LGR - No Man's Sky Review
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Date: 2022-04-14
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mercutio
Games like this take time to be great. I'm not talking about your personal time either. With anything as ambitious as NMS, what is needed is the desire to keep expanding this fantastical world in different ways (more creature variety as well as more story. It's really no different than a book series, except that you know you're reading book 1, book 2, etc. With software, you gotta ship something, and it may be what was essentially the latest draft of the newest book in the series rather than a polished final product.
On the other hand, when is this product -mature-? Surely there's a point at which one says -It's as good as it's going to get, so let's ship it! - for software like an office suite or the next Super Mario game or somesuch. What is that point for NMS? With an in-game universe that is practically infinite, at what point do you decide that what's available is good enough to ship?
That said, I thoroughly enjoyed your review. Thanks for the video! :)
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Games like this take time to be great. I'm not talking about your personal time either. With anything as ambitious as NMS, what is needed is the desire to keep expanding this fantastical world in different ways (more creature variety as well as more story. It's really no different than a book series, except that you know you're reading book 1, book 2, etc. With software, you gotta ship something, and it may be what was essentially the latest draft of the newest book in the series rather than a polished final product.
On the other hand, when is this product -mature-? Surely there's a point at which one says -It's as good as it's going to get, so let's ship it! - for software like an office suite or the next Super Mario game or somesuch. What is that point for NMS? With an in-game universe that is practically infinite, at what point do you decide that what's available is good enough to ship?
That said, I thoroughly enjoyed your review. Thanks for the video! :)
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Brett
You may want to re-visit No Mans' Sky with the latest major update - Beyond. Thye have finally delivered the game promised by the hype. and it is awesome! The grind is much shorter, and you can now set automatic mining and extraction devices earlier in the gameplay (AFTER you find out how to build them, and the start is a little more expository. Buy many of the glitches and issues are fixed. You can buy expansion slots early on and they have added ground vehicles with a thri inventory and space freighters with a BIG inventory for you to use. (This is the PC version - I don't know if the PS$ version has it. yet. It should do, or it's coming) Also, in addition to the mission game, they have added a -Sandbox version/Freeplay- game
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You may want to re-visit No Mans' Sky with the latest major update - Beyond. Thye have finally delivered the game promised by the hype. and it is awesome! The grind is much shorter, and you can now set automatic mining and extraction devices earlier in the gameplay (AFTER you find out how to build them, and the start is a little more expository. Buy many of the glitches and issues are fixed. You can buy expansion slots early on and they have added ground vehicles with a thri inventory and space freighters with a BIG inventory for you to use. (This is the PC version - I don't know if the PS$ version has it. yet. It should do, or it's coming) Also, in addition to the mission game, they have added a -Sandbox version/Freeplay- game
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Jake
2 years later, they've addressed much of what made a lot to be desired from this open ended awesomeness. Expanded the star ports and given some flexibility to the story line and multiplayer.
But still, can you at least give me the option to not have to sit through hyperspace in real-time as I approach every planet? I love having the extra 45-90 seconds to grab a snack or take a toke every now and then but seriously, give me the option!
Oh, and PSVR capability too would totally revive this for me for full-immersion purposes (its been talked of for a while but unlikely to come to fruition anytime soon)
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2 years later, they've addressed much of what made a lot to be desired from this open ended awesomeness. Expanded the star ports and given some flexibility to the story line and multiplayer.
But still, can you at least give me the option to not have to sit through hyperspace in real-time as I approach every planet? I love having the extra 45-90 seconds to grab a snack or take a toke every now and then but seriously, give me the option!
Oh, and PSVR capability too would totally revive this for me for full-immersion purposes (its been talked of for a while but unlikely to come to fruition anytime soon)
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Some
This turned into one of my favorite game ever made, even though it's not perfect in a lot of ways. The ambient music is what really gives this game soul. It was fun to find specific stars in the whole galaxy (Delta Polaris, Pilgrim Star)by manual navigation and then left my mark (bases) there. Too bad the game isn't a full mmorpg otherwise there could be true active civilizations, as it is it's passive. Also cool to name a bunch of stars in a sector after Norse gods.
I still keep the earlier GOG version from 2016, the installation is 2. 5gb, compared to the final 1. 77 version now which is 8. 5gb.
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This turned into one of my favorite game ever made, even though it's not perfect in a lot of ways. The ambient music is what really gives this game soul. It was fun to find specific stars in the whole galaxy (Delta Polaris, Pilgrim Star)by manual navigation and then left my mark (bases) there. Too bad the game isn't a full mmorpg otherwise there could be true active civilizations, as it is it's passive. Also cool to name a bunch of stars in a sector after Norse gods.
I still keep the earlier GOG version from 2016, the installation is 2. 5gb, compared to the final 1. 77 version now which is 8. 5gb.
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Max
You should revisit the game as a -4 years later- retrospect. If you're part of those that enjoyed the original vanilla v1. 0, you will go nuts with all the updates Hello Games added. And, yes, everything from the inventory space issues to the boreness of the first 10-20 hours has gone from bad to great, and graphics were extremely updated so that it doesn't look like a 4-years-old game.
Just make sure that if you do, you start a brand new game. Don't attempt to load your 4-years-old save, you'll miss on the explanation of how the game mechanics work (and they work very differently, now.
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You should revisit the game as a -4 years later- retrospect. If you're part of those that enjoyed the original vanilla v1. 0, you will go nuts with all the updates Hello Games added. And, yes, everything from the inventory space issues to the boreness of the first 10-20 hours has gone from bad to great, and graphics were extremely updated so that it doesn't look like a 4-years-old game.
Just make sure that if you do, you start a brand new game. Don't attempt to load your 4-years-old save, you'll miss on the explanation of how the game mechanics work (and they work very differently, now.
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Jason
In forums and Reddit, why is Hello Games being praised for living up to a baseline expectation of actually releasing a complete game? Are piecemealing updates in a span of five years acceptable when your game's core gameplay was not finished to begin with?
Is everyone ok for companies to sell you an incomplete product through false advertisement interviews (Sean Murray false advertisement investigation back in 2016?
If you answer -yes, - then you have low standards.
Just call it an early access right off the bat, folks.
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In forums and Reddit, why is Hello Games being praised for living up to a baseline expectation of actually releasing a complete game? Are piecemealing updates in a span of five years acceptable when your game's core gameplay was not finished to begin with?
Is everyone ok for companies to sell you an incomplete product through false advertisement interviews (Sean Murray false advertisement investigation back in 2016?
If you answer -yes, - then you have low standards.
Just call it an early access right off the bat, folks.
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TheDigitalThreat
-Spoiler- (sorta) unless they changed it since the first year, not all are playing in the same galaxy or universe. After entering the center of the Galaxy you wake up on a new planet in a new galaxy and or universe in the same situation you began the game in. Only difference being you now have your latest ship/gear. Same shit, but different galaxy entirely and I'm not even sure if you can ever go back to the original galaxy/universe the majority of players are in.
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-Spoiler- (sorta) unless they changed it since the first year, not all are playing in the same galaxy or universe. After entering the center of the Galaxy you wake up on a new planet in a new galaxy and or universe in the same situation you began the game in. Only difference being you now have your latest ship/gear. Same shit, but different galaxy entirely and I'm not even sure if you can ever go back to the original galaxy/universe the majority of players are in.
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Aaron
These sandbox games are an important step between the games of the past and what we expect today. For example, without Oblivion, Morrowind would have never evolved into Shyrim. Oblivion was the template we expected later games in the genre to improve upon. Similarly, if any space game fails to meet the advances of No Man's Sky, it will be ridiculed as being even worse. Therefore it set a benchmark. We've come a long way from Pong.
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These sandbox games are an important step between the games of the past and what we expect today. For example, without Oblivion, Morrowind would have never evolved into Shyrim. Oblivion was the template we expected later games in the genre to improve upon. Similarly, if any space game fails to meet the advances of No Man's Sky, it will be ridiculed as being even worse. Therefore it set a benchmark. We've come a long way from Pong.
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whatsupsevensup
Even with all the updates, no mans sky has had this problem with the game being a bit more grinding and chorey up until the 25-30 hour mark(not counting the first 2 hours, but that has changed with the new beyond or origin update. Idk which one cause I didn-t really play beyond but when I started a new save in origins the game was much more fun
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Even with all the updates, no mans sky has had this problem with the game being a bit more grinding and chorey up until the 25-30 hour mark(not counting the first 2 hours, but that has changed with the new beyond or origin update. Idk which one cause I didn-t really play beyond but when I started a new save in origins the game was much more fun
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Ian
I gotta be honest with you, that little speech about how life is hard, and thinking about giving up and quitting. Yeah, that was inspirational as hell! Lol, thank you for that.
Also I bought this game at launch, and still play. Put it away for a while, but picked it up again when it came to xbox with all sorts of updates. Huge improvement from launch
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I gotta be honest with you, that little speech about how life is hard, and thinking about giving up and quitting. Yeah, that was inspirational as hell! Lol, thank you for that.
Also I bought this game at launch, and still play. Put it away for a while, but picked it up again when it came to xbox with all sorts of updates. Huge improvement from launch
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