don't see what the big deal about no man's sky is

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grafics

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K...thanks for stopping by.

Possibly one of the shittier threads to date.

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Mine craft in space

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It is nothing like Minecraft to me.

I've always noticed that the bigger a game, the more pathetic the gameplay itself is generally. I mean it makes sense, it's not rocket science. Everything has a time period it can remain in development. Probably why so many MMOs are absolute dogshit.

Jim Sterling nailed it:

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The game’s biggest feature – that no one planet is the same – means very little when your interactions on each one are practically identical.

Yes, there are dry planets, watery planets, cold planets, stormy planets – but they all adhere to the same simple rules. The major difference between a poison planet and a nuclear planet is the fact you’ll get a different logo next to the timer that tells you how long you can stay outside.

The animals, mixed and matched quite obviously from a pool of recycled body parts, can be fed to uncover rare materials, but you can’t do much beyond that. Aside from the few that are hostile and prone to attack, the animals are just there to look weird.

Upon encountering a large, dinosaur-like creature, I proceeded to use my shitty jetpack (and boy is it shitty) to ride on its back. I thought that would be fun. Instead, I just fell through its back because it had no solidity, leaving me to sigh and return to yet more mind-numbing resource collection.

My disappointing experience with the dinosaur has come to exemplify No Man’s Sky‘s biggest problem – everything is so obviously faked, so unabashedly illusory. The universe is devoid of credible, tangible life. For as much as the game promises dynamic adventures, everything is scripted, static, held in place like cardboard cutouts in a fairground ride.

Sentient aliens met along the way are never found just wandering the land. They remain stood or sat in place like static quest givers in an MMO – without the quests. Every now and then, other starships land nearby, but nothing ever gets out of them. To interact with their pilots, you must interact with the ship, at which point a character model pops up and you can have a text-based conversation with a pop-up character model.

The world of an average Elder Scrolls game may be far smaller than No Man’s Sky‘s galactic sprawl, but it’s inherently more meaningful, vivid, and lively, because it actually has stuff to do and people to meet.

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BRUTAL

It's one of the most boring games I have ever played. It kinda sucks.

Some mad baws in here.

It's a great game and groundbreaking. Deal with it

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It's a great game and groundbreaking. Deal with it

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Procedurally generated shite is still shite

I think No Man's Sky highlights the problem with procedurally generated content. The developers are relying on algorithms to create some sense of life, but they can only churn out computations. The end user is responsible for creating his or her own feelings towards the environment. And unless you're an exploration junky, No Man's Sky is just going to fall flat for you.

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Yeesh. That's rough.

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