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Lysette

Lysette
Darth Ender said:
my main turn off for NMS is that it's primarily a walking around survival game .. So it's not really the right genre. Twitch based flight mechanics with direct control over your space ship (and you're primarily inside this space ship during gameplay) is the genre i look for.

I couldn't care less about the color scheme or cartoonishness of the textures and such compared to elite. If NMS shifted it's focus to space ship flying (all hotas supported up and all) and doing things within your spaceship and only rarely if ever involved walking around...it would be probably the most perfect game in this genre ever created.

It's all keyboard and mouse though. and that pretty much kills it hard for me.
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I see, I see no advantage in having a hotas though - I can fly my ship perfectly with mouse and keyboard. You are right though, that NMS is less about flying in space then it is about planetary exploration and creating bases and now as well managing settlements with NPC inhabitants since the last expansion. I haven't tried this new settlement gameplay, because I fear, it will bind me to that location and I rather like to be nomadic with occasional returns to bases I made - for the economical side - in the later game slots in your space ships are quite expensive - in the hundred million range each one - so good income is mandatory to have - but not by grinding or exploitation of the economic system, but with entrepreneurial gameplay, which is what I'm fond of - that and poking around on planets - and NMS has lots of this kind of gameplay.

In normal mode I wouldn't consider it a survival game - it is relaxing gameplay actually - if you choose survival you are basically choosing grinding gameplay, it is as well not really that challenging imo, but I'm quite used to survival games and to me that is more a grind in this case than it being dangerous - so I stick with normal mode.

there is a permadeath mode as well - normally I would go for that - but I discovered that there are ways to die in the game, which aren't predictable - like entering the atmosphere of a planet and you discover a storm there with hefty lighting - which might strike you before you can leave the atmosphere again - instant death - so I don't play permadeath.
 
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Lysette

Lysette
Darth Ender said:
That's why they put that bracelet on you. So this kind of thing wouldn't cause another incident where the police had to be involved and you scare another family by mistaking their home for yours.
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this is another thing in NMS, people can upload their bases and make them public to others - once they are public other players can choose to go there by teleporter and visit their bases - this is even possible in normal (solo) mode - I'm not doing that, even it would be interesting to have a look - but I like being on my own - I can as well have one of those creatures I adopted around if I like to have a pet animal around - if it's size is suitable, I can ride it as well - can be fun to ride a huge predator or a flying animal, but I have them mostly dismissed. Like I said, I am comfy being on my own there.
 

The Nephilim

The Nephilim
So to continue with my sandwich reviews.

I had a spiced humous & falafel wrap from Morrisons earlier. Not the usual thing I'd go for but I fancied a change.

The packaging was the usual standard, not bad. It was fresh so what more can you expect.
The wrap itself was presented as expected, so no disappointment there. However. As much as I Iike humous, with crisps, it's just not something I'd have on a sandwich. The filler, as you ask, was diced carrot and summat else, which was equally unappealing.

I added ground pepper (think of Nigella), and a bit of lemon as I thought that might add to the flavour. But it didn't.

A very sad, 4/10.
 

Bottom Hat

Bottom Hat
Darth Ender said:
That's why they put that bracelet on you. So this kind of thing wouldn't cause another incident where the police had to be involved and you scare another family by mistaking their home for yours.
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xzanfr said:
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Mr T was a reoccurring character on the teletext gaming pages called digitiser in the 90's and early 2000's, he was troubled by kids hanging out by his bins. It was all a bit weird funny
more teletext digitiser stuff here
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I forgot all about that!
 

Bottom Hat

Bottom Hat
The Nephilim said:
So to continue with my sandwich reviews.

I had a spiced humous & falafel wrap from Morrisons earlier. Not the usual thing I'd go for but I fancied a change.

The packaging was the usual standard, not bad. It was fresh so what more can you expect.
The wrap itself was presented as expected, so no disappointment there. However. As much as I Iike humous, with crisps, it's just not something I'd have on a sandwich. The filler, as you ask, was diced carrot and summat else, which was equally unappealing.

I added ground pepper (think of Nigella), and a bit of lemon as I thought that might add to the flavour. But it didn't.

A very sad, 4/10.
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xzanfr

xzanfr
The Nephilim said:
So to continue with my sandwich reviews.

I had a spiced humous & falafel wrap from Morrisons earlier. Not the usual thing I'd go for but I fancied a change.

The packaging was the usual standard, not bad. It was fresh so what more can you expect.
The wrap itself was presented as expected, so no disappointment there. However. As much as Iike humous, with crisps, it's just not something I'd have on a sandwich. The filler, as you ask, was diced carrot and summat else, which was equally unappealing.

I added ground pepper (think of Nigella), and a bit of lemon as I thought that might add to the flavour. But it didn't.

A very sad, 4/10.
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I always shy away from supermarket wraps - homemade ones are lovely but they always look like the filling is in the centre so that when cut it & displayed it looks full, but the top and bottom are like wet A4.
Was the filling of a consistent thickness throughout?
 

Darth Ender

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xzanfr said:
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Mr T was a reoccurring character on the teletext gaming pages called digitiser in the 90's and early 2000's, he was troubled by kids hanging out by his bins. It was all a bit weird funny
more teletext digitiser stuff here
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You'll need a spoiler for explaining what a magazine is.

Also, teletext in general. holy crap is that old.
 

Sysmon

Sysmon
Darth Ender said:
You'll need a spoiler for explaining what a magazine is.

Also, teletext in general. holy crap is that old.
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I won a TV when I was a kid, first model in Denmark (from B&O) with Teletext. That was just awesomesauce, I spent hours reading random stuff there.

Danish TV had a single channel back then, and when there wasn't anything on, we had a saltwater aquarium going with a clock sometimes imposed over it. The good old days.

After a short negotiation with my dad, the new TV was allowed in the living room rather than my own room, as it was a huge 26" TV that we could all easily fit around and it looked a bit silly in my room. The price to let the move happen was that I got a Commodore 64, which I bought Elite for with money I had earned by collecting bottles and returning to supermarkets.

The good old days.

:D S
 
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