No Man's Sky

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

I suspect they'll be little to know game there. Just explore, but not interact.

To be honest, I'll take that.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

All the planets appear to be the size of the Isle of White.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10074

Mr Chrimblefur wrote:

All the planets appear to be the size of the Isle of White.

just far away.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Feb 18, 2015 20:27

I have just read about this and seen the trailer.

<gibber>

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Feb 18, 2015 20:33

Now is not the time to be married with a child.

Ramsea · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 963

MaliA wrote:

Now is not the time to be married with a child.

When is the time?

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2015 20:22

June 2016. Should fit in after Fallout 4.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2015 21:29

Ramsea wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Now is not the time to be married with a child.

When is the time?

Not sure.

All we know for certain is, "Not yet".

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Not reading one MaliA post, eh?

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2015 21:46

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Not reading one MaliA post, eh?

In fairness, it wasn't vintage MaliA. I have hit that tricky third album stage where I want to explore new ideas, but the crowd just want me to belt out the hits so everyone can go home happy.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2015 23:17

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Not reading one MaliA post, eh?

He put a specific date on it. A schoolboy error that needed correcting.

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Mar 04, 2016 12:33

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/0 ... y-preview/

24th June.

I AM EXCITED

lasermink · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1883

Yeah, but $60? It better be epic.

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Mar 04, 2016 16:19

lasermink wrote:

Yeah, but $60? It better be epic.

GOING TO BE AWESOME

romanista · **Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2016 12:53

via lewie's site it's 40
http://www.gameseek.co.uk/pd/multignzk4 ... o-mans-sky

(ah you were talking dollars.. i guess this is a bit less useful then)

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Apr 13, 2016 22:32

http://m.uk.ign.com/videos/2016/04/11/n ... -ign-first

More exciting stuff

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu May 26, 2016 21:24

Apparently it has been delayed or something.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Aye, officially delayed until August now.

myp · **Posted:** Sat May 28, 2016 4:01

*sends death threats to the journo who broke the story*

MaliA · **Posted:** Sat May 28, 2016 4:22

LewieP wrote:

Aye, officially delayed until August now.

That means it will be more awesome

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11843

This comes as no surprise all

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

I wrote this:
http://savygamer.co.uk/2016/05/29/on-re ... e-in-2016/

Curiosity · **Posted:** Sun May 29, 2016 15:38

As someone said:

"The best thing about my favourite game of all time is that it came out on the initial promised release date!"

Said nobody ever.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

https://www.vg247.com/2016/08/01/no-man ... -30-hours/

Quote:

Although No Man’s Sky releases next week, a redditor called daymeeuhn got hold of an early copy of No Man’s Sky and began posting videos this weekend, prompting Hello Games founder Sean Murray to ask players not to spoil it for themselves.

Daymeeuhn seems to have agreed and has refused to share later game footage or explain what he’s found while playing, but he has made some mostly spoiler-free comments about No Man’s Sky’s systems which have clashed with what some had expected from the Hello Games space adventure.

The bit that’s really upsetting people is that there’s an easily-available resource which daymeeuhn claims can be used to fuel wrap jumps, allowing players to reach the centre of the galaxy – nominally the goal of No Man’s Sky – in about 30 hours.

“The pacing was going okay until I ran in to these and then it just skewed everything for me,” he wrote on No Man’s Sky subReddit, in a post later moved to the spoilers megathread.

Daymeeuhn said this isn’t an exploit or cheat, but an important and foregrounded game system. In response to reader suggestions that he has skipped most of the game in a race for the centre, he said he spent plenty of time on other activities.

I have a life and a job and hobbies. 30 hours is plenty, reddit weirdos.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Aug 01, 2016 12:40

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

I have a life and a job and hobbies. 30 hours is plenty, reddit weirdos.

For an open-world exploration sim? Not sure.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Grim... wrote:

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

I have a life and a job and hobbies. 30 hours is plenty, reddit weirdos.

For an open-world exploration sim? Not sure.

Read the rest of the article, there were still lots of things he hadn't done, or hadn't done much of. Sounds like what he did was roughly like finishing the main storyline in GTA but not starting in on GTA:Online.

I'm rolling off Arkham Knight, a game that clearly shows the perils of slavish kowtowing to the type of gamer who only cares about how many kejiggers there are to collect.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Aug 01, 2016 12:44

SPACESHIIIIIIIIIIIP

GazChap · **Posted:** Mon Aug 01, 2016 16:10

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

I have a life and a job and hobbies. 30 hours is plenty, reddit weirdos.

For an open-world exploration sim? Not sure.

Read the rest of the article, there were still lots of things he hadn't done, or hadn't done much of. Sounds like what he did was roughly like finishing the main storyline in GTA but not starting in on GTA:Online.

I'm rolling off Arkham Knight, a game that clearly shows the perils of slavish kowtowing to the type of gamer who only cares about how many kejiggers there are to collect.

Yeah, sounds as if he didn't really spend long at any of the planets/systems (or whtever they are in NMS) and just rocketed straight for the centre.

30 hours isn't bad, if that's the case - it takes roughly 40 hours to get to the centre of the universe in Elite: Dangerous apparently.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Aug 01, 2016 16:27

I am relieved it wasn't said it was rubbish.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Aug 01, 2016 16:27

Can you travel to the edge?

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Aug 01, 2016 16:27

Zardoz wrote:

Can you travel to the edge?

Yes.
Rimming is acceptable

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Zardoz wrote:

Can you travel to the edge?

Sure, it's where the streets have no name

Curiosity · **Posted:** Mon Aug 01, 2016 16:32

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Zardoz wrote:

Can you travel to the edge?

Sure, it's where the streets have no name

But did they find what they were looking for?

TheVision · **Posted:** Mon Aug 01, 2016 16:34

Curiosity wrote:

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Zardoz wrote:

Can you travel to the edge?

Sure, it's where the streets have no name

But did they find what they were looking for?

Oh, you are the sweetest thing.

Even sweeter if you'd send me that game.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Aug 01, 2016 16:55

Lemon.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16557

Woo! Just got a text from Simply Games saying this has been dispatched via Royal Mail first class. Same shop that sent me Doom about three days early.

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Aug 05, 2016 11:04

markg wrote:

Woo! Just got a text from Simply Games saying this has been dispatched via Royal Mail first class. Same shop that sent me Doom about three days early.

Wahay!
Mine says 10th

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

markg wrote:

Woo! Just got a text from Simply Games saying this has been dispatched via Royal Mail first class. Same shop that sent me Doom about three days early.

https://www.vg247.com/2016/08/06/those- ... one-patch/

@VG247: #NoMansSky early buyers will find their progress wiped due to server reset, day-one patch.

https://t.co/oG8MliOhfn https://t.co/nYY89Mkmln

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16557

I'll doubt I'll get to put much time in before tomorrow anyway. Enjoying it so far but have yet to be blown away by it. Obviously it's really early and who knows what they only managed to get into the patch but I still have some reservations that discovering all these new and different planets might get a bit less awe-inspiring if they're only really different from one another in the same sort of way that snowflakes are. We'll see.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16557

So the patch seems to be pretty substantial in terms of what it adds. It really needs to be. Probably played about six hours all told and as it is the game is nice enough but so very sparse as a sandbox experience. I didn't want leading by the nose but as it is there's just so few fun things to do in terms of goals you can set yourself etc. and also no challenge whatsoever so far other than that of persistence and repetition.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Aug 08, 2016 8:41

markg wrote:

So the patch seems to be pretty substantial in terms of what it adds. It really needs to be. Probably played about six hours all told and as it is the game is nice enough but so very sparse as a sandbox experience. I didn't want leading by the nose but as it is there's just so few fun things to do in terms of goals you can set yourself etc. and also no challenge whatsoever so far other than that of persistence and repetition.

Uhoh.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Aug 08, 2016 9:00

Like a sensible person I am going to wait for the reviews to hit.

GazChap · **Posted:** Mon Aug 08, 2016 9:02

Basically the same criticisms that have been levelled at E:D, then - a mile wide but an inch deep, effectively.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16557

I'm still enjoying it, I think. It's quite hard to be objective about something you've waited so long for. There's definitely something there but it just needs building on, which it sounds as though that's what they're planning on doing even after this patch they're adding base-building and bigger ships etc. So I doubt I'll come to regret buying it.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Aug 08, 2016 9:09

Needs Pokémon.

lasermink · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1883

No Man's Sky has an enormous day one patch that adds multiple endings

It seems you are now supposed to choose early among 3 "paths" and once chosen you have to stick to it. I don't like the sound of this, to be honest.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16557

Patch downloaded now. I've deleted my save so I'll begin again later.

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4299

Zardoz wrote:

Needs Pokémon.

Title.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16557

Just had a quick hour on it. Happy to report that the patch is a literal game-changer. Everything just looks and feels so much more alive, engaging and varied. Textures are massively better and there's not the awful pop-in. Feels more like a proper game now rather than an overly ambitious PSN title. Not been up into space yet but so far, fucking yes!

myp · **Posted:** Mon Aug 08, 2016 13:07

Good to know!

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