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Old 07-07-2016, 23:40
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Glad to hear it's gone gold, finally shut-up all the doom and gloomers who said it was never coming out.

Still excited for this. Unique, exciting and creative.

I suspect the COD/Battlefield etc. community will despise it.
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Old 07-07-2016, 23:48
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Glad to hear it's gone gold, finally shut-up all the doom and gloomers who said it was never coming out.

Still excited for this. Unique, exciting and creative.

I suspect the COD/Battlefield etc. community will despise it.
I play EVE Online amongst many other types of games. From what I've seen the game looks very wide in scope but has no depth. Unless there's a lot of stuff the developers haven't talked about.
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Old 08-07-2016, 15:17
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I play EVE Online amongst many other types of games. From what I've seen the game looks very wide in scope but has no depth. Unless there's a lot of stuff the developers haven't talked about.
BIB we know this to be true. They have frequently said they don't want to give too much away as it really defeats the point.
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Old 10-07-2016, 08:52
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I think this is one where we wait foe for the reviews to get the gist of the game - there are certainly enough sites to garner opinion - and see if it is a game worth buying.

I worry for me that there will be no point to the game. I know my objective with Uncharted 4, Dark Souls etc.

Sometimes too much freedom can be inhibiting to a game.
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Old 10-07-2016, 16:20
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Being a former MMORPG player I like the idea of huge explorable worlds in single player/coop games. But I'm also aware that many MMORPGs had huge worlds with little to do in them except wander around fighting random mobs. This game could face the same problem.
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Old 11-07-2016, 08:47
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BIB we know this to be true. They have frequently said they don't want to give too much away as it really defeats the point.
I think there will be a hell of a lot of depth in this game we aren't aware of yet. You can glimpse some of it in the videos that have been released, but don't forget there were videos around 2 years ago very similar to how it looks now, so the core exploration bit has been coded for a while, makes you wonder what they have been adding in the past 2 years.
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Old 11-07-2016, 12:01
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The disc version only weighs in at 6GB, a lot of which is audio. This is tiny by today's standards but apparently it's down to the procedurally generated nature of the game, which takes up a lot less disk space.
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Old 13-07-2016, 08:48
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I'm quite surprised it's as high as 6gb with it being procedural. It's amazing what you can cram into a binary when the game world is being generated by maths...

Check this out from a few years ago, the program was 0.1mb (100k) (game starts about 00:40 seconds)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lctkgyVtao
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Old 13-07-2016, 09:22
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I'm quite surprised it's as high as 6gb with it being procedural. It's amazing what you can cram into a binary when the game world is being generated by maths...

Check this out from a few years ago, the program was 0.1mb (100k) (game starts about 00:40 seconds)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lctkgyVtao
Wow, that's incredible for 100KB!! I thought the intro was pretty impressive... and then the actual game starts
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Old 13-07-2016, 11:08
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Wow, that's incredible for 100KB!! I thought the intro was pretty impressive... and then the actual game starts
It's actually 96k, as there was a competition to create the best game in under 96k...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkrieger
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Old 13-07-2016, 13:01
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I'm quite surprised it's as high as 6gb with it being procedural. It's amazing what you can cram into a binary when the game world is being generated by maths...

Check this out from a few years ago, the program was 0.1mb (100k) (game starts about 00:40 seconds)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lctkgyVtao
That is truly astounding.
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Old 14-07-2016, 21:19
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I'm still sceptical about the multiplayer element of this game actually existing. The vague answers and the low odds of it actually being accessible concern me.
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Old 14-07-2016, 21:36
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Just saw the new trailer. Still does nothing other than land ship, look at shit then fly away again bar the odd space battle. How many planets can you watch before enough is enough.
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Old 20-07-2016, 11:19
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Just saw the new trailer. Still does nothing other than land ship, look at shit then fly away again bar the odd space battle. How many planets can you watch before enough is enough.
The next new trailer is out, this time with Fight as the subject...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn3Ene5S75s
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Old 20-07-2016, 16:31
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I have been thinking about this game a lot recently, and at this point I think I have hyped it to levels it can't ever hope to reach. I still can't believe that a game like this is coming out, if it it delivers on its promises then it potentially be the GOAT for me. Just wish it was 10/08 now so that I can judge for myself. I can see my first weekend after release being spent in a darkened room and taking lots of screenshots.
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Old 20-07-2016, 16:44
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I have been thinking about this game a lot recently, and at this point I think I have hyped it to levels it can't ever hope to reach. I still can't believe that a game like this is coming out, if it it delivers on its promises then it potentially be the GOAT for me. Just wish it was 10/08 now so that I can judge for myself. I can see my first weekend after release being spent in a darkened room and taking lots of screenshots.
Fallout 4 drove my hype train right out of the station for good (although I do love the game). But I have a good feeling I'm going to like NMS and can see it being a massive time-sink. When it was first announced I thought it a very ambitious project that would get delayed several times before being canned. Now it's only a couple of weeks off.
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Old 21-07-2016, 12:28
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I'm still sceptical about the multiplayer element of this game actually existing. The vague answers and the low odds of it actually being accessible concern me.
I'm really not bothered about the multiplayer. As long as the singleplayer is fine Too much emphasis is put on multiplayer these days!
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Old 23-07-2016, 14:16
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I am going to wait a while on this one I think. The recent trailers aren't really doing it for me. Be interested to see how it reviews and if a player Base grows and stays with it.
Still hopeful for the game..
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Old 25-07-2016, 23:26
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PS Plus will NOT be required to play NMS online (not that there's much chance of bumping into a friend anyway)
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Old 25-07-2016, 23:30
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cant wait for this game, been looking forward to it for ages, my PS4 has been collecting dust for a while, hopefully this is the game to get me back into my PS4
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Old 02-08-2016, 21:09
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Having seen some footage to me it looks as if when you pick a planet and fly towards it you're on rails and sort of loaded into it if that makes sense. They blur the screen to hide this in a way. If so.. this makes me wonder if you're actually flying around a huge universe at all or if you're effectively jumping between planets with a sort of holding lobby in between. Sort of like entering a portal in Minecraft.. you step in.. the screen wobbles a lot and then you're in a new world. i wonder if NMS is a bit like that. I'm curious.

It's not critical if it IS like that because the argument is well that's the best way to simulate the experience and to allow you to rapidly explore. Which is a fair point. But interesting all the same.

I might be wrong however. It's difficult to judge from the video I've seen if the player was in full control of the ship when leaving/entering orbits.
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Old 02-08-2016, 23:07
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It's been played for a few days now by a few people and already they reached the centre of the Universe but none will give spoilers and I'm glad they wont. I do think however what they got is some kind of review copy and not the actual game. I don't know if there will be any special prices next weeks by shops or supermarkets but I think watching some of this gameplay footage by actual players might help me in deciding whether to buy it or not or just wait a week and see what everyone thinks and see what you all think.
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Old 03-08-2016, 00:13
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It's been played for a few days now by a few people and already they reached the centre of the Universe but none will give spoilers and I'm glad they wont. I do think however what they got is some kind of review copy and not the actual game. I don't know if there will be any special prices next weeks by shops or supermarkets but I think watching some of this gameplay footage by actual players might help me in deciding whether to buy it or not or just wait a week and see what everyone thinks and see what you all think.
The very first guy to get his hands on the game got to the centre of the universe in about 15 hours, because he was gunning for it non-stop and not actually exploring the various planets. Obviously 15 hours is still a lot quicker than the actual amount of time the devs said it'd take for us to get to the centre of the universe, but as you say, these are essentially review copies. In fact, the guy even mentions there's 1 item that essentially speeds you up an incredible amount to help you travel to the centre of the universe a lot quicker.

My theory is that this item which helps you reach the centre of the universe quickly is exclusive to pre-release copies for reviewers, and there will be a day 1 patch that will get rid of this item, making it a lot longer for the rest of us to get to the centre. I think the devs had to put something in there so reviewers could get to the centre of the universe and factor that element of the game into their review - which they had to have done really, otherwise it's not really a full review.
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Old 03-08-2016, 05:38
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Why is it essential for reviewers to get to the centre unless they plan on spoiling that in reviews?
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Old 03-08-2016, 09:07
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It's been played for a few days now by a few people and already they reached the centre of the Universe but none will give spoilers and I'm glad they wont. I do think however what they got is some kind of review copy and not the actual game. I don't know if there will be any special prices next weeks by shops or supermarkets but I think watching some of this gameplay footage by actual players might help me in deciding whether to buy it or not or just wait a week and see what everyone thinks and see what you all think.
I would think probably not as this title is not main stream enough like COD for retailers to compete against each others at launch however I suspect if you wait for about a month after release it will probably being sold new at half the price it is being listed for at the moment.
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