starpiercer
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I was talking about sales, the only thing I can compare them too. Terrira also but I forgot about it until now, lol.
OléGunner;209672284 said:
I think that's why the feeling of meeting a player will be so awesome.
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No Man's Sky went gold
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I was talking about sales, the only thing I can compare them too. Terrira also but I forgot about it until now, lol.
I think that's why the feeling of meeting a player will be so awesome.
Oh, I see. Well I don't think anyone expects NMS to beat Minecraft in sales - that's nigh impossible, Minecraft was/is a cultural event - but NMS is likely to find a similar audience and will almost definitely have huge community-based legs.
I feel that yeah, there won't be construction like that but there will be crafting.
Although very dodgy leaks have suggested there will be construction. Bases/buildings/larger ships, etc. Seems pretty sketch, though.
Bringing up the menu doesn't pause the game. You can still see all the environmental particles flying by and the character taking cold damage over time when he goes to craft something in the latest IGN demo.
I like this. Making sure you're safe is a key contention in a game like NMS.
My GF dies all the time in Minecraft and 7 Days to Die because she doesn't take a few seconds to make sure the inmediate vicinity is safe/secure, and doesn't get out whenever there's a hint of danger. I dread to think how she'll last in NMS!
RageWaffles
Member
I hope that's a tractor beam coming out of the space station, otherwise I can see myself crashing into those walls a. lot.
legacyzero
Banned
I like it, but I'm still a fan of "Math Effect"
Smiling ear-to-ear right now HAHAHA.
I hope that insane aliasing isn't indicative of what to expect in the game.
I like it, but I'm still a fan of "Math Effect"
I vote for this
I like it, but I'm still a fan of "Math Effect"
Has to be "Maths Effect" since it's a UK developer.
Ze_Pershing
Member
Could anyone tell me what would be the install size on the HD?
https://twitter.com/NoMansSky/status/752253747590524930
Not sure about installed but on disc it is ~6GB.
OmegaDL50
Member
Seeing as PS4 games install entirely to the HDD and don't use it outside of verification beyond the initial install, I'd say it's safe to say it will be close to that number.
Handy Fake
Member
During one of the IGN gameplay videos he joked that Peter Molyneux was at the centre of the galaxy.
https://youtu.be/CLcjvIQJns0?t=16m25s
16:25
legacyzero
Banned
COME TO MEEEEEEEEEEE
LookAtMeGo
Member
Now I will be disappointed with any other ending.
Wolfgunblood Garopa
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I don't get it.
Ze_Pershing
Member
Yeah, saw the earlier and it's what prompted me to ask this question. I just hope the imprint is small because I have nothing really to delete anymore.
metareferential
Member
Steam here still says it's the 12th.
Lol! Me and my wife just watched this video yesterday and Anthony is probably one of the most entertaining PlayStation/YouTube hosts I've seen in these gaming channels. He was hilarious, and Sean's reactions to his shenanigans were perfect. "You didn't say there was a jet pack!" "Yeah, there's a reason for that..."
I also agree that if you're still not sure about No Man's Sky's features and mechanics, this is the best 15 minute video boiling the game down in a nutshell.
I know it's easy to let your imagination run wild with this game, and reading deep into comments by Sean and Hello Games, but my mentality is of looking at what they've shown so far as being in the game as being in the game. Just those features. If there are more things under the hood, then that's a nice bonus, but I'm not banking on that. What you see is what you get. A space survival and exploration game, with some additional mechanics to facilitate that.
I've always been able to keep my expectations of a game in check (well, now that I've gotten older. When I was a kid and teen I'd whip myself up into a frenzy). It's probably the reason why I'm one of the few people on GAF that actually genuinely enjoyed The Order:1886, even if I hated how the ending of the game went down. Everything else about the game I thoroughly enjoyed. Expectations, checked. I'm very much looking forward to No Man's Sky. After Uncharted 4, it is my most anticipated 2016 release, but I'm not letting myself get carried away with expectation. What I've seen of the game has been enough.
I used to spend hours "playing" Space Engine, and you just fly around space and land on some planets, but that's almost literally ALL you do in that game. I was fascinated by that, and it didn't even have the luxury of having a beautiful aesthetic like No Man's Sky, let alone gameplay mechanics like crafting, trading, piracy, cataloging species, etc. if I could get hours of entertainment out of Space Engine, I think I'll do alright with NMS.
Handy Fake
Member
I agree with you 100% I spent 40-50 hours playing the space trucker in Elite Dangerous when it launched , we got a game here where you can probably do the same thing but with the option of landing on every planets and exploring them .
So I'm confident I will enjoy this game .
More_Badass
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While I think the game can appeal to a wide variety of people since it does have stuff like space combat and survival, etc., a smaller niche will get the most out of it. I value exploration in games. Just creating a hill in Minecraft to see what lies beyond, or seeing a gorgeous vista in some walking sim, that's satisfying for me. This game is looking like the thrill of creating a hill in Minecraft x 100; every planet is a new hill to crest.
Handy Fake
Member
More than likely.
OmegaDL50
Member
The procedural generation tech they used to program the game. It's all entirely based on a series of simple mathematical formulas layered on top of each other to make complex combinations.
This is determines how everything in the game works. From measurements how far each planet is placed from it's parent star, which affects things such as planets surface conditions (further away from the sun = colder / ice planets, and closer = barren / hot desert planets), and bunch of other factors involved.
This should explain it - https://youtu.be/h-kifCYToAU?t=249
You may want to watch the video from the very beginning as it explains how the game works, but I quote that specific time due to how the world generation tech is all based on a series of mathematical formulas used for the programming.
Definitely. My wife is more of a hardcore gamer (she plays Mass Effect, Fallout, Skyrim, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, etc), but she would play Minecraft for hours just generating worlds and wandering around. She'd build structures every once in a while, but mainly she just liked to explore and find caves and villages and shit. She's about as excited for NMS as I am. Every few weeks she'll ask me when it's coming out again. lol. I may have to double dip and buy her her own version, since I bought the Limited Edition, and not digital this time.
I think detractors for this game are selling it short. I don't know what the ultimate quality will be, but from what I've seen, I'm going to go ahead and say I'll probably be even more engaged than I was in Space Engine. lol.
RageWaffles
Member
As a kid, I spent so much time in Star Control 2. There's a lot to the game, but all I did was land on planets, mine them, get immediately wrecked by a Slylandro probe, and then do it all over. And, now, I'm basically doing the same thing in Starbound, except for getting wrecked by gravity and magma instead. So, yeah, I'm pretty tickled about what we've been shown of NMS.
Mengy
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Yep, this is me exactly. Ive spent countless hours in Minecraft just simply exploring the land and spelunking in caves and having a blast doing so.
Thats one of my biggest issues with Elite Dangerous. I love the game, but it pisses me off that exploration in it has not seen a single bit of new content since the game launched a year and a half ago. Exploration in ED is very, VERY low priority, and in a galaxy that is over 4 billion stars wide, that sucks, because exploration in ED terribly needs improvement.
No Mans Sky is going to seriously threaten my love for Elite Dangerous, and if NMS is truly the explorers we dream that it appears to be, I may not be buying any more expansions for Elite unless they add something to make exploring more appealing. Which, given Frontiers hard on for combat content, does not seem likely anytime soon.
Looking very forward to seeing what NMS has to give us!
smudge
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LookAtMeGo
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More_Badass
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To be fair, it never gets old for me jumping into a system or outside a station and just the enormity of a sun or planet or the endless expanse of rocks within a planet's ring or the looming exterior and interior of stations. I love seeing those things in Elite. Haven't played Horizon yet, but the planet surfaces look boring in the screenshots and footage
If not joking: that clause wasn't referring to the third thing. That last clause was an extension of the second clause - ie this game is all about maths programming, so 'hello world!' - a programming phrase, is appropriate
legacyzero
Banned
They keep saying that they wanna AAA market it, so I hope that implies it
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Don't you feel as if they're already missing opportunities though? We just had the European cup which is watched by millions and millions of people around the world. Why not just have a 5 second advert with the atlas pulsating, No Man's Sky across the top and 'PS4. Get Ready. 10th August'. There would have been millions of people searching to find out what it was all about and the mystery surrounding the advert would have fitted perfectly with the nature of the game.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I would prefer separate seeds for each platform to keep all the pc modders and people running around with infinite hyper drive, etc, away from my universe.
I know that it's probably not going to matter either way based on the number of planets, but many people are debating whether or not to even use the pre-order ship because it offers a starting advantage. I'd prefer to keep everyone on a relatively even playing field.
I know that it's probably not going to matter either way based on the number of planets, but many people are debating whether or not to even use the pre-order ship because it offers a starting advantage. I'd prefer to keep everyone on a relatively even playing field.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Whilst the PC will have the same universe, they won't affect the console version of the same universe. The only way it would affect PS4 owners is if Sony allowed those mods to be made available to the console version, rather like the new Skyrim Remasters.
Please, Sony, don't allow it!
Instead of using warp drive/fast travel/ wormholes to get to the next nearest solar system (or all the white dots you can see in the universe) can you choose to "fly" there instead?
The moon is about 240,000 miles away from earth. It took earthlings 3 days to get there. Can we do the same thing in NMS or do we HAVE to use our waarp drive?
The moon is about 240,000 miles away from earth. It took earthlings 3 days to get there. Can we do the same thing in NMS or do we HAVE to use our waarp drive?
You can fly without warp as far as I know. Would take a long time tho.
In videos we've seen, there's an ETA clock in the cockpit that says things like "30 days to destination at current speed" kind of stuff
jedmaxwell
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GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
They have drones that check the planets for consistency and possible errors. I would imagine that the seed they're releasing as been shown to be the best seed they've had for their needs. Why then take the risk of creating another seed for the PC? It's no different than any game that releases on PS4 and PC but don't share their online component.
By the way, some people have speculated that the Sentinels are actually those drones. I find that an interesting theory.
Except it is a game about being the first person to see a place. I don't want the chance that I'll start off on the same planet or be discovering the same planets as someone on pc.