No Man's Sky
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Gator
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Gamespot has a video series this week about the game found hereThe Next Big Game - No Mans Sky - GameSpot
I searched forever looking for this thread thinking it was in the Other Games section. Don't know if it's still consider an MMO, if not, would amod mind moving it to the Other Games section?
I searched forever looking for this thread thinking it was in the Other Games section. Don't know if it's still consider an MMO, if not, would amod mind moving it to the Other Games section?
Terial
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I'm definitely looking forward to this game, but i'm not sure why to be honest...
I have no idea what the game itself will entail? flying around discovering and seeing new places... sounds awesome for the first 2 or 3 hours... then what?
do i get to set up a colony? do i need to find resources to discover more? or is this just fly around and see pretty things and tag them as 'FIRST!' (which is what it sounds like)
I hope to hear more about the challenge of the game itself. I think they have a really cool concept but as a game to hold my attention it'll need more then just fly and discover places.
I have no idea what the game itself will entail? flying around discovering and seeing new places... sounds awesome for the first 2 or 3 hours... then what?
do i get to set up a colony? do i need to find resources to discover more? or is this just fly around and see pretty things and tag them as 'FIRST!' (which is what it sounds like)
I hope to hear more about the challenge of the game itself. I think they have a really cool concept but as a game to hold my attention it'll need more then just fly and discover places.
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It's a game of exploration and resource collection. There is combat both in space and on land. There is an 'antagonist' of some sort. The main 'goal' is to make it to the centre of the galaxy by one means or another, but the player doesn't have to do that if they don't want to.
Quaid
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Need a fast forward button to 2015
- Star citizen
- Elite
- No mans sky
- Starsector
- H1z1
All got potential but yea
- Star citizen
- Elite
- No mans sky
- Starsector
- H1z1
All got potential but yea
I really really want this game to be everything they promise but I am so terrified of being let down.
Beta was leaked if you want to find out (Lawl)
No Man's Sky Beta
Got some Mark Jacobs talking about Warhammer online flashbacks when i watched that biggest game world video a couple of posts up
Denaut
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Their tech looks really good, but I am skeptical about how good thegamepart of it will be. Procedural generation is not the be all and end all of content creation, it is no more or less work than more traditional forms of content creation, just different. In many ways it is also more difficult.
It looks promising though, let's hope they have they have the design chops to back up their technical ones.
It looks promising though, let's hope they have they have the design chops to back up their technical ones.
Tuco
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That website is funny and is pretty explanatory as to why this game is a bit overhyped. People are expecting there to be a large number of tile sets and variation in everything when it'll just be the same shit with different colors.
Spore had the right approach for this: Have a procedural generation engine and give players tools to design new shit. They never went far enough to make it interesting, but you have to have a community developing original content for this stuff to work right.
Soygen
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How is there a difference between letting the players use the tools and the actual engine using the same tools to randomly create things procedurally? I would even say that it could result in more varied and hilarious results than having players doing it. Spore was terrible in pretty much every way and it shouldn't even be brought up in the discussion. That said, I agree that people need to temper their expectations on what we'll see in this.
Tuco
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procedural:
User created (go cry some, Tarrant)
Have you ever seen a procedurally generated floor as nice as the one you made for my cathedral?
Did you play Spore? It did a lot of things that no one attempted to do and hasn't attempted since, so I give it a lot of credit. I love original ideas and risky/ambitious designs. Even though they scuttled Spore midway through the project by dumbing it down and making it more cute it still deserves to be brought up when discussing games like No Man's Sky.
Soygen
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lol @ the Minecraft tree. I'm not saying that players can't make things better than the procedurally done stuff, but I am saying that we simply don't know just how varied the No Man's Sky stuff will be. I have very tempered expectations, but I'm looking forward to finding out.
We need to do another Minecraft project. Maybe something just a bit scaled down from the cathedral.
We need to do another Minecraft project. Maybe something just a bit scaled down from the cathedral.