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.

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?

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?

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.

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

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

Number of times I've seen what looks like a beautiful Earth-like sort of place only to land and it's a radioactive greeny brown sludgey, mushroom-filled shithole.

Warped into some new system yesterday and was immediately presented with a message that said "Battle Detected", there were some freighters knocking around and other ships apparently shooting at them but no way for me to know who was who and why they were doing what to who else so I just watched for a bit and then fucked off and left them to it. It looked pretty, though.

You can reverse the pitch control direction in the options if that's what you mean. It was the first thing I did.

I just warped to a few galaxies then the atlas anomaly came up and then followed it. Then found the stone.

Just ordered this last night. It'll be great!

I'm waiting for them to fix the glorious PC master race version. And for it to be more cheapers