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 Post subject: Re: No Man's Sky
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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.


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 Post subject: Re: No Man's Sky
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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 :(

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 Post subject: Re: No Man's Sky
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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/

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 Post subject: Re: No Man's Sky
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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.


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 Post subject: Re: No Man's Sky
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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.


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 Post subject: Re: No Man's Sky
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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.


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 Post subject: Re: No Man's Sky
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Like a sensible person I am going to wait for the reviews to hit.

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 Post subject: Re: No Man's Sky
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Basically the same criticisms that have been levelled at E:D, then - a mile wide but an inch deep, effectively.


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 Post subject: Re: No Man's Sky
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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.


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 Post subject: Re: No Man's Sky
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 Post subject: Re: No Man's Sky
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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.


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 Post subject: Re: No Man's Sky
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Patch downloaded now. I've deleted my save so I'll begin again later.


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 Post subject: Re: No Man's Sky
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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!


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 Post subject: Re: No Man's Sky
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Yeah, wasn't at all bothered about getting it after your initial thoughts but now I am.

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 Post subject: Re: No Man's Sky
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 Post subject: Re: No Man's Sky
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Still having fun with this. But even post-patch I can't see it remaining very interesting if you decide to ignore the main (only?) quest for any length of time. The zillions of stars thing is a pure gimmick when they are a bit like superhero movies, they all look superficially different but by the time you've seen three systems they just start to feel the same.

It's the same reservation I've had all along. I just don't think that fifteen clever people and some clever algorithms can generate a believable and entertaining open world game. That takes hundreds of people toiling away for years like they do on GTA games.

Still I got in some dog fights and that was fun and it's given me the motivation to want to earn money to get a better ship. Right now I'm thinking that it's a pretty fun game that does some really clever stuff and it's astonishing that it's been done by such a small team but I'm not going to be just exploring this universe for weeks on end once the quest is done. I dunno maybe others will get something from it that I'm not but so far it's good but it's not the new messiah.


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 Post subject: Re: No Man's Sky
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That's why I'm so relieved my favourite open world survival simulation The Long Dark doesn't use procedural generation for its maps. The map design really is quite wonderful and memorable in the game. It'll take about eighty hours of game play to explore everything at least. There are folk posting on the steam forum that it should be infinite procedurally generated, which I think is just a terrible idea. The developers keep releasing a new big map every six months, eventually there'll be a massive island created and it'll really feel like a real, meaningful place.

I'm very impressed technically with No Man's Sky, and I dig the art design and concept. But I just can't figure how it'd keep me hooked. Beyond a certain number of stars surely scale becomes meaningless? If it weren't for Spore I'd be combusting with excitement, but the disappointment bit deep with that shallow game. Don't get me wrong, I reckon No Man's Sky is certain to be a better game than that. But I'm not convinced the mechanics of each planet will be variable enough to keep it interesting, and with each planet essentially disposable... where does the wonder come in?

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 Post subject: Re: No Man's Sky
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Hmmm. I wasn't in time to cancel my pre-order, so it's coming; although I could always return it.

I suspect I'm only cautious because I spent £40 or so on Elite: Dangerous and then barely played it. But I am vaguely concerned I'm going to tire of this quickly and get buyer's remorse.

I may leave it sealed for a few days and see how I feel then. That would probably be the smart thing to do, although I am not that smart.


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Don't get me wrong, I'm not near the point of jacking it in and I'm terrible for that with games once I lose interest, I have very little compulsion to finish them just for the sake of it.


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 Post subject: Re: No Man's Sky
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This is a good article although he seems to have done in two hours what I spent about five doing:

http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2016/08/09/two- ... ky-a-diary

Maybe that's where I've been going wrong. Perhaps just steaming through would show off more stuff and make it feel a bit less sparse.


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 Post subject: Re: No Man's Sky
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This sounds very much like I'm best off waiting until it's £25 and waiting for Rift support.

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 Post subject: Re: No Man's Sky
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I really, really enjoyed playing this again last night, was spellbound by it all again. I don't know what to think. I'd make a terrible videogames reviewer.


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I really, really enjoyed playing this again last night, was spellbound by it all again. I don't know what to think. I'd make a terrible videogames reviewer.

Just patch your reviews every few days.

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That's why I'm so relieved my favourite open world survival simulation The Long Dark doesn't use procedural generation for its maps. The map design really is quite wonderful and memorable in the game. It'll take about eighty hours of game play to explore everything at least. There are folk posting on the steam forum that it should be infinite procedurally generated, which I think is just a terrible idea. The developers keep releasing a new big map every six months, eventually there'll be a massive island created and it'll really feel like a real, meaningful place.

I'm very impressed technically with No Man's Sky, and I dig the art design and concept. But I just can't figure how it'd keep me hooked. Beyond a certain number of stars surely scale becomes meaningless? If it weren't for Spore I'd be combusting with excitement, but the disappointment bit deep with that shallow game. Don't get me wrong, I reckon No Man's Sky is certain to be a better game than that. But I'm not convinced the mechanics of each planet will be variable enough to keep it interesting, and with each planet essentially disposable... where does the wonder come in?


:this:

Watched a live stream of it, and although the visuals are beautiful, I also found it lacking in diversity. It seems to be one smudge coloured planet with chicken-like creatures after another. I'm not sure what the motivation to play is.

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Crafting the worst game mechanic ever and unfortunately is creeping into every game nowadays.

Like Jeff Vogel wrote, "When i beat a boss, i want to get a legendary sword, not 1/10 of a legendary sword"

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 Post subject: Re: No Man's Sky
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My copy has been delivered... to work. I'm off sick and on leave tomorrow and Friday. Guess I have until Monday to decide if I'm keeping it or returning it, then.


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No Man's Sky players travel the exact same planet without ever crossing paths

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I saw this headline earlier. Was the game ever made out to be a multi player experience or was it always intended as a single player game?


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I saw this headline earlier. Was the game ever made out to be a multi player experience or was it always intended as a single player game?

It's always been a bit unclear, but explains it in the article and comments.

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My copy has been delivered... to work. I'm off sick and on leave tomorrow and Friday. Guess I have until Monday to decide if I'm keeping it or returning it, then.


Mine arrived today!

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I saw this headline earlier. Was the game ever made out to be a multi player experience or was it always intended as a single player game?

It's always been a bit unclear, but explains it in the article and comments.


Ah cool. I admit, I haven't read the articles, only the headlines. I'll take a look later on.


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Jim Fucking Sterling Son gave it a 5/10.


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Can't really take issue with anything he says but for some reason despite all that I'm still enjoying it. ?:|


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It's a peanut butter game innit. What's there is tasty, but it's spread so thin, but you know if it was any thicker it'd glue your teeth together.


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I can't load Jim Sterling's web page. Apparently he is getting DDOSed over his No Man's Sky review!


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I can't load Jim Sterling's web page. Apparently he is getting DDOSed over his No Man's Sky review!

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I can't load Jim Sterling's web page. Apparently he is getting DDOSed over his No Man's Sky review!

Gamers are awful

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I can't load Jim Sterling's web page. Apparently he is getting DDOSed over his No Man's Sky review!

Gamers are awful

Yeah, they go slashing at you with an axe for little to no provocation.

The bastards.

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Lonewolves wrote:
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I can't load Jim Sterling's web page. Apparently he is getting DDOSed over his No Man's Sky review!

Gamers are awful

Yeah, they go slashing at you with an axe for little to no provocation.

The bastards.

WHY DID YOU CHANGE YOUR HAT

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