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Remember: no preorder. No matter how good No Man's Sky turned out eventually, this will only be their second game of the open-world survival genre and it might need to go through the same engoodening. I just hope Sean leaves the PR to people who can do PR.
Speaking of which, do we have a Lemmy version of r/patientgamers? I miss that place
Dude just can't help himself:
https://twitter.com/nomanssky/status/1732979907314225593?s=46&t=DcMhywPQbOcUnHzbR9W3xw
"you can always fix it later" says the cyberpunk team lol, that can't be real
I don't see the problem. He's scaling back from over 200 galaxies with trillions of planets to a single planet.
That’s actually hilarious
Definitely interested. Hello Games may have stumbled on the NMS launch, but they've more than proven themselves since then!
would be real awkward if they mess it up twice
At least this time they're not starting from scratch. I'm sure a lot of systems can be transferred over from NMS, excluding the ones that either weren't well received or don't make sense in a fantasy setting. Although we know Sean Murray is the king of overhyping even if they eventually delivered a good game. Almost as bad as Peter Molynieux
No pressure.
Really excited for this! Hope they learned their lesson this time and aren’t gonna over promise.
Even though it looks really polished already considering it’s all in game footage, I hope they’ll give it a few more years before it comes out.
Open world survival game with crafting mechanics. But the world is bigger or something and procedural generation.
Yawn.
If we’re to believe his new marketing spiel, I think that the catch or the draw is that the entire world actually happens to be explorable this time.
And that would be interesting because?
Yeah, I feel like we so easily forget that bigger does not mean better. If it's larger than what the development team is capable of touching by hand, then more often than not it's just empty or uninteresting space.
Make the mechanics interesting and even the traversal could be fun. I'll wait on this one tho. Also cos I got a lot of backlog.
What is the goal in this game? Watching the trailer just shows people running around different areas on foot or on creatures. Is this another “explore” game like No Mans Sky, or is there a mystery to solve, or is it an FPS?
This is my biggest question as well. I need a game to have direction.
NMS was mostly an open exploration game, but it did have a questline, albeit basically just forcing you to explore. So I'm expecting something similar here (though the fighting looked better).
Based on the trailer, it reminded me of Valheim. So a progression of zones/materials, but an 'open' game. But how knows, maybe they'll add a story element?
I was curious if they'd be working with a publisher or going indie this time. The article didn't say. So I went straight to their website and their newsfeed hasn't been updated in like a year.
So I think it's safe to say they haven't gotten much better at PR 😂
Hello Games is an independent video games developer based in Guildford, United Kingdom.
We are developers and publishers of Light No Fire, Joe Danger, The Last Campfire and No Man’s Sky.
"Whatever you do, don't let Sean go on Colbert again!"
This looks amazing. I love space, but fantasy is much more up my alley. I keep hearing how amazing NMS is, so I just hope they learned their lessons
I was wondering if there would be magic or something
It really does look amazing, just hope it holds up
So...what do you do in this game? We've seen movement and very basic NPC interactions. Building entire or part of buildings automatically. But that's it. They mostly just showed off pretty, but almost entirely empty landscapes.
They are also doubling down on procedural generation. I hope they learned from NMS that procedural generation can be useful but only if there are interesting things to do that get generated. If you generated the same set of boring landmasses, there's no point. I saw nothing in this trailer remotely new.
Also their trailer's text was hot garbage. "A fantasy earth". No shit, really? No one would have got that from the fucking dragons.
My favorite are all the comments saying "lOoKs PrOmIsInG!"
My friend, we've seen literally one trailer and that's it.
And that trailer looked pretty promising…so what’s your take here? Or do you just hate optimists, in general? Because that’s okay, too!
What's the threshold for being able to suggest that it looks like it has potential? That it looks like there's a possibility that there might be something good there, I guess we'll keep an eye on this? Because that's what "looks promising" means. One trailer of gameplay footage? An hour of unedited gameplay? Something in between? Looks promising to me.
I mean, I'd say a credible example of gameplay would be a fair minimum. Doesn't have to be a trailer or anything, just seeing that the gameplay exists, looks (even subjectively) like it could evolve into something fun, and is more than just a flashy scripted trailer to collect preorders.
You said it better than I could have.
Something that's not just walking around from place to place and occasionally hopping on the back of a flying creature. Some combat, maybe some dialog and how a quest/mission works in the game.
As it stands right now, and as someone else put it, it looks like a cross between Valheim and ARK. I just can't get hyped for something like this when I've played plenty of other extremely similar games tons of times before.
This look great! When come out? Cannot wait.
It releases tomorrow and won't be playable for 5 years
hello games famously never overpromises on their games before release
For me, they STILL haven’t fixed the most important issue with No Mans Sky, which is actually occupying the planets with interesting POIs instead of copy and pasting the same damn thing or just having nothing at all. Hence why I get so fucking bored 15 hours in. Plus the lack of any biomes, just a single biome across every freaking planet with the same fauna and flora so you know exactly what to expect.
So I’m curious to see how they tackle those issues beforehand. Regardless, PR has never been their strongsuit so I’ll be sticking far away from them for the time being. We’ll see how this goes.
I'm a bit surprised they haven't joined forces with Peter Molyneux. They clearly need someone with a bit more experience at the PR side of things so they don't over-promise!
Black and white flashback.
Hell, Fable flashback!