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Author:  Findus Fop [ Fri Aug 19, 2016 8:40 ]
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markg wrote:
I might leave my ship parked for now and see what this patch next week brings. I don't want to be totally burned out on it just as they start delivering the game they said I was buying.


Yeah this is all sounding a little bit Drive Clubby. Definitely going to watch how it develops. Hopefully in 12 months time you'll be able to fly your ship around a drizzling Scottish city.
Author:  lasermink [ Sat Aug 20, 2016 16:34 ]
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*snigger*
Author:  Grim... [ Sun Aug 21, 2016 8:35 ]
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That music will never not be funny.
Author:  lasermink [ Thu Aug 25, 2016 13:55 ]
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Is Sean Murray a lying sack of shit, Molyneux-style?



One thing's for sure, he's not getting any of my money.
Author:  markg [ Thu Aug 25, 2016 14:21 ]
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Gonna stick mine on ebay while it's still worth nearly thirty quid. Unless anyone here wants it for twenty five.
Author:  myp [ Thu Aug 25, 2016 14:52 ]
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So…worth preordering for £50 then? Yes or no?
Author:  Cras [ Thu Aug 25, 2016 14:55 ]
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Hng. I thought it was an absolutely fantastic game, I'm glad I got it early, and I'm glad I've played it. It definitely has limited longevity though, and has certain issues that will hopefully be fixed that would argue against a day one purchase. So on balance probably not.

I did the worst of all worlds and bought it download so no trade-in value for me :) Does mean i'll still have it in three patches time though.
Author:  myp [ Thu Aug 25, 2016 14:59 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
So…worth preordering for £50 then? Yes or no?

Note: this was a trick question. No game is worth preordering for £50
Author:  markg [ Thu Aug 25, 2016 15:00 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
So…worth preordering for £50 then? Yes or no?

I preordered it for £38 and must have played it for over thirty hours. So yeah, well worth it.
Author:  myp [ Thu Aug 25, 2016 15:02 ]
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markg wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
So…worth preordering for £50 then? Yes or no?

I preordered it for £38 and must have played it for over thirty hours. So yeah, well worth it.

That's not the question I asked though.
Author:  MaliA [ Thu Aug 25, 2016 15:25 ]
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I've had my £46 of entertainment from it, for sure.
Author:  myp [ Thu Aug 25, 2016 15:46 ]
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So did you get to the centre of the universe? Anything exciting happen?
Author:  MaliA [ Thu Aug 25, 2016 15:50 ]
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Not got that far.i foind some creatures and bought a ship.
Author:  MrChris [ Thu Aug 25, 2016 17:20 ]
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Do you want people to have had a shit time of it?

I also spent 46 on it and will have had 46 worth of entertainment out of it by the time I'm done.
Author:  myp [ Thu Aug 25, 2016 17:27 ]
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MrChris wrote:
Do you want people to have had a shit time of it?

I also spent 46 on it and will have had 46 worth of entertainment out of it by the time I'm done.

No, I really wanted to like this game, but I waited for reviews and for people's opinions first. And I can't for the life of me work out how it's worth that much. It seems like an indie game that should have been £15 and I'm trying to see if you can convince me otherwise.

You all say you've got your money's worth but what actually have you done? I'm genuinely bemused.

*edit*
Then again I've spent hundreds of pounds on iRacing so what do I know? :D
Author:  Zardoz [ Wed Aug 31, 2016 17:31 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
You all say you've got your money's worth but what actually have you done?

Title.
Author:  MaliA [ Thu Sep 08, 2016 6:45 ]
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I've worked out how to turn computers on now so have found some crashed ships. And found some giant creature things. I really like the anticipation of moving from obe solar system to the next and seeing what might be found.
Author:  Grim... [ Thu Sep 08, 2016 9:27 ]
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It's a bit... Sparse, innit?
Author:  markg [ Thu Sep 08, 2016 9:36 ]
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You've been playing it for weeks and just figured out how to turn the beacon things on?
Author:  MaliA [ Thu Sep 08, 2016 9:37 ]
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markg wrote:
You've been playing it for weeks and just figured out how to turn the beacon things on?


The things where you go into a building and there are 3 options to choose from to make stuffvwork.
Author:  markg [ Thu Sep 08, 2016 9:40 ]
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Ah right yeah, you need to have learned a bit of the languages to get those right.
Author:  Grim... [ Wed Sep 28, 2016 17:47 ]
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Advertising Standards are investigating, it seems.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016- ... o-mans-sky
Author:  MaliA [ Wed Sep 28, 2016 18:53 ]
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I found something already discovered by someone last night and had a sulk
Author:  Grim... [ Wed Nov 30, 2016 0:19 ]
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This has had a big update. Is it worth playing yet?
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Wed Nov 30, 2016 8:42 ]
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It appears to be the first of multiple big updates, so I'm holding off until some more drop.
Author:  Findus Fop [ Wed Nov 30, 2016 9:12 ]
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MaliA wrote:
I found something already discovered by someone last night and had a sulk


Title
Author:  MrChris [ Wed Nov 30, 2016 11:42 ]
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I've parked this for quite while now. I'm almost annoyed I didn't sell it earlier when I could have got more for it on ebay...
Author:  MaliA [ Wed Nov 30, 2016 11:45 ]
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Me, too.
Author:  markg [ Wed Nov 30, 2016 11:56 ]
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I parked on a nice planet and then sold the game on ebay, always with an eye to picking it up again if they got their arses into gear.
Author:  KovacsC [ Thu Dec 01, 2016 12:05 ]
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I am tempted by this, is it worth waiting?
Author:  Mr Russell [ Thu Dec 01, 2016 12:24 ]
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From all the horror stories I'd say stay away forever, but maybe people are being angry because it's not what was advertised rather than it being no good at all.
Author:  markg [ Thu Dec 01, 2016 12:28 ]
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It's well worth a look if you're intrigued by it, I mostly enjoyed the twenty or thirty hours I played of it and I'd be tempted to go back after some more updates. You can pick it up for less than twenty quid.
Author:  Grim... [ Thu Dec 01, 2016 12:29 ]
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Mr Russell wrote:
it's not what was advertised

Apparently, it was: http://www.polygon.com/2016/11/30/13791 ... ng-results

Quote:
Hello Games did not use misleading ads or exaggerate the features of No Man’s Sky on its Steam sales page, according to an investigation by U.K.-based Advertising Standards Authority.
Author:  MaliA [ Thu Dec 01, 2016 12:30 ]
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For £20, it's great. For £46, less so.
Author:  myp [ Thu Dec 01, 2016 12:43 ]
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MaliA wrote:
For £20, it's great. For £46, less so.

If only there were a way of finding out if a game is good value or not before buying it
Author:  Curiosity [ Thu Dec 01, 2016 12:50 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
MaliA wrote:
For £20, it's great. For £46, less so.

If only there were a way of finding out if a game is good value or not before buying it


Obviously you look at the Metacritic user reviews, which are objectively correct.
Author:  romanista [ Fri Dec 02, 2016 13:34 ]
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it was discounted for the ps4 last week wasn't it.. thought about buying it, then forgot to do so
Author:  TheVision [ Fri Dec 02, 2016 16:12 ]
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A friend of a friend paid about £85 for the digital "special edition" of this on the day of release apparently.

More money than sense.
Author:  Findus Fop [ Thu Mar 09, 2017 14:10 ]
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Can't imagine the ability to build race tracks was at the top of many people's NMS wishlists, but this looks like a hefty update.
Author:  romanista [ Wed Mar 15, 2017 14:24 ]
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it's on sale now... kinda tempted
Author:  Findus Fop [ Wed Mar 15, 2017 15:02 ]
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I bought it in this very sale.

And of course haven't installed it yet.

Am committed to finishing Far Cry 4 and incinerating my eyeballs in Resogun, but will get to it (and the also-purchased Witcher 3) at some point in the next 12 months.

In a fit of madness I also bought Garden Warfare 2 and I don't know why as I don't really do multiplayer. I think I was just hankering after some PopCap polish.
Author:  Satsuma [ Wed Mar 15, 2017 18:07 ]
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Bit of the ole cap polish, aye? Ya mucky bugger.
Author:  romanista [ Wed Mar 15, 2017 22:29 ]
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Findus Fop wrote:
I bought it in this very sale.

And of course haven't installed it yet.

Am committed to finishing Far Cry 4 and incinerating my eyeballs in Resogun, but will get to it (and the also-purchased Witcher 3) at some point in the next 12 months.
.


now downloading all the ps+ titles i didn't;t download because of space restriction.. so no time now..
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Sat Sep 09, 2017 17:09 ]
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This is good now.

It's so much bigger I can't really remember how it was before. There are faction missions to improve your standing (and give you something to do.) The UI has been overhauled endlessly; most notably, there's a quick menu for recharging tech. There's a new plotline, but I've barely started it so can't comment.

Base building now exists, and seems cool (it's vaguely like Fallout 4.) Bases have a teleport system so you can get back to them, then return to wherever you were. Bases can be used to farm for materials and cash, and built out to look cool. Mine is on a planet made up of archipelagoes covered in blue mountains and red grass. You can also buy freighters, massive capital ships, but they cost huge amounts of money. Oh, and speaking of freighters, I warped into a system to find a battle and ended up dogfighting pirates defending one of them -- it must have been a mile long.

Randomly generated new biomes keep things fresh (I saw a "Terraforming Catastrophe", blighted by 150 degrees temperature swings and choking dust clouds.) It's still beautiful to look at at all times.

You still start with meagre inventory space that needs careful management, but new game mechanics make finding upgrades much quicker and much less reliant on dumb luck. You also quite quickly figure out which resources you should keep a modest stock of at all times (iron, plutonium, zinc, thanium) and which you can safely sell at every opportunity.

It's still not a thrill-ride -- it's very deliberately a laid-back, chilled affair -- but that's fine. Everything doesn't have to be Uncharted. Some of the dogfights are tricky though.

Really glad I held onto my copy.
Author:  Cras [ Sat Sep 09, 2017 17:11 ]
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Hmm. I may revisit
Author:  myp [ Sat Sep 09, 2017 22:25 ]
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I may start this!
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Sat Sep 09, 2017 23:05 ]
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There's literally never been a better time.
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Sat Sep 09, 2017 23:06 ]
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If you start over they might have made the game less inscrutable, too. I picked up my old save so had no tutorial at all -- including to most of the new stuff, so that was fun.
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Sun Sep 10, 2017 0:09 ]
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Forgot one of the best new features: you can summon your ship from anywhere on a planet surface. So you never need to trudge back to it.
Author:  MrChris [ Sun Sep 10, 2017 21:43 ]
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We've restarted this now - it's much, much better. Still not worth 40 quid or whatever I spent on it, but good.

First Born is at a really good age to kick off with this now (almost 11) so he's been having a lovely weekend playing it. He's managed to get a 48 slot shuttle within a few hours! He's been looking for the right planet to set up a base on. It's still not intuitive, and he's had to ask me to look up a few things, but it's going pretty well so far.
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