No Man's Sky

by **DoomYoshi** on Sat Aug 13, 2016 12:08 am

Is about to undo all the work that Pokemon Go achieved in getting people moving. If ever there was a reason to come back into the house, this is it.

by **waauw** on Sat Aug 13, 2016 3:51 am

DY is worried he's going to regain those couple of pounds he lost the past few weeks.

by **rishaed** on Sat Aug 13, 2016 12:29 pm

waauw wrote:DY is worried he's going to regain those couple of pounds he lost the past few weeks.

Or that maybe the hype is not the same.

by **DoomYoshi** on Sat Aug 13, 2016 9:54 pm

This game is absolutely spectacular. I start the game crash-landed on a scorching planet (average daytime high = 62 degrees C). My ship is ruined and so is my gun and I need to repair everything using scrapmetal that I mine.

The universe is staggeringly huge, as advertised. The exploration is fascinating. I've decided I'd rather fully explore star systems than jumping around so I have spent a lot of time on my planet.

There are ancient alien artifacts (every star system has its own native species; mine is the Gek) by which to learn the languages. Everything starts as gibberish, but I have learnt the words for high, low, despair, friend, destruction and a few others.

I survive by eating Plutonium, which alone is worth the price of admission.

by **Serbia** on Sun Aug 14, 2016 10:25 am

I wish this game was also on Xbox. It sounds fantastic.

by **AndyDufresne** on Sun Aug 14, 2016 10:44 am

I'll pick it up in a couple of years.

--Andy

by **DoomYoshi** on Sun Aug 14, 2016 11:03 am

AndyDufresne wrote:I'll pick it up in a couple of years.

--Andy

There's no time to wait. To visit every planet for 1 second, it will take 500 billion years*. You need to start now to have any chance.

*The common figure on the web is 5 billion, but I did the maths bro.

by **dakky21** on Sun Aug 14, 2016 11:25 am

DoomYoshi wrote:
AndyDufresne wrote:I'll pick it up in a couple of years.

--Andy

There's no time to wait. To visit every planet for 1 second, it will take 500 billion years*. You need to start now to have any chance.

*The common figure on the web is 5 billion, but I did the maths bro.

Actually I've read somewhere that there will be 10^18 of planets. You can't finish the game in your life.

The other thing which bothers me is - random generation of everything. There is no story, no classic multiplayer, everything sums to wandering around, collecting materials and building weapons and your ship. Might become boring at one moment. I agree that discovering new civilizations and species can be fun, but what's the point of it when no one can see what you've achieved/built? I've been playing ARK on my own private tweaked server so it was easy to build a 100 story building, but at one place you realise what's the point of it when you're alone there.

And giving 60 Euros on Steam is ... overkill for me.

by **DoomYoshi** on Sun Aug 14, 2016 12:13 pm

dakky21 wrote:
DoomYoshi wrote:
AndyDufresne wrote:I'll pick it up in a couple of years.

--Andy

There's no time to wait. To visit every planet for 1 second, it will take 500 billion years*. You need to start now to have any chance.

*The common figure on the web is 5 billion, but I did the maths bro.

Actually I've read somewhere that there will be 10^18 of planets. You can't finish the game in your life.

The other thing which bothers me is - random generation of everything. There is no story, no classic multiplayer, everything sums to wandering around, collecting materials and building weapons and your ship. Might become boring at one moment. I agree that discovering new civilizations and species can be fun, but what's the point of it when no one can see what you've achieved/built? I've been playing ARK on my own private tweaked server so it was easy to build a 100 story building, but at one place you realise what's the point of it when you're alone there.

And giving 60 Euros on Steam is ... overkill for me.

Some people get bored exploring. Others don't. The great thing about this game is the potential. I don't think it is in it's final form, they will probably add more stuff to do or people will add mods or whatever.