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Re: No Man's Sky Cosmos

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Post by peheje »

k4j8 wrote: post #108
glenstein wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still think it's a remarkable success story and they can and should be incredibly proud of what they've built. But this vision of what is meant by cosmic depth and expansiveness seems to tragically miss the point. Compare it to even our own solar system where even so much as a new high-res photo of the hexagon storm on Saturn comes with stunning new and specific detail, or the "heart" on Pluto, we're practically am…

The best space exploration game I've played is Outer Wilds ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/753640/Outer_Wilds/ ), but instead of the NMS sandbox there are puzzles.

one of those games where i wish i could erase my memory just to play it again, still think about it, i think it's like a year ago i played it, maybe more. idk. great game.

Re: No Man's Sky Cosmos

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Post by nosioptar »

pluc wrote: post #124
nosioptar wrote: post #75

Holy shit, they're charging $60 for a 10 year old game that only runs on windows. Not even worth pirating if I have to set up a container with wine, I'd rather spend that time drinking wine.

It runs great on Linux and Steam Deck https://www.protondb.com/app/275850

I don't pay for games that require using proton/wine. If a dev wants my money, they can add a Linux target to their makefile.

Re: No Man's Sky Cosmos

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Post by nosioptar »

fullstop wrote: post #136
nosioptar wrote: post #75

Holy shit, they're charging $60 for a 10 year old game that only runs on windows. Not even worth pirating if I have to set up a container with wine, I'd rather spend that time drinking wine.

It's $23.99 on Steam right now.

I don't use steam, the price I saw was the GoG price.

Re: No Man's Sky Cosmos

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Post by teamonkey »

consumer451 wrote: post #91
JohnMakin wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think people are regurgitating takes from early in the game's development - the game of the last few years is absolutely nothing like the early one and I agree, there is a surprising amount of stuff to do.

I have never played, but I watched all the drama unfold on reddit. It makes me wonder, is this what happens when you have an underwhelming launch? "You only make a first impression once" - and there is a huge price to pay for that? In SaaS and YC, it's ship early and ship often, right? Is that absolutely not the case in games? Also, how true is it in SaaS? Genuinely curious here.

In general that’s correct and you can generally estimate sales over the life of the game before the the end of release day. But there are also early access games, which are completely the opposite. Not very much in between those two extremes though.

NMS really is an exception, that they sold well enough at launch that they can keep providing free major updates for 10 years.

Re: No Man's Sky Cosmos

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Post by seplox »

JohnMakin wrote: post #34
big-chungus4 wrote: post #29

What are people on about, there is tons to do in NMS, tons of missions, expeditions, build bases, build a corvet, hunt rate parts, ships, rifles, creatures, manage a settlement, automate crafting chains, find a lucrative trading route, and this new update apps even more things. I'd never consider NMS anything close to empty, there is so much variety in the content

I think people are regurgitating takes from early in the game's development - the game of the last few years is absolutely nothing like the early one and I agree, there is a surprising amount of stuff to do.

As someone who played it for the very first time just last year, those 10 year old takes ring absolutely true to my experience in the game. It was fun for a little while, but it became repetitive and shallow quickly.

Different strokes, I guess.

Re: No Man's Sky Cosmos

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Post by seplox »

JohnMakin wrote: post #145
rc5150 wrote: post #137

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I think maybe you're discounting that people have agency and can decide that a game they are playing actively doesn't tick their boxes. I reinstalled it last week and put in about two hours before uninstalling again. Mile wide and inch deep is exactly the way to describe it.

> I think maybe you're discounting that people have agency and can decide that a game they are playing actively doesn't tick their boxes. > Mile wide and inch deep is exactly the way to describe it. Aren't you doing the same thing you're saying? Plenty of comments in this thread disagree with your assessment. If the game isn't for you, that's one thing, but it's a factually untrue thing to say "there's nothing to do,…

"There's nothing to do" is a straw man. There are about 6 things to do over and over and over and over.

Re: No Man's Sky Cosmos

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Post by Razengan »

Seems like some people are expecting it to be World of Warcraft or Elite

It's not

It's a chill sandbox and that's fine.

Props & respect to the devs for so many years of free updates!

Re: No Man's Sky Cosmos

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Post by john_strinlai »

lofaszvanitt wrote: post #102
john_strinlai wrote: post #31

at the time of posting, i think every top-level comment except one is negative. so, i'd like to balance it by saying that i have never seen a better executed turnaround than what the no man's sky team did. they cratered their reputation on launch, worked hard and long to restore it, and then continued to offer free updates long after they needed to. lots of respect there. (i will reward the effort by purchasing their…

There is no such thing as a turnaround. People wait for a game to be released. When you give a release date, you must give one that shows the almost complete state of your game. Not something that is half done, not something that will feel completely different 1 year later. When you buy a thing you get an experience. If your game is a different experience 1 year later, well, I couldn't care less about it. I'm not gon…

>There is no such thing as a turnaround.

this is very obviously untrue, as evidenced by no man's sky.

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