No Man's Sky

The one thing I know for sure about No Man's Sky is that I don't care for watching other people play No Man's Sky.

Then I found two giant gold rocks right next to a vendor, so I harvested both of them and made 300k credits in five minutes.

It shouldn't be, it feels good, plays good, its a bit more obtuse/hardcore than maybe its marketing implied, I think.

In that nothing is holding your hand, really, telling you "Go here, do this". You gotta kinda motivate yourself in it a bit.

Its more relaxing and open ended and sandboxy and that's gonna turn some people off as well.

I really don't care either way, but that isn't remotely hand holding. They say "Build a warp core. Build a hyperdrive. Leave the Galaxy" and they don't tell you where to find any of the materials to build any of that, and you can just straight ignore that list and go do whatever else you want.

A game gets too overhyped, and then everyone becomes hypercritical to the point that nothing is ever good enough and no one can enjoy anything.

Its silly.

Play it or don't. Its just a video game.

Yeah I just streamed it for a bit for anyone wanting a look at it.

I don't get how my son can sit and watch some retard on youtube play minecraft for like two hours, but I don't think he does that so much anymore.

He did go through a phase where he watched people stream a lot of minecraft though.

Dyvim said:

Sure it may not bother you, but for me its allready too much getting pressed with that in a sandbox.
I mean i could log into CS:S and shoot at anything moving just pretending it to be HL2. One habit does not transfer well into other habitats though.

tldr: This is not the droids we are looking for.

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I mean I really don't care. Different strokes for different folks and all.

Its just not that big a deal unless you make it into one, which is fine. Its your money, your free time to spend it how you wish. I'm not here trying to convince you or anyone else to buy this game. I've been posting videos and shit actually to help people make up their minds if this is a game they want to play or not, and I'm well aware many will look at it, and choose not to. That's fine as well. I have no vested interest in the success or failure of this title. I'm just playing it because there's nothing else out there, and it really isn't that bad.

Its sandboxy. Not pure sandbox. If you want a 100% sandbox space game, Elite Dangerous is a pretty good fit.

I like ED a lot, but a lot of people don't. They find it boring and empty. Same complaints this game will inevitably receive, I'm sure.

Surprise most of space is empty space. Boggles my mind that some people don't get that.

I'm really not criticizing you or your opinion. I'm just saying that it gets a little irritating that nothing can ever just be "good enough" on the internet. There's always gotta be some complaint. No one can just enjoy somethings for what they are.

Its really not about you, honestly. Its more like I'm bitching about society. Same shit with Fallout 4. Everyone got so overhyped for it, they forget that it was being made by Bethesda, which meant it was inevitably going to be plauged with all the same issues any Bethsoft title has.

Day 1 here comes the complaints about the graphics, about the aging engine, about the bugs, yadda yadda. Its like "Dude, can you name me a single Bethesda developed and published title in the past 20 years all these complaints didn't apply to the day it launched?" and the answer is "No, not really" so what the fuck are they expecting?

Same shit with this game. We've seen copious amounts of footage, we've had the devs be pretty explicit about what the game is, versus what it is not. Yet we're assured to be inundated, not here necessarily, but across messages boards and such everywhere on the internet, with people complaining that the game isn't Y, when the devs and everyone has known it would be X since 3 years ago.

Rant off.