You have to remember, it's not a AAA game, it was made by a very small group of people. Whether you like it or not you have to admit what they did is impressive for such a group. The game was intended, and is, about the experience of playing and the sense of exploration. It's not about who has the best space ship or the most "space minerals." (even though that may be important).

So Space Minecraft?

[quote]Look just stop, stop it. The thing about truths is that they are uncomfortable for a lot of people, I get that, But I can say '' No Man's sky '' is a bad game without putting sixty thousand hours into it. This is why we have review sites, it's why we have streamers, so I don't have to throw sixty bucks down the crapper. I would like to think most of us, are intelligent enough to be able to form critical opinions without always having the benefit of intimate experience. There will always be naysayers, but the thing is, if you enjoy what you purchased, then it's a win. However, that doesn't preclude others from calling something the way they see it. From I watched, and what I researched, bearing in mind the hype surrounding this thing, especially the hype, the game is poo. The very first thing you have to do is repair a broken ship. o_0. First of all why? Did I crash there in a previous life? What I want to do, and what the game built it's hype around, is getting in cool space battles and flying around the Galaxy like Luke Skywalker, instead the first hour is spent collecting space crap on some planet time forgot. A planet with the graphics of some horrible Atari game from the eighties. A planet with an assortment of strange and exotic creatures...That we have already seen in Destiny, Mass Effect, Warframe, etc, etc....Aside from those bouncy, cupcake things of course. So yeah, you spend the first half hour to an hour, farming mats, space crap needed to repair your ship mostly in the form of unstable plutonium, because we all know how safe it is for Humans to handle unsealed plutonium, assuming we are human of course.) Then you look at the ship, something that feels like it was inspired by a kids scribbling while sitting in the Dentists office. It doesn't appear like it can go from here to there without crashing from six feet of elevation, yet I'm supposed to believe this phone booth is capable of interstellar space travel? Is this Dr. Who? Once you fix this floating piece of junk, And I don't mean that in a good way like the Millennium Falcon. your objective is to go from planet to planet in order to do exactly what you did the first hour of the game, all in some weird attempt to ultimately reach the center of the Universe, because...reasons. So yeah, this is what you spend the majority of your time doing. Unlocking one word of Alien language per week, shooting at goofy looking creatures with weapons designed by somebody that had a really good time with squirt guns at various waterparks throughout their lives, shooting at defenseless rocks in order to gain upgrades for your loading screen, just to name a few!! I feel like gaming as a whole has taken a gigantic step backwards. If this is the future of triple A, next gen gaming, so far it's been a sad commentary. That a game this overhyped, going on two years, could come out looking and playing like this. No Man's Sky makes Titanfall look and play like KOTOR. And I don't get it, we should be expecting more from the amount of dollars we have put into this industry. They have more creative freedom then they have ever had, more tech, more resources, and we get a game that looks like it was developed by a part time employee from Radio shack. Hey if you dig it that's cool. Like I said before, the only opinion that matters is your own. I just feel like this is not very good work. Agree or don't. And bring on Mass Effect Andromeda, so we can show these guys what a real game about space exploration looks and plays like. : )[/quote] >refers to the fact that mass effect is space exploration and will do it better then NMS >OP seems to forget a few words he/she wrote. "What I want to do, and what the game built it's hype around, is getting in cool space battles and flying around the Galaxy like Luke Skywalker" OP is expecting the game to be like how he wants; not like how it was mainly advertised.

Well, I spent the 60 to get it on PC because I've always wanted to play a game where I can just chill and collect silly stuff and go to space. But then again, I'm a huge scifi nerd and watching people play this reminds me of the foundation series. Not so much the politics, although that would be neat but the exploring and hunting for something you seen quite sure is there...like the foundation! I'll also find a dessert planet to name Arrakis an maybe build a fort there when that's possible so I can pretend to be Mua'dib. It's exciting to me!

Looking past all the other negativity (like really man? Comparing the graphics to atari?), this ISN'T a triple A game. It's a game made by a small team who wanted to make a randomly generated space exploration game based on old sci fi novels. Of course some creatures and ships are going to look weird, they're made by a formula making the best it can do with some random pieces.

I've always held the belief that there's no point in being disappointed by an indie game, nor in expecting it to be anything other than an indie game, which people seem to have forgotten that No Man's Sky is.

This might sound crazy... But people have different views and opinions on what games they enjoy. Just because you see it one way, doesn't mean everyone else does.

Very Accurate opinion. If any disagrees there just childish that you don't like a game they do But I like survival games (there all like this just different setting and shit) there just nice, relaxing, and good way to unwind from a work day. It's been said numerous times but Notta a lot of console players get survival games and had no idea what they were hyping about but that's what kids do. Also it's a genre not the future of all gaming. That was just a silly comment I know I'll like it just like most survival games I've played

I can't take your opinion seriously, seeing as it is based off of an experience you TRUTHFULLY don't have yet. Really irks me when people say they "do research and watch streamers", as if you really only didn't watch a video or two. Either way, have fun making baseless opinions all your life.

This game was advertised as minecraft in space. Collect resource explore planets and solar systems. They never ever ever advertised it as space battles and shooting things. It was hyped up to be that, but it's not and never was going to be. Maybe next time you'll actually follow a game that you're interested in, instead of just listening to everybody else talk about what they expect from it.

Did people actually buy this game thinking it wasn't going to be grind intensive?

wtf is wrong with titanfall?

[quote]From I watched, and what I researched, bearing in mind the hype surrounding this thing, especially the hype, the game is poo.[/quote] Fair enough from the hype point, if it got any higher people would have starting declaring the game a god. [quote]The very first thing you have to do is repair a broken ship. o_0. First of all why? Did I crash there in a previous life?[/quote] To provide a tutorial for planet exploring Pt.1: Being on Foot. That and the matters of your inventory. [quote]What I want to do, and what the game built it's hype around, is getting in cool space battles and flying around the Galaxy like Luke Skywalker, instead the first hour is spent collecting space crap on some planet time forgot.[/quote] From how I read of it it would be about discovering things on planets and trading and gathering your way to the center of the Galaxy. The combat came secondary. Then again, there was too much hype for this game. [quote] A planet with the graphics of some horrible Atari game from the eighties.[/quote] Double checked which Atari games existed in the eighties just to measure how much of a hyperbole this is. E.T. came out in '82. Last time I checked E.T. had a countable amount of pixel at best 8 colors. [quote]A planet with an assortment of strange and exotic creatures...That we have already seen in Destiny, Mass Effect, Warframe, etc, etc....Aside from those bouncy, cupcake things of course.[/quote] From the creatures I saw on a stream the only comparisons I could draw were to Starbound and a bit of Warframe, maybe even spore. But I can say that in neither have I seen an antlered T-Rex or a mix between a squirrel and a raptor. But "small" question here... Why the -blam!- do you think that DESTINY, off all games, has more exotic alien life than this game? What research have you done that fails to show anything more interesting than the pathetic excuses of exotic alien life provided by the universe of Destiny? YOU HAVE A GUARDIAN DAMMIT, YOU'VE PLAYED THAT GAME. THE AMOUNT OF ALIEN LIFE IN THAT GAME IS -blam!-ING PITIFUL! MASS EFFECT I COULD CONSIDER, BUT WHAT THE -blam!- DOES THAT GAME HAVE THAT CAN COMPARE? [quote]So yeah, you spend the first half hour to an hour, farming mats, space crap needed to repair your ship mostly in the form of unstable plutonium, because we all know how safe it is for Humans to handle unsealed plutonium, assuming we are human of course.) [/quote] Eh, I've probably seen worse things loaded into somebody's inventory with no negative side effects. Then again that may because I've played Risk of Rain and Spiral Knights and Fallen London. [quote]Then you look at the ship, something that feels like it was inspired by a kids scribbling while sitting in the Dentists office. It doesn't appear like it can go from here to there without crashing from six feet of elevation, yet I'm supposed to believe this phone booth is capable of interstellar space travel? Is this Dr. Who?[/quote] Aside from the starting ship which I'd expect out of the Jetsons, most of the ships I've seen look like they'd work as much as most other fighters in science fiction work. Hell, most space fighters I know can warp jump unless they're designed to only exist as ammo for a carrier ship's arsenal. Also I think I saw a ship from [i]Aliens[/i] at once point. [quote]Once you fix this floating piece of junk, And I don't mean that in a good way like the Millennium Falcon. your objective is to go from planet to planet in order to do exactly what you did the first hour of the game, all in some weird attempt to ultimately reach the center of the Universe, because...reasons.[/quote] Yeah they never really did give story much to focus on from what I've seen. Unless the tutorial was meant to give us a reason to reach the center. At the very least we were warned about this. Repeatedly. [quote]So yeah, this is what you spend the majority of your time doing. Unlocking one word of Alien language per week, shooting at goofy looking creatures with weapons designed by somebody that had a really good time with squirt guns at various waterparks throughout their lives, shooting at defenseless rocks in order to gain upgrades for your loading screen, just to name a few!![/quote] What water parks have you been going to that had weapons that looked like the weapons in No Man's Sky? The squirt guns I've encountered in my local water parks are rather simple in comparison. Also when was the plasma rifle from Halo a squirt gun? [quote]I feel like gaming as a whole has taken a gigantic step backwards. If this is the future of triple A, next gen gaming, so far it's been a sad commentary. [/quote] Last time I checked this was just a well-supported indie game, not a full-fledged triple A. Technologically it may have some amount of superiority in certain places, although gameplay wise it probably stands rather close to other space traders and EVE Online. Stepping backwards means that it would have to be worse than... I guess Elite: Dangerous? [quote]That a game this overhyped, going on two years, could come out looking and playing like this.[/quote] A good chunk of one of those years being hit by a flood and trying to recover from the damage. [quote]No Man's Sky makes Titanfall look and play like KOTOR. [/quote] What? What sort of alchemy is happening that does that? If I put the disk to it near my disk of Overwatch and then stuck the Overwatch disk in my PC, would I get Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries? [quote]And I don't get it, we should be expecting more from the amount of dollars we have put into this industry. They have more creative freedom then they have ever had, more tech, more resources, and we get a game that looks like it was developed by a part time employee from Radio shack.[/quote] Honestly I don't think they had as much tech and resources as you're claiming, but yeah the freedom was probably high. It certainly wasn't as low as what you're trying to imply with that simile, unless there's something I don't know about the Radio Shack Employees you know, in which case I'd be interested in working with them. [quote]Hey if you dig it that's cool. Like I said before, the only opinion that matters is your own. I just feel like this is not very good work. Agree or don't.[/quote] I can't argue with you there. Opinions are opinions, and everyone has to right to their own. The only why this long thing is out is to give a counterpoint or two, strike up conversation, and try and hopefully point out what feels less like "just expressing an opinion" and more straight up attack. From the stream I watched I was pleased with what I saw, and the streamer was to, as he compared it to a more modern version of a game I think was called "Enemy Frontier" or something... Tried to look up the name from memory but the closest thing I saw was "Evochron Legends". [quote]And bring on Mass Effect Andromeda, so we can show these guys what a real game about space exploration looks and plays like. : )[/quote] Now this feels like another attack. Maybe I'm just taking this matter too seriously but this and many other points feel like you're trying to discredit the game to the point where people shouldn't even think it's a game, despite your declaration that people are entitled to their opinions. Maybe I'm reading this too far and possibly being too defensive, but that's my two cents. Although I have to say that despite the fact that I really only played a bit of Mass Effect One, and that I honestly should play more, I am looking forward to Andromeda, but primarily for different reasons than I am No Man's Sky. As I at least Implied, No Man's Sky I expected to be much like a space trading game, or maybe Starbound but with less plot than the full release of Starbound. Andromeda I expect to involve more use of vehicles, more combat, and more story alongside emotional interaction with alien races. Unfortunately I also have some worries about Mass Effect Andromeda. It's got some shoes to fill itself, and not every bit of weight they have was earned positively. The writer leaving partway through also brings some worry, looking back at Destiny (which is also kinda funny because if memory serves, the writer left for Bungie). There's also always worries about EA meddling with the affairs of the devs.

>Guessed what OP was referring to before opening thread >Pleased that guess was correct

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