Computer games.

Was hoping No Man Sky would be boss but held off on buying in case it was utter dump. Figured a month or so would be enough time to be convinced.

Looks like its not worth bothering. Shame, really.
 
RFUS said:
Well... I love No Man's Sky. Feel like I'm one in a million judging by the reactions to the game!

I've been following it since day one and I've always kept my expectations realistic. It's, even though they've grown, a 15 person studio who've made this. What did people expect? What they have accomplished is incredible. Look up into the sky, see an actual planet sized planet. Fly to it. Land on it. Find a giant dinosaur with the head of a shrew and the wings of a butterfly. Laugh. Find a boulder of gold and spend 10 minutes eating up every pixel of it. Shoot those annoying robots in the face. Learn some alien words and barter with someone who has more horns on their face than eyes.

Utterly love it. The sights, the sounds, the Fez-esque lore and intrigue. I can understand what it doesn't do and it what it does badly, but this game is such a technical feat and creative accomplishment it makes me sad that that seems to have been ignored in the face of people expecting impossible things they'd dreamt up themselves.
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I want to love it, but they have some serious work. Sort the multiplayer, as Murray has said on several occasions it would be there.

Sort out the worst space flight controls ever! Honestly, it is like that old Star Wars game when you fly down the trenches, and have no control over where you are going. Again, there is plenty of pre-release footage of grasstop skimming flying, which is just not in the game currently.

And lets not even start on the absolutely awful optimization of the game and its inability to run smooth on mega-machines. Myself, I can play for 20-30 minutes at 60fps, and then it will just drop to single digit framerates, where the only fix is to exit and restart the game.

They are promising a patch, but the beta patch testers on steam are reporting it doesn't do anything.
 
Personally waiting for Star Citizen.

My cockpit space-sim background is Frontier Elite on the Amiga in the early-90's and X2 on the PC in mid-00's...time is ripe for another journey, feeling Star Citizen might be the one.
 
dholliday said:
Personally waiting for Star Citizen.

My cockpit space-sim background is Frontier Elite on the Amiga in the early-90's and X2 on the PC in mid-00's...time is ripe for another journey, feeling Star Citizen might be the one.
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This.

My rig is a beast at the moment, so I'm hoping it will deal with the horrific power that will no doubt be needed...
 
Having played a bit more of NMS it does get better the more you move into the galaxy. The Sentient nobheads become a little more gun toting, I got attacked by pirates in space because I was carrying a sh!t ton of gold (I was livid), and the creatures and plant life on some planets becomes more and more evolved the deeper you go.

I'm just finding the whole 'Atlas' thing a bit confusing and can't get a sodding 'Atlas Key' for the life of me.

Oh, and is it normal to have such a small inventory on these sorts of games? Does my absolute head in.
 

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