No Man's Sky

i've been thinking of it as an extremely ambitious roguelike the whole time so this makes perfect sense to me

can i still get baked and wander around vibrantly coloured alien worlds? i can? sold

Bizarro I have this great Will Wright game from 2008 I think you might really like--I can let you have it for cheap

maybe there will be an option to turn off the depleting meters. a few recent games have offered that and it seems to be well-received. there are definitely games where i enjoy the tension of constant approaching death, but based off of what i've seen of No Man's Sky, i think i'd rather just explore and collect stuff and not have to worry about eating peanut butter or whatever it is

gotta click on the peanut plant until it turns into peanuts then pick up the peanuts then open the menu and hold x to craft the peanuts into peanut butter then press y to consume it

will it be creamy or chunky? only procedural generation will tell

Bizarro I have this great Will Wright game from 2008 I think you might really like--I can let you have it for cheap

inbox me dude

gotta click on the peanut plant until it turns into peanuts then pick up the peanuts then open the menu and hold x to craft the peanuts into peanut butter then press y to consume it

if the irl universe really is infinite, than there's a version of this game that features this exact mechanic

then

Hah speaking of Will Wright I reaallly hope this doesnt disappoint me like that did (assuming yr talking about Spore)

oh i think this is sorta destined to be spore 2.0

I gave up on Spore before I even got to build a spaceship :( and I'd been so looking forward to it.

will it be creamy or chunky? only procedural generation will tell

― adam, Thursday, March 3, 2016 12:44 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

yeah, i'm worried about it being Spore 2.0 as well. guess i'll wait a week or so before making a decision. i WANT it to be good so badly, though.

i made a LOT of little animals with spore. I think i used the character creator for hours. i think i played the game for like twenty minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-MnJtLIdlI

lol

snore

all this isn't to make No Man's Sky sound like a mundane resource-management sim; it's still a first-person action game at heart.

double meh

I asked if there's some kind of story justification for why these same-looking robotic police are ubiquitous across the galaxy, and the answer is yes. Hello says it's working with a writer to flesh out a backstory that contextualizes that sort of thing.

oh good eight years in and a quarter before release and they've decided to add "story"

I was so stoked for this on a conceptual + eye-candy basis

i'm stoked for the concept/tech mainly, even if the game is a bust surely it will pave the way for better games with similarly ambitious procedural content?

there's certainly no reason why there should be a dead end for fun procedural games somewhere between spelunky/minecraft/etc and this

This looks cool, but it's not without precedent, e.g. Noctis. Ambitious nerds love working on these kinds of projects, so I can' t imagine they'd go anywhere.

this is why nobody announces games until they're like 9 months from release. everyone's hype eventually eats itself and turns into contempt.

i still can't wait to chill on cool colored planets with chill music, i'm gonna find one planet and hang out on it for ever

yeah i feel like in the worst case for this game i'm still gonna wander around and look at pretty things for like 20 hours which is good enough for my money imo

i will probably set my target coordinates to the location of a friend's planet, work on improving my spaceship for like 2 years of IRL time in order to make the journey to see their planet and say hello to the other person, only to discover that they quit playing the game back in August 2016

can't wait tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au_jnd5PSvU

http://kotaku.com/sources-no-mans-sky-delayed-1778797365

lol kotaku commenters

silver6kraid
Jason Schreier
5/25/16 9:06pm
Anyone else getting kinda worried about this game? I feel like it might fall quite short of the hype around it.

well played mr schreier

https://twitter.com/NoMansSky/status/743928033942315009

Holy shit seriously!?

it's ridiculous and i'm not sure how it's possible. how do you trademark the word "sky". and even if you can trademark the word "sky" somehow, can't trademark lawsuits only happen if there's a reasonable chance consumers can confuse the two products? who's going to confuse a video game called "no man's sky" with a tv channel? or a file hosting service? idgi! i don't even wanna know, what a horrible world this is

This is more mental than the Mirror's Edge lawsuit debacle.

Sadly unsurprised...

"Sky" no longer the limit

and even if you can trademark the word "sky" somehow, can't trademark lawsuits only happen if there's a reasonable chance consumers can confuse the two products? who's going to confuse a video game called "no man's sky" with a tv channel?

IIRC the jurisprudential tests in the UK for stuff like this are quite different from those in the US

Clearly!

not the first time
http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/31/4574878/microsoft-skydrive-name-change-bskyb

livestream here: http://kotaku.com/watch-us-play-no-mans-sky-1784877447

i've only been watching for about 10 minutes and i'm sure it's more fun to be the person playing, but...

this does not look like fun

http://www.polygon.com/2016/8/4/12343898/no-mans-sky-how-long

I'm still trying to figure out why you would spend $1300 on a video game that everybody else is going to get for a fraction of that about a week later

well here you are talking about it, knowing the guy exists

the best part of that is they're resetting all server progress for the day 1 patch *MWAHAHAHA*

I should think so really

The prospect of resource gathering and crafting admittedly makes me want to rip my eyes out.

On the plus side whilst I live for the day that somebody can make a space exploration game that doesn't involve stock market work - the obtaining rare resources and selling them to strangers, that I saw in that video, wasn't too annoying.

I'll definitely be waiting for more reviews and, more importantly, the thoughts of iLGers before I snap this up

who's gonna be the ILX guinea pig here?

it's me! i pre-ordered this ages ago, forgot about it, and my copy arrived early today.

only played about 20 minutes so far but initial impressions aren't great - limp combat, the collecting / crafting mechanic seems like it'll get incredibly boring very quickly, and it does quite a poor job of explaining what i'm supposed to do. and the narrow fov made me feel kinda queasy.

it's not fair to judge it on the little i've played so far (in the early stages of a migraine, too) but i'm not exactly rushing to get back to it :(

thank you for taking hte hit

it's possible that the game opens up after a while, but everything i've watched has seemed less about exploration and more about "you need key item X to get your ship working again, travel over here and harvest the 39 Y resources so that you can craft it", then 10 minutes of that happening, then repeat repeat repeat with other key items that must be crafted to proceed

I'm finding chill zen exploring fine so far? I dunno *shrug* I dont look to it to be a space battles game. Actually I am also enjoying the trading/communication with the other races, that part seems more expansive than when I last looked at least theyre not just samey things sititng at desks now that youhave the Space Anomaly MMO portal and all that

I must say I find space battles/flying impossible but it could be the ship I have, which is a clunker suited to freighting, but I dont know if more zippy ships handle better?

I'll probably give this another look this weekend. forget what i know etc.

Have they changed anything with the inventory mechanic, because gotta admit - it's an arse.

You mean the annoyingly limited slots on suit/ship? Nah thats still a PITA. I think things are more stackable. Oh, and I dont know how old/new this is (it was new to me) you can build big storage boxes at your bases now that hold 20 slots each. So with that and ship to shore teleporting upgrades its not so bad.

And the game is still frustratingly obtuse and wont explain much of what you're meant to do. I know thats the idea - youre lost in space with no memory and its meant to feel that way - but gah.

That said I'm enjoying it heaps. I found a "paradise planet" (biome v similar to a lush Earth) and have set up a nice little base there. Plus one on a giant ball of rock full of gold and copper, and one on a desert planet with loads of minerals, so I can hop about easily for supplies.

i am just becoming ~enraptured~ with this game, and boy i really don't need another expansive time suck rn

i think i love it? but everything i'd say about it is negative

the landscapes and built environments are repetitive, the alien races are charming but cultureless and placeless, the crafting and unlock chains are not fun, the inventory management is a headache

i do really like the odd elegiac tone to everything, whether accidental or not. the 3 alien races you meet must have been part of absolutely monstrous galactic empires, but that's all gone now, they just chill in space and hang in the same spaceport bars -- everywhere, across a billion systems -- grunting at each other. planets that you can't survive on for a night are littered with little kiosks that teach you a word. how nice!

for now i've abandoned the quest chains and base building in favor of cheesing the 'cobalt flipping' trick while listening to music. no worries!!

every once in a while i install this and just wander around in free explore mode, its a nice vibes game but the actual gameplay was fundamentally not that fun and their zillion updates haven't really changed that afaict

why are the exocraft so fucking slow

Bit obsessed by this game.

Also feel I may be playing it the rest of my life/until my daughter leaves home and takes her Switch with her

God I think I gave up on this game not long after my last post. I was following the subreddit for a lot longer so I was aware there was loads of new stuff with building towns and such but I never got back into it.

I only got into it at the end of the summer. I don't play videogames too often anymore, but if I have an evening to myself it's very easy to lose several hours to this, not have achieved much but still have had a very good time.

Yeah I got into the 'revised' edition of this game not long ago, was loving it. Other things got me distracted, will jump back on it soon I hope.

50% off sale on Steam right now. For $30 I'm going in...

New large update now downloading....

(anybody tried it yet?)

I havent played it in a few years - it seemed like it was starting to get very loaded with ... stuff, and I wasnt keeping up.

I've been tooling around in it a bit and am a few hours in. It's pretty cool. I've played the first two hours like four times over the years and it's still sort of the same game but they've added a lot of flavor to it.

I can’t build a house to save my life, I’ve watched tutorials but the whole thing is beyond my very limited ken

Maybe I need to play my daughters Minecraft for a bit to ground myself

Got Astroneer cheap a couple of weeks ago and am loving it. Saw someone describe it as No Man's Sky made out of Play Doh and that's part of it. A lot more user-friendly, a lot more fun. No space dogfights, which I enjoyed in NMS but don't miss here. A lot more exploring. the building stuff seems a lot easier (is it the Duplo to NMS's Lego Technics?). And tho there's little in the way of danger, I did keep suffocating to death in caves until I learned the knack of it, and still do occasionally, and it's gently traumatic.

Unlike NMS, Astroneer is a great co-op game

Yeah I think Astroneer works much better in coop.