No Man's Sky

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/4y046e/wheres_the_nms_we_were_sold_on_heres_a_big_list/

Thought I'd leave this here b/c one of my friends that plays linked it to me earlier.

@entropic_fire I know it's possible to stumble across someone elses discoveries, but from what I've heard it's super duper unlikely. Also, as per the reddit link, I was hopeful that you'd be able to see and kinda play co-op with other players if you took the time to find them. So like my friend and I could both start exploring and we could eventually work our way towards each other and become lewis and clark or some shit. Idk man. I don't want to dump on the game having never played it (I'll leave that to things like the above link).

It's something I still want to play, and will eventually. Just not now with all this other stuff out, and after what I've read, not for 60 bills.

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innervation wrote:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/4y046e/wheres_the_nms_we_were_sold_on_heres_a_big_list/

Thought I'd leave this here b/c one of my friends that plays linked it to me earlier.

I was going to link that thread if nobody else did. It actually got deleted (the poster deleted his account), so here's an archived copy:
https://archive.is/V5Zns

I was SUPER hyped for this game since Spring of last year, I even bought the Explorer's Edition on PC. I have to say though, I'm pretty disappointed. As much as I hate to admit it, "mile wide and an inch deep" is an apt description of the game. A LOT of the features that were "Confirmed" to be in the game are not, and it has left a pretty basic game behind. I've almost got a maxed-out ship, and there isn't much else to do after that.

The "factions" are utterly meaningless, combat is incredibly basic, upgrades are not impactful, flying isn't fun (it's a chore...), ships are all the same mechanically once you max out your storage space, multitools are the same way, planets aren't very deadly, neither are sentinels, solar systems are actually just skyboxes with a few planets inside, there is no sun to fly into, animals are rarely interesting and mostly repetitive, planets almost all look the same terrain-wise (just a mishmash of hills and random bumps), buildings on planets have little variety (there are basically 6 types between all the planets in the game), languages are incredibly simplistic.

On top of all that, "exploration" isn't meaningful, either. The only one seeing what you see is you most likely unless you post it somewhere. You can't do anything with what you see, like you could in minecraft. It's just there for you to look at and leave behind.

There is very little gameplay depth. You can do just about everything there is to do in the game in a few hours of play- after that it's mostly a grind to get slightly better gear and get slightly closer to the center.

Overall, if I had it to do over I wouldn't have bought it on release, especially with Atlas of Worlds coming out so soon :D. I might have picked it up on sale for 20 bucks sometime down the road. If you really want to play a cool sandbox game with survival and cool things to explore, pick up Subnautica for 20 bucks on Steam.

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Entropic_Fire wrote:

^ I found it interesting how many of his outraged "THEY PROMISED BUT WHERE IS IT?" features were later amended with - so and so actually found this in game.

I think a lot of promised content didn't make the cut. A lot of it did make it in though, but some 'professional' reviewers and a lot of people on Reddit played the game for a few hours, maybe went to a handful of different planets and assumed they had seen everything the game had to offer already - then got mad about the stuff they hadn't seen.

I think a lot of reviewers (Like IGN) are paid to give goods reviews to EA's games and some other AAA titles while bashing titles from smaller studios.

EA don't want you to see that a smaller studio can release a good game with many features, being stables and no DLC.

Hello games are planning to add even more features to the game in patches

I find it very biaised when the same reviewer will say No Man's Sky is repetitive and don't have enough features while he give COD a 9.9/10 at the same time.

No Man's Sky had it's bug on PC at it's release but it was relatively stable, nothing like Assassin creed unity, or the last battlefield, or Diablo 3 who was unplayable for months or even Sim City who is still unplayable mostly even after a year. I think they don't want you to see that, because it would mean they would have to change their ways of making games.

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I think a lot of reviewers (Like IGN) are paid to give goods reviews to EA's games and some other AAA titles while bashing titles from smaller studios.

I skimmed through IGN's review of the game, and I thought it was pretty spot-on. If you're the type of person who enjoys looking at colorful landscapes with wacky-looking creatures, this is the game for you. If you want to have an epic space adventure though, this game is sorely lacking.

Even ignoring the poor performance, crashes, and omitted content, the base game is very shallow. Once you've gotten your inventories fully upgraded, there is very little left to do in the game that has any meaning. Currency has no use when you have the best ship possible, and NPCs aren't worth the time it takes to talk to them. Unless you really enjoy looking at a zillion planets to find something worth looking at, the game falls off terribly in the end.

I say all this as someone who was incredibly excited for the game, and would defend it pre-release as a game that would be far more than a mile wide and an inch deep. I am incredibly disappointed to be wrong.

I have hope that they'll update the game and add back in the content they removed, but I'm very skeptical now. When Atlas of Worlds releases I'll take a break from NMS and maybe check back once I get the final challenge reward.

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Entropic_Fire wrote:

Hello Games makes me really appreciate the shining beacon of ethical game development that GGG embodies.

B-but stash tabs are p2w!!!

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Entropic_Fire wrote:

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No Man's Sky director Sean Murray admits in a new interview that he was "perhaps naive" for suggesting he would like to see the game only get free updates after launch.

He told the Daily Star (some quasi-NSFW images at the link) that he could not rule out the possibility that No Man's Sky will feature some paid DLC in the future.

Are you fucking kidding me? The fact that he promised all future content for free was one of the major factors that influenced me to buy a game that I knew had launched broken and missing a lot of its finalized content.

Hello Games makes me really appreciate the shining beacon of ethical game development that GGG embodies.

I think this is false statement I saw the article with no source claiming No Man's Sky would have DLC and the day after on twitter Murray announce a first patch in work with new things that will be added to the game, for free.

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yeah but it's wrote in within the article there's no video of it no prove. I've seen that sort of lies in the gaming journalism so many times. Is there a video prove or a statement of Hello games about making DLC


because last time I've checked on his twitter few days ago, he was still talking about adding free features to the game by patch