FireBeaver
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No Man's Sky subreddit shut down, community erupts,
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Officerrob
Banned
Home of a true classic, I hope it was preserved:
The spectacle and bullshit surrounding this game is truly amazing
lol
BRocknRolla
Member
If the option is, "Be lied to" or "Be silent," I'd personally far prefer silence.
Show me the game when it's ready. No need to talk about features that may or may not be there. Honestly, what is the point of that?
Or you know, a dev could show some decency and just come out and say it when features he publicly announced were cut from the game, you know, just like he was able to initially announce the feature, instead of implying that the features are still there all the time leading up to the release.
But apparently, that is a concept to hard to grasp for some people.
When a developer wants to play the "open development card" to garner fans and PR he also gotta fucking put up with the downsides of it, like announcing eventual cuts and disappoint their fans, but of course, that is not what the average dev wants to do cos it would cut into the munny $$$ and the hype. Most devs just want to profit off of the idea but aren't willing to put up with the downsides of it at all.
Just like all those shitty managed kickstarters that act all open and transparent as long as everything works out but the moment trouble arises they start sweeping it under the rug because "Fuck you, got mine"
Home of a true classic, I hope it was preserved:
The best thing about this is how /u/dogesajob says to put down Call of Duty but his most recent submissions on Reddit are of Infinity Warfare videos. With it saying "It's Here! Call of Duty is back!". He then commented saying IW could be GOTY...
Not that I personally care about the inflated press for this game, but there were some pretty sketchy things said.
The multiplayer stuff is just weird. They built up the idea that this was a single player game, so it wouldn't have been hard to say "no, you can't meet up with you friends". At no point, in game, is there any trace of a MP component, so it's not as if it was something cut at the last minute. It pretty obvious MP was never intended, so it should not have even been brought up.
I don't get too mad at upselling and I'm pretty forgiving of the process, but Sean Murray clearly had his head up his own ass. Not keeping promises is one thing, but this dude was in la-la land. He really went above and beyond as much as the fans that got over hyped.
Like I said, I'm really not that mad, but I'll be damned if I can't find the backlash against the things Sean Murray was saying, mostly reasonable.
oh wow, haha.
InfiniteBento
Member
Pestilence11
Member
Yeah that one is gold lol
perfectchaos007
Member
It's always a good idea to silence opinions on an internet forum by shutting it down. That never backfires.
Home of a true classic, I hope it was preserved:
Holy
I'm laughing so much I'm crying, I have never seen this.
It's like a perfect example of the Internet and crazy fans, not just for NMS, but anything out there.
"worthless, meaningless, Shakespearean tragedy of a life" is amazing because it's so very negative and horrible to say to someone, but it reads so much like a joke that I can't see it as the knocking people down that it's supposed to be.
OfTheOverflow
Member
Home of a true classic, I hope it was preserved:
'... and then maybe, just maybe you'll see what you've been so hopelessly searching for this whole time.'
This guy legitimately looks to NMS as a religious experience lol
ZAMtendo
Obliterating everything that's not your friend
This is gold. Thanks for the laugh this evening.
Game obviously failed at meeting expectations. Still kinda wish it had an ending, something cool to see to reward players after traveling to the center. The way the devs kept hinting that it would get more interesting the closer to the center you got was some snake oil shit. But I think the shitstorm of hate is a bit outta control at this point. If you look at NMS as something like a more stylized, minimalist version of Space Engine, only you get a ship, space stations, the ability to walk around, planets are more fully realized with life and fauna, and you can shoot stuff, it isn't so terrible. And it's still a good game to relax to after a rough day. It's the videogame equivalent of an ambient electronica album. Only problem is, most gamers have short attention spans and are too into instant stimulation/gratification to appreciate the more positive qualities of the game.
TheGraykid
Member
But it's not.
This game is like listening to an ambient Electronica album, on a broken computer that pauses the music ever 1 minute to make you have to get up and press play again. And instead of a good electronica album it's a pretty mediocre one where most of the songs just sound like slightly differently pitched versions of themselves. With promised attist features that aren't actually there.
If you say so. NMS might be shallow as a game, but I stand by it being decent as a trippy, visually delicious, explorable pulp sci-fi painting. Woulda been even better if it included a lot of the cool stuff in trailers that ended up being cut, but oh well.
Yep. My expectations were low as hell and the game somehow still managed to disappoint. Your analogy is pretty damn good.
Atomic Playboy
Member
I like No Man's Sky as an experience and I think the multiplayer stuff is overblown, but quotes like these are really damning in the sheer amount of bullshit Murray was willing to peddle. They had to "reinvent the periodic table to create elements that diffracted light at the right wavelength"? Get the fuck out of here with that nonsense. Or the interview where he shits on everyone else for using skyboxes and then the game comes out and has skyboxes. "Every atom procedural." Hogwash. I still think the backlash is overblown, but there was some serious nonsense being spouted before this game came out. I remember reading that diffracting wavelength of light quote back when that interview came out and I immediately thought "well that's some hyperbolic bullshit."
Wandering Robot
Member
That's no way to run a subreddit, lol. At least it resulted in this thread. 👌👌👌
TimeEffect
Member
I hope someone does come along and give us what NMS promised, but concentrated.
Explore like 10 planets, each with maybe some random variation, but each hardcoded with a core theme/style.
Include MP and MC styled building blocks, and the community will take it from there.
What's really limiting about NMS is that there really isnt anything for community content and creativity, so there really isnt much to talk about on forums like the subreddit.
Explore like 10 planets, each with maybe some random variation, but each hardcoded with a core theme/style.
Include MP and MC styled building blocks, and the community will take it from there.
What's really limiting about NMS is that there really isnt anything for community content and creativity, so there really isnt much to talk about on forums like the subreddit.
Aeriscloud
Banned
Home of a true classic, I hope it was preserved:
Just... wow.
Freelancer with the Discovery mod had a more vibrant galaxy (and multiplayer) without even being able to explore a planet.
Holy shit, I've never seen this. How could you not say they're full of crap after reading this. Lies upon lies upon lies.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Home of a true classic, I hope it was preserved:
/r/dead
I think the subreddit was deleted to wipe out evidence that was collected there.
I needed this. Almost as good as the oversnatch video.
Twilight Gap
Member
Home of a true classic, I hope it was preserved:
More proof every day that crazy people are out there..
Jim totally nails it. Amazing!
Iva Demilcol
Member
DPtheGod
Member
LMFAO
TheBryanJZX90
Member
-judge audience reactions to features in development
-connect with fans and let them get a little insight to the creation process
-share something you're doing that you're excited about
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
I always wanted to know what the context of this gif is...
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
What is it about this game that makes people so emotionally attached it, as opposed to some other game?
Kikorin
Member
Marketing and broken dreams I guess
VanquishUK
Member
First time I noticed B-Bone's "producer" switches sides at 3:36 rofl. Never gets old.
SolicitorPirate
Member
I've been seeing screen caps on Twitter about conspiracy theories that the mods were payed by Hello Games and are now demanding new mods be better to make sure they don't have a 'conflict of interest.'
Is this something gaining traction in that dumb subreddit, or was that just one particularly egregious post?
Is this something gaining traction in that dumb subreddit, or was that just one particularly egregious post?
You missed "modern gamers have short attention spans/ gamers need easy instant gratification nowadays."
Backlogger
Member
lolololol wow
I actually haven't played the game in weeks but I did like it initially and sort of still do. They just need to imrpove PC performance a bit more and I think there needs to be some other hook in the game to keep people interested. Not sure what that would be though.
QuantumSquid
Member
i walk these empty streets...
This. Best one two combo in a while.
Adam_Vania
Banned
the game is procedurally generated and different atmospheres have different color skies. "periodic table" could easily mean whatever formula or algorithm they were using to determine sky color. there are spawning chunks of periodic elements in the worlds in solid form (Gold, Nickel, Aluminum, etc.) they probably had something spawn them in the atmosphere, realized that didn't produce the kind of visual effect they wanted, and rewrote it so the right wavelength (ie. the right color) would show.
do people seriously think they were trying for a 1:1 simulation of the universe on a particle level? the amount of computing power that would take is astronomical. it's physically impossible at this point in time.