• No Man's Sky - Did You Know Advertising? Feat. Caddicarus
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Come on, at least wait for the game to be released
[QUOTE=Dr.C;50841605]Come on, at least wait for the game to be released[/QUOTE] And wait to find out that it probably won't live up to expectations? They have to ride the hype train while it's still on its tracks.
[QUOTE=DuCT;50841633]And wait to find out that it probably won't live up to expectations? They have to ride the hype train while it's still on its tracks.[/QUOTE] It just bugs me that DYKG is being used to advertise games when it was originally to highlight really obscure hings about video games and consoles. I already knew most of this stuff about NMS and none of it was interesting trivia
[QUOTE=DuCT;50841633]And wait to find out that it probably won't live up to expectations? [/QUOTE] I'm amazed people built this game up to be anything more than a AAA Noctis IV because that's exactly what it was designed and presented it to essentially be What expectations are there? Seriously? They've done nothing but show it as basically a neat generated universe you can explore. I literally don't understand how people see it as anything more than that. I guess when you get put on a press conference stage it gets easy for your mind to make things up and assume it is greater than it really is. Goes to show how powerful a stage show presence can be.
[QUOTE=Dr.C;50841642]It just bugs me that DYKG is being used to advertise games when it was originally to highlight really obscure hings about video games and consoles. I already knew most of this stuff about NMS and none of it was interesting trivia[/QUOTE] I've noticed this about DYK* lately. They'll put out a video about a really recent piece of media and all I can think is either native advertising or trying to catch the hype train.
I'm still not 100% clear on wtf you do in No Man's Sky, all I know is it has lots of things to look at. Is that it? Do you just walk around and look at shit?
[QUOTE=KorJax;50841676]I'm amazed people built this game up to be anything more than a AAA Noctis IV because that's exactly what it was designed and presented it to essentially be What expectations are there? Seriously? They've done nothing but show it as basically a neat generated universe you can explore. I literally don't understand how people see it as anything more than that. I guess when you get put on a press conference stage it gets easy for your mind to make things up and assume it is greater than it really is. Goes to show how powerful a stage show presence can be.[/QUOTE] I take it you haven't paid attention to the trailers and pre-release media (hype pushed by Sony, admittedly) showing combat, trading, crafting, and alien diplomacy. It's not like it's Elite NotBoringness and will be a 1:1 replacement of it, nor is it hiding a CoD/RTS mode anywhere, but it's not [I]merely[/I] tripping around a pretty algorithm. [QUOTE=Katatonic717;50841851]I'm still not 100% clear on wtf you do in No Man's Sky, all I know is it has lots of things to look at. Is that it? Do you just walk around and look at shit?[/QUOTE] There is a storyline and lore, the devs have just been keeping lips sealed on spoilers. There are four alien races and you need to learn their languages (which you can learn a word at a time, apparently from these monoliths that work a little bit like Skyrim's dragon word monuments, but you have to accomplish a puzzle or something) in order to understand them and communicate properly, and until then you're engaging in diplomacy blindly. You can upgrade your suit, weapon, and gear, and replace them with better/different parts with different layouts; these upgrades are necessary in order to make further jumps faster and to survive the hostile conditions on some planets -- both conditions that are supposed to be progress gates on the approach to the galactic core, which is the goal of the game. People playing copies from retailers that broke street date have also found that you can tame alien life (but you can't take it with you into your ship). The problem is that the game is about discovery and exploration so the devs don't want to spoil too much -- which is great except it makes it really hard to justify a preorder over. For anyone who wants to see what the game's actually like, there's footage from people playing early-sale copies, although it frequently gets taken down. Just keep two things in mind: a) the streamer/uploader may not know much/anything about the game and miss out on tons of features in their first few hours of playtime, and b) the copy pressed to disc is obviously intended to have a day-1 patch that Hello Games has already completed, according to their Twitter, so reviews based on the pre-launch copies should take that into consideration.
[QUOTE=Katatonic717;50841851]I'm still not 100% clear on wtf you do in No Man's Sky, all I know is it has lots of things to look at. Is that it? Do you just walk around and look at shit?[/QUOTE] its spaceman spiff simulator 2016
This is going to be the most disappointing shit if you're actually hyped for it
[QUOTE=aussiedropbear;50841949]This is going to be the most disappointing shit if you're actually hyped for it[/QUOTE] I'm just going to slap my previous post on this subject here: [quote]Some of us are hyped with a complete understanding of what the game is going to be - in fact, more than most, going by the questions people have in this thread. I'm hyped and all I'm expecting is a gamified space engine. It's annoying for people to keep trying to shut down my hype for it with the reasoning that "I'm going to be angry or disappointed when it's not what I thought it would be". Can I not be hyped while managing expectations for something?[/quote]
[QUOTE=Katatonic717;50841851]I'm still not 100% clear on wtf you do in No Man's Sky, all I know is it has lots of things to look at. Is that it? Do you just walk around and look at shit?[/QUOTE] its actually a social experiment about multi-layer hype, hype within hype, so to speak. the hype isnt even in its final form when youve played two hours.
Did a mod change the title or did HybridTheory become self aware?
[QUOTE=Tuskin;50842257]Did a mod change the title or did HybridTheory become self aware?[/QUOTE] yes
[QUOTE=DuCT;50841782]I've noticed this about DYK* lately. They'll put out a video about a really recent piece of media and all I can think is either native advertising or trying to catch the hype train.[/QUOTE] As far as I can tell this video is not a sponsored/advertisement video, so it's just DYKG getting in on the new game hype for views.
[QUOTE=Tuskin;50842271]As far as I can tell this video is not a sponsored/advertisement video, so it's just DYKG getting in on the new game hype for views.[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;WLXXSIFW5u4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLXXSIFW5u4[/video] It's definitely not the first time it would've happened. This is the only instance where it's pretty much told that it was sponsored, though. Might just be 'cause of Ubisoft.
Did you know Richard Linklater's [i]No Man's Sky[/i] took 12 years to make?
I think it is required you say a video is sponsored or something. I don't know.
[QUOTE=PieClock;50841976]I'm just going to slap my previous post on this subject here: *things*[/QUOTE] This. Spore was a bit of a disappointment and I disliked the state that Starbound turned out and don't expect this game to be any different of a deal but that doesn't mean I'm going to shit all over people's decisions and a game if said game can still deliver what they want. Reminder that most of the hype is being caused by the playerbase than exclusively just the marketing campaign and vice versa; as of now, you literally cannot stop this.
The only people who are going to be majorly disappointing are the people who don't actually follow the game and assumed it was something it's not. It's literally just a universe exploration game with some trading, combat, and lore on the side. Some people think its some mass multiplayer online Mass Effect thing and they're going to be the loudest ones once it comes out.
Does anyone actually think it's going to be some sort MMO though? I haven't seen a single person say that.
Well that seemed like a load of bullshit. I usually like Did You Know Gaming? but that's because they're usually telling obscure or forgotten facts and details about the backgrounds of games. [I]"No Man's Sky uses the same basic idea but with its own algorithm and just one galaxy"[/I] That's wrong. [I]"The team would also tweak individual elements themselves to create more beautiful worlds. As well as having moons orbit closer, artist Grant Duncan wanted some planets to have green skies. To achieve this, the team had to rework their periodic table so that atmospheres could have the right particles that would diffract light at a wavelength that appeared green"[/I] That's the dumbest statement I've heard about NMS. Are they seriously trying to say that the universe in NMS uses fucking diffraction of sunlight through the atmosphere to render the sky's color?
That was the funniest part to me, I know they were trying to make NMS's engine sound super ~[I]next-gen[/I]~ but to me it made it sound like it was held together by duct tape and gum.
[QUOTE=Sherow_Xx;50842809] [I]"The team would also tweak individual elements themselves to create more beautiful worlds. As well as having moons orbit closer, artist Grant Duncan wanted some planets to have green skies. To achieve this, the team had to rework their periodic table so that atmospheres could have the right particles that would diffract light at a wavelength that appeared green"[/I] That's the dumbest statement I've heard about NMS. Are they seriously trying to say that the universe in NMS uses fucking diffraction of sunlight through the atmosphere to render the sky's color?[/QUOTE] Sounds possible. It could be "physically accurate" in a sense that it takes some layer parameters and calculates the color. The wording is quite shabby but besides that sounds legit.
[QUOTE=rndgenerator;50842888]Sounds possible. It could be "physically accurate" in a sense that it takes some layer parameters and calculates the color. The wording is quite shabby but besides that sounds legit.[/QUOTE] I'm sure they've programmed it so the sky color will correspond to what's on the planet, but there's obviously no particles in the sky that diffracts light. Same goes for what the video said about the close-orbiting moons, they made it sound like they had to [I]change the physics[/I] so that the planets wouldn't be [I]damaged by the tidal forces[/I]. There's no fucking tidal forces, they just programmed the moons closer, what the fuck.
[QUOTE=aussiedropbear;50842795]Does anyone actually think it's going to be some sort MMO though? I haven't seen a single person say that.[/QUOTE] At least one person on facepunch thought it was something like that, forgot who though. They also thought it had minecraft-style building?
They forgot a key fact. Procedural generation can cause this [t]https://i.imgur.com/pVzLpE2.jpg[/t]
I don't know if i should be hyped to not.
[QUOTE=SassPD22;50843299]I don't know if i should be hyped to not.[/QUOTE] I was hyped until they jacked up the price to $60.
[QUOTE=Lolkork;50843399]Why are people already hating this game?[/QUOTE] i used to hate it, but then they changed my periodic table so that my disappointment resonated at a different wavelength so that they could have one more sale
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