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No Man's Sky gets released like, soon, I guess ¯\_()_/¯

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ReplacementPelican

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GribbleGrunger said:
I'd be more than happy to find Bolari V. We've only seen a tiny section of it and there's a whole damn planet out there to investigate, including a labyrinth of caves and caverns. Every time I watch the trailers with Bolari V in them, all I can think is, I wonder what's over there or I wonder what's down there.

I really don't understand people. I suppose it boils down to: There's no point in offering people a vast universe to explore if they've only got tiny imagination. That sounds mean but I'd say it more or less sums it up.
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It may be a bit mean but, yeah, I get you. It's just such an exciting concept that things like 'I don't like the gunplay' wouldn't really bother me. For me it's about exploring, finding something new and this game seems to promise that.

I have enough narrative driven games, enough short-attention-span games which have objectives and objectives and explosions and competition. I just want to play something new, where the joy is in exploring and not competing or achieving or progressing but I can understand why people feel that lack of constant feedback unsettling with how game design is these days.
 
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GribbleGrunger

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ReplacementPelican said:
It may be a bit mean but, yeah, I get you. It's just such an exciting concept that things like 'I don't like the gunplay' wouldn't really bother me. For me it's about exploring, finding something new and this game seems to promise that.

I have enough narrative driven games, enough short-attention-span games which have objectives and objectives and explosions and competition. I just want to play something new, where the joy is in exploring and not competing or achieving or progressing but I can understand why people feel that lack of constant feedback unsettling with how game design is these days.
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You might enjoy Don't Starve too. It's pretty cheap and it will pass the time until No Man's Sky releases.
 
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DeathSparks

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Guys... No Man's Sky is real and someone already found a copy of it

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https://twitter.com/LegacyZ3RO/status/758458333674151936/photo/1
 
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marq_roq

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After a couple of weeks Best Buy listing the LE but not being able to purchase it, I finally got an order through a few minutes ago for those looking. Hopefully the order holds up.
 
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eyeball_kid

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CHC said:
Really hope I never, ever see that godforsaken Balari V again for the rest of my days!
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I think part of it is the snow planet color palette looks pretty bleak by comparison with the other planets we've seen. The only part of Balari V I really felt like, "wow I want to explore that" was the cave system. Maybe if there's some glaciers or the type of crazy features we see on Pluto I might be more interested.

Unicorn said:
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/07/27/if-only-no-mans-sky-could-go-unreleased-forever/
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I don't read RPS much anymore, but this article is really embarrassing in its level of sensationalism, comparing NMS to B&W and Spore and basically saying, "We already know NMS isn't going to be as good as they say, just like those games".
 
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Lemondish

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eyeball_kid said:
I don't read RPS much anymore, but this article is really embarrassing in its level of sensationalism, comparing NMS to B&W and Spore and basically saying, "We already know NMS isn't going to be as good as they say, just like those games".
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It was honestly only a matter of time before an article was written that mimics every NMS GAF thread. That's games journalism for you.
 
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More_Badass

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Lemondish said:
It was honestly only a matter of time before an article was written that mimics every NMS GAF thread. That's games journalism for you.
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To be fair, the main difference between a person posting on GAF and a journalist is that one is posting on a forum and the other isn't. Why do you find it odd that someone would have the same opinion/perspective that clearly a lot of other people have?
 
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DeathSparks said:
Guys... No Man's Sky is real and someone already found a copy of it

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https://twitter.com/LegacyZ3RO/status/758458333674151936/photo/1
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When did they stop putting resolutions on the back of the boxes? This new?

I noticed the only game out of all 25+ physical in my collection that does NOT have the resolution box on the back is Star Wars Battlefront, and I assume because it was 900p, they did not list the 1080p box like all other games that I have which are all 1080p.

Is this maybe not 1080p? Or coincidence?

EDIT: I take that back, MLB The Show, Ratchat & Clank, Doom, Uncharted Collection, and Until Dawn do not have it either, and those are 1080p.

Alien Isolation has a misprint and says 1080i, lol.

Guess I never looked hard enough, haha.
 
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vix

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(They're not the best quality...but...still...)

While not a super extreme weather event, I really kind of like this:

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And I did this one of that "pod" thing and I wonder if it's a gear replenisher of some sort. I think that was mentioned in one of the threads.

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Bombless

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I kinda feel like that article. There's a high chance the game will disappoint given the amount of hype surrounding it.

Originally I was going to preorder but these 4 trailers reinforced that feeling of caution and I'll wait for reviews before buying.
 
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A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
Isn't that someone who is shipping/receiving a delivery showing the box? See the truck in the background with a bunch of other copies? Hopefully they don't break street date.
 
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vix

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eyeball_kid said:
Weren't there people saying the foliage doesn't move anymore like the early trailers? Guess this puts that to rest. Sandstorm looks great.
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If it's an NMS thread, there will be complaining. Complaining of all varieties. I still don't quite understand why this game is so damn polarizing. Oh well. I can only hope it reviews well on both sides when it comes out. I want it to do well, I'd like it to do well. :)
 
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Unicorn

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eyeball_kid said:
Weren't there people saying the foliage doesn't move anymore like the early trailers? Guess this puts that to rest. Sandstorm looks great.
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I mentioned that I noticed foliage doesn't move like mode7 like in earlier trailers. It appears to no longer have that Oblivion SpeedTree tech or Mode7 effect of spinning foliage on an axis when the player moves. foliage and grass appears to be placed statically and no longer rotates to always show the "face" of the greenery.

All the new footage is too quick to be sure though - anyone have a good gif or clip that shows that they fixed that spinning grass quirk?
 
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Picollus

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So what will happen on day 1 ?

The last two single player games that include online component i wanted to play on day 1 with that much (or less) hype were Sim City (2013) and Hitman (2016).

We know what happen, their servers weren't able to sustain the load and crashed for multiples days (weeks for Sim City)

Just hope that Sony invested a lot in their server for that game !
 
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Unicorn

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Picollus said:
So what will happen on day 1 ?

The last two single player games that include online component i wanted to play on day 1 with that much (or less) hype were Sim City (2013) and Hitman (2016).

We know what happen, their servers weren't able to sustain the load and crashed for multiples days (weeks for Sim City)

Just hope that Sony invested a lot in their server for that game !
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It's playable offline, so it will be a-okay. your naming of dick monsters may have to wait to sync if servers are down though.

https://youtu.be/CLcjvIQJns0?t=2m21s

right around that 2min 20sec mark you can see the rotating grass I'm talking about. Can someone please find a snippet from the recent footage of the grass to confirm or deny the rotating-ness?
 
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OraleeWey

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Can we please not post weather stuff? I consider that a spoiler. I would have liked to find that by myself playing the game. Maybe the spoilers thread should be started now that the game is out in the wild?
 
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Jedi2016

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I'm not sure that spoilers are really a thing with this game. The things you'll see people posting are things that you'll never see in game, and the things you see in game are things that no one else will ever see.

If you're really that hard up about spoilers, just go dark, no need to make a spoiler thread two weeks before launch.
 
GribbleGrunger

GribbleGrunger

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OraleeWey said:
Alright I see. Sorry guys I was in the wrong... I just don't know what a spoiler is with this game. I mean, I still want to read discussions and whatnot, but I don't want to get spoiled.
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I made the same point a while back but after dozens of back and forth arguments I realised spoilers could be anything. All I want to avoid are mechanics we don't know about. I'm happy with environments and creatures.
 
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WordAssassin

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Unicorn said:
It's playable offline, so it will be a-okay. your naming of dick monsters may have to wait to sync if servers are down though.

https://youtu.be/CLcjvIQJns0?t=2m21s

right around that 2min 20sec mark you can see the rotating grass I'm talking about. Can someone please find a snippet from the recent footage of the grass to confirm or deny the rotating-ness?
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Oh god that looks terrible, that's like sprite rotating back on the N64. I didn't even know games still did that. Yikes.

0racle said:
Any word on physics variables in planets?

I want gravity to fluctuate for example.
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I've been wondering about that too myself. Is there a jump button? I imagine closer to the center of the universe gravity would get super wonky if stuff is really supposed to get weird and break down in there.
 
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0racle said:
Any word on physics variables in planets?

I want gravity to fluctuate for example.
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I really hope so. They have not shown anything about low gravity/ High Gravity planets but maybe this is one of those things that helps with the variety as you get to the center of the Universe.
 
DeepEnigma

DeepEnigma

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Unicorn said:
oh fuck I just now see SpeedTree listed. Rotating grass is probably still in. Disappointing.
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I know from working with Unreal Engine and Speedtree, that if you bring a "leaf mesh" in the modeler as mesh asset, then use the properties to set the card not to rotate. Let's hope it was adjusted/modified like that.

In Unity, there should be a setting to disable rotation.
 
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The1Ski

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OraleeWey said:
Can we please not post weather stuff? I consider that a spoiler. I would have liked to find that by myself playing the game. Maybe the spoilers thread should be started now that the game is out in the wild?
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Not to come off as overly rude but if weather effects/events are spoilers for you, you probably shouldn't be in this thread. Might want to go dark.
 
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