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You mean like real life?
Woah, you mean I can sign up to be a shipping magnate moving goods across the universe in real life :)
In some small way, yes. http://www.planetaryresources.com/careers/#workplace
No Man’s Sky
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#32This game is getting so much hype I'm already seeing a Will Wright's Spore repeat.
Seriously. Spore got boring extremely quickly, and the playerbase died in a week. I suspect the same will happen to this game.
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#33I. Can. Not. Wait. I hope that at some point they add something like that virtual computer that Notch had added to 0x10c? No matter what this is the first game that I've been excited about since I was a kid. EDIT: Damn. The negativity in here is weird. What is it with gamer's that they just want to shit all over things? No gas planets...yeah they are real pricks for that. ??? What? A procedural universe is kind of a…
"The negativity in here is weird. What is it with gamer's that they just want to shit all over things?" This is not the first time we've seen this pattern before. Somebody promises The Ubergame, the all-singing, all-dancing Game of Games to End All Other Games, generated by writing down the wishlist of all possible features of a game in some genre and promising at least half of them. The appearance of "procedural con…
Actually the devs have promised no such thing. In fact they have stated they designed it to be a niche game that will only appeal to a certain demographic.
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#34In another interview they asked the developer if there would be gas planets in the game. He said no, every planet will be solid because otherwise players would be confused as to why they can't land on some planets. So there you go, the target audience for this revolutionary game is people who are confused by the existence of gas planets.
Come on. It's a game, not a model of reality. The target audience is people who want to enjoy playing a game.
You could argue the same thing about having stars - I mean you can't land, so meh - why bother emulating reality and not just have something evenly lit?
Or space between planets, that's a bit meh and needed in a model of reality, how about just a drop-down menu to select where to teleport your ship to next?
I suspect the target audience is people who want to play an infinite universe space game, to whom little details like "An approximation of real life" tends to kind of be important. See: People in this thread, interested in the game, criticising it for the above.
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#35I. Can. Not. Wait. I hope that at some point they add something like that virtual computer that Notch had added to 0x10c? No matter what this is the first game that I've been excited about since I was a kid. EDIT: Damn. The negativity in here is weird. What is it with gamer's that they just want to shit all over things? No gas planets...yeah they are real pricks for that. ??? What? A procedural universe is kind of a…
Most of the hype comes from features that I'll believe when I see.
I've been Molyneux'd too many times. Is this your first big game launch?
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#36I. Can. Not. Wait. I hope that at some point they add something like that virtual computer that Notch had added to 0x10c? No matter what this is the first game that I've been excited about since I was a kid. EDIT: Damn. The negativity in here is weird. What is it with gamer's that they just want to shit all over things? No gas planets...yeah they are real pricks for that. ??? What? A procedural universe is kind of a…
> Damn. The negativity in here is weird. What is it with gamer's that they just want to shit all over things?
What is the proper reaction when someone spends years promising things they almost certainly can't deliver? The game that they're describing sounds amazing, but it also sounds beyond the ability of a large team to deliver, let alone a tiny one. As others have mentioned, this isn't the first time that we've been down this road, nor the second, nor the third. So it's hard to get excited when we know what's most likely at the other end.
Maybe someday we'll be able to develop the game that they're advertising, and that they're going to charge people real money for. But 2015 is probably not that year.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
"The negativity in here is weird. What is it with gamer's that they just want to shit all over things?" This is not the first time we've seen this pattern before. Somebody promises The Ubergame, the all-singing, all-dancing Game of Games to End All Other Games, generated by writing down the wishlist of all possible features of a game in some genre and promising at least half of them. The appearance of "procedural con…
Actually the devs have promised no such thing. In fact they have stated they designed it to be a niche game that will only appeal to a certain demographic.
> In fact they have stated they designed it to be a niche game that will only appeal to a certain demographic.
I believe them if they say it'll only appeal to a certain demographic, but so far the game they've been advertising seems designed to appeal to as large a demographic as possible. From their interviews, if you like space exploration or combat or walking with dinosaurs or any number of other things, then this game has them. So what do they know, that they're not saying, that will lead this game not to appeal to all of these groups of people they've been advertising to?
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#38Till now, I have seen about 10 different planets, from various trailers and presentations. Clearly the game doesn't have 18*10^18 unique planets, since this is impossible. The problem this game has is, does it have enough variance in its planet generation, so that the average player will not notice a pattern. The planets I have seen all looked mostly the same, with slightly different color schemes and animals made fr…
I agree - the 2015 e3 demo video was a disappointment to me. The whole "Let's pick a random planet to fly to" sounds awesome, but then it's a big letdown when it looks remarkably similar to the ones in the other videos. The problem is you can have an unimaginably large number of unique planets but yet they still all end up looking the same. Sure, the coastlines might vary or the colouring may be mildly different, but…
> sounds awesome
I think that's why people keep on making games like this, but all past attempts have utterly failed at being interesting, except where human construction and ingenuity impinges on the random.
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#39I. Can. Not. Wait. I hope that at some point they add something like that virtual computer that Notch had added to 0x10c? No matter what this is the first game that I've been excited about since I was a kid. EDIT: Damn. The negativity in here is weird. What is it with gamer's that they just want to shit all over things? No gas planets...yeah they are real pricks for that. ??? What? A procedural universe is kind of a…
It's a procedural game. By its pedigree, it's bound to attract realistic commentary -- and realistic commentary on proposed procedural games will inevitably be negative.
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#40This game is getting so much hype I'm already seeing a Will Wright's Spore repeat.
Seriously. Spore got boring extremely quickly, and the playerbase died in a week. I suspect the same will happen to this game.
People saw promise and potential in Spore, but EA decided it wasn't in their best interest to make any extensions to core gameplay after the game's release. There were reportedly plans for true underwater exploration and new sets of parts, but none of those things ever came to be. Spore's modeling was fantastic, though, and allowed making unique creatures and vehicles more easily than any other editing program.
"If only," is all anyone ever says about Spore anymore. So if No Man's sky is the product, I don't care. If it's the beginning of some greater thing, however, I'm interested.