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No Man's Sky went gold
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OmegaDL50
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Same reason why Minecraft is small but has as massive world the size of roughly Neptune.
A majority of the assets that take up space are just the basic textures and audio.
Everything else on the world generation end is just a seed that creates the voxel world out of a mathematical formula.
No Man's Sky takes the same premise and dials it up to 11.
LookAtMeGo
Member
Damn. I think I found my new sleeve.
valkillmore
Member
Oh my shit! Hey, I love the fact that the new Hello Games logo is represented without the text. Just the logo. Very very cool. God damn!!
KCroxtonJr
Member
Just watched this again, as well as the one released a week later with Anthony Carboni, and I just realized something I never paid attention to before.
Sean says the bright light is the center of the UNIVERSE, in BOTH videos. What are the odds that he accidentally said universe when he meant galaxy, twice?
I was sure it was the center of the galaxy we all start in, until now...
edit: This game needs to be out, right now.
Most single player games have a Start > End progression. This game is very different. Some people don't enjoy the sense of isolationism a game makes them feel.I personally don't either most of the time because I don't want a game to try and make me feel depressed. I just don't get that same sort of feeling from this game.
Wow that looks amazing! I want to print this out and put it in my ps4 copy when it comes, anyone know how I go about doing that?
Well i mean in a star Map video there is clearly only one bright light across multiple galaxies so im fairly certain thats what it is.
Try staples.
Meh, some people enjoy the novelty of owning the disk, cover, etc.
Nope. I personally think it is the other way around. I would rather know that I will always have access to this game (long as I have a working PS4) vs. at the whim of Sony taking it away for whatever reason (and with Sony and their customer service if something goes wrong this isn't so far fetched a worry honestly).
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Very nice. If I ever upgrade my motherboard and CPU and add some ram, I'll be able to play it on my PC as well~
I worry more about my PS4 dying than my ability to play a digital purchase disappearing.
But to each their own.
I mean... if it died you could pop the disk into another machine.
somme
Member
ichtyander
Member
Both are pretty sweet, this second one I probably like more, nice stuff! I'm doing something similar myself, but there's some stuff I want to figure out how to rearrange, make little details and make it easy to swap the cover images while keeping all of the details, tears etc.
Yeah, he's been more insistent in naming the goal "the center of the universe" in the later interviews. I think he just wants to emphasize that the game has an entire universe in it, without the need to explain more, but who knows. Like, if he'd be constantly saying "the center of the galaxy", he'd have to then add "but there's a whole universe to explore", and then plenty of journalists would start asking "so are there other galaxies, how do you get to them" etc, as has happened before, so maybe he just doesn't want to deal with the questions and let something slip.
Or, the galactic map is always showing the entire universe, and there's a bright light at its center for some story reason. I don't think we've ever seen anything on the map screens so far that indicates they're showing multiple galaxies through all of those nebulae (since there's plenty enough stars inside a single galaxy to fly through that "fog" for hours on end), but again, we don't really know.
The idea of the center of any galaxy leading to all other galaxies, thus technically acting as the center of the game's universe is something that makes sense to me, while still being spoilery enough for them to want to keep it under wraps.
Yeah, the edge tears and spine crease are the main things missing from mine, but I'm 50/50 as to whether or not I really want to add it.
Lionel Richie
Member
Hell no, the box art looks AWESOME. Physical release all day erryday. Everything should have a physical release.
Then they really weren't that interested in the game to begin with. If no traditional coop is a deal breaker, then the game was never going to hold them for long.
There were things I learned about the game as it developed that bummed me out, but never turned me off of the game. Co-op was a thing that bummed me out, but everything else that was actually in the game outweighed me being bummed that I couldn't play it with my friends, or my wife. And then there were features that Sean said wouldn't be in the game that ended up being in the game.
Very little is a deal breaker for me when I'm really excited and interested in a game. It sounds to me like your friends would have burned out on the game fast if all that interested them in it was multiplayer. NMS just isn't that type of game.
More_Badass
Member
Blueingreen
Member
It has to be this, nothing else just this
Kubrick fanboy here
The evolution of Sean
Its like watching a president age,
Nah, Hello Worlds already won
For anyone interested, the OpenCritic 'guess the score' thing just opened up: http://opencritic.com/game/2393/no-mans-sky
Current predictions seem to be pretty high.
Current predictions seem to be pretty high.
Welp, here's a quick and dirty book cover attempt, looked through some old sci-fi book covers and basically most of them have these thick, large fonts for the title, so I decided to use a font that's a bit more reminiscent of the time, instead of the original thin NMS logo font.
EDIT:
BTW, not my intention to hijack the thread or anything, was simply inspired by something More_Badass said so I wanted to try what an NMS book cover might look like, that's all.
Love that font-
I have zero idea why you typed that much in response to me just saying my friends don't want to buy it know. You seem to care more than I do lol.
ScientificPizza
Banned
Guys, all of this talk of what the OT is going to be called and making incredible alternative covers is making me think this game is a lot closer than it actually is
It's gonna be a long month
It's gonna be a long month
travisbickle
Member
I don't believe Sean wants you to feel depressed playing this game. The acts of discovery are unique to you as a player, it's supposed to make you feel amazing.
Your friends either associate gaming heavily with social activity, like it's difficult going to a bar on your own, or they have anxiety issues with being alone which are growing in the age of Facebook.
mrqs
Member
Man this is really confusing. First of all, they never showed us "the outer end of the galaxy". There are "ball shaped" galaxies, but i fear that in the game this galaxy (or universe??) will never end. I think that their procedual system can't allow to not have anything. It would be really awesome to see the galaxy from far away showing it's entirity, it would make it more real than stars after stars with no end in sight.
Karspankey
Banned
That's unfortunate.
I don't know what bluray/dvd cover paper types are like, but AFAIK you can get them printed at Staples.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
It's best never to consider it possible.
More_Badass
Member
So unlikely that the Steam page doesn't even mention multiplayer
Here's another one I just whipped up, went for a hardcover novel look
That's quite a sharp looking piece, though for some reason, it actually feels more contemporary to me. I feel like I'd see that in a bookstore right now, rather than 50 years ago, but it looks great.
ChosenPredator
Banned
so rare that if you're streaming the game and it happens you'll become a legend.
I remember at E3 or PSX they had that 65Days concert, and they had footage from the game constantly looping in the back, except most of the footage was crazy weird visuals of that Triangular thing on the cover art, like some 2001 psychedelic shit. I'd guess a lot of that is actually in the game, maybe center of the universe stuff.
XxRampage07xX
Member
Does the Earth even exist in this game? It will be very cool if I happen to be the first one to discover it.
HalfBakedProphet
Member
I believe this a fictional universe and fictional starting galaxy
You are not in the Milky Way
Insane Metal
Member
Uh why exactly do these covers look like low res scans? Is that how they're supposed to look? And why? I don't get it
its going for a 70's scifi theme
60s sci-fi book covers.
OmegaDL50
Member
Not just that, but old 70's Sci-Fi book covers.
https://www.google.com/search?q=70'...9OzNAhWM7yYKHZoQAAIQ_AUICCgB&biw=1024&bih=476 - check these out for comparison.
That was the sort of aesthetic Hello Games is pushing for No Man's Sky.