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No man's sky; Xenobiology goes to computer games
Topic Started: Dec 26 2014, 04:32 AM (2,264 Views)
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Not Everything, Just Copy Pasted What was relevant in the Article. Left Out the Pretty Pictures
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guess what happens when people overhype something and blame it on the devs
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This sort of thing happens with every large, hyped up game that has a normal (translation: really buggy) launch. Give it a month, and people will calm down.

No Man's Sky looks interesting, but I'm not buying it for a while, because school starts in a few weeks, it's stupidly expensive (curse you, Perry the platypus! weak Canadian dollar!), and the PC port is a tad buggy at the moment.
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Hey, their right to get freaky ends when it goes up my nose.


I think this describes what dinosaurs are like now

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I bought it, only to find out my computer didn't have the specs to run it, so I had to get it refunded :(
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LittleIslander
Aug 15 2016, 11:23 AM
guess what happens when people overhype something and blame it on the devs
To be fair here, a very large (read: substantial) amount of hype comes from marketing.
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Have you ever been bitch slapped for lack of listening? lack of doing what your told? cuz i'm not far from slapping you
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Always hype your game up when it's completely finished and tested out. And a little more than a week before it comes out.
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Hype just is a stupid thing though. It gets to such absurd levels that there'll always be dissapointment. The fandom builds up the 'hype train' to levels no work could possibly achieve realistically and then blame the developers when it goes wrong. Look at Titanfall and Destiny and how much fan-wankage occurred when they were announced compared to release. Some of it is down to fans being ungrateful as hell but a lot is due to unrealistic expectations as well.
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And If I remember correctly, the media was hyping this game far more then the devs were.
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Yeah, in the dev trailer from a few E3s ago, they only mention facts about the game, and they don't lavish it. 'This is how the game works. Sometimes we finetune wildlife, planets, and ships here and there but otherwise the game does everything by itself. It's an entire galaxy too, so the likelyhood of bumping into another player unless you give them your coordinates is extremely low.'


I've heard that 'OMG THIS IS GONNA BE THE BEST ACTION MMO EVER' was the general reaction.
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People on reddit are claiming that multiplayer was promised very explicitly by the devs, when all they said was that it was possible in theory for it to happen. And that was a long time ago as well.

There's another reason I'm avoiding purchasing the game, most of the people talking about it online are being insufferable brats about the game.
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Hey, their right to get freaky ends when it goes up my nose.


I think this describes what dinosaurs are like now

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Aug 17 2016, 01:41 PM
Yeah, in the dev trailer from a few E3s ago, they only mention facts about the game, and they don't lavish it. 'This is how the game works. Sometimes we finetune wildlife, planets, and ships here and there but otherwise the game does everything by itself. It's an entire galaxy too, so the likelyhood of bumping into another player unless you give them your coordinates is extremely low.'


I've heard that 'OMG THIS IS GONNA BE THE BEST ACTION MMO EVER' was the general reaction.
Oh, god, the amount of people on Reddit making posts like "there are totally gonna be giant space whales in this game I have proof look at the way the developer blinks in this one interview" and "this game is going to have completely realistic physics and ecosystems the animals will have traits like mimicry and camouflage and it'll be just exactly like a real, actual planet, you guys".

Although, it isn't all on the fans. There was a lot of stuff that was in the more recent trailers (that was supposedly made from in-game footage using the current build) that just isn't in the current game at all.

Things like "factions" and "AI ships helping you" aren't in the game at all, for example. There are alien races you can talk to and befriend, but befriending one alien race has no effect on your relationship to any of the other alien races at all, and all befriending a race does is get you some bonus tech upgrades that you can just as easily find by yourself.

There's a lot more, and it does start to sound a little tin-hatty and paranoid, but there's definitely some good points.
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Aug 17 2016, 12:25 PM
Always hype your game up when it's completely finished and tested out. And a little more than a week before it comes out.
A game, like any piece of art, is never finished.
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The way I see it, all that really matters is that it's a good game. Maybe it doesn't have this or that or whatever but if I can have fun playing it like it is how much am I really going to care?

Also oh god, the backlash about the backlash is just as bad. Because rage is clearly the best response to rage, amirite?
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Exactly. It looks to me like a pretty chill game where I can explore pretty-looking planets and see/name neat-looking creatures. I'm still gonna wait for the PC bugs to get patched and for the price to go down a bit, though.
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Aug 17 2016, 02:21 PM
People on reddit are claiming that multiplayer was promised very explicitly by the devs, when all they said was that it was possible in theory for it to happen. And that was a long time ago as well.

There's another reason I'm avoiding purchasing the game, most of the people talking about it online are being insufferable brats about the game.
The devs called it multiplayer explicitly multiple times and a large number of boxes shipped with the multiplayer mark covered with a sticker.
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