Out of Pod Experience

So now the day one patch is out and people are streaming the game. After watching for several hours I'm not as excited about this as I was when it was first announced. Hello Games have delivered on their concept but the experience of exploring planets seems disappointing, as there's only flora and fauna to discover. You walk around shooting rocks with your laser and uploading your discoveries but there's nothing cool to find. You won't be stumbling upon ancient alien settlements and suchlike. In fact there are virtually no buildings at all other than the identikit trade stations and landing platforms. The planets merely exist as elaborate mineral deposits for you to upgrade your ship with so you can keep going towards the centre of the universe.

It's not my intention to deliberately 'hate' on the game as I was really looking forward to this, but I fear it suffers from the problem of being very wide but very shallow. There's no doubt No Man's Sky is a technological achievement but what's the point of having 18 quintillion planets if there's nothing interesting on them?

Watching the streams today it turns out it's an iOS version of Elite, so glad I didn't fall for the hype and preorder.

its an indi team that were all ov a sudden given more marketing than Jesus Christ himself,
its like watching yer mate slowly come to his senses the morning after
and realize the girl he'd brought back looked like a horse in a girl suit.

I admit, I laughed, while trying to not remember some drunk nights I had in college...

What I wonder is how many times the "new game is coming, EVE better do something" types have to be disappointed that the newest "messiah" game doesn't live up to the hype before that stop proclaiming the end of EVE is nigh

Oh the only reason this was supposed to be an eve "killer" was the outragious triple A marketing budget sony threw at them.
People would not be frothing at the mouth as much over this if they had not fallen into the hype for it.
If they thought of it as an ambitious indi game (which it is) there may well be less knashing of teeth and so on.

I hope it the best of sucess and i will most likley pick it up at some point but i think ill let the dust settle first.

I totally did not like it since day one, since I watched it for first time years ago.

I Have seen a game that I like more, it makes a lot more sense, have a lot worse graphic (I am able to forgive because I really like the rest, and it only makes youe imagination flowing, not like oversaturated No Mans Sky direction of realistic space zoo for teenagers) and it is about exploration also, but also will induce a strategic thinking: Out There Omega.
It captures the feeling of a struggle to survive and makes even simple choice, what star next to visit, a challenge. Since you always dont have enough of anything. In wast, unexplored space, you will be lost as a baby in a forest, without parents that could lead you out of it. You will die a lot in that game. You will remember what you did wrong. Damn, they even officially have a skeleton in a spacesuit as a backgroud for the game title. With a reason.

that and every time people use the active logins or sub count as a blunt object to bludgeon the rest of with
they invariably gave it a nod.

oh yeah, dont get me wrong it looks great for an indi game and i cant wait to play it, but an eve killer it is not

To be fair, Star Citizen already surpasses EVE in many things after a year of developement.

I came back to EVE after a year off and I 'm not feeling it. Star Citizen on the other hand comes in waves. Content is slowly trickling in every update.

A persistent universe is slowly shaping up.

I already play more SC than EVE.

EVE is stagnant. I suppose it technically has more content than SC right now, but its not progressing. SC is.

Seems like there are "some" problems with the PC Version. /sarcasm
NO MAN'S SKY (PC Version) - Arkham's Sky