24 hours to No mans sky

NO SPOILERS FROM PS4 OWNERS PLEASE

Not been this excited about a game since Star Trek Bridge commander. I not been following no mans sky though I have only been looking forward to it this last 2 month. Bridge commander though I was looking forward to it be for it turned Alpha. First game also where I knew they had stages in making PC games. On one of there web sites they had status checker and when it was at pre alpha and changed to alpha every one was partying lol. Any way just another 24 hours and a couple of mins. 18:00 GMT seems abit of a strange time to me but cant do anything about it.

Smoke me a kipper il be back for breakfast.

I'm planning on getting it though my expectations are very middling. I've not typically been huge on survival games but the idea of hopping between planets without loading screens is very appealing to me.

There's a huge controversy going on right now about the "multiplayer" aspect of it.

I don't think he knew it was going to be this popular to be honest.

Early impressions seem to be disappointing a la Spore. Probably wait for holiday Steam sale.

Another gaming fail. Sigh.

Based on the stuff I've read about it I'm not too interested anymore.

I'm sure there's people who will love it but it sounds far to repetitive and shallow for me. I'll probably buy it when it's on sale after some sick mods that add content into the game are made.

Where has this been a fail?

I think I'll get it when it goes on sale in the future.

I dont see it as a fail. I played maybe 6 hours on it on PS4, and it is decent in its current state. If they can flesh it out in a few months, itll be on sale for 25-35, and it should be great then.

Played it at a friends house and it's pretty meh imo. It's nothing but the hundredth or so survival crafting game this year. There's very little to do except hunt for crafting resources. You'll spend 90% of your game time breaking rocks open. Also the developers blatantly lying about multiplayer is really shitty. I wouldn't want to support developers like that. I wouldn't pay more than $20 for this and even that's really pushing it.

Watch people stream it on Twitch. It's all breaking rocks and scanning objects.

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Is that just one review or are they all coming back negative?

@FelipeInside: Mixed reviews but I trust Jim Sterling more than any mainstream site.

Its really boring, its not a game, its a mining simulator.

Having watched a live stream for 4.5 hours total over 2 days, its really boring.

@saintsatan: Yeah, the games probably pretty boring... if it ain't what you're into, just like every other game.

Me? I like survival games, I like Minecraft, and I like Sci-fi. So No Man's Sky sounds like my cup of tea.

http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/no-mans-sky overall users gave it 5/10, critics gave it 7/10

It's a sh^t game, too much hype for unfinished and unpolished game, well that's one game less sadly for me.

I'm into survival and I loved Minecraft and I think No Man's Sky is absolute trash. I wouldn't even buy it for $10, it's that bad. Luckily I played it for free using a friends family share on PS4 and at his house. He was really disappointed in it. Literally the most exciting thing you do is break rocks. That's the entire game. Rock breaking for crafting items is as deep as the gameplay gets. Try watching a stream for it on Twitch and you'll be bored to freakin tears almost instantly. There's a reason the developers never showed much gameplay, because it's a total snooze fest. Avoid this game like the plague, it's garbage.

I think the success of this game is mostly what is accomplishes in the programming and scale of everything.

Maybe the actual game is not there yet but it sets a baseline for improvement and for things to come.

40 hours according to my friend who has it for the PS4.

Boring if you dont like exploring, open world. do whateve u want. explore other planets. The streams dont show you everything.

Played it for a bit on friends place on ps4 and I'm going to skip it

Am I only one getting this for single player?. I always thought it was meant to be single player with online features. Which means not playing with others but got online things like naming planets etc. I always seen him say its single player experience first and this is one reason I bought it?.

Nope, you're not the only one.

The whole online database is cool but I'm playing this game as a solo space exploration experience.

Isn't $60 a lot to ask for a game that's "not there yet" or fully baked? I like to buy games, not potential.

people still buy games without seeing gameplay to see if you will like it?

what is this the 80s and 90s?

i guess its pretty cool to try and feel that sense of wonder again.

but screw that...with all the rip offs these days...im doing my research first.

When the new Deus Ex comes out in a couple of weeks, everyone will forget about No Man's Sky.

Lol. Don't say I didn't warn ya...

Why did u watch it for 4.5 hours if it is so boring? You can tell it is boring right away.

Is there a cheat for save system?.

@saintsatan said:

Lol. Don't say I didn't warn ya...

Almost all of the negative reviews are about optimization though.

@Nick3306 said:

@saintsatan said:

Lol. Don't say I didn't warn ya...

Almost all of the negative reviews are about optimization though.

Total Biscuit called it "Arkham Knight levels of bad" and rage quit his stream while it had 26k people watching. He has two 1080s and was dipping to 15fps, stuttered really bad, and basically couldn't play it

No Man's Pc can handle it.

I wonder if any of the performance and stability problems on PC are even fixable. If they were they would have been fixed long ago. Just like mentioned here, the comparison with Arkham Knight... the PC version basically had to be remade to fix its problems...

And this games been in development for years, its unlikely they can fix whats wrong. Sounds like they will just take peoples money and move on. Steam and Gog both offer refunds so it makes you wonder how well they will do though.

I watched some of the gamespot and IGN review in progress videos and they both had many lockups even on the PS4 version, and that hardware is static. PC's have hundreds of different hardware configurations... I fear they will never get it working. Really... how often do console games lock up? Not often unless the game is complete junk.

Well I have played 2 hours and so far a lot better then ED is. Only problem I have with graphics is that textures don't seem to load quick enough and looks like a hologram appears then textures but it only there for a split second. Still annoying though.

My cousin bit the bullet, and I have been playing with him for a couple hrs. PErformance is awful and crashes a lot. Both of our rigs slaughter games with much better gfx, and its full of problems. I think he is regretting it. I used my nms money for r6 siege, and deus ex mankind divided. in a couple months this game MIGHT be worth purchasing. Wit these level of graphics, along with the not long draw distance at detail, his rig should be getting 60 fps no problems.

@wis3boi: @Nick3306: The developer intentionally delayed the PC version to hide how horrid it was so it wouldn't bring negativity towards the PS4 version. No Man's Sky might might have the worst developer of all time. First lying about multiplayer until release date and now this.

@wis3boi said:

@Nick3306 said:

@saintsatan said:

Lol. Don't say I didn't warn ya...

Almost all of the negative reviews are about optimization though.

Total Biscuit called it "Arkham Knight levels of bad" and rage quit his stream while it had 26k people watching. He has two 1080s and was dipping to 15fps, stuttered really bad, and basically couldn't play it

Ya almost every friend that I have who bought it says it is unplayable. A few of them say they can't even play the game for more than 5 minutes without it crashing.

Yeah the price is a bit heavy but we will see if I get my money's worth or not.

I wish to see that, might even buy the game, right now I see this game as the biggest fail since DayZ - it got the base and nothing beyond that...

If they would release a demo for me to try it out, I'd then make my decision to get this one, though I wanted the PC version but after hearing about it being unplayable, maybe not.

I saw the 'super secret end of the game, center of the galaxy' thing Sean was hyping up.

This hype train hasn't derailed all the way yet. It's going to be quite a storm I think.

Yes they do if the streamer regularly converses with his viewers.

I stuck around cos I like the community and was talking about other stuff in the chat, only around 200 viewers per stream but its regular people and talking always helps.

So I got the PC version despite all the people having tech issues but I didn't have any issues running the game.

That being said I found the game to be boring. It was fun for an hour but you will quickly notice all the game mechanics are shallow. The only cool thing is the randomly generated worlds but again after seeing a couple planets you realize how similar they all are. And on top of that the horrible inventroy (it's so small you'll fill it in about 5 minutes of gathering...have fun with your adventures when you can't go 10 minutes without having to manage the damn thing) and the game is just plain bad.

I'm enjoying it, but it's very rough around the edges.

This is why indy studios should not attempt games that are AAA in scope. Or just hire more freaking people to refine the game into something that's more enjoyable to play.

It's not so much the gameplay elements that are bad, but how you interact with them; controls are squirrelly, the visuals are not nearly as good as I was hoping (if you're going to market your game off the notion of exploring visually stunning worlds, they better be visually stunning technically as well as from an art direction point of view), and so forth. Controls are also kind of weird, at least the default ones...speaking of default, frames are set for 30 fps by default so change that!

There are some pretty complex mechanics and while I don't expect or even want a game to hold my hand, some quest log of some sort or waypoints would be nice because right now I have no idea where to find antimatter (can't buy it at the station I am at) and that means I am stuck for the time being in the star system I'm at.

Like I said, a fun game...but rough. If this were an early access title, I'd be impressed. But I just spent 60 dollars on it and I feel suckered.

But, to end on a high note: they said they will support the game for a long time, so I am hopeful the polish will come and the game will be what it should be.

Oh god the inventory, that's the only really hair-pulling part for me. First off, as you said it is small. LIKE REALLY SMALL!

Second, there's essentially two inventories (ship and player), and you can warp stuff to your ship and vice versa, but the range is small so sometimes it's kind of pointless.

And you walk so slow, and sprint really isn't fast either and runs out so quick. Seriously, even if the thing you see is 200 yards away, it's actually faster to run back to your ship, fly there, and land. Yes...it's more efficient to fly a stone's throw away than it is to walk/run there.

DayZ though didn't bring anything new to the table. It was basically a mod with an open world map.

NMS on the other hand has created an algorithm to create the biggest map we have ever seen with a 3GB install. Imagine this technology 10 years down the track for gaming.

I bought it thinking i'd use steam refund if I didn't like what I saw, and ended up going that route.

It runs OK for me - some frame drops when flying into a new planet while it loads the terrain but pretty smooth otherwise. I just don't enjoy the gameplay based on the first couple hours. Its like they took the dull planet exploration from Mass Effect 1 and combined it with the dull planet scanning from ME2. The idea of flying around between randomly generated planets is really cool but most of the planets just seem boring and ugly from what I played and the mining/crafting/survival gameplay has never appealed to me (never been into those types of games in the past either).

I went in knowing that resourcing collecting, crafting and exploring were the main elements but I expected the exploration to have a stronger pull than it does. The sense of discovery I get from something like Stalker or Fallout just isn't there, and I guess that is what I was looking for, atmosphere over finding something unique that no one else has. I don't think its necessarily a bad game, just not something I'm interested in right now.

I might pick it back up when its cheaper and has seen some patches with added features but I can't see it holding my interest for more than 10 hour at this stage.

@FelipeInside: This game doesn't bring anything new to the table neither, you can land on planets on Elite Dangerous as well, are you excited about gathering stuff? Minecraft will do that for less money and with more content.

Biggest map? doubt they've pass Arma 3 sized maps, you can walk for hours on foot from side to side, someone recorded talking a heli from side to side at 170Mph it took him 7 min.

This is better graphics then ED even though the colours are different it just adds to the alien look.

I don't know much about Elite but does it also have procedural generated planets, wildlife and flora? Like I said before, NMS is a bit bare at the moment. It's more of a crafting simulator with exploration and a bit of combat. I'm more excited about the technology and what the future brings. Even NMS with some more features will probably get better.

As for map size, I'm talking about the whole universe simulated into the game. It was said it would take someone 5 billion years to explore the whole map. Arma3 map is huge, but it's just one region. A planet in NMS is that, a WHOLE planet sized map.