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- elahon2
I discovered the Willy Want Tree the other day.
- CygnusZero4-1
NMS likely not a flop commercially, but critically its getting ripped pretty good. IGNs review is still in progress, but they gave it sort of an interim score of 6. Highly doubt thats going any higher considering theyve been playing it for a week.
- We get it, you don't like the game - quite why you have to keep banging on about it, or why you need to LIE about your experience with it, I don't comprehend.detritus
- yeah, even as an outsider it seems like you post your hate about it quite oftenmonospaced
- Reminds me of playground bullshit like 'Amiga vs. Atari' or 'Super Famicom vs. Megadrive'... when I was fucking fourteen.detritus
- Weirdly, weirdly immature behaviour from someone who I assumed was an adult, at least outwardly.detritus
- The thing that's interesting is in upcoming updates. Since so much is generated from the code, changing the code and adding assets could change a quite a bit.Nutter
- welcome to CygnusZero4 daily NMS ranternexbcn
- @detritus err, amiga forever dude of course!trooperbill
- Abso-fucking-lutely! I can't remember what happened to my A500, but my A1200's still at the folks, DD broken - HD has two games, Gravity Wars & SimAnt :\detritus
- HD is 20-fucking-Mb.
Twenty.detritus - i used to love my amiga so much... syndicate was amazing, wings, cannon fodder, SWOS!!! wow...james pond was funny toocruddlebub
- You ever play Wings, two-player, over the cable-thing? That, Populous II and Stunt Car Racer were amazing back then, 'multi' playerdetritus
- mekk4
- I love BF4, its the game I play the most. This feel boring. I played it at E3, I played the Alpha and went back to BF4.ArmandoEstrada
- Bolt action is best action. I'm in for this.DRIFTMONKEY
- cruddlebub1
another NMS post.
right, i have been on holiday and have been playing it a lot. a had a few days of dullness but its ramped up the fun and the treat has been incredible on one planet that was full of venom sacks. The sentinels go mental if i even shoot at one let alone try to harvest them. I've made over 2m credits but now am trying to upgrade my hyper drive.
its a good game, amazing in parts, it can get samey but thats the proceedural side to it i suppose.
i like the anomalies, ive not seen a black hole yet, i just want to jump miles and see some really messed up and mental things, and i wont complain about similar animals until ive visited a different galaxy as at the moment all these planets and systems seem to be in the same galaxy.
how is everyone else finding it?
- Threat*cruddlebub
- thanks to yours and face_melter's descriptions, I'm thinking I might need to get it soon. I'm cheap, so was going to get it later at half-price...detritus
- the updates/dlc, which is all free, will probably wipe all the issues and grumbles of many people. mine has crashed a fair few times but not in the last few daycruddlebub
- i went through a blackhole, it shot me 350,000 light-years away from the the 10 systems i started at. but ya kind of all the same.BabySnakes
- ernexbcn0
This is digital crack for me
- What happened to the whole 'evil is approaching' malarkey from the first release? I stopped playing after that.face_melter
- Is the original story still there, or is it beginning to drift?face_melter
- haha you mean THE DARKNESS? well yeah that's the main plot still, they are expanding different storylines with the expansionsernexbcn
- honestly, the last expansion (The Taken King) was what Destiny (base game) should have been, it was a real improvement upon what was thereernexbcn
- I heard good things about The Taken King - I have no interest in Destiny's loot grinding, so I only played it for the *pffft* story and occ. Strike.face_melter
- If I can find a collected version on the cheap I may pick it up.face_melter
- Oh balls. PSN has it for 40% off... As is I didn't have enough to play already.face_melter
- @face_melter I'd buy the whole package instead, they are releasing one with this expansion plus the previous 3 expansions + base gameernexbcn
- The PSN version is the same as the disc collection - it includes exp. I, II, and Taken King, but with the 40% knocked off.face_melter
- terry_cloth0
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111...
- Fuck, I'm going to have to buy another Wii U.set
- i haven't been excited about a game coming out since n64 releases, in fact, that was my last nintendo console. between this and the pkmon go epidemic nintendo iterry_cloth
- -s going to be back on top like the old daysterry_cloth
- excited ^(like this) aboutterry_cloth
- Super Mario bros on the Wii U was brilliant. Just a shame it was about the only good game... Sold mine once I'd played that.set
- from what i am seeing this is going to be released on some kind of next gen gameboy type deal anywaysterry_cloth
- Nintendo NX. It's going to uses cartridges apparently. They'll release this on the U as well though..set
- I reads it on the interwebs I didset
- Ha-ha, nicely done, I'll probably do the Wii u thing thenterry_cloth
- CygnusZero4-2
Im about 10 hours into NMS now. I like aspects of it, but I still have the same complaints I had early on. The game is very slow! Not just progression, but how you move. Trying to fight anything is a nightmare because the side to side movement is like the slowest you will ever experience in a game, so you cant really dodge or anything. I gave up trying to dodge and just stand in one place until something is dead.
That has to be my biggest complaint at this point. There is no skill or anything involved with combat. I wish it took some lessons from games like Halo. Would have improved this greatly.
I enjoy the collection stuff bc I always liked grinding in RPGs so that doesnt bother me too much. I still wish there were more involved missions, like you would find in Mass Effect.
- it's not *really* an fpsmonospaced
- It switches to being one when you have to fight, so why not get it right? Its too slow for any sort of combat to be fun.CygnusZero4
- Its not an FPS in the sense that the game isnt all about that, but it has times when it has to be, and they screwed it up.CygnusZero4
- I agree... I feel the walking movement is very unnatural and floaty. At the same time, fighting off sentinels is such a tiny part of the game.monospaced
- Like you, I feel like they went really far with scope, but missed the details that make it immersive, especially when walking around.monospaced
- boost the sensitivityelektro
- Play Mass Effect if you want Mass Effect. I really don't get this gibbering nonsense about why NMS should be like every other game out there.face_melter
- hans_glib0
does each player exist in their own universe? is it a set of interacing multiverses?
or is each player in the same universe (so the early adopters get to set/map the unknown for later players)? do you run into other players?
curious hans is curious
- yeah that's why it sucks. you will never meet an other real player in the game :( (it was tested and players couldn't see each other at the meeting point)sted
- so each player is a lone explorer of some massive procedural space-time continuum? very matt damon.hans_glib
- Currently yes but I think that they will change this.sted
- zero multiplayer beyond discovering planets and animals and sending the names to the databaseernexbcn
- CygnusZero4-2
We're all in the same universe, and not only is it far too big to really just randomly run into other people, but I read that you cant even see each other when you do. Its a single player game. Go into it knowing exactly what it is and you might like it. Go in expecting some nutty MMO full of life and interactions, not gonna be happy with it.
- Milan0
- hahah ouchdetritus
- lololOP31
- Ugh, 16 mins, summary?elahon
- he promised stuff that's not in the game, like multiplayer, being able to see your character, a universe vs 1 galaxy, etcmonospaced
- sted0
Connected nms to my vive. and after some fov adjusment ahaha geez it's amazing but crap framerate :(
- CygnusZero41
The resource stuff gets really old after a while when you realize thats really the bulk of the gameplay. Its different than grinding in FF games because thats optional, and youre doing it earn an ultimate weapon or something like that, which you dont even need, but in this game its like multiple layers of grinding.
In this game, its grind to find elements just to survive. Grind to find elements just to fly around a planet so you dont have to walk 1mph everywhere. Grind to find each element to craft antimatter just so you can get to the next system, where you do all of this same grinding over again, just to get to the next system. Its really kind of pointless. And thats just some of the grinding in this game. You need to do tons of more grinding to upgrade all your equipment.
The game right now is like 95% grinding for elements, 5% combat. But really it needed to be closer to 50/50, so that the grinding part wasnt such a slow boring chore. But the problem is the combat is trash because you cant even barely move. This game would have been soooo much better if the combat was more like Halo, a little more of that, a lot less of the resource grinding, and I think it would be getting much better review scores.
- thanks. you just saved me £250+hans_glib
- you don't have to land on a planet to get resources, or buy on a space station :) harvesting while flying works tosted
- it was never really an fps dude, there are no enemiesmonospaced
- no enemies? im getting shot at quite bit. what are they?CygnusZero4
- sentinels aren't enemies, thoughmonospaced
- it's an indie game. but like 15 dudes. people need to stop treating it like Bungie or Naughty Dog have put it together.inteliboy
- *byinteliboy
- Give it a fucking rest.MrT
- Reading this is a grind.face_melter
- He's right though.monospaced
- set3
2400 MS-DOS games to play in your browser -
- elektro3
Couple screenshots i took while exploring NMS (ps4)
- a whole buncha' noffin'ArchitectofFate
- http://www.oxforddic…set
- Some of these are lovely. This is a real stoner's game, isn't it?detritus
- ^ Kind of, except the game is constantly nagging you to repair things. Cant even walk around without stuff dying on you.CygnusZero4
- It looks like a stoners game in pix, but in reality there are 47 aspects of this game that would kill anyones high real quick.CygnusZero4
- Can you list all 47 pleaseset
- @set Lol, yea misunderstood the word "couple" here
@Cygnus Depends of the planet, some are indeed harder to explore if extreme temperature or radiationelektro - 48 is an audio loop of Cygnus saying 'this game is shit. this game is shit. this game is shit...' Makes you want to open a window on the Space Shuttle.face_melter
- 47 representing every single thing that needs to be managed. There is a LOT of it.CygnusZero4
- Bluejam2
5 hours play time of No Mans Sky and I'm having fun.
It's not perfect by a long shot but to be honest, I couldn't really give a fuck. Watching my eldest son (8 years) play the game is proving to be well worth the £45 price tag.Read this article today and pretty much agree with what he says.
"Video games are still very tricky to define. They are not technological objects in the same way as printers or smart watches or Bluetooth speakers. But they are not art in quite the same way as cinema or literature. Instead, they are works of complex creative endeavour, they are imaginative machines, but the players themselves must complete the circuitry; you have to bring something with you – and with some games that requirement is greater. The clash over No Man’s Sky is a clash between people who see games as an entertainment product and the people who see them as an experience. As a product the game falls short in many practically understood ways. As an experience it can be utterly transcendental."
- worddee-dubs
- Keith Stuart writes excellent articles and the only games journalist I read, he's a singular voice of calm reason is a sea of utter, utter, shit.face_melter
- ^ *in
Everyone should read his pieces concerning his autistic son and the part Minecraft has played in bringing them closer together. Wonderful stuff.face_melter - The fun will end in about 5 hours. I put 10 hours into it and cant be bothered with it anymore. Sooooo boringggg.CygnusZero4
- Give it a fucking rest, mate.face_melter
- mekk0
Gamescon was fucking shit. Just a huge youtube content machine and teenagers, not a single good game was announced or had something special revealed. What a joke.
- Weyland3
because master race: http://nomansskymods.com/
fast actions is such a relief, also shutting up the suit's voice ... geez
- drgs0
It's like an episode of Silicon Valley
- no shit. anything that's procedurally generated gets old super quick. when are people gonna learn?Milan
- minecraftdrgs
- never played it, but wasn't minecraft popular because you could build shit lego-style, and not because of procedurally generated environments?Milan
- yes milanmonospaced
- dopepope0
^ maybe if people stick to it, eventually they'll implement the features they promised, and it will make the game beyond epic, and anyone still playing will be at a level that will make it all worth while. Right???