No Man's Sky

[mestevo]

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Heh, I've killed 70 sentinels on one planet. I don't know why I assumed...

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... that there was only one kind of sentinel!

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at 3 'stars' they were sending cougar-sized ground sentinel(s) at me with beam weapons!!!

[The JareBear]

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yeah, the gold deposit are the main reason i still haven't left my starting system. I'm making a lot from the gold, though spending it all on exosuit slot upgrades. up to 36 slots now. need to stop and save for a bigger ship.

What's the maximum exosuit slots?

[razorkaos]

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With the lack of game demos now, PSN and Xbox should really add a refund policy similar to Steam's.

Sometimes you just have to play a game to know if you like it. A two hour refund policy would be a nice little perk to entice people to go digital.

But most devs don't offer demos out of fear that people will see everything there's to see in the game.



NMS is exactly like this. What you saw and did in the first 3 hours is exactly all you see and do for the next 30 or 300 hours.



The problem is that the game is as big as it is shallow.



I already know what happens when you get to the objective of the game, and IMO, it will let a lot of people (who are loving the game right now) down.



When i said i was skeptical about the game when it was first announced, i feared it would be exactly as it is now, instead of being like they alluded to before Sean Murray starter dodging questions and giving vague, ambiguous answers.



It's a shame, cause it had potential to be a lot more than this

[Solidice]

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What's the maximum exosuit slots?

I'm not sure, it seems to just keep expanding. the last slot I got cost 230K seems to go up by 10K for every slot.

[sbauer318]

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But most devs don't offer demos out of fear that people will see everything there's to see in the game.



NMS is exactly like this. What you saw and did in the first 3 hours is exactly all you see and do for the next 30 or 300 hours.



The problem is that the game is as big as it is shallow.



I already know what happens when you get to the objective of the game, and IMO, it will let a lot of people (who are loving the game right now) down.



When i said i was skeptical about the game when it was first announced, i feared it would be exactly as it is now, instead of being like they alluded to before Sean Murray starter dodging questions and giving vague, ambiguous answers.



It's a shame, cause it had potential to be a lot more than it is.

No, most devs don't offer a demo because they're a pain in the *** to develop and package. It's boring, tedious and problematic with a lot of games. It would be far easier to have someone download an entire game and then put a wrapper around it (ea access) than to put together a specialized build. For story based games, do you just create a special level without any spoilers or just let them play through an opening sequence something?

Your story isn't unlike other games. In sports games, you play that sport for hours on end. Sure there are different modes, but the core game play is the same. If you hate how the ball physics work, you're not going to enjoy the game for 30 hours after your first two. Same holds true for other action games. If the gun play sucks and is boring, you'll find out two hours in.

You don't like NMS and you would have found out two hours in. A lot of people have played it a lot longer than two hours so it's clear that, to them, the game offers more than two hours worth of unique game play.

[razorkaos]

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No, most devs don't offer a demo because they're a pain in the *** to develop and package. It's boring, tedious and problematic with a lot of games. It would be far easier to have someone download an entire game and then put a wrapper around it (ea access) than to put together a specialized build.

Your story isn't unlike other games. In sports games, you play that sport for hours on end. Sure there are different modes, but the core game play is the same. If you hate how the ball physics work, you're not going to enjoy the game for 30 hours after your first two. Same holds true for other action games. If the gun play sucks and is boring, you'll find out two hours in.

You don't like NMS and you would have found out two hours in. A lot of people have played it a lot longer than two hours so it's clear that, to them, the game offers more than two hours worth of unique game play.

If someone enjoys doing the same thing over and over again, more power to them. It's like Minecraft, to be honest. I don't like the game, but i understand why people like it.



What i meant to say with "you'll do these same things all game long" is that, for people expecting new things from the game as the time passes, it's just something they'll not see.



As I've said, if you enjoy what you're doing in the game now, and you think you'll still enjoy doing these things for the next 100 hours, I'm fine with it. But for me, its just too shallow and repetitive, even if there's a quintillion planets to visit, you'll still do exactly what you did in the first planet.



Don't get me wrong. I may not like how NMS turned out to be, but i hope those who bought it can enjoy it. Last time i bought a game that i didn't like (Final Fantasy 13), i was really pissed, it's not a good feeling, and i don't wish to see others feeling like this.

[ODogg]

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But most devs don't offer demos out of fear that people will see everything there's to see in the game.



NMS is exactly like this. What you saw and did in the first 3 hours is exactly all you see and do for the next 30 or 300 hours.



The problem is that the game is as big as it is shallow.



I already know what happens when you get to the objective of the game, and IMO, it will let a lot of people (who are loving the game right now) down.



When i said i was skeptical about the game when it was first announced, i feared it would be exactly as it is now, instead of being like they alluded to before Sean Murray starter dodging questions and giving vague, ambiguous answers.



It's a shame, cause it had potential to be a lot more than this

This is the reason I tend to avoid OS because I read things like this and it can get in my head and make me think the same way about a game. Right now about 5 or 6 hours in I'm loving it and I very well may end up agreeing with this sentiment...I certainly am more prone to it if I read this a bit.

You're certainly entitled to your opinion, no doubt, and I am not saying you shouldn't post it here or anything, I'm just saying that this is actually why I avoid game threads until I form my own opinion.

For example , I've got about 100 hours in Far Cry and I've never yet visited that thread but I'd bet if I do I'd see a lot of reasons to hate the game and may never have kept playing it if I had..


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[razorkaos]

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This is the reason I tend to avoid OS because I read things like this and it can get in my head and make me think the same way about a game. Right now about 5 or 6 hours in I'm loving it and I very well may end up agreeing with this sentiment...I certainly am more prone to it if I read this a bit.

You're certainly entitled to your opinion, no doubt, and I am not saying you shouldn't post it here or anything, I'm just saying that this is actually why I avoid game threads until I form my own opinion.

For example , I've got about 100 hours in Far Cry and I've never yet visited that thread but I'd bet if I do I'd see a lot of reasons to hate the game and may never have kept playing it if I had..


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No problem. I just think that if you grow tired of a game, it's not because someone told you that it would gonna happen. Eventually everyone decides to move away from a game, but the reason is always between the player and the game.

[EnigmaNemesis]

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Repetition complaints on a sports gaming forum...

Not every game is for everyone, but...

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[razorkaos]

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Repetition complaints on a sports gaming forum...

Not every game is for everyone, but...



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Sports games aren't sold with a promise of exploration. That's not a valid comparison.

[EnigmaNemesis]

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Sports games aren't sold with a promise of exploration. That's not a valid comparison.

And you can explore in this game. It is perfectly valid. The argument was "repetition".

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[mestevo]

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My first crash on PC, after 2 huge gold nodes and probably another 15 Sentinels killed

At least I got a picture of where I'm going to 'bury the bodies'

[mestevo]

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yeah, the gold deposit are the main reason i still haven't left my starting system. I'm making a lot from the gold, though spending it all on exosuit slot upgrades. up to 36 slots now. need to stop and save for a bigger ship.

Wow. I've only just now come across my first exosuit upgrade.

[CMH]

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When i said i was skeptical about the game when it was first announced, i feared it would be exactly as it is now, instead of being like they alluded to before Sean Murray starter dodging questions and giving vague, ambiguous answers.

But the game is exactly what the devs said it would be.

So I'm definitely not disappointed because I didn't assume things that I wanted. I got exactly what was promised.

It does seem the complaints are from people saying, "I didn't expect this" or "I didn't know what kind of game it was."

That's the gamers fault.

[bcruise]

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But the game is exactly what the devs said it would be.

So I'm definitely not disappointed because I didn't assume things that I wanted. I got exactly what was promised.

It does seem the complaints are from people saying, "I didn't expect this" or "I didn't know what kind of game it was."

That's the gamers fault.

This, basically. I got a baseline idea of what to expect from what the devs said pre-release, and just went on media blackout (including this thread) so as not to let others' opinions of what the game should be influence me.

As such, I wasn't disappointed with what I got.