No Man's Sky

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

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

Pls report it on this when possible because it would probably be my default playmode, if you know what I'm saying, wink wink 420

i am not paying full price for a game that requires extra peripherals for enjoyment

That's what we all said about Bandersnatch

just when it was becoming repetitive and kinda boring something v v cool happened. hmmmm. feels like a subtle narrative thread is being set up, which again was not what I was expecting. the menus are really annoying me tho, but then that always happens to me with games that have a crafting system.

Whats its PC playability like? If I get this on PS4, I'll never get to play it cos bf is a fckn console hog, but my laptop only has a Geforce 750m and struggles on games like cities skylines...

This should totally have a two-player split screen mode on consoles.

Yes! I was just thinking that.

"oh hey I'm flying by your planet, wave to me hai"

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/4wxydf/im_about_to_meet_another_player_seriously/

synopsis - two players manage to be in the same spot in the universe at the same time and are unable to see/interact with each other.

if true (seems to be lots of evidence from twitch streams etc) implications are that the loose multiplayer eluded to by devs doesn't actually exist and/or the universe isn't actually as large as suggested given how long the odds are (in a universe of the size that they claim)

*that two players would meet

lost part of that post oops

or the universe isn't actually as large as suggested

or they used a crappy random number generator? but, yeah.

one anomaly does not signify a crappy random number generator, true RNGs should create anomalies like that at some rate

I played for a few hours this evening. It was, unfortunately, super boring and clumsy. The dull universe is difficult to navigate and I feel pretty confident I wasted my money. :(

anomaly does not signify a crappy random number generator, true RNGs should create anomalies like that at some rate

I visited three planets. One of the three was previously discovered. They are clearly intending for collisions. I don't know why since everything looks the same and they are separately instanced.

ok yeah if it's happening multiple times then that sounds like a bug or else they misrepresented the size of the gameworld by a lot

i like aspects of this and am unsure if they are strong enough to propel me much further. it's early days yet

the whole multiplayer thing has always confused me. if the universe is actually so large that it would be very rare to meet another player, then why bother designing multiplayer at all? seems like a wasteful use of resources. but if the universe is small and they're intending for collisions to occur, then why did they either a) make multiplayer impossible (if you believe that reddit and don't think it'll be patched) or b) make it so difficult to purposefully meet up with people?