I love how every single source emphasizes it's "single-planet", just because it's by Hello Games.
Cause fantasy games with dragons are famously known to all contain interstellar travel.
I think the emphasis on the "planet" is that in their usual over-ambition, Hello Games announced that they'll be simulating a full-scale planet. It then got through the media's broken telephone.
Cause fantasy games with dragons are famously known to all contain interstellar travel.
Well, Ultima did, so it is technically an early feature of the genre.
As an aside, I would love to see the concept of "high fantasy space opera" get more love.
I mean, we have Pathfinder which spans over an entire Star system and even beyond but still is a fantasy roleplaying game. (Same with Dungeons and Dragons)
They probably specified to emphasize that despite NMS being interstellar, this one isn't. Since they're known for the former, that reputation comes with the baggage of expecting a similar experience.
This really felt like the NMS engine rethemed. As much as I love NMS I hope this game has more story/direction.
I really hope the flying mechanics are more fluid than NMS but they look similarly hokey.
Lots of similarities. I also think it's the same engine. I wonder how the combat will be as well
100%. More Subnautica-style linear progression, much much less live-service-style chaos.
I will be surprised if the DLC isn’t paid this time around.
I don't think it will. It looks like a mix of Rust and RuneScape
I was thinking someone is finally making T'rain.
The little news I've seen seems to tag this as a sandbox game, and considering the scale I wouldn't hold my breath..
Unless they've fired the absolute moron(s) who designed the crafting and alien language system in NMS, I say stay far away.
I mean, combining dihydrogen and oxygen yields... NaCl? And you learn alien words literally one at a time? Oh but they have procedural generation! Except every single space station looks identical.
IMO This is a developer who does not respect their players. And somehow they've convinced a lot of people that periodically adding more shallow grindy fetch quests means the core gameplay isn't garbage.
It doesn't mean it's bad just because it doesn't cater to your tastes.
I really wanted to like NMS. The core concept is 100% up my alley, it looks pretty good, and it's a neat sandbox. I suppose it's not bad if you're the kind of player who is happy mindlessly gathering resources so you can craft an ornate base. Hell, I played quite a bit because I was determined to collect one of every type of spaceship.
But I really do think the gameplay is objectively bad by almost any possible measure. The on-foot traversal is terrible, waiting around for refiners sucks (though at least they had the sense to give a backpack refiner), trying to get the actual spaceship you want is awful, flying towards the galactic center is a chore, and I could go on. I guess the gunplay is serviceable, but the enemies aren't the least bit interesting aside from maybe the largest walker bots.
This is the worst take I've seen in a LOOONG time. The language learning is one of the best systems in NMS. The developers literally spent YEARS adding to the game, completely for free, but they don't "respect their players"?
Not every game has to be for you, bud.
What are you talking about? The player literally learns nothing about the alien languages. All you do is walk up to a NPC, button mash through absolutely inconsequential filler text, and pick the option that says "teach me a word". Then a popup says "You now know the Korvax word for 'THE'", except it doesn't even tell you which alien word was translated or explain any grammar or context or conjugation or anything. Your character just does a magical substitution from that point forward.
Or you can do the same thing by walking up to the black pillars if you'd rather trudge around a planet surface for macguffins.
How in any way is that a good system? There's zero skill or challenge or reward or even real gameplay here. A word search puzzle would have 100x more depth.
They would have just abandoned the game if they didn't respect the player base. I'm really interested why you have such a hate boner for hello games, I say this as someone who does not enjoy nms but respect that they kept trying to improve it over rhe years.
So many big game studios in the last 10 years (i.e. Activision, ea) have just shit all over the fans then wait a year and do it all over again. It's really hard to hate a small dev team that at least is trying.
EA, Activision, Ubisoft... their BS is on another level entirely and I generally don't play their games because if it.
For NMS / Hello Games it's more that I really want to like the game but find it immensely frustrating that after years and years of updates, they still haven't fixed some of the most basic elements.
Like when your character sprints, the tiniest bump in terrain cancels the sprinting. This even happens in the Nexus where it looks like flat ground. Why?
Again for the alien languages... there's no dictionary in this universe? I'm supposed to believe interstellar travel is commonplace, but they don't have an app to translate the 3 ubiquitous languages? I have a device in my hand right now that can do that.
Space combat still isn't balanced. If you alternate between the phase beam with the shield absorb upgrade and any other weapon, you can basically wear down any threat and win.
What has actually been improved about the core game of NMS? People keep telling me that in vague terms without saying what specifically was improved. I know the inventory system is better (but still kind of a mess IMO), but what else? Don't say multiplayer because they promised that at the beginning.
One of the most interesting games shown, besides Wilds.
Cool, love the Redwall-esque setting. I hope they get their marketing right this time and don't overpromise.
I don’t think Sean makes as many public appearances anymore, so probably safe. But who knows what he will do.
I noticed even Keighley was picking his words as if to remind people to not start expecting a lot.
Blimey, one look at the sodding harefolk and Redwall was all I could think about, too. Wot!
So what's the core gameplay loop?
We are shown exploration but little to find besides landscape. We are shown building simple houses with prefabs. We see very basic npc interaction to your presence. But that's it. NMS biggest issue is that there isn't that much to do and it's depth is shallow. I'm seeing nothing here to dissuade that.
I didn’t know “single planet” is a genre now
NMS is my Zen game. I have over 500 hours in it just in the last two years. I know the game is not for everybody. I have friends who don't understand why I hop through the galaxies, explore systems, hunt for ships, play the expeditions, and build base after base after base, even though so much can feel repetitive for some. But for me, it became my new Minecraft - "one more brick". I love the expansive feel of it, and find the isolation relaxing. If i want to see others i can hop over to the Anomaly or hit the community build areas. I cannot wait to see what Hello Games has come up with.
Does the world really need another building/survival "game"? These are getting as stale as Ubisoft open world games.
Not even remotely, but it does need one from Hello Games!
I'm quite excited to see what comes of this. With the amount of stuff to do in No Man's Sky, I'm interested what other systems, aside from procedural generation and base building, they will transfer over to this high fantasy genre. The dragonflight mechanic seems similar to how the starships steer, although more refined to a natural looking way of flying.
In general, fantasy isn't my favorite setting, but this looks pretty cool and will definitely be keeping my eye on it. I'm curious if it'll keep NMS's general minimalist story structure or do something more akin to GTA with set built story elements/missions, and then a sandbox to explore in between
Is it just me that is reminded of valheim when watching this? They feel quite similar
I see it. Though, I think it's a bit of survival-syndrome.
The building looks a lot like the LEGO Fortnite build mechanics too, so I think it's just a symptom of the genre.
They have already started showing ads of the game. It certainly looks pretty but nothing shown, so far, is technically impressive or even indicative of any actual game behind the visuals. Unless they plan to release it soon, this just feels like building up a huge hype train years ahead of launch and that they haven't learned their lesson from NMS.
@uthredii can't wait to try it
