No Man's Sky

[Jackalope]

mods fixing shit

I see what you did there

 

[Hoaxmetal]

 

[Latelistener]

Seems like a perfect opportunity to compare.

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Eve Online

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Elite: Dangerous

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X3: Albion Prelude

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[Makabb]

NMS clearly wins

 

[Matalarata]

...just like a battered spouse

 

[Scruffy]

wait, so when you get to the center of the galaxy you just restart in a "new" galaxy?
tsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Where you get to explore ANOTHER 18 floppitygillion nearly-identical planets.

A marvel of our times!

i can't believe people spent money on this

 

[NotAGolfer]

Saying that procedural generation is ''retarded'' and it would be better if he had 2-3 handcrafted planets to explore is kind of a moronic criticism, the game was publicized from the start as procedural and giving you an entire universe to explore, you are not going to get a game of that scale without procedural generation.

Well, the reviewer is a retard.
Just watch that Bioshock Infinite review and how he gushed over the repetitive gameplay in that one.
Sure, vigors are nice, but the game constantly turns into loud and noisy bloodbaths reminding me of GTA killing sprees.
What if I want to be more sneaky? Not an option thanks to grappling hooks dropping me in the middle of enemy groups and shitty staged setpiece fights every other island.

No Man's Sky is still shit of course, but not because of procedural generation, I think that's quite a nice feat. Would be even nicer if they gave creatures interesting abilities and gave everything gravitational pull (so no floating rock islands or other magical wonderland shit) and collisions (yes, I want to ride dinosaurs).
From what I can see so far it's mostly shit because it's popamole levels of easy (maybe mods can fix that? ), the inventory is a mess, crafting and trading are afterthoughts and sentient species seem to inhabit the same few buildings everywhere, there is no xenoarcheology or other mysteries surrounding them.

I mean Frontier: First Encounter was pretty shit too but there you at least had these federation and imperium and other newspapers even though the news there often didn't have real ingame events matching them. And then it had the Thargoids of course, so at least there was a barebones plot.
Also trading / bounty hunting / mining -> buying new ships and shit >>>>>>> collecting resources just as a means to get to the next planet

 

[Zewp]

Shame. Now he's posting pictures of mods that are 'fixing' the game that last week he claimed was perfect.

Here's a number you can call Makabb - 1-800-799-7233

 

[Makabb]

 

[vean]

Well, the reviewer is a retard.

I've watched some of his videos before and the impression I got is that he doesn't actually play the games. Just re-writes Wikipedia summaries for his videos.

 

[Perkel]

Damn game can looks waaaay to good:

 

[Burning Bridges]

Makabb



I laughed so hard that tears came

 

[Zarniwoop]

Classic. Even better than the nVidia one.

Hours of entertainment for you and your wife's son

 

[Gerrard]

Graphics look like Fallout 3, down to the color filter.

 

[iZerw]

No Mans Sky uses Modified Unity not home built engine.

The entire game is being data mined. The E3 event was 100% scripted, no sand worms ect. There is NO MULTIPLAYER AT ALL in the code.
The game is using a modified Unity engine.

 

[Sranchammer]

At least kids learned something in Spore

 

[iZerw]

The event at E3 that was in fact staged. Sean is a big fucking liar if true:

 

[Zarniwoop]

At least kids learned something in Spore

Spore had better graphics too, and more unique planets.

 

[Leechmonger]

At least kids learned something in Spore

Did they learn not to buy NMS?

 

[Black]

And actual dev(s) working on it.

 

[Alienman]

I wonder how close this is to being illegal (misleading and lying), but then again this is the games industry.

 

[Xor]

I wonder how close this is to being illegal (misleading and lying), but then again this is the games industry.

False advertising is illegal. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they got sued over the multiplayer thing.

 

[justincz]

 

[Theldaran]

Who would sue them? Apparently people everywhere are digging this turd. And in the end, it's all about the dollars. Who cares if they never make a game again, the scam has already been conducted.

 

[tormund]

No Mans Sky uses Modified Unity not home built engine.

The game is using a modified Unity engine.

Every.
Single.
Fucking.
Time.