No Man's Sky

[GrainWetski]

3. First person shooting will be bad.

That's a given considering it's a console game.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

I'm proud to be on a forum that recognizes it will be a generic, dull POS.

 

[Konjad]

I guess I'm the only one who is excited about this game. It seems really amazing and interesting. Sure, trading might be crap, there might be nothing to do except exploration and combat, but then I like exploration very much. I was basically playing Morrowind just to wander from one village to another and didn't give much attention to quests. Just fighting in space, getting damaged, running away and landing on a planet just to fix one's ship, discovering a new pretty environment, then getting mauled by a dinosaur sounds great to me.

 

[Metro]

Difference is Morrowind was 'hand-crafted' for the most part. This looks like it'll be a bunch of procedurally generated junk.

 

[Destroid]

I guess I'm the only one who is excited about this game. It seems really amazing and interesting. Sure, trading might be crap, there might be nothing to do except exploration and combat, but then I like exploration very much. I was basically playing Morrowind just to wander from one village to another and didn't give much attention to quests. Just fighting in space, getting damaged, running away and landing on a planet just to fix one's ship, discovering a new pretty environment, then getting mauled by a dinosaur sounds great to me.

You got tricked by a cool video.

 

[Konjad]

Perhaps. Still, I'm full of hope.

 

[J_C]

I guess I'm the only one who is excited about this game. It seems really amazing and interesting. Sure, trading might be crap, there might be nothing to do except exploration and combat, but then I like exploration very much. I was basically playing Morrowind just to wander from one village to another and didn't give much attention to quests. Just fighting in space, getting damaged, running away and landing on a planet just to fix one's ship, discovering a new pretty environment, then getting mauled by a dinosaur sounds great to me.

You are not the only one. It is looking to be a very fun game. Don't let others bring you down, they made up their mind that the game will be shit, although they know NOTHING about the game. But as soon as the game become a PS4 game, it became shit. I bet my life on it, that if the game remained PC exclusive, everybody would hail it as the next best thing.

 

[Turisas]

But as soon as the game become a PS4 game, it became shit. I bet my life on it, that if the game remained PC exclusive, everybody would hail it as the next best thing.

Was there ever a game that became better when it turned from PC exclusive to multiplatform? Because I can think of plenty of games that turned out worse.

 

[J_C]

But as soon as the game become a PS4 game, it became shit. I bet my life on it, that if the game remained PC exclusive, everybody would hail it as the next best thing.

Was there ever a game that became better when it turned from PC exclusive to multiplatform? Because I can think of plenty of games that turned out worse.

No, they are not better on console, but certain genres lose almost nothing by visiting a console. And No Man's sky is looking to be an arcade space sim/first person exploration game, which could play nicely even on a console.

 

[Turisas]

No, they are not better on console, but certain genres lose almost nothing by visiting a console. And No Man's sky is looking to be an arcade space sim/first person exploration game, which could play nicely even on a console.

I wasn't talking about playing the game on a console, but the game having to accommodate for consoles as well, which inevitably means compromise and a shittier game for PC players (when you design a game to be played on a gamepad, it almost always results in a less complex, more streamlined game).

 

[J_C]

No, they are not better on console, but certain genres lose almost nothing by visiting a console. And No Man's sky is looking to be an arcade space sim/first person exploration game, which could play nicely even on a console.

I wasn't talking about playing the game on a console, but the game having to accommodate for consoles as well, which inevitably means compromise and a shittier game for PC players (when you design a game to be played on a gamepad, it almost always results in a less complex, more streamlined game).

You might have a point there, but despite the game being less complex, it still might turn out to be a good game.

 

[agentorange]

I watched a panel that had the devs on it and even they didn't seem to be able to describe what the game was about. He just said you go around and find stuff, and if you're the first to find it you get to name it. Social media influenced bullshit.

 

[Angthoron]

Well perhaps if you're lucky enough you can find penisaurs and name them. This will be the ultimate point.

 

[Cowboy Moment]

I guess I'm the only one who is excited about this game. It seems really amazing and interesting. Sure, trading might be crap, there might be nothing to do except exploration and combat, but then I like exploration very much. I was basically playing Morrowind just to wander from one village to another and didn't give much attention to quests. Just fighting in space, getting damaged, running away and landing on a planet just to fix one's ship, discovering a new pretty environment, then getting mauled by a dinosaur sounds great to me.

You are not the only one. It is looking to be a very fun game. Don't let others bring you down, they made up their mind that the game will be shit, although they know NOTHING about the game. But as soon as the game become a PS4 game, it became shit. I bet my life on it, that if the game remained PC exclusive, everybody would hail it as the next best thing.

If you look at the first page of this thread, some of us were already expecting it to be shit just based on the sheer scope of what they were promising. FYI, I've voiced similar reservations about Star Citizen's ship boarding FPS module - and Star Citizen has an AAA budget, is less complex overall, limited to space, and has some serious industry veterans working on it (with experience in making space sims). Meanwhile, No Man's Sky is being built by four people whose credits include such amazing creations as Burnout 3 and Geometry Wars.

Their main problem, really, is that they won't be able to deliver everything they promised in a working state. In order to have everything they've shown result from procedural generation, you need some pretty fucking complex systems to govern all of it and avoid degenerate states. Look at how long it took Paradox to figure out the ins and outs of their "historical simulation" engine, and that's much simpler than what this game is trying to do.

 

[ghostdog]

Yeah, realistically, expectations should be very low.


The teaser is fucking awesome though.

 

[Konjad]

Stop fucking destroying my hobby by taking away all my excitement about games, you bastards

 

[Tytus]

Stop fucking destroying my hobby by taking away all my excitement about games, you bastards

You want to be excited about games and yet you have almost 10k posts on the Codex. I don't even... does not compute.

 

[Bradylama]

It's going to be a fun mess, is my prediction.

 

[Drax]

Potential cum in my pants.

 

[Perkel]

If Space Engine could take hours of my life i don't see problem with that game doing the same.

It really depends though what they plan to achieve. It is still vague what game really is. From what devs say they don't want to create next X game or focus on combat and trade. They seem to have adventure aproach where players would do small stuff and proceed to center of galactic which is supposed to be "end game".

 

[Johannes]

A hiking sim in space basically. Will be good for what it is, probably. Mechanics will be bleh but you can just enjoy the scenery before it gets stale.

 

[Bradylama]

Hopefully there's enough variation between planets and species to keep it from getting stale. They claimed that the closer you get to Galactic Center the older and more dangerous the species will get, but who knows how dangerous that will actually be.

 

[Turisas]

Hopefully there's enough variation between planets and species to keep it from getting stale.

Planets, maybe, but species? No way, procedural modeling isn't that good yet. So they have to do it by hand and that means that the illusion of infinite space breaks as soon as you come across an identical dino on another planet.

 

[Destroid]

Spore had procedural creatures didn't it?

 

[Bradylama]

Yeah, but the procedural models for spore creatures were stylized around simplified joints. They weren't nearly as complex as the creatures presented in the demo videos.

 

[Raapys]

 

[Azazel]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-06-25-how-no-mans-sky-stole-the-show-at-e3

Built on a version of Unity and exclusive to PS4? Hahaha, I take my nice words back, Fuckem. Game will be spore-esque trash at best.

 

[Bradylama]

Apparently it's a "timed exclusive" so it will eventually get on the PC. Not that this bodes well for it.