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Any Euro / American Truck Simulator fans here that are also digging this game?

According to Steam, I have 169 hours on ETS, so I kind of like driving (or flying) around and doing stuff just for the sake of it.

But I'm still really, really undecided on No Man's Sky. There are certainly things I like, but I just feel that after a while, there won't be any really new stuff to discover, just variations of known stuff. Which can certainly be fun enough in itself. Eh, I dunno. I'm definitely waiting for PC impressions.


Also, question on the day/night cycle, because I'm still not quite sure about that: Can you "influence" whether it's night or day when you land? And does the sun wander around in a realistic manner? Or is everything you see from space completely decoupled from when you are on the ground?
 
Meffer said:
Turned off the game and turned it back on but I'm still stuck, is this a glitch? This is very frustrating.
Seriously, anybody know to deal with this? I'm getting pretty pissed about the situation.
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check your fuel for takeoff thrusters. you might have to buy some plutonium
 
I accidentally attacked some Sentinel ships when coming out of a station because the cross-hairs were red and I assumed they were hostile. Got my ass blown up as a result but didn't have anything confiscated from me, thankfully!

I'm really loving this game. I only got to play for 2.5 hours last night but really enjoyed it. Gonna sink so much time into it.. I feel like if this gets a VR patch upon launch of PSVR that my life as I know it will basically be over. ;)
 
SomTervo said:
Fuck, so that's what graves are! I found one but couldn't work out what it was!!!

They legit went Souls on that!!!
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Yeah, especially on a planet and if your corpse has the item your current goal is centered on, it feels incredibly Souls-y.

In space, IMO the benefits of three-dimensional navigation make it way easier to get back to and snatch it up.
 
I'm sure the intelligent frog species that has a space station in orbit and apparently lives all over the place here enjoys that I renamed their planet to simply "Planet." of the "Duh" system, and named several lifeforms either variations on "Duurrrr" and "Bleuugh" or after the Ninja Turtles, because they look like mutant turtles with rooster heads.

There really ought to be a way to rename stuff because I'd be embarrassed if somebody found my home system.
 
Hawkian said:
IMO it actually doesn't matter. 10 minutes spent playing something you don't enjoy is too long. There's no hidden secret to liking something. True of any game. Identify as quickly as possible if it's for you or not, then move on.

I have been told to stick with games even if my initial experience wasn't good and I was frustrated- i.e. Demon's Souls- but I don't think that's analogous here at all. My initial experience with this game has been nothing but reasons to continue.
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The fact is that many experiences don't "bloom" for a good bit of play/read/watch time. Push through that boredom and the experience might become better than anything you've experienced. Hypothetically. That could actually happen. It's happened to lots of people.

I didn't think The Witcher 3 was that great until hour 10. The Wire IMO isn't brilliant until season 3, at which point it becomes possibly the greatest TV show ever made. The last of us and Shadow of the Colossus have slow openings but are up the on "best games" lists because of their middles/half's.

If you're someone with very little time this obviously isn't worth it unless you have a lot of patience.
 
Irminsul said:
Also, question on the day/night cycle, because I'm still not quite sure about that: Can you "influence" whether it's night or day when you land? And does the sun wander around in a realistic manner? Or is everything you see from space completely decoupled from when you are on the ground?
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Yes, Fly on the Dark side of a planet and it's night time, fly on the bright side of a planet and it will be day.

Well until the day cycle shifts at least.
 
Sleeping Lesson said:
These are astronomical odds, or at least based on the numbers Sean has thrown around. Even if we assume "most" of the systems are toward the center, and players start at the outer-rim, the odds are ~0. Not "it'll happen to somebody!" kind of odds, literally impossible kind of odds. Struck by lightening 200 times in your life kind of odds.

But apparently not!
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They probably changed it with the update to make it easier? I mean everyone always asked if we would find other players or discovered planets.

If this starts happening more often that has to be the case. Galaxies are suppose to be 10x bigger too.
 
Anyone who ordered at Best Buy, did you receive your pre-order codes in an email or anything? I can't seem to find mine and they didn't come in the package :(
 
Played for almost 5 straight hours after the game unlocked last night. I am loving it so far. This game is pretty much exactly what I was expecting. Spent most of my time aimlessly wandering looking for blueprints, monoliths, etc.
 
pixellated_man said:
I would have skipped on most of my favorite games ever if I followed that line of thinking.
Every one of my favorite games over the years has had either a slow / boring opening and/ or spells of mediocrity at some other points.
Last of Us comes to mind as a good example of what I'm talking about. After that widely praised prologue, there is at least 1/ 2 hours of game time where I was left thinking 'maybe this game is overyhyped?'. Thankfully I pushed myself to continue with the game and it turned out to be one of the 'great ones'. I know some fellow gaffers who formed a premature opinion of the game based on those early hours and discarded it. Their loss.
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Well, in general people seem willing to tolerate a lot more frustration than I am while playing videogames. I'm curious as to which other of your favorite games ever appear on this list!

For me, gaming should just be fun. It's a pasttime. If something isn't fun for me I cannot last long before abandoning it for something I do find fun. Sometimes, honestly, this takes under an hour or even under 10 minutes for some games To each his own, of course. I understand I'm actually in a pretty small minority on this.

Demon's Souls is actually the solitary example I can think of in my gaming past where I had hours without any progress or sense of fun that then redeemed itself. For that I was rightfully encouraged on GAF to stick with it despite my initial frustrations with 1-1. And it's I'd have encouraged you to stick with The Last of Us (though that's a great example of a game that personally hooked me from the first minute). The game I stuck with the longest but shouldn't have (basically, I could tell that it was high-quality but just wasn't for me) was Valkyria Chronicles.

This is a very, very different type of game from any of those though.

If someone plays this for 3 hours and their primary takeaway is that it's boring, should they really play for another 30?
 
Chaos2Frozen said:
It's a lot of effort though lol @_@

I should also mention I did reach the space station and had two encounters with intelligent lifeforms- one traded with me, the other taught me some words.
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Those encounters would be fun to read, with a funny twist. :) I should buy this game...
 
OmegaDL50 said:
I like this one

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Although I'm probably going to keep my current avatar, if I was going to change it would that one.
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If no one minds, I think I be using this.


super-famicom said:
Also, this website is set up so you can share your discoveries and blog your travels in space.
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Thanks, got it bookmarked.
 
SomTervo said:
The fact is that many experiences don't "bloom" for a good bit of play/read/watch time. Push through that boredom and the experience might become better than anything you've experienced. Hypothetically. That could actually happen. It's happened to lots of people.

I didn't think The Witcher 3 was that great until hour 10. The Wire IMO isn't brilliant until season 3, at which point it becomes possibly the greatest TV show ever made. The last of us and Shadow of the Colossus have slow openings but are up the on "best games" lists because of their middles/half's.

If you're someone with very little time this obviously isn't worth it unless you have a lot of patience.
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And upon finishing those games you appreciate the begining much more, especially on replays.
 
Played about an hour, seems this is going to be my "Too tired after work" game. Started on an ice planet, moved on to a poison water/smoke planet..I don't think I'm going to bother naming stuff as I won't be able to think of new ones after the first couple dozen.
 
One more thing...you should definitely be able to fly lower in your ship when on a planet. I should be able to crash the damn thing if I want.
 
TheMan said:
One more thing...you should definitely be able to fly lower in your ship when on a planet. I should be able to crash the damn thing if I want.
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Yeah the flying when you're actually on the planet is a little wonky. It felt like the ship kept trying to fight me on the controls. The earlier footage shown seemed much more fluid and free, but I guess they didn't want people dying all the time just by flying around?
 
Ok I'm confused. So I followed the game's tutorials to the first space station where I traded in some items. Then it told me to find a signal boost to find more places of interest, ok cool. So I go back down to the planet, and after exploring for awhile I hope back into my ship and onwards to another planet. While warping there the game tells me to refuel my ship at a space station. How do I find my way back to that system's space station?? I can't seem to find it anywhere.
 
SomTervo said:
The fact is that many experiences don't "bloom" for a good bit of play/read/watch time. Push through that boredom and the experience might become better than anything you've experienced. Hypothetically. That could actually happen. It's happened to lots of people.

I didn't think The Witcher 3 was that great until hour 10. The Wire IMO isn't brilliant until season 3, at which point it becomes possibly the greatest TV show ever made. The last of us and Shadow of the Colossus have slow openings but are up the on "best games" lists because of their middles/half's.

If you're someone with very little time this obviously isn't worth it unless you have a lot of patience.
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mehhhhh Middle Ground is like the best episode of anything ever but hell, The Wire was good enough from the first ep to make me want to watch 3 seasons worth without hesitation. And I consider Shadow of the Colossus basically flawless start to finish. :P

Hey this is just something personal I guess. I understand people are often willing to put up with a lot more in their entertainment than I am. I definitely couldn't play something I didn't enjoy for 10 hours, so kudos to you for sticking with it!
 
Irminsul said:
Any Euro / American Truck Simulator fans here that are also digging this game?
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I imagine most Euro/American Truck Sim fans are waiting for Friday's PC launch, much like me.

I'm HUGE on ETS2/ATS and it's my primary draw to NMS. Exploration, discovery, and just generally chilling out and relaxing. Unwinding and getting into the flow of it all.

Looking forward to PC impressions. I'll likely be playing within the next week or two.
 
Listonosh said:
Yeah the flying when you're actually on the planet is a little wonky. It felt like the ship kept trying to fight me on the controls. The earlier footage shown seemed much more fluid and free, but I guess they didn't want people dying all the time just by flying around?
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At first people might die a lot, but that would improve with practice and experience. "Fighting against the controls" is a good way to sum up how I felt as well.
 
TheMan said:
Yeah, my biggest gripe so far is definitely the inventory space, just way too limited.

The base game they're working with is pretty fun and full of potential. Tweaks over the next few months will turn this into a masterpiece.
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Yeah. I mean I'm fine with the resource management stuff but right now I'm dying to sell off these artifacts I picked up and scrambling for a merchant/trader currently. And an AtlasPass.
 
Has anyone else fed any animals yet? I fed this cute winged lizard thing and he started talking to me and led me to a crate that had some valuable stuff in it. It was a neat little moment. I assume that's what happens every time you feed an animal.
 
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