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Old 13-06-2014, 13:43
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Thought there may have been a thread about this already, but I can't find one.

This game looks unbelievably good!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27807167
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Old 13-06-2014, 13:51
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I don't get this game at all. What's the objective?
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Old 13-06-2014, 14:38
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I don't get this game at all. What's the objective?
To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.



I think it looks amazing, a really interesting concept but I do hope there's a good objective to the game. That'll be the difference between a great concept and a great game.
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Old 13-06-2014, 15:45
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I don't get this game at all. What's the objective?
http://www.no-mans-sky.com/about/
http://popwatch.ew.com/2014/06/12/no-mans-sky-e3-hello/

I like the idea that even the developers don't know what you might discover in this seemingly limitless universe and the way your actions have consequences beyond that of your own game.

I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this one. Sci-Fi games aren't usually my thing, but my curiosity has been piqued.
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Old 13-06-2014, 16:33
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I don't get this game at all. What's the objective?
Exploring and surviving. Finding cool stuff, doing stupid things, and so on.

Looks really cool. Not sure if the reality is going to match the promise though. Still, you never know...
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Old 13-06-2014, 16:41
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As a concept it is incredible and easily the most interesting title that anyone showed at E3.

But the reality is often very far away from the concept. The very first The Last of Us gameplay demo was a world away in terms of AI from what was eventually delivered.

My fear is that it will simply be a series of different worlds with minor cosmetic changes EG. 'Monster A + Landscape F + Weather Pattern R + Sky Colour U'...you get the idea. Ultimately, of course, as it is being built by an algorithim, that is what will be happening, no matter what, but the important thing is for them to create the illusion that it isn't.
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Old 13-06-2014, 16:46
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If there was an NMS video with some excerpts from Matthew McConaughey's monologue in the Interstellar teaser trailer. Wow. I'd be having a very long bathroom break.


I feel a great need to buy this game now. It's not even up for pre-order but I don't care.
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Old 13-06-2014, 19:17
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I like the idea that even the developers don't know what you might discover in this seemingly limitless universe and the way your actions have consequences beyond that of your own game.
I like the idea of the game, but this bit they say is just a lie. Its not like there are procedurally generated animals with behaviour. Its just random planets with random selection of animals on them.

If it is truely original animals that bare no resemblance to what the devs have ever seen then i will happy be proved wrong.

I'll probably still end up getting this though.

The randomness reminds me a lot of Spore.
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Old 13-06-2014, 19:18
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So looking forward to this, I guess there wasn't a console thread before as it wasn't actually confirmed which platforms it was on until E3.
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Old 13-06-2014, 20:18
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I like the idea of the game, but this bit they say is just a lie. Its not like there are procedurally generated animals with behaviour. Its just random planets with random selection of animals on them.

If it is truely original animals that bare no resemblance to what the devs have ever seen then i will happy be proved wrong.

I'll probably still end up getting this though.

The randomness reminds me a lot of Spore.
Could be that the animals are set to be randomised? I like the idea of having your own planet and finding unexplored planets, be good if there could be a sort of sim city element into it where you can manipulate stuff in a sort of black and white sort of way, game has endless possibilities but dont think a game of that amount of detail will be here for about another20 years but maybe one day. Interesting idea though and really looking forward to it.
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Old 13-06-2014, 21:52
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The originality for me is well worth the purchase. I'm definitely getting it!
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Old 13-06-2014, 22:07
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I like the idea of the game, but this bit they say is just a lie. Its not like there are procedurally generated animals with behaviour. Its just random planets with random selection of animals on them.

If it is truely original animals that bare no resemblance to what the devs have ever seen then i will happy be proved wrong.

I'll probably still end up getting this though.

The randomness reminds me a lot of Spore.
yet scenarios naturally occur during testing that invite the three coders to attempt to reverse engineer them – to dig into the code and to create systems “that result in those scenarios happening in an emergent way”. Murray explains how he accidentally dropped a fish onto the shore of one planet and watched as birds began to flock around it. Unfortunately, the birds happened to pass over a large group of carnivorous plants, and a feathery bloodbath promptly ensued. As much as Hello Games is training its game to behave in certain ways, No Man’s Sky’s procedural universe also teaches its coders something new every day.
Is that what you mean?
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Old 13-06-2014, 22:30
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Is that what you mean?
Yeah. They weren't surprised when either those interactions happened individually. But the combination was cool.
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Old 17-08-2014, 08:40
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Started watching videos on this. They've allowed the ability if you discover things you get to name them. Going to be some choice names then I guess.
I can't decide if this is going to be good or not. On one hand you could probably lock away hours escaping from reality and just exploring but on the other, will that be enough. Will it become too lonely for some of us who like other player interaction ?
I think price will determine the success of this game. Ie I don't think it really aimed at me, so at 50 quid is more or less dead to me. At opposite end 20 quid. You know it would be worth owning for that odd escape and sense of scale.
It's weird how they talk about how its all procedural and so theres nothing on the disc. So, is massive, yet so small. Very interesting.
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Old 17-08-2014, 10:31
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I'm always interested in games that try and be a bit different and push our expectations of what a game can be. Can't tell if I'd find this game fun or not though.

On IGN they're saying that while the universe isn't infinite, it would still take 5 billion years to see every planet which is pretty cool. A nice concept that you can see something in a game that no one else will.
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Old 17-08-2014, 10:55
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Even though I don't really understand this game, I like the look of Wild better. Similar premise but I don't really understand what that's about either!
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Old 17-08-2014, 11:09
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I'm thinking this is going to be an exploration sim, with lots to see, but nothing to do. That isn't going to cut it for me.
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Old 17-08-2014, 14:18
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In a lot of ways this reminds me of Elite. But the core of Elite which kept you playing was its trading system and No Mans Sky will need a hook like that to keep people interested. I enjoy exploration in games and I like hunting around a free-roaming world looking for collectables and other interesting stuff put in by the developers so the exploration aspect of NMS is interesting for me. But that alone will not hold my interest for a long time.

Just the fact the developer is trying something different has me interested as well, although I do worry this game is getting too much hype since E3 and that it may be difficult for it to live up to that now.
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Old 17-08-2014, 16:20
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In a lot of ways this reminds me of Elite. But the core of Elite which kept you playing was its trading system and No Mans Sky will need a hook like that to keep people interested. I enjoy exploration in games and I like hunting around a free-roaming world looking for collectables and other interesting stuff put in by the developers so the exploration aspect of NMS is interesting for me. But that alone will not hold my interest for a long time.

Just the fact the developer is trying something different has me interested as well, although I do worry this game is getting too much hype since E3 and that it may be difficult for it to live up to that now.
I agree, I loved elite and elite 2: Frontier, If this has trading elements like elite it could be very good, I'm just worried I'll be flying around visiting different planet's with sod all to do, I did read they where looking into a social element to it, so fingers crossed.
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Old 17-08-2014, 16:50
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On the one hand it sounds and looks really great, but I also like my games to have an 'end game', and when stuff like 'it would take 5b years to visit every planet' is boasted it dents my anticipation alittle.
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Old 17-08-2014, 17:42
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Even though I don't really understand this game, I like the look of Wild better. Similar premise but I don't really understand what that's about either!
Lol. I mostly agree. While I wouldn't say I'm looking forward to the wild more, they both look very interesting. But we know bugger all about them.

I don't think these games will be all exploration with nothing to do. They are made by some very creative teams and I don't think they'll overlook something as fundamental as putting things to do in the game.
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Old 17-08-2014, 17:44
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Basically as long as it's fun I don't care how many planets there are etc. Just want to enjoy it but not sure I would going off what I've seen.
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Old 18-08-2014, 14:50
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I do like the look of this. Hope it's not another Watchdogs and that graphically the finished product turns out just like what we've seen. I do have reservations about what the gameplay will be like. But it's definitely on my watch list.
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Old 18-08-2014, 15:53
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Still no idea what it is
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Old 19-08-2014, 08:37
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Still no idea what it is
Elite but without the Elite bits.
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