No Man's Sky

[PVarck31]

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From what I've seen it reminds me a lot of an old game in the early days of home computers when games were on 5 1/4 " discs called Elite.

You could play as a trader where you searched planets for various goods and kept track of the prices. Buy low on one planet and sell high on another planet. With the cash you upgraded your ship. You could also play as a pirate and attack trade ships. When the trade ship exploded you would see cargo floating in space and you could hijack it. The problem with being a pirate is you then had to dodge police ships.

I'm guessing this game will be much deeper with far better graphics and more stuff to do but at its core it reminds me a lot of Elite.

If I recall correctly, even Sean Murray compared it to Elite.

[tessl]

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If I recall correctly, even Sean Murray compared it to Elite.

That's what it reminds me of except apparently you can explore the surface of the planets in this game. This game will be far deeper but at the time Elite was a very cool game. I reached max level in it.

[PVarck31]

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Sean Murray tweeted that the size of the game is 6GB and a lot of that is audio.

He also said it has already passed certification and that they are working on update 1.

[mestevo]

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[daniel77733]

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Sean Murray tweeted that the size of the game is 6GB and a lot of that is audio.

He also said it has already passed certification and that they are working on update 1.

Jeez...only 6GB??? Damn, they compressed the hell out of the game. LOL. Update 1 as in a patch? Does any game nowadays NOT have a day one patch?

Not bashing the game as im still interested in it but 6GB is possibly the smallest game GB wise this generation. And the patch comment is in general.

Looking forward to seeing the reviews for the game and the impressions here from you guys.

[mestevo]

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Well yeah, 6gb is textures and the client, the whole universe is spawned from essentially a random number generator that your client renders.

[The JareBear]

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Well yeah, 6gb is textures and the client, the whole universe is spawned from essentially a random number generator that your client renders.

So does that mean that the save files are going to be enormous?

[EnigmaNemesis]

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For the record, Shadow Warrior was only 6GB as well compared to other FPS games of equal length that are in the 40GB range.

However, as you said, it is the music, UI, and texture assets. The universe is procedurally generated with said assets. Not like it is using super high resolution and ultra detailed textures. They are more simple, but beautiful with fantastic retro sc-fi art design.

Isn't Minecraft under 50mb vanilla PC (215MB on PS4)? So that should tell you something about, 'size does not equal scope' with this type of game.

[mestevo]

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So does that mean that the save files are going to be enormous?

Probably not, since the terrain of planets isn't retained (my least favorite bit about this game by far, and most overlooked IMO) your save is probably your location and the thousands (if not tens of thousands) of numerical values representing the planet, biome, etc and n number of surrounding systems (since you can play offline somehow this is probably saved for continuity between save files and in case you're disconnected).

[bcruise]

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6 GB is actually quite large by indie game standards (which is easy to forget sometimes with all the hype this has gotten).

[rudyjuly2]

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Isn't Minecraft under 50mb vanilla PC (215MB on PS4)? So that should tell you something about, 'size does not equal scope' with this type of game.

And Minecraft looks like crap. It rivals Atari 2600 graphics. Nobody should ever bring up Minecraft when talking about graphics lol. My kids love it but it's graphics are an embarrassment.

[EnigmaNemesis]

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And Minecraft looks like crap. It rivals Atari 2600 graphics. Nobody should ever bring up Minecraft when talking about graphics lol. My kids love it but it's graphics are an embarrassment.

Who is talking about graphics?

We are talking about file size in relation to scope, lol.

[Boltman]

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Who is talking about graphics?

We are talking about file size in relation to scope, lol.

Yea I don't think the comparisons had anything to do with graphically speaking.

[Dog]

No Man's Sky

Who is talking about graphics?



We are talking about file size in relation to scope, lol.

*Allen Iverson voice*

Graphics? We talking about the game, not graphics. Not a game! Graphics.


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[rudyjuly2]

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LOL. My bad. I jumped into this conversation late.

My daughter wants this game. It just looks boring to me. I can never even finish watching a Youtube video. Trying to catch up on the details.