

it's possible that the game opens up after a while, but everything i've watched has seemed less about exploration and more about "you need key item X to get your ship working again, travel over here and harvest the 39 Y resources so that you can craft it", then 10 minutes of that happening, then repeat repeat repeat with other key items that must be crafted to proceed

also, while the bits where the spaceship seamlesssly takes off and exits the atmosphere and then flies toward some distant location are initially kind of cool, after the 3rd time it becomes apparent that the 30-45 second journey (aided by pulse boosters or something, which of course are also limited and must be collected by collecting resource XYZ) is just a glorified loading screen while it builds the planet/space object.

At one point in that stream they were looking at three planets next to each other, and their texture patterns were exactly the same! Not a deal breaker but something which would take me out of the moment.

i;ll still buy this bc it look pretty

the day one patch sounds like it makes it a different game.

http://www.no-mans-sky.com/2016/08/update-1-03/

huh, definitely. also sounds like all press reviews will be outdated by the time it comes out

Maybe that's why they didn't send out review copies.

For someone like me, who spent most of the Elder Scrolls gametime wandering around idly collecting plants/minerals etc and crafting shit/making spells, I feel like I'd get something from this. I guess we'll see.

that's one hell of an update

Feeding – creatures now have their own diet, based on planet and climate. Feeding them correctly will yield different results per species, such as mining for you, protecting the player, becoming pets, alerting you to rare loot or pooping valuable resources.

http://66.media.tumblr.com/6bd9ace3d650b69ce17f319c66e71e7f/tumblr_mreczsWyFw1r8nxtno1_400.gif

it'd take a lot of negative reviews to convince me that i won't get 20+ hours of enjoyment out of this

i spent hours wandering around exploring and not actually playing the game in minecraft ffs

Thats what I'm sayin! I dont understand why thats a bad thing. I guess we'll see.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HaPW6hkZLEU

Jeff Gerstmann from Giant Bomb is streaming this now

Still waiting for ILX hot takes in a week or two

I played a few hours last night. The gun and space stuff is barely worth mentioning. So far it feels like a one-player Glitch in unlimited space.

okay, now you're talking to me...

I think you just won forks over!

lol xpost

aobut to go buy it and go home to get the patch to start downloading and maybe sneak in 10m of gameplay if it doesn't take too long

tbh i can't realistically think about taking on a new game that will require any genuine though until about October at the earliest

But in Glitch the crafting was more creative? And allowed opportunities for engaging with other players.

played the first couple of hours. more of a game than I was expecting it to be tbh.

i watched a few ppl playing it on twitch last night, looks even more like a cousin of minecraft than i expected. focus is on exploration first, crafting & survival second, everything else is tertiary and not particularly fleshed out

obv with minecraft the focus is on survival first and building things second with exploration being tertiary so it's not really the same priorities but the feel is the same

Spore meets Fallout Shelter meets Desert Bus

i do hope this game does reasonably well as i'd like to see what other developers can do with this sort of extreme procedural generation tech and i don't want it to become stigmatized and set back another 10 years like what happened with spore

Spore meets Fallout Shelter meets Desert Bus

Trade Wars 2002 with graphics

Spore meets Fallout Shelter meets Desert Bus

aaaaaaaaand you lost me again

lol I'm in!

I want a mod that turns this into a gigantic space taxi game.

are all the achievement trophy things named after sci-fi books?

i put a solid few hours into this earlier - it's better than i thought it would be from my first impressions, and it's frequently very beautiful. the music is really good too.

like zappi, there's a bit more game than i expected, but unfortunately so far it seems to be a lot of fetch-questing. still not quite sure what to make of it but i'm looking forward to going back to it and exploring a bit more.

i think it's probably fair to say that it'll never live up to the incredibly close attention it's had since it was announced, though - if it had been released more quietly i suspect people would be losing their shit over such an ambitious game coming from a tiny studio rather than being disappointed that it's not elite x mass effect + wing commander

regardless of what i end up thinking about it in the end i think it'll very likely match up to my early hope that getting baked and wandering around vibrantly coloured alien worlds will be cool

I want a mod that turns this into a gigantic space taxi game.

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i was thinking about directions you could take "procgen galaxy + exploration" other than crafting/survival and this was definitely one that came to mind

make it crazy space taxi and fuck yeah i'm in

I haven't been too interested but if you guys convince me it's time to make some CRAZY space money`

HEY HEY HEY...

could be perfect for a pohl/gateway game

the local barcade place has a crazy taxi machine and I made the mistake of playing it after my friends were like "hey, this game looks fun! mh, you try it!" and about 30 seconds in they realized I've lived that crazy taxi life

i bought it on lunch hand took it home (even tho i knew i wouldn't have time to play, just wanted to get the patch downloading cos my nets is slow) but then ended up playing 30-45m anyway. game looks as good as i hoped but the ui is so... weird? also the destructability isn't quite where i want it. there was like a gateway arch shaped thing made of rock, i took out its legs and the rest just hung there like minecraft. but idc. i just wanna explore strange new worlds. seek out new life. and civilizations.

does this game have the leeway / infrastructure to allow for a metagame to spring up?

it's not true multiplayer which tends to put a damper on that sort of thing

hey i kinda got sucked into this again for a couple of hours and i had a pretty good time

not sure how much depth or longevity it'll turn out to have but it's pretty hypnotic at the moment. it's actually (dare i say it) bringing back memories of getting lost in elite on the zx spectrum for hours at a time