GwyndolinCinder
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Leaked youtube video did more to sell me on the game, than years of marketing.
Yes, also the guy needs to do his duty to humanity and make more videos without keeping us in the dark for the next few days.
Watching this now and it's incredible how this is basically the gameplay demo that would have answered the "what do you do" question slash solved the poor messaging they have had since this game has been announced.
Is pov really a big deal? As an only console gamer I don't see any problem with it. I find it weird to watch streams when pov is so wide. Although I'm gonna buy a pc in september so maybe its gonna change.
PC peeps love their adjustable FOV.....which is totally valid. I wish the option to adjust console FOV was more prevalent.
I mean FOV... My bad....
who will find earth first ?
who will find earth first ?
Well to be fair I did say:
Anyway the point is moot right now (the guy's not uploading any more videos), and we can definitely disagree (I'm going to be playing to explore the unknown and not to reveal lore), aaaaand we're in the spoiler thread so.
Is pov really a big deal? As an only console gamer I don't see any problem with it. I find it weird to watch streams when pov is so wide. Although I'm gonna buy a pc in september so maybe its gonna change.
I wish I had not tried Subnautica recently, this looks super similiar.
But who knows, maybe the late game will be worth half the hype.
How? The IGN demo was basically the same walk around, show you more environments/animals/planets stuff that we understood when the premise was first explained to us.This is very similar to the 20-minute IGN video, just this takes place at the very beginning of the game.
Pretty much, they oversold the mystery of it and how important it is to the experience because they just wanted to perpetually show off how neat their maths are.Totally. I feel like they shot themselves in the foot with being so unnecessarily coy from the jump. Unless there's some Fez-level secret element that they've talked around or the actual mechanics have been in flux until relatively late in development, I'm kind of confused at the restraint in the earlier interviews.
He has said he will not upload more videos, but will post a write-up of his impressions on Reddit.
Flavor text/lore more likelyHere's what I was talking about:
Building outposts might be a thing.
Pretty much, they oversold the mystery of it and how important it is to the experience because they just wanted to perpetually show off how neat their maths are.
Pretty much, they oversold the mystery of it and how important it is to the experience because they just wanted to perpetually show off how neat their maths are.
Pretty much, they oversold the mystery of it and how important it is to the experience because they just wanted to perpetually show off how neat their maths are.
Like people have said, NMS looks to be a game that is fun to play, boring to watch.
Seriously, if that's the narrative with what you want to go with.,..
I mean it could just be they want you to discover stuff for yourself, rather than read about it in articles...
Or it could just be they wanted to boast about their mathematics skills.
Aye.
Really? I think that mystery has done half the marketing for them.
What bugged me about the press demos was that they all felt stage-managed. In a game with 18 quintillion stars or whatever, every single press demo they did back in March/April took place on the same couple of planets.
It was so focused on staying "interesting" and presenting a vertical slice that there wasn't any time to understand the feel of moment-to-moment play, and that's what hampered it. I couldn't tell whether they were selling me a bill of goods.
I'd love to see some lifeless planets for a change. Supposedly they're 90% of the game.
Straight butter at 60 FPS. Looks nice as well.
Straight butter at 60 FPS. Looks nice as well.
whoa this is surprising especially the rumours of them having troubles with the ps4 version
They aren't going to show the lifeless planets, because that'll play very nicely into the hands of those who have already decided that this game is dull and will quite happily and loudly share their half baked opinions. We aren't going to see anything like thorough examinations of a game like this without a good 10+ hour play through. The reviews will be out soon enough which will lead to better informed opinions and hopefully better informed discussion.
On the other hand, not showing the type of content that you claim makes up 90% of your game creates the impression that you have something to hide.
60 fps huh? So much for those rumours of PS4 version being a disaster a while back (well I guess it could have been at that point).
I won't be jumping into this game since it's not quite my cup of tea but I'm interested on reading what people think about it and what they discover.
Only if you're cynical.
The review embargo is before the release date anyway, so if it's not up to snuff you'll have time to make a decision.
Huh? They were very clear on what you do in the game. Myriad articles, interviews, etc. discussing exactly what the game was, what Sean and co envisioned the game to be, showing off combat, crafting, scanning, etc.With all due respect I think it's this:
Had they come out and said the game was basically Minecraft in an infinite universe (without any construction), they wouldn't have had near the press. It would've been Ark, or Subnautica, or the others with an (albeit huge) twist: infinite galaxy, ship combat/flying, procedurally generated and hugely variant worlds/creatures.
Instead they played it coy and got a ton of media coverage, What DO you do? How amazing could this be? Everyone had their own imagination of this ideal space sim that would be the second coming, and the universe they were showing was amazing and didn't prove or disprove any gameplay ideas. They got a ton of attention for it and I'm certainly interested to see how much true mystery/discovery is in the game after a few weeks.
I assume that "those who have already decided that this game is dull and will quite happily and loudly share their half baked opinions" are the cynical sort.
Oh I'm personally in, I was talking more about perception.
That FOV will make me sick on PC. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
What's at the center of the universe?
Started playing this last month and it's alright so far, though much more limited than NMS. The ability to leave your planet and go to other solar systems/trade mechanics immediately make this more intriguing than Subnautica.