@RockmasteR-_-: There may very well be bugs, but it should have little to do with the size of the game world/universe. Fallout and Elder Scrolls games don't have the amount of bugs that they do due to the size of the games, but rather due to the scope of them. There are so many systems and scripts running in tandem with each other that it's next to impossible to not have bugs. With No Man's Sky being entirely proceedurally generated, it likely won't have so many bugs, but instead a number of "oddities" where the game is technically running perfectly, but the procedural generation generates something, based on an unforeseen combination of parameters, that is not quite what the developers wanted in their game. It's likely this reason that the game has been delayed as much as it has.
Personally, the chance at discovering a "mad scientist" planet has me curious!
@GunEye: Interesting perspective! A couple things to ponder: first, whether true or not, Murray did state that it is possible to see other players, and that it's the only way to truly know what you actually look like. Next, regarding the universe needing to synch with everyone, he stated that since the game universe and everything in it was entirely proceedurally generated, there's never any need to load anything...it's all simply a proceedural algorithm stored on each player's hard drive.
Naturally, it's easy to state things, but we'll soon see how well (hopefully) it all comes together!
I'm thinking the reviews for this will be all over the place, with each score being a combination of the reviewer's stance on the survival exploration genre mixed with what they were able to discover during their time with the game. With everyone starting on their own unique planet mixed with the randomness of discovery elsewhere, it sounds like there can be vastly differing actual experiences with the game.
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