No Mans Sky wins Award - No one was there to receive it - Polidicks

Literally everything it does has been done in another game before. How the hell is it innovating?

No Mans Award?

[QUOTE=Populus89;51900648]If they had been honest nobody would buy it. It's got less content than a 5$ indie game, it's basically spore without the gameplay and creation elements. Just a procedural, not really pretty at all screensaver. There is nothing about it to warrant any prize.[/QUOTE] Okay, I think you're just being an asshole about the game to be an asshole. No the game wasn't great, but to say it has less contents then a $5 dollar indie game. I mean sure, possible, but alot of games are that way nowadays with DLC and pre-order bonus shit. I'm not saying the game was mind blowing experience. It's not $60 worth of gameplay, but it's not lacking in shit, it's just they lied to us. No man's sky for what it is, is fun. I loved watching youtubers play it and seeing them explore different planets with different life forms blah blah. I personally think it's a fun time killer (I haven't bought it, won't until it's really on sale, like for a dollar) but I also don't get my panties up in a bunch over ever detail of a game. But I don't like to be lied to about what I might be buying. [QUOTE=elowin;51901207]Still not that innovative tbh, didn't really do anything new.[/QUOTE] No it didn't, not really. I don't think it merits any awards, but all I'm saying is their sales would've done alot better I think if they would've been like: "Hey guys, we know you want multiplayer, but with the game we are designing that may be impossible right now, we'll try to update it in the future and implement multiplayer down the road" I mean it's like game devs forget we live in a world now where you can update games via the magic of little internet goblins. I would've been cool with them being honest about, hell would've probably made me buy the game just to help support em, but finding out they lied and shit turned me off of that.

The thing is that they not only lied to people and even the very show hosts and interviews, but Sony never stopped for a minute to do quality control, make them double-check and apologize, or anything. They maddeningly pushed No Man's Sky at pretty much every showing they could, and the developers just took it and ran with it while constantly showing fancier and fancier things. And when their HQ got flooded and a lot of development got wrecked? They just continued on as far as anyone knows like it was business as usual, just a minor setback despite most of the stuff in the trailers being completely different and many things absent. They even proclaimed all that old trailer stuff as real-time but it never was. It's a double-whammy on Sony's and Hello Game's parts. And even post-flooding, shit was removed, like desert planets showcased 4 months before the game's release with mostly finalized gameplay.

As much as everyone is bitching about the final product... it's a dev conference. No Man's Sky tech is still impressive for what it is.

[QUOTE=Daddy-of-war;51904733]Okay, I think you're just being an asshole about the game to be an asshole. No the game wasn't great, but to say it has less contents then a $5 dollar indie game.[/QUOTE] How can you even say that when you haven't actually bought the game and pretty much agree on most of my points? Watching the game being played and actually playing it are two different things. Thats how commercials work. I mean it's great that you found fun in seeing other people add content to the game in the form of their commentary and gameplay, but playing it myself I found none. And the entire gameplay is the same 5 -10 mins of mining repeated on different planets over and over again. And aren't you basically proving what I am saying by wanting to buy it for a dollar on sale??

[QUOTE=Robber;51901733]Did No Man's Sky really innovate much? It didn't really do anything that Spore or SpaceEngine haven't done better already IIRC[/QUOTE] tbh the spore engine in all honesty was better at what NMS set out to be when it comes to procedural creatures it does a lot better NMS was just a ton of shitty preset assets, 2 animals per entire planet that had a single biome. None of the creatures have any AI either. [editline]3rd March 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Daddy-of-war;51904733]Okay, I think you're just being an asshole about the game to be an asshole. No the game wasn't great, but to say it has less contents then a $5 dollar indie game. I mean sure, possible, but alot of games are that way nowadays with DLC and pre-order bonus shit. I'm not saying the game was mind blowing experience. It's not $60 worth of gameplay, but it's not lacking in shit, [/QUOTE] the "not lacking" is pretty much "the exact same content except it looks different" This game really does have no more content than a 5$ indie game, maybe even 10$ or 15$. The only difference is that this game makes that "content" look aesthetically different. If you want to see a game with massive amounts of GOOD content, look at terraria, or Space Engineers. It has more content for less. I'm not even talking about gameplay-style or aesthetics either. The content is more dynamic and creative in nature. NMS has the creativity of a child behind it. It's literally "what if you made a game with INFINITE PLANETS". The only issue is that every planet feels pretty much the same and the only good thing about going to another planet is for a different scene and tone. When I played it, hopping planet to planet, I legit could not care for the difference because it felt all the same to me. The game is a theme-park with the illusion that there is more than 1 ride.

[QUOTE=Clavus;51904896]As much as everyone is bitching about the final product... it's a dev conference. No Man's Sky tech is still impressive for what it is.[/QUOTE] ... No? There are games with better procedural generation filling out actual solar systems not just some shitty floating planets without a sun or orbits and that's the only part of their game that could remotely be construed as "impressive tech". spore, for example. released in 2008.

[QUOTE=Populus89;51905020]How can you even say that when you haven't actually bought the game and pretty much agree on most of my points? Watching the game being played and actually playing it are two different things. Thats how commercials work. I mean it's great that you found fun in seeing other people add content to the game in the form of their commentary and gameplay, but playing it myself I found none. And the entire gameplay is the same 5 -10 mins of mining repeated on different planets over and over again. And aren't you basically proving what I am saying by wanting to buy it for a dollar on sale??[/QUOTE] Honestly you're correct. I should've stated I never played the game before hand. From what I saw though, I felt that NMS was a good time waster. Or something for a stoner to do. My gf thinks the game looks cool, (she doesnt like people so multiplayer doesnt matter) and she has to smoke to get sleep (alot of bad stuff happened to her when she was younger so she has night terrors) so I don't know man, I was ill informed when I posted and that was mistake, my apologies.