No Man's Sky Thread

Wizz

@Insomnia said in No Man's Sky Thread:

You can dig so far into the ground going after gold that you can't get out. >.>

...A game that teaches you the pitfalls of greed?! SOLD

ThugHeaven

I must confess with my new monster rig , I am intrigued. It sounds like a souped version of Elite.

Is it on steam?

Auspice

@ThugHeaven said in No Man's Sky Thread:

I must confess with my new monster rig , I am intrigued. It sounds like a souped version of Elite.

Is it on steam?

It is on Steam.

And as someone who has Elite and got angry at trying to play it without a HOTAS... I really like 'piloting' in No Man's Sky.

Insomnia

@Wizz Luckily my cave had a small hole that sentinels could get into, and nothing nasty... so I attacked those damn little robots to see how they got in, and were able to blast my way out.

My fault, really, I never got into Minecraft so I never learned how to properly slope-mine, I guess.

In other news, there is a dude who hasn't left his starter planet yet, and has everything maxed out; suit, ship, toll.

HorrorHound

My first planet maxed everything but my grenade launcher.

Auspice

In my first 'play' of the game (I restarted because I screwed some things up), I left my starter planet asap... because I had the ill luck of being on an extreme planet.

On my second play, the starter planet was just so bereft of minerals and shit that I left. But the 2nd planet? I'm staying there for a while. SO MUCH GOLD AND PLUTONIUM.

Misadventure

Then what do you do?

tragedyjones

Hoping this comes to XBone

Ganymede

@tragedyjones said in No Man's Sky Thread:

Hoping this comes to XBone

Don't count on it; it was backed by Sony, like The Last of Us.

HorrorHound

Xbone has Ark.

Ganymede

@HorrorHound said in No Man's Sky Thread:

Xbone has Ark.

Ark is being released for PS4.

Insomnia

@tragedyjones You aren't the only one who wants it, but given that sales droped 81% in the second week? Who knows, really. Last month Xbox finally outsold PS4, but that's because XBone cut the cost of the current systems again in preparation for the Slim and Scorpio.

Edited to add a more recent link for Xbone.

Ganymede

@Insomnia said in No Man's Sky Thread:

You aren't the only one who wants it, but given that sales droped 81% in the second week?

Given that the game was mostly sold and downloaded electronically, this cannot really surprise anyone given the negative publicity that the game has gotten.

I think the best retort to the criticism is "what the fuck did you expect"? Games always over-promise. And gamers will always have a reason to complain. Eventually, the people that enjoy sandbox-y space exploration will find and adore the game.

Auspice

I am one of those people!

I it much. Haven't liked a game this much in a while.

Insomnia

@Ganymede It was also the second biggest launch on Steam and did really well with pre-orders on PS4 so of course the sales dropped. But that is a huge drop, worse than Batman v Superman did the second week at the box office.

(I too am one who loves the game. But games over-shooting is also why I don't pre-order anymore. If more people stopped pre-ordering, game companies wouldn't think it's okay to do it all the time.)

Ganymede

@Insomnia said in No Man's Sky Thread:

(I too am one who loves the game. But games over-shooting is also why I don't pre-order anymore. If more people stopped pre-ordering, game companies wouldn't think it's okay to do it all the time.)

Me, I never pre-order. Ever.

Sorry. Launch the product first. Let me evaluate the reviews. Then I might buy in.

Cobalt

@Ganymede said in No Man's Sky Thread:

Eventually, the people that enjoy sandbox-y space exploration will find and adore the game.

I'm not positive this is true, Gany. I love sandboxy exploration games. Hell, I love exploring in games where the purpose isn't just exploring. I spent so many hours in TES: Oblivion, running around exploring ruins that I the main quest became secondary.

I don't love NMS. I've pretty much lost interest in it already.

Ganymede

@Cobaltasaurus said in No Man's Sky Thread:

I don't love NMS. I've pretty much lost interest in it already.

The old adage applies: one can't please everyone. Even in a genre.

I don't really consider TES a "sandbox-y exploration" game. There's still a coherent story in there, so I tend to think of it as an open-world RPG.

Insomnia

Honest Game Trailer.

lordbelh

@Ganymede said in No Man's Sky Thread:

Me, I never pre-order. Ever.
Sorry. Launch the product first. Let me evaluate the reviews. Then I might buy in.

Much this. More, I prefer to wait a couple of years for the expansion/the DLCs too. Game becomes way cheaper by then, and most importantly all the fucking bugs are gone.

Especially true with Total War games. Man I love them, but fuck if I'm willing to endure all the bullshit crashes at launch.