The 18 minute video made me want to play it right now.
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No Man's Sky - 18 minute uninterrupted gameplay demo
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The 18 minute video made me want to play it right now.
renegade_dewitt
Member
I doubt there will be a full soundtrack that one can actually download and listen to as Murray has stated in the past (PSX iirc) that all of the games music is also procedurally generated from a source that was recorded by 65...
Veritigo_X
Member
They've said there will be a regular soundtrack too. Portal 2 managed to have a soundtrack.
renegade_dewitt
Member
Well there you go!
Icyflamez96
Member
Yeah I noticed that too.
Cthulhu_Steev
Member
Man, this game. It calls out to the 70's space kid in me so badly.
Different chemical makeup, different colour? - whatever it is, everybody will be heading to the first green star they see
Different chemical makeup, different colour? - whatever it is, everybody will be heading to the first green star they see
Napoleonthechimp
Member
This game was what I was hoping Eve Online would one day become.
Sleeping Lesson
Member
Game looks great, I can't wait to play it for myself. This IGN host guy is insufferable though.
UncleSporky
Member
I disagree that real time is that impressive either.
Whether the game loads up a big array of tree locations and renders nearby ones, or uses the RNG seed for the universe to see how many trees might be nearby and renders them, it's really not going to take all that much longer.
Minecraft is slow because Notch is really not a pro coder and its engine is slow, and because new chunks are created going all the way from the sky to the floor of the world and immediately saved to disk. When all you're doing is defining the shape of a landscape and dotting it with rocks and trees, it's really not a huge deal to do in real time.
Depends on the person. To me, it looks like something with infinite replay value like Minecraft and I will go back to it for years when I want to get my space explorer fix.
Being able to enter the atmosphere of planets and land, explore massive worlds, name the ones I discover and then fly right out of the atmosphere back into space where I can have battles, explore space stations, etc. All as I salvage, upgrade and make my way to new worlds. The game has massive hit written all over it, if you ask me.
Sleeping Lesson
Member
Hmm, I don't like how the ship flight looks. I hope the PC version supports a HOTAS setup, with real roll/yaw controls.
Different chemical makeup, different colour? - whatever it is, everybody will be heading to the first green star they see
It appears to be pretty rare.
Well, for one, you can actually watch this video to see that, no, they are not even close to being almost the same game.
renegade_dewitt
Member
Remember that this game is being developed by small indie team...I don't that will be possible upon release. Maybe in the future?
UncleSporky
Member
To be fair, people don't infinitely replay Minecraft simply to load up a random world seed and just walk.
They play to build, and to mod on PC, to edit in huge pixel art creations and working computers with redstone and such.
I'd wager that very few people simply walk.
The first 3/4 of Spore have nothing to do with space travel, so no - it's not "almost the same game entirely".
Sleeping Lesson
Member
If the flight controls include a roll, HOTAS implementation is trivial to include. It's just mapping an axis, same as mapping buttons.
JimmyJones
Banned
I made a GIF ( just before GAF went down briefly) of the part where I think is evidence of some terrain deformation
Definitely looks it
The ground stayed the exact same but a rock appeared and rolled down the hill.
Icyflamez96
Member
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Well, thankfully there is more to do here than walk. I think the sense of discovery and traveling around the galaxy finding new worlds, upgrading and surviving will make it replayable for years.
renegade_dewitt
Member
What are you trying to prove with this picture?
UncleSporky
Member
A clitoris?!
Icyflamez96
Member
That the UI is cool AF
Interesting. Maybe a visual cue that it's already been visited? We know there's other classes of stars because Sean has said how it affects what's on a given planet and also it's distance from the star.
I saw one star that was absolutely massive compared to the others nearby, can't wait to explore a system like that.
Gonna crack my copy of the art/sci-fi book Expedition open tonight.
Sleeping Lesson
Member
Now that I think about it, an earlier demo of the game included flight roll, so HOTAS support should work just fine.
Danlord
Member
It's a bit hard to see the ground though because of the dense foliage covering the small hole it would create after he shot from the starter gun.
He also turns away from it almost straight after the shot too.
I'm struggling with getting the IGN player to work, but boy is that a Destiny UI.
You're the best, around. Thanks for the link.
He uh, shoots a hole through a skyscraper sized boulder with his multi-tool, and straight out says that you can use it to create caves and etc. if you want. I think that's even better evidence of terrain deformation.
This is before the weapon upgrade that we see a little later in the video. Perhaps the ground can be deformed better with higher power weaponry?
Icyflamez96
Member
It was already confirmed that the whole environment was destructible. I wouldn't worry about the ground not being destructible.
The Jackdog
Member
the look of the game is incredible, but the more i see it in action the more i think its just simply not for me
JimmyJones
Banned
Yeah I just seen that there. So we could just start digging straight down Minecraft style?
Teleporter
Junior Member
The take off go anywhere spaceship appeal is AMAZING, the rest im not so sure though...
Danlord
Member
He uh, shoots a hole through a skyscraper sized boulder with his multi-tool, and straight out says that you can use it to create caves and etc. if you want. I think that's even better evidence of terrain deformation.
Yeah I heard that but I didn't want to think it was just "limited" to caves which would consist of rocks, the terrain deformation I'm thinking of here and what the GIF I think is showing is the the entire planet surface rather than select areas.
renegade_dewitt
Member
That is definitely not how I will play this game. Why bunker down on 1 single planet when you have a whole universe to explore? We have Minecraft for that.
MrChocolate
Member
Wait, the game is 60fps? Or is it variable? Because in that IGN video it was 60fps...
UncleSporky
Member
I know there's a little more to do, but exploration by yourself is still the primary focus. The primary thrust of the game is hitting random world in minecraft and walking around, picking up plants and killing animals.
Certainly, there is a lot less to do than in Minecraft, and it lacks most of the features that keep people coming back to Minecraft constantly - getting together on a server and building huge awesome structures, tons of crafting and interaction with various objects. Modding to Feed the Beast, that sort of thing.
I'm not saying it will definitely be bad or anything, but I don't think there's any denying that the primary focus of the game is simply exploring by yourself, cataloging flora and fauna, but not a lot on the interactivity/creativity side of things.
Danlord
Member
Yeah it's "targeting" 60fps.
Like how Naughty Dog have to say they're "targeting" 60 for U4 Multiplayer due to some legal stuff, No Man's Sky is "targeting" 60FPS. It has to also for VR support
They at least need to name the trophy accordingly, lol.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Those IGN comments are pretty depressing to read.
JimmyJones
Banned
You could fly to some obscure planet halfway into the galaxy and set up home base somewhere deep underground? Will there be lava or water underground? I would still explore the rest of the galaxy but it would be nice to have a home base to return to.
Can anyone tell if there's LOD on the galactic map? I was watching on my phone using the IGN player, so I couldn't really tell - but maybe you can't see details like star color/size etc until you get to within a certain distance of them on the map?