No Man's Sky

[Surlyboi]

Bought it on PS4. I like it but it's not for everyone. It's beautiful and empty and huge. If you're looking for instant action, this isn't the game for you. If you you're the explorer type? It's awesome. It keeps edging me on to discover new shit.

[Sky]

Murray did an AMA, they're still working on pc-specific stuff. I'm sure Sony kicked them in the nuts to get the PS4 version out to the exclusion of working on not Sony parts.

So FOV is going in, and Murray mentions working on ATI opengl compatibility. Pins his best guess on release for 6pm GMT on Friday, so sounds like there may be some room for slip, but with good reason (ie not just exclusivity/region nonsense).

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4wsra2/i_quit_my_job_at_ea_where_i_worked_on_burnout/

[Hawkbit]

Bought it on PS4. I like it but it's not for everyone. It's beautiful and empty and huge. If you're looking for instant action, this isn't the game for you. If you you're the explorer type? It's awesome. It keeps edging me on to discover new shit.

Basically this should be the exact review of the game.

I like it a lot and I'm going to play it slowly over the next few months. However, it simply won't live up to everyone's expectations.

[Yegolev]

I enjoyed my time with it last night.  I purposely went into it only having seen that original video.  Expectations exceeded.

Along those lines, I tried to explain to my wife why I try to not get excited about games anymore.  Naturally she thinks I'm not interested, which is understandable, but I did tell her to preorder it.  Then I forgot to enter the PSN bonus code because:
1. Rebel Galaxy is free on PSN.
2. NMS consumed the rest of my evening.

My son likes it as well, which I'm attempting to avoid taking as a negative.  Wife declared it boring, as expected.

[Falconeer]

Sean Murray:

OK sso I'll admit there have been times, my lowest on the project, where I've looked at the subreddit and it's cheered me up and kept me going. But there have been times I've looked on there and despaired - and just thought "how can we ever live up to the expectations of people who having been waiting for this game for 3 years"

...

REAL TALK - so obviously the hype is terrifying. I mean, I have had this hanging over me for three years since we announced. I get like 3 hours sleep a night, but like I can't sleep even if I was home so ¯_(シ)_/¯. It's catch 22, if we hadn't announced when we did, we probably would have quit the project without the community supporting us... but god... should I have passed up Colbert? Or E3? I dunno. Every time we showed the game we always assumed people would suddenly not like it anymore... but instead the hype would just get crazier. In an alternate timeline, imagine if we could just be showing it for the first time tonight and launching tomorrow? Imagine how fun that would have been...

[Yegolev]

It's OK Sean, it means you are still alive on the inside.

[jakonovski]

I've watched a bit of footage now. Is everything in the game really CGA palette 0 or 1?

[KallDrexx]

50 planets in 7 minutes

[K9]

I've had a chance to play a few hours now. It's definitely not the game I think a lot of people were expecting, but I think at the same time it's interesting and enjoyable for what it is. I think the nice thing is that this game is much easier to pick up and put down than other titles, and it's definitely more relaxing to play. It may be something I play while listening to podcasts or shows, but that's not intended to be a knock, the overall feel of the game is very relaxing.

My only faults off the bat are that the game explains pretty much nothing, from simple stuff like what the different icons mean and how to gather stuff, to more hidden mechanics like discovery. There's also a cripplingly limited amount of inventory space, which I assume is a design decision to encourage you to sell everything you find. Also some of these critters seem to be unkillable while entirely capable of killing me. Lastly there are a ton of gated containers and doors which need something called an Alpha Pass which I have no idea how to find, so that's a tad annoying.

Tips so far:

1) If you can zap it you can scan it. To scan stuff hold down L2 on the PS4 (no idea about PC sorry) and wait a few moments and you'll get an entry in the discovery menu. These discoveries can be uploaded for small amounts of credits, but there's tons of stuff to discover (plants, rocks, animals, and locations) and the income seems to add up in the early game. The only thing you can't scan are the big stacks of minerals such as nickel or aluminium. There seems to be a list of 10 entries called "Records" which are revealed by scanning animals as far as I can tell. If you get all 10 you get a substantial amount of credits. So this system encourages you to explore and document planets

2) You can go underwater, your ship cannot. This seems a bit buggy at the moment though since surfacing doesn't refill your oxygen meter. The only way to refill your air is to jectpack out of the water and then fall back in.

3) Look for alien monuments/relics. They look like big purple-grey cylinders an each one teaches you a word in alien and raises your standing with that species. This helps solve puzzles

4) When scanning the blue cogs you sometimes see as a result are blueprints, these should be a priority for you. You can also do a wider scan while flying in your ship which will reveal points of interest nearby

5) Your multitool doesn't come with a gun by default, you need to craft one using an empty slot in the multitool menu (you may need to find a blueprint for this).

6) Sell everything, so far in the first 3-4 hours I haven't seen anything particularly rare across the first two planets I've explored. You need the credits to buy bigger ships (the only way to increase ship inventory) and you need the inventory space.

7) Don't bother carrying carbon, it's everywhere and it's pretty useless. It's worth farming some plutonium and the Thalium9 (or whatever it's called) since you need these to fuel your ship. They can also be used to recharge all your other gear - at least of the gear I have found or crafted so far. Likewise only harvest iron when you need it.

8) Resources stack to 250 in your personal inventory but 500 in your ship inventory, so it's probably better to transfer them over while you're out farming.

All in all the experience has been pleasant and interesting do far. It remains to be seen if it has legs, but I suspect I'll get a good 20 hours or so out of it minmum, which is enough for me to be happy with the money spent

[Surlyboi]

Don't carry a lot of carbon, but have some to trade with the Gek.

[lamaros]

Is the game as brown and purple as that video indicates? Why do designers pick such crappy colours like this (Beyond Earth was worse...)?

[Surlyboi]

It's all sorts of colors but the majority I've seen have been ridiculous oranges so far.

[Falconeer]

It's all subjective as usual. I think the designers picked those colours because they thought they were beautiful, and I tend to agree: the colour palette of No Man's Sky is one of the reasons I got interested in the game to begin with, and I have a feeling I am not alone.

[Yegolev]

The colors are random, as far as I can tell.

On the topic of hoarding things, I found a crashed ship and I really want it since it has one whole extra cargo slot (and it looks better) but I'm out of zinc.  Worse, there isn't any zinc nearby and possibly nowhere on this god-forsaken moon I am on.  So, that's actually sort of interesting.  I should be able to possess my old ship, find some zinc, and come back, but ... ?

I know 20 alien words.  I'm excited about that.  Good thing the grammatical structures are the same.

[01101010]

So I caved in and decided to take a chance on it since I have not really bought any games this year other than The Division (and since I am still milking GTA 5).

Downloaded and installed while the gf and I had dinner, fired it up after we got done watching Jeopardy about 7:30p. Next thing I know, she's asleep and it is 11pm. Game definitely doesn't hold your hand or give you much direction other than a few vague tips, but it's not that hard to put the pieces together after some trial and error. So far so good. Been awhile since I let time get away from me while playing a game. First night honeymoon period maybe, but the sheer size and amount of crap to mess around with makes it seem like it has legs.

[Viin]

... after we got done watching Jeopardy about 7:30p ...

I'm sorry, but people still watch this? Are they new airings or are you watching reruns?

[Merusk]

New airings. Jeopardy is new almost every day and it's still Alex Trebek.

[01101010]

The gf loves trivia of all types and it gives us something to watch for 30 minutes while we finish dinner and clean up - if she makes it home from work before it starts.

[Yegolev]

I should have started streaming this.  My original flying tub is gone.  I have a crippled pulse engine, four zinc, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.  Also, this planet is a geographical oddity: no zinc anywhere.  No fauna at all and few flora means I'm basically trudging around a crazy planet, surviving on plutonium, trying not to fall into the subterranean warrens, and finding ruins and abandoned outposts.  No Dapper Dan, either.  It's a god-damned geographical oddity.

Edit: Forgot to mention it has a rarefied atmosphere and my life support eats through plutonium at an incredible rate.

[K9]

The writing in this game is fucking horrible 

[schild]

The writing in this game is fucking horrible  

Writing in games being good is such an outlier that I'll go ahead and say "writing in games is fucking horrible."

[K9]

You're probably right. I'll try and get a screenshot of some of it, but it reads like low-grade trek fan fiction.

The Witcher 3 has warped my expectations.

[Wasted]

I keep hearing how rare its supposed to be for people to meet in this game, but if everyone is heading to the centre of the universe wouldn't that area eventually become full of people?

[Falconeer]

They claim there are 5 billion stars or something like that. Which is a number human minds can't even try to picture. So considering the centre of the galaxy is probably not just one-star-sized, I think it's fair to say that players might really not meet ever. But yes, I am curious too about what the statistics about that will be after some time.

[Threash]

You won't meet anyone because no one is there.

[Torinak]

You won't meet anyone because no one is there.

And two players have already been at the same place at the same time (coordinated out of game) and didn't see any sign of each other. So "meeting" another player seems to involve going to a planet only to find it's already been named DickButt114124.

[KallDrexx]

More than two set of users have publicly gone to the same spot on the same exact planet at the same time, not just one set. 

[Azazel]

I always thought we had a fairly easy rule regarding hype that was earned through decades of hype cycle bullshit ("The Molynreul"). I just don't understand how anyone can be disappointed by games anymore.

I keep seeing people proclaiming 'no more preorders!' but still the orders get pre'd. Either people are optimistic or stupid. Take your pick.

Each new generation needs to learn some of these lessons for themselves.

[apocrypha]

Each new generation needs to learn some of these lessons for themselves.

Generation? I see these proclamations every 6 months. Just how fast are y'all breeding!? 

[Mac]

I should have started streaming this.  My original flying tub is gone.  I have a crippled pulse engine, four zinc, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.  Also, this planet is a geographical oddity: no zinc anywhere.  No fauna at all and few flora means I'm basically trudging around a crazy planet, surviving on plutonium, trying not to fall into the subterranean warrens, and finding ruins and abandoned outposts.  No Dapper Dan, either.  It's a god-damned geographical oddity.

Edit: Forgot to mention it has a rarefied atmosphere and my life support eats through plutonium at an incredible rate.

*runs off to buy the game*

[Yegolev]

I'm debating whether I should finish my story or let you guys figure out for yourselves what can be done.  I can tell you that I gave a little consideration to restarting, but I'm glad I didn't.

[Surlyboi]

Finish it.

I think everyone's story is different. I spent two days running through a hostile blockade trying to find materials to build a warp cell to get out of a shitty system.

My corpses litter that system like a shitty GPS network over Earth.

[Teleku]

I came to the conclusion that I wouldn't be able to hold out for a steam sale, as my curiosity is to great.  So pre-ordered it for the bonus 4 hours before it launches.  

[Rendakor]

I came to the conclusion that I wouldn't be able to hold out for a steam sale, as my curiosity is to great.  So pre-ordered it for the bonus 4 hours before it launches.  

I preordered it last night, and since I had to be up at 5:30am I'm glad it didn't unlock at midnight.

[Falconeer]

Supposedly it unlocks in two hours here in Europe. No pre-load. 4 hours bonus? What?