Game Thread No Man's Sky!

[BlazerCaravan]

When I get home today, I'll be popping No Man's Sky into my new PS4 and playing the everloving hell out of this game. Anyone else excited for it?

 

[Natebishop3]

I have to say, I'm slightly disappointed that you can't party up.

I listened to the dev talk about it, and I get that he doesn't want it to be TDM or anything like that, but I would be much more excited to play this game if I could explore with my friends or with my wife. I have never really been into single player RPG games.

 

[Natebishop3]

http://www.polygon.com/features/201...sky-first-impressions-review-preview-10-hours

Interesting review of the game so far.

In these early hours, I am enjoying the parts of No Man’s Sky that are purely exploration. Studying weird alien lifeforms and scanning them in to a growing database, for example, really helps get across a sense of believable biology on planets, even as I’m aware that they’re all procedurally generated.

The problem, then, is that those parts are so constantly interrupted or put on hold for the sake of a survival loop that just isn’t very fun. Shit, I’m almost out of carbon, which means I need to wander over to some local plant life and slowly cut it down with my mining tool. Damn, I’m ready to leave this planet but my thrusters are low on power; time to wander mindlessly until I happen across some plutonium.

The mundanity of this cycle is exacerbated by an insultingly tiny inventory space that requires near-constant juggling and micromanaging. Was it plutonium or platinum that I needed? Can I actually keep all of these tradeable trinkets I’ve found until I stumble across an NPC willing to trade with me, or can I just not spare the space? These are the types of strategic questions I found myself asking as I played No Man’s Sky, and frankly they just don’t make for a terribly engaging experience so far.

 

[Natebishop3]

Game hasn't even been out a full day and there's already a scandal.

Dev said that you could see other players, but that the universe was so big that it would be highly unlikely that you'd run into another human being.



Apparently he lied. Oops.

 

[blue32]

Game hasn't even been out a full day and there's already a scandal.

Dev said that you could see other players, but that the universe was so big that it would be highly unlikely that you'd run into another human being.



Apparently he lied. Oops.

LOL yeah, that's janky...

I watched Summit1G stream it today... he was just constantly grinding mats/units on a planet and looking at Gek structures....shooting drones, rinse and repeat... looked boring as fuck....

What is there to actually do in this game?

 

[Natebishop3]

LOL yeah, that's janky...

I watched Summit1G stream it today... he was just constantly grinding mats/units on a planet and looking at Gek structures....shooting drones, rinse and repeat... looked boring as fuck....

What is there to actually do in this game?

Explore. That's it.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

My attention spand is too short for this stuff now the only games I can play are sports or battlefield.

 

[SheedSoNasty]

Seems like the movie The Martian in a way.

 

[blue32]

Explore. That's it.

got it! haha- i literally know nothing about it, so genuinely was curious

 

[santeesioux]

Seems like the kind of game to buy during a Steam sale for 15 bucks next summer.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Game hasn't even been out a full day and there's already a scandal.

Dev said that you could see other players, but that the universe was so big that it would be highly unlikely that you'd run into another human being.



Apparently he lied. Oops.

Good. I don't want to meet any disgusting basement dwellers in my universe.

 

[Haakzilla]

...looks like psy ops drone training/conditioning to me