No Man's Sky

[Astral Rag]

 

[v1rus]

"no mans sky is for gamers. not fps fanboys who have no experience with rpg style games."

Oh Lord, I thank thee for the youtube comment section. I thank thee so much.

 

[Zarniwoop]

All right, simmer the fuck down.

I know doomsaying the AAA industry is all the rage, but if at this juncture a shitty, mediocre game can make a huge profit on hype and pre-orders alone, then surely the industry is due for some sort of collapse or disaster in the near future. This just doesn't seem sustainable in the long run.

This isn't the AAA industry though. It's an indie. This could finally be the start of the Indiepocalypse. Massive overhype and underdelivery - Nu Male's Sky could be the Atari E.T of our time.

 

[Thane Solus]

All right, simmer the fuck down.

I know doomsaying the AAA industry is all the rage, but if at this juncture a shitty, mediocre game can make a huge profit on hype and pre-orders alone, then surely the industry is due for some sort of collapse or disaster in the near future. This just doesn't seem sustainable in the long run.

This isn't the AAA industry though. It's an indie. This could finally be the start of the Indiepocalypse. Massive overhype and underdelivery - Nu Male's Sky could be the Atari E.T of our time.

This guy is an indie as Electronic Arts is indie. He was promoted and supported by Popeamole Pope and probably financial sustained by him and his friends. So Indie only as a PR term. No real indie could do this from the start unless he will get contracts and publishing from big companies which restricts your creativity and in the end makes you no indie... PS4 release ? haha. Oh you foolish people.

 

[Theldaran]

Nu Male's Sky could be the Atari E.T of our time.

Sadly, as there hasn't been a physical PC release, we can't fill a desert with them. The Offspring records will have to do.

 

[Hoaxmetal]

AAA crash? Indiepocalypse? Naga please.

 

[kris]

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).

I don't think it even works here. A large amount of procedural generation is good for games where "repetitiveness" is the point, like building another settlement with different conditions, or farming same dungeons with different look. The point of NMS, however, is exploration, at least as it was advertised, but procedural generation doesn't add anything to it. The most interesting stuff people discover in this game was actually handmade.

It currently might not work. But there isn't any real hindrance for it. From my understanding the game currently just produces more or less the same planet, but with different paint. You dont need handmade content to make it interesting, you need different behaviour, different things to do and planets that stick out. All that can be procedurally generated.

 

[Zarniwoop]

Unfortunately, Subnautica seems to have been overhyped as well. The world is extremely small, like 2x2km, not procedurally generated (although that can be a good thing) and even though it's billed as a storyfag game, there's still no story whatsover apart from the intro.

 

[Zarniwoop]

This guy is an indie as Electronic Arts is indie. He was promoted and supported by Popeamole Pope and probably financial sustained by him and his friends. So Indie only as a PR term. No real indie could do this from the start unless he will get contracts and publishing from big companies which restricts your creativity and in the end makes you no indie... PS4 release ? haha. Oh you foolish people.

Was there a pubsliher involved?

Indie.

Sadly, as there hasn't been a physical PC release, we can't fill a desert with them. The Offspring records will have to do.

Sadly, no. 18 Squintillion unsold discs would have been poetic justice.

 

[Burning Bridges]

But at least Subnautica provides a solid 50-100 hours entertainment. I agree about the world though, it should have been open world and people would play it for years to come.

 

[Burning Bridges]

Nu Male's Sky could be the Atari E.T of our time.

Sadly, as there hasn't been a physical PC release, we can't fill a desert with them. The Offspring records will have to do.

If this disaster goes on it may rather be a certain bearded individual that will be buried in the desert of New Mexico, with two bucket of concrete at his feet.

I mean you are aware that Sony is a Japanese company right? If a good old veneral venerable company goes down because of 1 single individual I assume the Daimyo will at least want his head on a plate, so that he can watch his soldiers in the yard play soccer with it.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

veneral

Venerable, you mean? Or venereal? Or both?

 

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

If you want a real NMS go try Empyrion, Early Access and has more content than this shit. I actually think is the best sci-fi survival - sandbox so far, even in EA. Lets hope they wont pull the plug, but so far they seem on top of it.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/383120

Ayup, bought it half a year ago and in that amount of time they've made a metric shit ton of significant updates to the game.



Edit: Don't go into the mining complex~

 

[Hobo Elf]

All right, simmer the fuck down.

I know doomsaying the AAA industry is all the rage, but if at this juncture a shitty, mediocre game can make a huge profit on hype and pre-orders alone, then surely the industry is due for some sort of collapse or disaster in the near future. This just doesn't seem sustainable in the long run.

This isn't the AAA industry though. It's an indie. This could finally be the start of the Indiepocalypse. Massive overhype and underdelivery - Nu Male's Sky could be the Atari E.T of our time.

No Man's Sky started out as indie, but it was picked up and funded by Sony pretty early in its development. How else did you expect them to afford all the shilling? No indie would be able to afford that. To call NMS indie is disingeuous.

Unfortunately, Subnautica seems to have been overhyped as well. The world is extremely small, like 2x2km, not procedurally generated (although that can be a good thing) and even though it's billed as a storyfag game, there's still no story whatsover apart from the intro.

Sunbautica is also an unfinished game. They plan on adding the actual story once the game releases, whenever that is.

 

[Burning Bridges]

veneral

Venerable, you mean? Or venereal? Or both?

Venerable, obviously

 

[vean]

Totalbisquit make a video about it

 

[Mortmal]

https://www.humblebundle.com/survive-this-bundle , 5.78$ for space engineer alone is worth it i think.Lot more than 60$ for no man sky...

 

[Burning Bridges]

How do these bundles work? I may give Space Engineers a try but definitely none of the other crap.

 

[vean]

It works like it says it works.

Anyway my impression is that space engineers is a serious mess. It's been in EA for how long now? And it still doesn't have any gameplay?

 

[J_C]

How do these bundles work? I may give Space Engineers a try but definitely none of the other crap.

You pay 5,78 dollars and you get every game in the bundle. But you don't have to activate all of them, you can give them away if you want.

 

[Perkel]

This scared bajesus of me as i turn back and saw thing from hell.

Fucking 5m bear on two legs that looks like from Silent Hill.

 

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This isn't the AAA industry though. It's an indie. This could finally be the start of the Indiepocalypse. Massive overhype and underdelivery - Nu Male's Sky could be the Atari E.T of our time.

It's plenty of good indies, man.
Please, don't mix them with this shit.

 

[Blaine]

Factorio and Subnautica are indies, both immensely better choices than this shitpile.

Subnautica is water planet exploration on a single planet, with various kinds of mollusks, fish, and predators; DPVs, submersibles, EVA suits, submarines, and constructable sea bases.

It's just one planet, or part of one planet really, but at least it's not copy-pasted samey bullshit.

 

[Beowulf]

Still relevant:
https://nothke.itch.io/normans-sky

 

[Zarniwoop]

But at least Subnautica provides a solid 50-100 hours entertainment. I agree about the world though, it should have been open world and people would play it for years to come.

It IS open world. It's just an incredibly tiny open world. Really ruins the experience for me. It's like they planned it to be a massive scale, maybe an entire planet to explore. But it's tiny as shit.