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[B-Genius]

I'm sorry, I can't take another thread with the same questions

Thank you for this. I'm convinced the drive-by "game play?" posts are nothing more but trolls at this point, but you're doing a good deed by providing this information to those that might genuinely need it.

I should probably just mind my own business, but it's frustrating when you see this sort of "so, what's in it for me?" reaction from people who don't know how to research or use their imagination. Like every game has to prove its worth to them through objectives and goals and waypoints and rewards. Like every game has to conform to a formula...

Even if NMS was just a "walking/flying simulator" (which it clearly is not), I believe that would be enough for the majority of people who are genuinely excited for it. Everyone else who expects the game to meet their restrictive standards of what a "game" comprises, or people who are just itching to say "I told you so" once the core game is released - I don't think those people are worth the time and effort. Like that very thorough post states, it won't be a game for everyone, and there are plenty of space/sci-fi games coming out to suit other tastes.

If you're someone coming into a NMS just to scoff at a trailer and say "what do you do?" or "lol pop-in", please do a bit of searching around first. There's plenty of info out there if you're seriously questioning the content, and if you're not serious, then you're not impressing anyone with your terrible observational skills and/or humour.

 

[noah111]

New thread for the A Night Under No Man's Sky event.

 

[Zomba13]

It should have Assassin's creed random sidequest map

You're right.

 

[B-Genius]

You're right.

Fucking LOL. Keep going guys xD

 

[shem935]

You're right.

needs a tooltip on how to jump and crouch

 

[MattyG]

To get here:

Hmmmm I wonder what's there... Super massive black hole? The bearded lady? A brick wall? Jimmy Hoffa?

I bet it's the Earth.

We were the center all along.

You're right.

Not enough pop ups asking for you to link the NMS companion app.

 

[Icyflamez96]

Wow what if it is Earth

 

[greatgeek]

It's a little girl's bedroom, or God.

 

[RiverKwai]

It's Matthew McConaughey

 

[Scarecrow]

It's totally that black diamond thing in the logo.

Is this only on PS4 or will it also be on PC?

 

[EatChildren]

First person to the singularity hits the galactic reset switch.

 

[greatgeek]

I believe Sean has said (in the Game Informer video I think) that you are rewarded for reaching the center with a game-changing...something. My guess would be tech that lets you jump to any system.

 

[system11]

It was missing some core gameplay.

 

[Digby]

It was missing some core gameplay.

brilliant - i cant stop laughing

 

[Chidori00]

The Seinfeld of Videogames.

Best post yet

 

[fuzzyreactor]

This game isnt doing much for me. nice tech demo though

 

[LookAtMeGo]

It was missing some core gameplay.

Lol

 

[GhaleonEB]

They can talk and post articles about what you can do or what your suppose to do. But until they show a trailer that actually shows something beside them walking around and then flying off in a spaceship we don't need anympre trailers.

all the trailers have shown is traveling between planets and naming them. if it's a game where all I do is travel to a planet, name it, then travel again, I won't buy it.

We still don't know what the gameplay actually is like. I don't appreciate being hyped/touted to this degree for this long without actually seeing what the game is like to play for even one second.

In trailers we have seen: space flight and space combat, exploration, flying with AI wingman, battles with large capital ships, scanning caves for resources, on foot exploration, going through portals to new places, shooting robots with lasers, fleeing from large aggressive monsters, cataloging of new planets and creatures and landing on landing pads and buying a new ship.

We know about the goals of the game (reach the center of the galaxy, avoid the main antagonist robots), the types of weapons/tools we'll have, how the game starts, the suit upgrade options and paths, the weapon/tool upgrade paths, the different types of ships, how ship weapons work (three weapons on rotating cool downs).

I get that the trailers have a certain similar feel. There are certainly things to critique with what has and hasn't been shown. And they could certainly show more of the above. But this "there's nothing been shown" has got to stop.

 

[E92 M3]

I am so excited for this game that I watched Interstellar again - and it's even better a second time around. I hope Hello Games doesn't change anything too much because they keep reading "what do you do?" and "where is the gameplay?"

I can say the same thing and ask why people play sports games when it's just running up and down a field? Why do people play COD when it's just shooting in a confined map? Why do people play racing games when it's just driving in circles and beating time trials. Note, I like shooters and racers - but they are all different experiences.

How hard is it to understand that NMS doesn't have to cater to everyone? Hello Games are doing their own thing, and many of us are enamored with it. It just super frustrating coming back and still seeing the same drivel posted. By now, mostly everyone knows what NMS is - but it's just so much fun to ask the same dumb questions. We get it, you think "walking simulators" and flying around is boring - but there is no need to go into every thread and shit post. It's finally calming down with Destiny and unfortunately picking up with NMS.

I normally don't get irritated, but it seems like I can't even enjoy a discussion without people coming in and drive-by posting. YES, there are some of you that are genuinely curious, but the majority just want to show how much they disapprove of open-ended gameplay.

That picture of "gameplay" sums things up perfectly.

/rant

TLDR: I am mad because every thread turns into the same shit for NMS.

 

[supergiz]

Link to stream?

 

[GhaleonEB]

Link to stream?

Top of this thread.

 

[legacyzero]

Link to stream?

http://www.twitch.tv/playstation/popout

EDIT: Beaten

 

[Pop]

This game isnt doing much for me. nice tech demo though

Why man?

why even waste your fucking time posting that

 

[fuzzyreactor]

Why man?

why even waste your fucking time posting that

because so far, that's how i feel about the game? I would love my opinion to change though. Watching the live event now

 

[supergiz]

http://www.twitch.tv/playstation/popout

EDIT: Beaten

Does that work from ps4?

 

[RedSwirl]

I love it because it is what it is and doesn't appear to be pretender to be different or pandering to any expectations. "What do you do?", read a little and learn. "That sounds boring", that's nice, and okay, because no game is for everyone.

Conceptually I love it. Not sure if I'll get burned out or bored when playing. But I have tremendous admiration for Hello Games for actually doing what so many sci-fi fans have been hoping from a video game in forever, and sticking to their simple vision of delivering on it. It's nice to want a rich, dialogue/text filled story and a thousand hours of lore, woven into beautifully constructed missions and varied gameplay arcs, but none of your big budget, mutli-million AAA developers have fucking bothered. Hello Games are making your universe.

Mass Effect 1 is the closest we got. No Man's Sky is sort of what I wanted Mass Effect 1 to be, or at least part of it.

 

[The_eJoker]

I don't know if this game is going to be good, but i bet the OST will be glorious. It's like a mix pf Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross + Explosions in the Sky.

 

[Shining Sunshine]

You know... I wonder if Earth is in the game.

 

[MattyG]

You know... I wonder if Earth is in the game.

I'm tellin' you guys, that's what's at the center of the galaxy!

And even if it's not at the center, it's gotta be somewhere, or at least there will be a VERY earth-like planet somewhere.

 

[Gaz_RB]

I'm tellin' you guys, that's what's at the center of the galaxy!

And even if it's not at the center, it's gotta be somewhere, or at least there will be a VERY earth-like planet somewhere.

Hmm that would be cool. at the center of the galaxy is our Solar System, and you finally get to Earth and it has been turned into a barren wasteland.

 

[newjeruse]

Hmm that would be cool. at the center of the galaxy is our Solar System, and you finally get to Earth and it has been turned into a barren wasteland.

Or you get to Earth and it boots you into Joe Danger.

 

[wildfire]

Watch all the trailers and actually pay attention.

The trailers to date have had:

Underwater scene
Resource collection
Robot action against the player
Space combat
Investigation of crash sites
Investigation of mysterious ruins
Galaxy map
Portal gameplay
Various types of meteorology

A map isn't gameplay and the last 2 are gross exaggerations. If these aren't then explain what is it you are inferring from what was shown so far.

I actually like the promise of this game but I try to keep my expectations grounded. It sounds like you aren't to an extent.

No Man's Sky |OT| But what do you DO?


Offline mode confirmed, but of course you won't be recognized as the first to discover something if you do so offline. Not sure about physical release, but Sean keeps talking about how it's not loading the environments off the disc.

Considering how huge the galaxy is I wonder how the information is stored on our PCs/consoles. They specifically mentioned they customized assets after it was initially created in a random way so I have to wonder how much hard drive space this will eventually take up.

 

[LeonSPBR]

For those people that is asking about what is No Man's Sky, this video should help.

 

[FuturusX]

For those people that is asking about what is No Man's Sky, this video should help.

 

[EatinOlives]

Loving the goalpost moving in this thread.

"omg no explanation of the gameplay AT ALL!!"

"There's plenty of explanation." *insert giant posts of extremely detailed information*

"Uh...yeah...but...that's not in the trailers!!!"

Just admit you didn't do the proper research on a game before mouthing off instead of thinking of new bizarre mediums through which the developer is somehow expected to hand-deliver information to you.

 

[Jobbs]

For those people that is asking about what is No Man's Sky, this video should help.

didn't help. I won't be helped until I actually see what it's like to play the game, rather than highly choreographed sequences of getting into a ship and flying to another planet and repeating.

 

[super-famicom]

Just watched the trailer. Looks pretty good, can't wait to fly around and discover new planets. I really like the music in this trailer, reminds me of God Is An Astronaut.

 

[krypt0nian]

didn't help. I won't be helped until I actually see what it's like to play the game, rather than highly choreographed sequences of getting into a ship and flying to another planet and repeating.

Oh good fucking lord.

 

[Jobbs]

Oh good fucking lord.

I know, it is pretty crazy that they keep hyping and hyping and hyping and hyping and hyping the game without showing any actual gameplay ever at any point. but let's just keep calm and try and give them the benefit of the doubt for now.

 

[krypt0nian]

I know, it is pretty crazy that they keep hyping and hyping and hyping and hyping and hyping the game without showing any actual gameplay ever at any point. but let's just keep calm and try and give them the benefit of the doubt for now.

Keep on fucking that chicken, I guess. We know so much about what we will do in the game. But you want attention so bang your crib bars.


Games not for you then.

 

[greatgeek]

I know, it is pretty crazy that they keep hyping and hyping and hyping and hyping and hyping the game without showing any actual gameplay ever at any point. but let's just keep calm and try and give them the benefit of the doubt for now.

Good...fucking...lord.

 

[krypt0nian]

Good...fucking...lord.

Maybe he has narcolepsy?

 

[Shining Sunshine]

Considering how huge the galaxy is I wonder how the information is stored on our PCs/consoles. They specifically mentioned they customized assets after it was initially created in a random way so I have to wonder how much hard drive space this will eventually take up.

Sean said in an interview earlier today that it's actually going to be small in size from the way they built it.

 

[Jobbs]

Keep on fucking that chicken, I guess. We know so much about what we will do in the game. But you want attention so bang your crib bars.

If you want to hype a game for months and make huge enormous promises about it -- and you won't show the actual game for real -- you deserve and should expect a little bit of skepticism. it's fair game.

I'm not saying the game will be bad. I'm just saying I'm not won over yet and I am very guarded when it comes to highly hyped games with big promises. I'd love for the game to be good, I hope it's good, and if it's good I'll be right there with you guys enjoying it!

 

[krypt0nian]

If you want to hype a game for months and make huge enormous promises about it -- and you won't show the actual game for real -- you deserve and should expect a little bit of skepticism. it's fair game.

I'm not saying the game will be bad. I'm just saying I'm not won over yet and I am very guarded when it comes to highly hyped games with big promises. I'd love for the game to be good, I hope it's good, and if it's good I'll be right there with you guys enjoying it!

I've seen the game. I know the goals, and a lot of what we will do. Ghal explained this all to you.

At this point I honestly think you have behavioral issues.

 

[Jobbs]

Good...fucking...lord.

they haven't. sorry, we've seen nothing real or authentic from the game. just choreographed sequences of a ship moving from planet to planet. I don't know why this is hard to accept.

I'm not attacking the game. I'm just saying it's a huge question mark because we can't see it. it'd be foolish to attack or defend a game with so little available on which to judge it. There's not even anything to really judge it by from the developer's previous works, unless you are a huge Joe Danger fan and think that game represents what you hope to see in this one.

At this point I honestly think you have behavioral issues.

I don't know who you are grouping me in with, I haven't read all the replies here. I have no idea if anyone else thinks the same as me. I just think it's healthy to be skeptical of a game from an unproven developer making huge promises while withholding any real gameplay footage of the game. I'm not condemning it. I'm skeptical. As anyone should be. I want it to be good. I want every game to be good. It'd be stupid to want a game to be bad.

 

[RedSwirl]

Watched that last trailer one more time. You can clearly see the "points of interest" on each planet. The trailer ends before they get to one of them on foot. It'll still be interesting to see if they actually expect you to do every single one you come across, or just the ones that fall within your chosen "line of work." I ask because the written details make it seem like they really want you to specialize your ship and gear towards whatever you intend to do, whether it be fighting, exploring, speed, or whatever. You might be decked out as a fighter, and then see a point of interest that's deep in an acidic lake or something, and you can't get to it because you don't have the money to devote to an expensive hazard suit.

Also, in pretty much all the trailers in the HUD you can notice what looks like ammo counters and such. Seems like there are counters for at least two different things, one of which obviously looks like bullets.

 

[a secret-boss]

didn't help. I won't be helped until I actually see what it's like to play the game, rather than highly choreographed sequences of getting into a ship and flying to another planet and repeating.

here's a trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwfX9AcVKg8

 

[greatgeek]

they haven't. sorry, we've seen nothing real or authentic from the game. just choreographed sequences of a ship moving from planet to planet. I don't know why this is hard to accept.

So because the footage is "choreographed" for the purposes of a trailer it stops being gameplay? If not it would seem that your position is that HG haven't shown real-time, in-engine footage, which is absurd.

 

[Dominator]

65DaysofStatic is my new favorite band. Incredible music.