No Man's Sky

[Hobo Elf]

THE MACHINE IS IN MOTION, NO ONE CAN STOP IT NOW

That was fast

 

[Gerrard]

THE MACHINE IS IN MOTION, NO ONE CAN STOP IT NOW

That was fast

kek

 

[Hobo Elf]

Tumbling down
Down
Gone

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Lol.

 

[Makabb]

Those are preorders a month before the game...... not even GTA 5 was at 1st place on preorders on steam month before release..... day 1 it will blow everything away.

 

[Xor]

Should we start taking bets on how many copies this will sell? Or on the metacritic user score?

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

but still it's selling.
it's selling hot air, in the middle of the sahara. it's selling.
*that* is a huge problem already.

 

[Hobo Elf]

Should we start taking bets on how many copies this will sell? Or on the metacritic user score?

We should wait a week after release to see how many used copies end up back on the shelves of game stores.

 

[Nael]

Should we start taking bets on how many copies this will sell? Or on the metacritic user score?

We should wait a week after release to see how many used copies end up back on the shelves of game stores.

Those still exist?

 

[Makabb]

New screenshot from japanese version

Also NMS is 6gb, most of it is audio

 

[Bumvelcrow]

Also NMS is 6gb, most of it is audio

Procedural generation.

 

[Makabb]

Also NMS is 6gb, most of it is audio

Procedural generation.

The lower the gb the better... who needs 50gb like witcher 3 or gta v ?


Also stars in atmosphere confirmed ! this is the first screenshot where you can see stars in the sky

 

[bylam]

Those are preorders a month before the game...... not even GTA 5 was at 1st place on preorders on steam month before release..... day 1 it will blow everything away.

Though it might be worth pointing out that GTA V had been out on consoles for almost 2 years at that point.

I think No Man's Sky will do very well, considering the budget and team size, but I suspect a significant backlash even if it is a good game. The hype is just too strong.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

there's people still convinced that oblivion was the best rpg ever.
backlash? what backlash?

 

[Mortmal]

its not like there's anything else released in august, everyone will try it .

 

[iZerw]

Does it support mods?

 

[Makabb]

Does it support mods?

dev said it will

 

[Makabb]

, but I suspect a significant backlash even if it is a good game. The hype is just too strong.

It might get only from the people who don't know anything about it, procedural generated planets are one thing, they have much fewer variables. But species? Aliens defined by their randomly generated environments? Impossible. Make a ecosystem for each planet ONE player explores? There'd be millions upon millions of different species. Each different and unique? That's a game of its own, and if this game accomplishes that, well it's a break through not just for gaming.

 

[Ulminati]

Also NMS is 6gb, most of it is audio

Procedural generation.

Procedurally generated audio when?

 

[Bubbles]

Also NMS is 6gb, most of it is audio

Procedural generation.

Procedurally generated audio when?

The Long Journey Home uses procedurally generated audio for the alien languages

 

[Bumvelcrow]

Procedurally generated audio when?

Long time ago...




I thought they said the music was procedurally generated, although that may just have been the Makabb news filter.

 

[Bubbles]

Makabb is easily the best poster in this thread FYI

 

[bylam]

, but I suspect a significant backlash even if it is a good game. The hype is just too strong.

It might get only from the people who don't know anything about it, procedural generated planets are one thing, they have much fewer variables. But species? Aliens defined by their randomly generated environments? Impossible. Make a ecosystem for each planet ONE player explores? There'd be millions upon millions of different species. Each different and unique? That's a game of its own, and if this game accomplishes that, well it's a break through not just for gaming.

I think it goes beyond that. Mechanics also define the gaming experience and you can have all the awesome content in the world, but if your mechanics don't hold up for a long time, the game feels boring anyway. Think the planet exploration in Mass Effect.

For me, it is that part of the equation that makes me skeptical. I am not worried that they will have content and a lot of it, I am worried that their mechanics will become rote and uninteresting after a period. Dislike Spore as you will, but they understood this and kept changing things up to try and keep it interesting.

 

[Jaesun]

$60 retail? Lol.

 

[Makabb]

Also NMS is 6gb, most of it is audio

Procedural generation.

Procedurally generated audio when?

I thought they said the music was procedurally generated, although that may just have been the Makabb news filter.

NMS does indeed have procedural audio (ambience + animal sounds afaik) + standard ost.


Whenever you’re in space, or on a planet, or underwater, or in a cave, that physical state will be attached to its own audio state. I want to use the seed values that create the planets to seed the music. We’ll know what the biosphere is, what the habitat is, and we’ll know how much danger there is. That information is there to use if we want to, and it’ll all act as a driver for the ambient music


So we’ve created our own sort of plug-in, which basically models vocal tracts, and within that we can say it’s got big features, it’s got a big neck, and it’s screaming because it’s angry. Then, the creature’s parameters are mapped onto the game. All the creature sounds you’ve seen in the trailers so far, they’ve been created by our prototype plug-ins, so I’ve always done this from day one.