No Man's Sky

[jakonovski]

The trailer was shown just now on the video game awards showthingamabob. Fuck everything else except this game, for reals. It's about time we got a real procedural universe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SamVg64gvOk

edit: slightly better quality video now.

[Stormwaltz]

I'm not sure what sort of game I'm looking at here. I can't even tell if its PC, console, or what.

[calapine]

Sadly I have to agree with random Youtube commenter dude:

[Lakov_Sanite]

Also no more video.

[Spiff]

Google to the resque! http://www.polygon.com/2013/12/7/5186774/exploration-sim-no-mans-sky-coming-from-hello-games

Unfortunately no mention of when and where you'll be able to start buying ships 

[Falconeer]

No PC?! 

[Malakili]

As neat as exploration can be, is there an actual game here?  I can imagine myself playing something like this non-stop for about 10 hours full of oohs and ahhs, and then never firing it up again.

[jakonovski]

Man you guys are cynical (except those who paid Chris Roberts money, you can't say anything)! That said I have no idea what this game will be, but my dreams have it as a mix of Starbound and Elite.

Also, fuck the PC!

[Falconeer]

I think the video is very promising and exciting. I am just really bummed about the no PC thing. Some games make really no sense to me on a console.

[luckton]

Man you guys are cynical...

Where are we again?

[Ghambit]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRpDn5qPp3s&feature=youtu.be

And obviously, they're now hiring.   
http://www.hellogames.org/

[Paelos]

Also, fuck the PC!

FUCK YO COUCH

[Rendakor]

Sadly I have to agree with random Youtube commenter dude:

This right here.

[Nija]

Wait, something like this is coming out on a platform that ISN'T PC?

How are they going to mod it?


Also I look forward to their procedurally generated character/vehicle/ship controls and the procedurally generated fun.

[Megrim]

Also, fuck the PC!

FUCK YO COUCH

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/26/gerard-streator-pleads-guilty-couch-sex_n_3504825.html

[DraconianOne]

There's nothing that categorically says it's not going to be on PC at all and I first read about it on RockPaperShotgun which is generally a good sign that it's going to be.

I'm more impressed that this has been developed by four guys in Guildford and the trailer was one of them recording himself playing it and then editing it together just for the VGX. Here's an interview with the same guy (who seems quite jetlagged) Will be an interesting project to keep an eye on. 

[Stormwaltz]

RPS takes a good long look. Now I know what the game is.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/12/09/first-look-no-mans-sky/

[Paelos]

Space sandbox.

[HaemishM]

They said it was going to be on the PC AND a next-gen console. I'm all over it, the trailer was fantastic.

[Sky]

But the galaxy is the same between everyone and actions of “significance” will be shared. If you kill a single bird, that won’t be shared. If you make an entire species of bird extinct, then those creatures will blink out of existence for everyone.

Why can't we just have single player games without letting people fuck things up for others? While this would also be a great candidate for private servers, having The Internet affect people's games is #retarded.

[Stormwaltz]

Why can't we just have single player games without letting people fuck things up for others?

But multiplayer is the future and everyone who plays games wants it in everything, because it automatically makes every game better just by virtue of existing, and if you don't want it lol, go sit in the backyard and bang sticks together, loser.

Also, The Cloud.

[Ghambit]

But the galaxy is the same between everyone and actions of “significance” will be shared. If you kill a single bird, that won’t be shared. If you make an entire species of bird extinct, then those creatures will blink out of existence for everyone.

Why can't we just have single player games without letting people fuck things up for others? While this would also be a great candidate for private servers, having The Internet affect people's games is #retarded.

So you're saying Dark Souls' MP system was dumb, Notch was on bathsalts with his (now defunct) design, and Wil Wright was spot on releasing Spore b4 the MP component was finished?  

I'll toss in my gripe though; I see no indication of any kind of crew RPG elements.  Would be nice to have a crewed ship ala Starflight w/a rover and so forth.  Being a single player-character in one small fighter-sized ship, traversing the galaxy, seems kind dumb.  (unless I'm missing something)

The new Miner Wars Engineering game shows more promise so far, but those guys have been nothing but cockteasers.

[Ingmar]

Dark Souls's* MP system is hardly universally appealing, so nobody should be surprised if someone doesn't like the sound of that. Notch's model is entirely different - you play with just the people you want to.

*It takes the 's because you are talking about a single thing named "Dark Souls" not something that belongs to multiple Dark Souls.

[Hutch]

When I ask these questions, Murray is light on specifics, but hopes players will work cooperatively. “There are some things that you could do for the wrong reasons. You could broadcast certain information for the wrong reasons. But generally people are playing together cooperatively to the benefit of everyone. You can be a dick in the game if you want, but it has less point and less value.”

 

People aren't dicks to each other online because of some arbitrary in-game value, they're dicks to each other because there are no consequences! This is Internet Multiplayer Remedial 049 stuff. Did these guys just log into the internet for the first time? I look forward to the tears as their starry-eyed faith in other human beings is dashed upon the cold sands of their space sandbox.

 

[naum]

I didn't watch the video but reading the article, it sounds grandiose like Spore was. And I was so enthusiastic about Spore and then it was just a colossal letdown.

I see no evidence that this will be any different.

[Sky]

I'm not going to get all excited about this, though I hope it turns out well. I think the one chance it has where Spore was doomed is that it's not a bajilllion dollar Will Wright joint for EA, where suits don't understand science and exploration and general awesome stuff. So the space RTS that got glommed on to the point of pushing out so much stuff later on (and eventually reduced in patches after nobody cared anymore, I think).

Anyway. Yes, Dark Soulses's MP is dumb, notch's initial vision was dumb and Spore only needed the background seeding parts as released. So yes. Spot on.

[Sky]

Also, when getting all starry-eyed about the great stories coming out of Day Z, one seems to gloss over what a complete unfun stab in the earhole the game was for the most part.

[Nevermore]

But the galaxy is the same between everyone and actions of “significance” will be shared. If you kill a single bird, that won’t be shared. If you make an entire species of bird extinct, then those creatures will blink out of existence for everyone.

Why can't we just have single player games without letting people fuck things up for others? While this would also be a great candidate for private servers, having The Internet affect people's games is #retarded.

There will be dedicated groups of people who's only goal is to blow up and/or cause the extinction of anything and everything cool they might find.  4chan and Something Awful will probably have a contest to see who can eradicate the most species.

[Paelos]

When I ask these questions, Murray is light on specifics, but hopes players will work cooperatively. “There are some things that you could do for the wrong reasons. You could broadcast certain information for the wrong reasons. But generally people are playing together cooperatively to the benefit of everyone. You can be a dick in the game if you want, but it has less point and less value.”

 

People aren't dicks to each other online because of some arbitrary in-game value, they're dicks to each other because there are no consequences! This is Internet Multiplayer Remedial 049 stuff. Did these guys just log into the internet for the first time? I look forward to the tears as their starry-eyed faith in other human beings is dashed upon the cold sands of their space sandbox.

 

Good, I wasn't the only one that read that and thought, DUDE HAVE YOU USED THE INTERNET?

[CmdrSlack]

Also, when getting all starry-eyed about the great stories coming out of Day Z, one seems to gloss over what a complete unfun stab in the earhole the game was for the most part.

I had fun in DayZ solely due to playing with Slay and Surly. So this.

[Sky]

Those mofos are crazy.

[rk47]

Also, fuck the PC!

I see. Then I shall spread every vile rumor ever possible to ruin this pile of shit's potential regardless whether it's true or not.
To arms!

[Trippy]

I liked the homage to Skyfox.

[jakonovski]

Oh rk...

[Falconeer]

Sure, he wishes, but when the author says stuff like

Games that we will get compared to, rather than I would compare us to, would be Minecraft, DayZ, but also Dark Souls to an extent and probably Journey.”

on top of showing a trailer like that, how can you not be interested?