Just seeing the technology behind the procedurally generated universe first hand is worth the price of admission.
No Man's Sky pre-orders start March 3rd, $59.99
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Just seeing the technology behind the procedurally generated universe first hand is worth the price of admission.
Yeah, I'm down to pay $60 just to see what the game can do. That's all I need.
Sadly most of the whiners on the thread won't know anything about two of these games :/ especially the last one (which I would kill for a VR version of).
Pretty much, yes. The game was inspired by the original Elite which procedurally generated an 8 Galaxy, 2000 system universe on a 32k 8-bit computer they loaded the game off a cassette tape, and confirmed of flying from system to system trading goods, having space battles and levelling up your one ship until you became a Elite.
NMS is an update of Frontier, which had planetary landings and seamless surface to space transitions way back in the days of the Amiga & ST.
hydrophilic attack
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Lol, you're totally clueless. Jonathan Blow had a speedrun record of six hours pre-release. Of course, after release, the speedrun community shaved that down by a lot. But most people would need at least 20 hours to do most stuff in the game, unless they use a guide. The game has a lot higher longevity than The Order.
More_Badass
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He actually was talking about Firewatch
hydrophilic attack
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How do we know this? He quoted me in a post where I was talking about The Witness and never mentioned Firewatch.
Dropping dem truth bombs. Really shows how much stupidity there is in some of the comments in this thread.
Alpha Phoenix
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I can almost guarantee will be $40 on Amazon within 2-4 months of release.
Me too. Would be literally perfect for VR. Atmospheric and tense as anything, and you don't even have to move around because you teleport. Ideal.
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Pop
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I wouldn't even compare the two.
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Wow bold prediction that a video game could be $40 after 4 months on sale lol
DeepEnigma
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$60 for a non physical copy? I already went through that with SFV and in the end I got an incomplete demo at actual release.
Tired of the pre-order culture.
GAF has $60 worth of content.
Blackleg-sanji1
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Nah it's $20 at best i dont know what im getting with gaf sometimes
Doctor_Thomas
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If you don't think [game] is worth [amount] don't buy it.
Honestly, just stop whining about it because they're not going to lower the price to meet your expectations. Don't buy it. Show them you don't think the price is fair.
No Man's Sky is a day 1 title for me and I will happily pay the asking price because it looks like the sort of thing I want to be involved in.
Honestly, just stop whining about it because they're not going to lower the price to meet your expectations. Don't buy it. Show them you don't think the price is fair.
No Man's Sky is a day 1 title for me and I will happily pay the asking price because it looks like the sort of thing I want to be involved in.
Alpha Phoenix
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I know
But the reactions in this thread are remarkable. I wasn't seriously expecting it to be less than $60.
hydrophilic attack
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Oops. That's what I guess for only searching my username to respond to replies, and not reading the whole thread, I guess.
You should probably wait for it to go on sale, then. Plz check back in 4 months.
More_Badass
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Because those games are completely comparable
One should remember that smaller teams like these don't have the safety net that big developers/publishers like Capcom do, so they have way more incentives and reasons - both financial and personal - to not release a broken incomplete game. Capcom or Ubisoft release a broken game that gets fans in an uproar, they can weather the storm with relative ease. A team like this, their reputation is shot, not enough revenue to work on another game, studio closes down, etc.
Blackleg-sanji1
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Meh ill wait double that time for the goty edition. I'll pay for n4g full price instead..You should probably wait for it to go on sale, then. Plz check back in 4 months.
Lmao ok i couldn't do it with straight face
The Lone Courier
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At the price of your soul.
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BS tbh. Indie games survive the heat of awkward bugs and performance issues all the time. Firewatch is living it up on that POS Unity engine that also seems to survive its failures.
Pestilence11
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If I can get 20 or so hours out of it before warping to a system and landing on a planet to collect resources a bunch of times gets boring then it'll be worth the price. People act as if there being billions of places to go means it won't have the possibility of get repetitive quickly. Impossible to say right now how many random events have been programmed in to keep things fresh.
More_Badass
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Every game has bugs, and more than a few have framerate issues, indie and AAA alike. I'm talking about releasing an "incomplete demo" advertising as a full-priced full release or releasing something so badly broken that it has to removed from a storefront and not sold again (cough Arkham Knight PC cough).
AAA devs/pubs can bounce back from that, due to other franchises, merchandise, marketing, enough funds to just start working on the next game
An indie dev probably couldn't, due to a tarnished reputation regarding a debut project, not enough revenue to work on a new project, or being forced to close due to lack of sales. Indie devs shut their doors just due to lack of sales even if their games are well-reviewed, so it's even more likely that the consequences are much higher for small teams than AAA teams
Yes. Except you can land on all planets and walk around on foot. There will be life and other interesting things on planet surfaces.
Get_craycray
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Don't know if it's already been said but I saw this on Twitter:
(could be a placeholder)
SolidSnakex
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I wonder if Wild is going to get this type of reaction when it's revealed to be $60 as well?
Forerunner
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I'd also imagine NMS is a lot more casual and accessible than Elite.
Messofanego
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But then it becomes $20 early access around E3 with all them bugs.
CyberPunked
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June 21st is a very odd placeholder.Don't know if it's already been said but I saw this on Twitter:
(could be a placeholder)
Icyflamez96
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Yes. Elite is a sim. NMS is much more arcadey in nature.
In that aspect its probably a lot more evocative of Elite 1.
More_Badass
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Space shooter fans who like the exploration and/or action, but not the time investment of a sim must be very happy this year
For the straight-up arcadey combat fan, they got Everspace. And for exploration, trading, discovery (and combat), they got No Man's Sky. And both are colorful and vibrant and look gorgeous
Space shooter fans who like the exploration and/or action, but not the time investment of a sim must be very happy this year
For the straight-up arcadey combat fan, they got Everspace. And for exploration, trading, discovery (and combat), they got No Man's Sky. And both are colorful and vibrant and look gorgeous
Both of these GIFs are 10000% right up my alley.
Blackleg-sanji1
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They look beautiful is ever space coming to ps4?Space shooter fans who like the exploration and/or action, but not the time investment of a sim must be very happy this year
For the straight-up arcadey combat fan, they got Everspace. And for exploration, trading, discovery (and combat), they got No Man's Sky. And both are colorful and vibrant and look gorgeous
Space shooter fans who like the exploration and/or action, but not the time investment of a sim must be very happy this year
For the straight-up arcadey combat fan, they got Everspace. And for exploration, trading, discovery (and combat), they got No Man's Sky. And both are colorful and vibrant and look gorgeous
Wait a sec. 3rd person camera for flight? I think that's the first time I've seen that.
Edit: Derp that's Everspace on the left.