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Game Informer January cover - No Man's Sky

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Bookoo

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The game looks interesting, but I am just wondering what there is to actually do. I have heard rumors that they will have an actual co-op mode, which I do hope is true because I don't think I will play it that much without it.
 
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Messofanego

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Bookoo said:
The game looks interesting, but I am just wondering what there is to actually do. I have heard rumors that they will have an actual co-op mode, which I do hope is true because I don't think I will play it that much without it.
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If there is co-op, it's more like Journey but you'll be millions of light years apart XD
 
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bsod

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Jawmuncher said:
That first post.

But in all seriousness.
I hope this issue sheds some more light on the game for me.
At the moment it just feels like people are excited for the promise of what it is.
Which after a bunch of promises in gaming amounting to nothing or lesser visions than planned. I'm not getting too excited just yet.
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I'm right here with you. It seems people are constantly falling into the same trap: a few seconds of video that tells you almost nothing about how the game plays gets put out, gamers let their imagination run wild and get hyped to all hell based on almost nothing, game comes out and doesn't live up to the hype that the game was never set to meet, games attack developer.

I really, really hope this doesn't happen. But the fact is we know squat about how the game works, what the objectives are, what can be expected of gameplay. All we know is there are a lot of procedurally generated planets and you can travel to their atmosphere and land on the surface seamlessly from space. Oh, and there's some space shooting too. That's literally it.
 
Trogdor1123

Trogdor1123

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I feel so sorry for this game, there is zero chance it will live up to expectations. Even if it is amazing it wont have a chance...
 
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ViewtifulJC

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My first post seemed a bit snarky, but right now it seems like a lot people are hype by a game that's still in a very abstract state by a small unproven group of devs. You can make Destiny comparisons with how they communicated their game to the masses, but they always had the pedgriee of a great hugely successful and similar franchise behind them. This is...I don't really see it yet.
 
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legacyzero

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Trogdor1123 said:
I feel so sorry for this game, there is zero chance it will live up to expectations. Even if it is amazing it wont have a chance...
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ViewtifulJC said:
My first post seemed a bit snarky, but right now it seems like a lot people are hype by a game that's still in a very abstract state by a small unproven group of devs. You can make Destiny comparisons with how they communicated their game to the masses, but they always had the pedgriee of a great hugely successful and similar franchise behind them. This is...I don't really see it yet.
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Nobody does though. I have a feeling that this weekend will change that.
 
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Tigress

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Amir0x said:
only if they don't deliver on the very precise gameplay features they've talked about. Since they've been extremely up front about what this game is
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Exactly. I'm not sure how people are saying they don't know how the gameplay is going to be like when they have made some very specific statements. We know there is going to be trading with random tradeships around the universe, that you'll go to these ships to have elements you have found put together to make stuff, that you will be upgrading your basic gun and your ship using elements you will find, that planets will most likely have certain elements but not others (that their environment is going to be dependant on what is there so each element will affect chances of other elements on there). It sounds like the "crafting" system isn't going to be that extensive really (sad) from what I read. Oh, there will be fights that you can join or evade. And you can make your ship better at fighting or better at evading or focus more on trading. That there is some story element that will get more obvious as you get closer to the center of the universe and that you will be given incentive to want to go to the center (this is the most vague they've been honestly as to what that incentive is). Also, they claim there will be hints you can find around the area.

So, I'm not sure how we don't have a general idea of what gameplay is going to be like. Yes, if they don't deliver on that, it will be a disappointment. But I really don't get the people who keep saying they are too vague and therefore it's not trustworthy what they say).
 
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-SD-

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Nokterian

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-SD- said:
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Indeed some of those posts here.

I am glad to see space exploration games making a come back. But this one going in to the water or cave to discover things and just jump in your ship go out to space and land on the planet and watch to the sky seeing the planet you where on just before is all ready amazing.
 
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bj00rn_

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RedSwirl said:
For people who want a better idea of what this game MIGHT be like, we're thinking it's going to be a more console-friendly version of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier:_Elite_II
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I don't quite agree with that. Frontier Elite II was science fiction too, but had a certain relative scientific framework, and had relative proper scale. NMS clearly appears to be headed in an arcadey direction where they are using a lot of artistic licence as a foundation for the game. I don't think they are similar at all.

The video in the op didn't exactly help explaining what they are actually going to deliver here. "I hope that we can live up to it - A little bit" didn't help either.
 
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Shining Sunshine

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TheLostBigBoss said:
Because Spore had space stuff and No Man's Sky has some space stuff and procedurally created animals and stuff.
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Spore is an RTS Sims game and No Man's Sky is an FPS exploration adventure game.

Are we talking about games here? If we're going as far as saying "it's about space and planets", should we compare it to Interstellar? what the fuck
 
Nameless

Nameless

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While I'm definitely tempering my expectations, I have to believe there is a reason, that extends beyond the NMS's interesting premise, why a 'lowly indie game' has ballooned into a flagship release for the console. Clearly the game is making believers out of people. When smaller titles generate a buzz like this it's typically with good reason.
 
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bsod

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Tigress said:
Exactly. I'm not sure how people are saying they don't know how the gameplay is going to be like when they have made some very specific statements. We know there is going to be trading with random tradeships around the universe, that you'll go to these ships to have elements you have found put together to make stuff, that you will be upgrading your basic gun and your ship using elements you will find, that planets will most likely have certain elements but not others (that their environment is going to be dependant on what is there so each element will affect chances of other elements on there). It sounds like the "crafting" system isn't going to be that extensive really (sad) from what I read. Oh, there will be fights that you can join or evade. And you can make your ship better at fighting or better at evading or focus more on trading. That there is some story element that will get more obvious as you get closer to the center of the universe and that you will be given incentive to want to go to the center (this is the most vague they've been honestly as to what that incentive is). Also, they claim there will be hints you can find around the area.

So, I'm not sure how we don't have a general idea of what gameplay is going to be like. Yes, if they don't deliver on that, it will be a disappointment. But I really don't get the people who keep saying they are too vague and therefore it's not trustworthy what they say).
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That all sounds vague as hell and can apply the same description to numerous games when you replace the nouns. For example, replace "ship" with "warrior" or something.
 
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mnannola

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If this game just allows you to fly to tons of planets and hang out with some different wildlife, day 1. I don't need anything else other than that. Any more gameplay they add on top of that is a bonus. Just watching the planet to space transitions has sealed the deal for me.

I do hope a PC version is coming soon after the PS4 version.
 
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Tigress

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bsod said:
That all sounds vague as hell and can apply the same description to numerous games when you replace the nouns. For example, replace "ship" with "warrior" or something.
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Uh. Ok... It still gives the general impression of what the game play is going to be like whether you feel it can be used to describe other games or not. Enough so I can tell it's the kind of game I'm interested in though it sounds like crafting is going to be less than what I'd like.
 
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Veritigo_X

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bsod said:
That all sounds vague as hell and can apply the same description to numerous games when you replace the nouns. For example, replace "ship" with "warrior" or something.
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What noun would you replace "planets" with? Because that's a pretty big feature that they (and other developers) have already shown to be working.

And your noun replacement exercise can be done with literally every game out there and doesn't make a good point.
 
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threelights

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Mihael Mello Keehl said:
One of those games that gotta live up to the hype or theres gonna be shisty gaf backlash
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You mean the backlash that it's already receiving?

They've said what the game will be about, showed it, and people are just saying it's a lie.

I don't think there's much they can do to be well received here.
 
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DrROBschiz

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I mean its good that the game has the Duality of being an exploration game but also has a designed goal and purpose for the player

Im pretty sure the limitations of the procedural generated elements will become clear at some point

Like you can have millions of different looking deer but they all behave and animate the same. Give the same resources etc...

It kind of reminds me of the issues people ran into with Scribblenauts honestly

Massive potential possibilities that could be boiled down to their common denominators. Which in No Man's Sky's case would be the various skeletons used as the bases for the generation

Thats about the extent of my skepticism though. Clearly I am still going to enjoy playing this
 
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