No Man's Sky

[Phildo]

If the sky belongs to no man, it must belong to woman.  This is the most pro-feminist game of the last decade.

[schild]

If the sky belongs to no man, it must belong to woman.  This is the most pro-feminist game of the last decade.

So binary. What about LGBTQIDJWNAMSIDKA?

[HaemishM]

I'm not clicking on that link but please tell me that article wasn't fucking serious. I mean, seriously?

[Sir T]

Well, I didn't see any punchline or humour tag.

[schild]

Jezebel has never made a joke during it's entire rancid infestation of the web.

[Gimfain]

If you write articles called "Do the Olsen Twins Have a Type?" you aren't a feminist. Now I get why schild wants to nuke them from orbit.

[Velorath]

I'm not clicking on that link but please tell me that article wasn't fucking serious. I mean, seriously?

But Calapine left out the best part immediately following (which contained a link to Kotaku):

For an in-depth review, please visit our sister site.

"No we aren't going to review this misogynistic game! But another site in our network did, so please go there and check it out!"

[Teleku]

Comment section is half people saying it's obviously a joke, and other half engaging in the ideological warfare you'd expect.

[Torinak]

Why is it even called "No Man's Sky" if it takes place in a universe where every single planet is apparently crammed full of intelligent life, and where players run into evidence of other players with surprising frequency given the dev's claims? (the birthday "paradox" suggests that there may be vastly fewer planets than claimed, or perhaps more likely the game doesn't distribute players uniformly at random)

[Sir T]

Its hinting that no man/one owns the sky. So, you can go anywhere. Or something.

[rattran]

I just assume it was supposed to be Norman's Sky, but they dropped a letter. We may never discover who Norman is.

[Zetor]

The answer is obvious for everyone who grew up with psychedelic "Learn English" shows of the 80s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFmf4FkoCXY

[Tebonas]

My IQ dropped 50 points just from knowing now this jezebel.com site exists. That fucking abortion of a website should be reclassified as grief link!

[Yegolev]

So what massive invasion/disaster/rapture has happened that all these people have crashed/vanished/generally died and left all this crap lying around?

I'm actually following that storyline.  I think?  Anyway, I feel like I understand some of that.

[rattran]

The answer is obvious for everyone who grew up with psychedelic "Learn English" shows of the 80s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFmf4FkoCXY

It's no Ika i Rutan, but that's pretty odd. Definitely explains who Norman is. My old roommate got a steam refund on this well after the normal time lapse, as I guess they're getting so many.

[01101010]

I been so busy maxing out my inventory, tool, and ship that I haven't even been paying attention to the story. Hell, at the moment I am just shopping around crash sites for "the" ship I want. I don't even look around anymore - not until I finish my quest for the almost perfect ship.

That said, they need to add in at some point the ability to construct your own ship. They are all modular so I can't see how hard it would be, and it would give the game a money sink.

[Khaldun]

I do feel as I travel along that I'm getting some sense that there's a reason why the bases look the same--you're kind of looking at an era of past galactic civilization/expansion that current races are degenerated or declined descendents from. That's cool.

I wish though that the fauna had a few really genuinely weird or variant body forms or shapes. After about ten planets, I think I've seen about all the basic combinations I'm likely to see. The last really amusing new thing I saw was basically a Gek head (cute!) with a lizard frill and koala body (stretched out) that was about four stories tall. That was three planets ago.

I did have a crazy planet recently where there was a series of caves near the first trading base that I came to that were absolutely full of these little boxes that sold for 30k a pop. I did about ten runs of loading up my exosuit with nothing but those until I got tired of it, and there were still more to be had. It was also a reasonably nice planet climate wise.

I also enjoyed though the insane radioactive planet where storms came every ten minutes or so. Full of great minerals include those rare little goopy things that burst when you mine them, but even with the Tau-level radioactive protection and plenty of shields to replace it when it ran down, I couldn't afford to get more than thirty seconds from the ship.

It's a weird game in the end. I both love it and find it frustrating. I can see simple things that could make it better, but I also can see how it could be much worse if they had tried too hard to add certain kinds of conventional "game" structures to it. It's a sort of hypnotic way to spend an hour or so.

[Sky]

I been so busy maxing out my inventory, tool, and ship that I haven't even been paying attention to the story. Hell, at the moment I am just shopping around crash sites for "the" ship I want. I don't even look around anymore - not until I finish my quest for the almost perfect ship.

I bought a boxy old clunker that was a huge upgrade for me a few days back. Not sure if it's a glitch, but I got called away before buying a ship and had stripped out all the upgrades from my old ship. When I logged back on, waited until I found a good ship, it was significantly cheaper. Could be RNG, but I think it tries to give you options loaded out like yours, so by stripping mine down it gave me stripped down options. Which was actually better because the AI doesn't do the puzzle game bonus thing with components. Initially my options were 4M-8M units, stripped down they were 2M-4M. After I loaded it up, my options are in the 12M-18M range.

I do need to find a new tool, I was on a vykreen world that had a ton of great upgrade options and got spoiled with my giant dirty harry pistol.

Still really digging it, have to tear myself away every time. Just get into a nice mellow groove. I was going to turn off the music, but it's quite well done (said as someone who doesn't care for electronic music).

[01101010]

I been so busy maxing out my inventory, tool, and ship that I haven't even been paying attention to the story. Hell, at the moment I am just shopping around crash sites for "the" ship I want. I don't even look around anymore - not until I finish my quest for the almost perfect ship.

I bought a boxy old clunker that was a huge upgrade for me a few days back. Not sure if it's a glitch, but I got called away before buying a ship and had stripped out all the upgrades from my old ship. When I logged back on, waited until I found a good ship, it was significantly cheaper. Could be RNG, but I think it tries to give you options loaded out like yours, so by stripping mine down it gave me stripped down options. Which was actually better because the AI doesn't do the puzzle game bonus thing with components. Initially my options were 4M-8M units, stripped down they were 2M-4M. After I loaded it up, my options are in the 12M-18M range.

I do need to find a new tool, I was on a vykreen world that had a ton of great upgrade options and got spoiled with my giant dirty harry pistol.

Still really digging it, have to tear myself away every time. Just get into a nice mellow groove. I was going to turn off the music, but it's quite well done (said as someone who doesn't care for electronic music).

I tore through ships left and right getting that last upgrade to 48 slots. I took every slot upgrade crashed ship I found. I'd break down everything from mine own ship, transfer all the mats and stuff, then break the stuff down on the new ship and star fresh each time. Mats were never really an issue save for one planet where I could not find Heridium for the life of me. Spent an hour walking around and finally spotted a tower of it in the distance. Frustrating but really defined the game. I've had my tool at 24 slots now since last week and my suit at 48 since Friday. Now to find the model ship I want and then start getting into fleshing out some solar systems.

[Khaldun]

I just bought a 26-slot ship, was a bit sorry to give up my old ship just because it looked like a Viper from Battlestar Galactica. This one guy kept landing with a really fugly ship painted green and pink that was the right price and slotting but I was like nope, nope no ain't gonna. Also the weird ship model that has one wing out and one up kept landing and I almost went for that. The exteriors do not always accurately convey the slotting--some big looking ships have dinky interiors and some little ones have big interiors and yeah, it does seem to change depending on what it thinks is an upgrade for you--I had the same experience of stripping my ship and then not being offered big ones. Kind of annoying. The stripping should really happen on sale or it should be part of the pricing of the deal itself.

Does anybody understand the little stock-market money dispenser? The amount of money it gives me is variable, though always small. It would be kind of fun if you could actually buy stock or invest in some fashion.

Also the price differentials on commodities from planet to planet are somewhat stupid in that this is a serious incentive to clutter your inventories, which the game otherwise is sort of trying to keep you from doing.

[Sky]

I mostly stick to what sells gold star on stations, and then only when I'm wrapping up a planet. I hit the stock dispensers, but will begin ignoring them like I'm starting to with the tech upgrade dispensers, I think I have all they'll dispense at this point.

I have the boxy green dumpy looking ship and I love it, my hoopty. I do like the internal boxy frame of it, though. Feels industrial. I think it's around 26 slots or so. Definitely traded sleek for functional.

[01101010]

I grave glitched my way to 50mil. And I refuse to buy a ship.... rather just dumpster dive.

[Samprimary]

The 'ending' of this game is the biggest middle finger I've gotten from a game in a long time. Possibly ever. I give it ten out of ten Molyneauxes.

[schild]

What is it? There's no story, so there's nothing to spoil.

[Khaldun]

Basically you start over.

[schild]

Basically you start over.

[01101010]

[Rendakor]

It's turtles all the way down.

[Lakov_Sanite]

You don't even GO to the center. You just hit the button to fly there and the camera pulls back until you leave the galaxy and you reach a 'new' one.  The new one is just the same random generation, nothing truly new.  Someone has gone through 11 galaxies so far and they have not seen and ending besides the new game +++++++++++

[schild]

lol

[HaemishM]

Epic troll.

[Sir T]

A++, would laugh again.

[Samprimary]

Fer God's sake Murray how far behind in fitting the "game" part into your porcedrurdl gurgugerger were you that you couldn't be fucked to actually put an ending in

[Phildo]

Wait, why would anyone expect an ending in a game about limitless exploration?  I thought the whole point would be that there isn't an end.

[Soln]

Angry Joe's review is pretty on point (where I also learned about the "ending").

edit: 11 galaxies and they're all the same