ReplacementPelican
Member
So geology, fauna and creatures are 100% unique?
How... How is that even? What?
This game is blowing my mind.
How... How is that even? What?
This game is blowing my mind.
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No Man's Sky E3 trailers
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BasketCasket
Member
I can only speak for myself; but this game is kindling the sense of exploration that everyone feels deep down inside when they're a space/sci-fi fan. The idea of uniquely generated infinite planets; with an endless amount of inhabitants you may never even meet... all experiencing a completely different experience from what you are having... is just a staggering thought. Games have not ventured much into this terrain; as developers have to focus on making the most out of their play areas. You spend time making something awesome; you want to hold the player by the hand and take them to it. Games like Gears of War hit that concept on the head with the "hey, something awesome is over there.. Press the (look at something awesome) button".
I will spawn on a unique planet arranged in a fashion that the developer never fully catered. I will venture from that planet in any direction I wish to travel. Dependent on my choice I will experience a different planet and inhabitant. From there.. continue onward exploring more planets and experiencing new moments and unimaginable experiences.
If that doesn't get your mind running; maybe it's just not your thing. Frankly, I don't care much what the gameplay will be like just yet; they managed to tease me more than a CG video could have done. We will figure out the mechanics in due time and they will be gravy on top of a very strong base.
You could sink a crazy amount of time into this game.
googleplex
Member
I really hope you can play this with the Morpheus.
Anos Voldigoad
Member
Giantbomb has the devs on their panel right now. Asking them about some of the questions you guys are discussing right now.
http://www.twitch.tv/giantbomb
http://www.twitch.tv/giantbomb
ReplacementPelican
Member
But that's the thing, I think games like this don't necessarily appeal to everyone. Nor do games like Entwined, Flower or Journey (I had a friend literally laughing at how stupid Entwined was) but to me, No Man's Sky is one of the most exciting games that could possibly be made and for the exact reasons you listed.
The beauty of some of these worlds, Jesus, just discovering them and looking around. God. I need this game.
ThusZarathustra
Member
Some notes from the Giant Bomb stream...
Ship, suit, weapon upgrades
Attacking space stations
Resource gathering
Rewards for exploration
Combat situations
Be the galaxy's greatest botanist!
Ship, suit, weapon upgrades
Attacking space stations
Resource gathering
Rewards for exploration
Combat situations
Be the galaxy's greatest botanist!
Raven Prime
Member
I think they received devkits, didn't they?
Beermeister
Banned
googleplex
Member
Palmer on Project Morpheus:
Have you tried Project Morpheus?
Plamer: Uh Huh, It's good. I think we're better. Lol
GHG
Gold Member
The premise of this game makes me very happy. Hope it lives up to its promise. Exploring the universe with the rest of the gaming community is such an exciting prospect.
How could they? Their proposition to indies isn't the most open.
How could they? Their proposition to indies isn't the most open.
Ninja Scooter
Member
Dude made a fantastic point about how younger gamers expectations are so different having grown up on stuff like Minecraft. They don't care about story quests or objectives.
I agree completely. Visiting places that other people you know have discovered would be much more fun with them .
jackie jormp-jomp
Banned
It threw me out of the immersion realizing all of the 'planets' are really just the size of very large asteroids floating nearby. It threw me out of the immersion as soon as he left the atmosphere. Maybe you don't care, like how most people don't care that games on TV aren't played by mushing both sticks in random directions and pressing all the face buttons constantly. It just bothered me.
Freezasaurus
Member
Yeah, it's reminding me of the oooooold adventure games like Out of the World, when adventure games were about exploration and not shooting everything in the face.
Well, there's an ongoing discussion among industry programmers that studios wouldn't in fact need such big art departments if only they'd invest in perfecting those algorithms, and they're only maintaining them out of inertia, sticking to the method they're used to rather than researchign better ones.
Saint of Killers
Member
XB1 version was all but confirmed in how exclusivity was worded on the stage reveal.
YT link of the IGN NMS dev commentary: http://youtu.be/1bXANFZkcO4
Skip to 5hrs 54s if you missed the above: https://www.youtube.com/user/PlayStation
Sodding_Gamer
Member
Game of the show for me. I will lose countless hours in this world. And Morpheus support/Occulus Rift support would make this phenomenal
Isn't this game coming to PC and Xbox too?
dragonfart28
Banned
Not enough to form a solid opinion on this one.
The visuals are nice but not as impressive as some people here had me thinking before watching the 'gameplay' vid.
The visuals are nice but not as impressive as some people here had me thinking before watching the 'gameplay' vid.
Pretty sure PC is a given and has been confirmed somewhere, not sure about Xbox yet
I really hope it does...
Game looks crazy cool how you can seamlessly go from space to a planet. If they pull that off effectively then it'll be great.
joecanada
Member
Depends. Obviously some animals are going to be similar, if we could explore other planets and they had stuff on them it's not as though every animal would be completely unique there would be some similarities.
ichtyander
Member
Well sure, but although Spelunky has a very tight set of rules and mechanics, you can still make at least somewhat of a comparatively similar system for planetary ecosystems. Sure, there's a lot more work as you described but there are also some freedoms that let you get away with things, like having funky, non-traversable rock formations since you can always fly over them with your spaceship and stuff like that. As in, these formations might even look interesting and most certainly will not break the game. Although as they pointed out in the Giantbomb segment, they actually have a special server that searches through as many planets as possible, recording short animated gifs so they can get a better big picture of what's happening in their universe so it helps them out greatly in ironing out all of the problems that emerge from such an approach.
But you're right, I agree and Minecraft took a long time to get to today's point of the variety and control of the biomes, although I really wouldn't mind having more repetitive environments if the actual gameplay that goes on in them is compelling enough.
Well, if you take this reality we live in as a realistic infinite universe, I'm sure you don't really expect an alien species that looks like a bus with 12 hamster heads. Hell, our type of lifeform might even be extremely rare for all we know, which would suck from a gameplay perspective. I don't expect such insane diversity but I think we might see red sharks on one planet and green squid-faced, six-finned unicorn sharks on another. As in, there's a universal rule on which elements predatory sea animals might acquire, from horns, fins, limbs, tentacles, eyes, shape, size etc. and form a species that looks slightly or wildly different from one another.
Actually, you can alter the amount of resources and the population of plant and animal life (and maybe even more parameters, we don't know yet) so you can at least leave a mark on the planet by stripping it of resources or eradicating whole species. When and if another gets to those planets, he will find that you've left your mark.
Even though they're getting lots of inspiration from Asimov and Clarke, the visual influences are leaning towards a more romantic, fantasy sci-fi look, 70's sci-fi book covers, Flash Gordon stuff etc.
Also mentioned trading with space stations and having a friendly squadron (which is shown in the first gameplay video).
One thing they keep avoiding but have kind of mentioned is that there's a malevolent force in the universe that's present almost everywhere, so it might initiate a lot of the conflict and maybe be a driving force for the players to push forward and advance in the game.
spookyfish
Member
I get the same feeling from this as when I saw The Last Guardian for the first time.
Let's hope its fate is better.
Let's hope its fate is better.
Acheteedo
Member
It could be one of those games that you revisit regularly. Looks like a good game to unwind to for 30 mins.
ConfusingJazz
Member
Grew up reading Asimov & Heinlein while playing Tie Fighter and watching TNG.
The way this game is being projected hits every note in my soul.
ichtyander
Member
The malevolent presence they've mentioned hints at something of a global story, or a setting at least. Also, when you land on a new planet, a minimap popup appears that shows several points of interest so it kind of leads you to discover what they are.
I mean, most of these open world, no-goal games like Minecraft or DayZ have gameplay mechanics that force you to basically not stand in one place. Exploration and resource gathering adds a lot to the sense of advancement but I'd say they'll have something at least nudging you forward even though they're being vague about it.
Bomb-Threat
Banned
Yessir
Pretty sure PC is a given and has been confirmed somewhere, not sure about Xbox yet
I really hope it does...
just saw a Video Interview with the creator on youtube from E3.. he said that they will make their console debut on PS4 and are super interested in PC but don't have any announcement yet.
so my best guess would be:
1st release on PS4 only.
6-12 months later release for Xbox One and PC
here's the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYoGN2zgXQU
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
Have they said anything on network features? It looks like planet and life form discoveries will show but could there be some form of co-op or trading between players?
any words on multiplayer? At the konference they said that every player would start out on a unique/new planet and the way they worded it it sounded like multiplayer, but it could also mean that every time you start a new game you start somewhere new :/
I wanna mess around with my friend ._.
I wanna mess around with my friend ._.
How does that work with Microsoft insisting on launch parity?
valkillmore
Member
My mind is racing at the possibilities. A small transcript:
Sean - 'Well, in terms of ecology, like, almost anything is possible. The type of creatures that you see, we almost don't know what's out there. The kind of environments that you might find, it's not random. It's not chaotic. But it is procedural. It's possible to find something unique that will surprise me.'
'Even in terms of how we build it (the game), we build these simple rules. Water creates atmosphere . . . that atmosphere and the contents of the water affects the moisture of the atmosphere, which may change the colour of the sky.'
Saint of Killers
Member
There will be other people in your game world, but Murray says the universe is so large that chances of your finding another person are very small indeed. So I doubt there's gonna be any proper MP/co-op built in the game.
Is there a link available for the GiantBomb NMS stream?
ichtyander
Member
I watched it on their website, the NMS guys (alongside Palmer Luckey of Oculus and Greg Kasavin of Supergiant Games) are from the beginning to about the 48 min mark.
Zomba13
Member
LookAtMeGo
Member
I keep watching these trailers over and over. I am completely in love with this. It really does look like my dream game.