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(reported as being delayed until July/August '16)

So this is the first I have heard about it.

http://www.no-mans-sky.com

Quite an ambitious project.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/03/no-mans-sky-finally-charts-its-star-path-with-major-gameplay-reveal/

It sounds very interesting, and I know that my kids would love it (9/12/12) as they love Minecraft, Terreria, etc type games.

I think my concerns would echo some in the comments section about multiplayer, numerous barren planets (10% with life, and 10% of that 10% with animal life, then 10% with intelligent life), etc.



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I will be going in on this, likely day 1. Even if it doesn't live up to the hype, I like to support development of this type of game.

I was initially skeptical, but the more I see about it, the more I think they might have pulled off something quite special. We shall see!

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Lets name it Lee Hutchinson?

Look at the size of that thing.

Lets name it "oh-my-God-run-away-now"
It would be close to if not the same as the first thing said on seeing it for the first time.

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Yeah that game has had my attention for awhile now. I'm not expecting it to live to the hype, games n never do but if it's even close to the hype it'll be an awesome game
   
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Honestly this "game" looks really boring. It has less gameplay than minecraft and minecraft isn't even a game.

What do you do in no man's sky? I don't know and the devs don't seem to either.

Every time I hear "in my opinion" or "just my opinion" makes me want to strangle a puppy. People use their opinions as a shield that other poeple can't critisize and that is bs.

If you can't defend or won't defend your opinion then that "opinion" is bs. Stop trying to tip-toe and defend what you believe in. 
   
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 illuknisaa wrote:

What do you do in no man's sky? I don't know and the devs don't seem to either.


Explore, mine, trade and fight to acquire wealth in order to upgrade your ship, weapon/tool and suit to ultimately reach the centre of the galaxy.

What lies there is unknown, devs want you to explore and discover things on your own. That's why they're keeping very hush hush on what you can do, where you can go and what is there.

Or you can just perpetually do whatever you want. Very much a sandbox game, which some find boring, others find liberating.

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 Nostromodamus wrote:
 illuknisaa wrote:

What do you do in no man's sky? I don't know and the devs don't seem to either.


Explore, mine, trade and fight to acquire wealth in order to upgrade your ship, weapon/tool and suit to ultimately reach the centre of the galaxy.

What lies there is unknown, devs want you to explore and discover things on your own. That's why they're keeping very hush hush on what you can do, where you can go and what is there.

Or you can just perpetually do whatever you want. Very much a sandbox game, which some find boring, others find liberating.


Your post is like the dictionary's description of boredom.

Explore literally means "walk around with no goal, like a headless chicken". If I see a mountain that I can climb up but have no reason to. then why does the mountain even exist?
The word "mine" is fething triggering. Use trigger warningz plox.
Ahh, upgrading your stuff the modern day skinnerbox makes me want to puke.

Sandbox "games" with no apprent incentive to actually do nothing means that there is no need to do anything. When there is no need then why do anything?


Every time I hear "in my opinion" or "just my opinion" makes me want to strangle a puppy. People use their opinions as a shield that other poeple can't critisize and that is bs.

If you can't defend or won't defend your opinion then that "opinion" is bs. Stop trying to tip-toe and defend what you believe in. 
   
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 illuknisaa wrote:
 Nostromodamus wrote:
 illuknisaa wrote:

What do you do in no man's sky? I don't know and the devs don't seem to either.


Explore, mine, trade and fight to acquire wealth in order to upgrade your ship, weapon/tool and suit to ultimately reach the centre of the galaxy.

What lies there is unknown, devs want you to explore and discover things on your own. That's why they're keeping very hush hush on what you can do, where you can go and what is there.

Or you can just perpetually do whatever you want. Very much a sandbox game, which some find boring, others find liberating.


Your post is like the dictionary's description of boredom.

Explore literally means "walk around with no goal, like a headless chicken". If I see a mountain that I can climb up but have no reason to. then why does the mountain even exist?
The word "mine" is fething triggering. Use trigger warningz plox.
Ahh, upgrading your stuff the modern day skinnerbox makes me want to puke.

Sandbox "games" with no apprent incentive to actually do nothing means that there is no need to do anything. When there is no need then why do anything?



Why do anything at all, when the sun will supernova eventually, erasing everything. All is ultimately meaningless.

I play Minecraft because I find it fun. I like exploring and building and being paranoid of creepers.


Edit: to stay on topic, I saw the E3(?) reveal of theis game and it looks interesting. I wouldn't get it until next year though.

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There is not this idea.

I personally love exploration. I climb the mountain because I want to see what it looks like at the top.
   
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 illuknisaa wrote:
 Nostromodamus wrote:
 illuknisaa wrote:

What do you do in no man's sky? I don't know and the devs don't seem to either.


Explore, mine, trade and fight to acquire wealth in order to upgrade your ship, weapon/tool and suit to ultimately reach the centre of the galaxy.

What lies there is unknown, devs want you to explore and discover things on your own. That's why they're keeping very hush hush on what you can do, where you can go and what is there.

Or you can just perpetually do whatever you want. Very much a sandbox game, which some find boring, others find liberating.


Your post is like the dictionary's description of boredom.

Explore literally means "walk around with no goal, like a headless chicken". If I see a mountain that I can climb up but have no reason to. then why does the mountain even exist?
The word "mine" is fething triggering. Use trigger warningz plox.
Ahh, upgrading your stuff the modern day skinnerbox makes me want to puke.

Sandbox "games" with no apprent incentive to actually do nothing means that there is no need to do anything. When there is no need then why do anything?



Then perhaps this is not the game for you.

Different people like different things. C'est la vie.

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 toasteroven wrote:
I personally love exploration. I climb the mountain because I want to see what it looks like at the top.



This is spot on. Exactly what I like doing in games as well
   
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I will be buying no man's sky, probably a few months after release to account for patches and bugfixes. From all the gaming previews and stuff, it's been interesting, and ultimately the sort of game I think I'd love.

Almost a sort of Privateer/X meets minecraft I guess. There is a campaign in there, and I'm guessing a massive plot. There are other factions.

So yeah lots of hope for this game

 
   
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Argh! Delayed again, it seems.

I wonder where the line between "getting it right" and" development hell" is drawn?

http://kotaku.com/sources-no-mans-sky-delayed-1778797365

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Edited thread title :-P

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Yeah found out about this just before bed so I slept like crap because I was bummed. Oh well guess I'll need to buy something else to get me through the summer :(
   
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There is not this idea.

Huh, for some reason I was already thinking it was going to be late this year. Still, disappointing.
   
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Perhaps this is why the game has been delayed

Fething really? 3 years to prove they don't own the word "Sky"? Jeebus...

Hopefully this means the game is all good and not a buggy, under developed, over hyped mess.

We were once so close to heaven, St. Peter came out and gave us medals; declaring us "The nicest of the damned".

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I find it bizarre that nobody can include the word "sky" in a title without Sky's permission.

Hopefully this was the cause of the delay and now it's resolved they can release with no problems.

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I could see that being the reason. Absolutely stupid if you ask me, this is why one shouldn't be able to copy right regular words!
   
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There is not this idea.

That is utterly strange.
   
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Latest update on the game is that you will not be required to use PS Plus even though it is technically a multi-player game. Nice, they could have gone the other way with it.

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 KingCracker wrote:
I could see that being the reason. Absolutely stupid if you ask me, this is why one shouldn't be able to copy right regular words!
I don't believe you can copyright regular words. You can trademark them. Which makes sense, but only if businesses are in the same or similar fields.
   
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 toasteroven wrote:
I personally love exploration. I climb the mountain because I want to see what it looks like at the top.


As the game would take "5 billion years to fully explore" that means that it will be near completely randomly generated. What you will be seeing from the top is another mountain that looks suspiciously familiar.

I like sandbox games although they need to have a good variety of crafted content and interesting ways and means of setting your own goals. I am not convinced that this is the case here.


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 Silent Puffin? wrote:
 toasteroven wrote:
I personally love exploration. I climb the mountain because I want to see what it looks like at the top.


As the game would take "5 billion years to fully explore" that means that it will be near completely randomly generated. What you will be seeing from the top is another mountain that looks suspiciously familiar.

I like sandbox games although they need to have a good variety of crafted content and interesting ways and means of setting your own goals. I am not convinced that this is the case here.



Kind of like every Minecraft world looks basically the same (at the start!). The proof will be how the game plays.

We were once so close to heaven, St. Peter came out and gave us medals; declaring us "The nicest of the damned".

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AllSeeingSkink wrote:
 KingCracker wrote:
I could see that being the reason. Absolutely stupid if you ask me, this is why one shouldn't be able to copy right regular words!
I don't believe you can copyright regular words. You can trademark them. Which makes sense, but only if businesses are in the same or similar fields.




Fair enough, but they were getting sued for having the word "sky" in their title. One word? I'd s see the argument if it was a completely made up word, or if was just sky.
   
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Apparently review copies aren't being sent out before release. Not a good sign.

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There are early copies out there.

This guy has a copy and is providing updates, though idk how much is fact as I haven't seen any of his gameplay videos (they keep gettting taken down).

This game is likely going to suffer from the same thing that afflicted the Fable series. Nothing can live up to that much hype.

We were once so close to heaven, St. Peter came out and gave us medals; declaring us "The nicest of the damned".

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 KingCracker wrote:
 toasteroven wrote:
I personally love exploration. I climb the mountain because I want to see what it looks like at the top.



This is spot on. Exactly what I like doing in games as well


Ya, I love that too. And then when you see something in the distance that looks interesting and then the exploration continues!

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 KingCracker wrote:
AllSeeingSkink wrote:
 KingCracker wrote:
I could see that being the reason. Absolutely stupid if you ask me, this is why one shouldn't be able to copy right regular words!
I don't believe you can copyright regular words. You can trademark them. Which makes sense, but only if businesses are in the same or similar fields.




Fair enough, but they were getting sued for having the word "sky" in their title. One word? I'd s see the argument if it was a completely made up word, or if was just sky.


Something similar was supposedly one of the reasons why it took so long to get a second Mirror's Edge game. IIRC, there was some idiot out there suing anyone and everyone who released a game with the word 'Edge' (I think) in the title. Claimed that it infringed on his own game, which was some game that no one here is likely to have heard of, and that had the word 'Edge' in it's title.
   
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 nels1031 wrote:
 KingCracker wrote:
 toasteroven wrote:
I personally love exploration. I climb the mountain because I want to see what it looks like at the top.



This is spot on. Exactly what I like doing in games as well


Ya, I love that too. And then when you see something in the distance that looks interesting and then the exploration continues!


That was why when I hit like 80ish hours in Skyrim I said to myself "well I guess I'll start the main quest now"
   
 
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