I dont get it !
Nothing about it looks good , or even decent in my opinion.
Now of course you may think I am just a fanboy , but the thing is I pleged to StarCitizen and I am a centurion.
I own every X game multiple times (because poor egosoft need more money)
Now to the topic at hand...
I dont get why anyone on earth is hyped for NMS... like at all.
''you can land on planets'' they say , yeah... but they are tiny , ugly and not to say they all look the same because they dont , but :
-they all seem to be earth-like worlds to some extent
-they all have an atmosphere (I hope I am wrong about that)
-there is no sceince behind the landscape or in such small ammounts it does not matter
-No cities or large bases on planets
-All planets have this ugly filter on screen
It just goes to show that the reason no one is impresed by elite's planets is because they are realistic and therefor ''boring'' (for some , I love them) and would rather have teletubie level colours splatered on the screen.
When I first saw NMS I was impresed ''wow atmospheric planets'' and then it all went down hill
-you fly in and out of planets in a matter of seconds...
-no atmospheric re-entry effect.
Oh and lets talk about about the ships of no man's sky... or rather lets talk about the Z-95 , B-wing , CobraMK3 , Viper (BSG) and other such ships... yeah no ships in NMS just copies of other franchises.
okay they might be paying homage but damn , its borderline theft here (but hey if its not a crime its cool , I guess its ''fan service'' or something
The graphics , beyond the ships being stolen for the most part they look like they were made in the editor from Kinetic void (RIP KV)
But it all seems off , you see very well made humans (who vanish the moment a hostile action is made) but everything else beyond the helmeted humans looks cartoony.
The gameplay to what I understand is :
Do missions , explore (XP for finding locations) , find stuff to upgrade your ship , trade (but I have got conflicting reports about trade)
But what gets me about the gameplay is it has an endgame , yeah... an sandbox with an endgame...right , anyway you upgrade your ship to reach the core and then you end the game (I guess you can still play but thats the end zone or what not)
All in all it sounds okay , not my cup of tea for it being too simple and ugly in my eyes.
But what I hate , is how everyone is loosing there minds over NMS and just dismising ED and SC as being not as good.
Now SC is not out , so I will not be comparing it (and I have more faith in ED than SC anyway , never forget freelancer and how bad that was)
So the NMS galaxy is big , but not based on science , everything is generated based ''cool factor'' rather than hard science the resault will be space will all look the same in the sens that beyond nebula changing colour every planet seems to be the same type (I hope I am wrong about that)
Thing is I think it just looks like a watered down version of elite , taking out all the harder elements and replacing them with easy gameplay that rewards you with medals every 5 seconds.
It all gives me the impresion that the game is aimed at kids , however... I cant wait for it to be out.
We need more space sims , even if they are bad because it opens up more competition and makes things better (for example thanks to egosoft getting compition from FD they have added a lot of elite like features to Xrebirth such as FA/OFF)
So I just dont get the apeal , and I hate how ''profesional'' ''press'' insult elite dangerous whiles praising a game they have never played , whiles the things they praise about NMS are in elite.
Now again I have nothing against the game as a product , I dont get it , I think it looks terrible but I do want it to do well (as my hope is those who hate hardcore AI and slow pace will leave elite and go play NMS , and that NMS might serve as a tutorial for ED in a lot of ways)
Just ED and FD get hate all the time , for everything they ever do. every update is the end of the world , every tweak is the last straw and of course everyone keeps on ignoring the fact that soon elite will let us :
Land on all planets
Have full scale planets
Walk around
Player owned capitol ships of sorts
Walk around stations
Zero G combat
and so much more , if ED fails we play SC... but if both fail , I would rather play universal combat than NMS , so yeah... universal combat is better than NMS based on what I have seen , however.
I am not under the delusion that my opinion matters , or that even anything I say is going to matter and indeed it should not.
All I am saying is : NMS is getting rep for stuff that has been done before and will be done afterwards and everytime it seems , better
Nothing about it looks good , or even decent in my opinion.
Now of course you may think I am just a fanboy , but the thing is I pleged to StarCitizen and I am a centurion.
I own every X game multiple times (because poor egosoft need more money)
Now to the topic at hand...
I dont get why anyone on earth is hyped for NMS... like at all.
''you can land on planets'' they say , yeah... but they are tiny , ugly and not to say they all look the same because they dont , but :
-they all seem to be earth-like worlds to some extent
-they all have an atmosphere (I hope I am wrong about that)
-there is no sceince behind the landscape or in such small ammounts it does not matter
-No cities or large bases on planets
-All planets have this ugly filter on screen
It just goes to show that the reason no one is impresed by elite's planets is because they are realistic and therefor ''boring'' (for some , I love them) and would rather have teletubie level colours splatered on the screen.
When I first saw NMS I was impresed ''wow atmospheric planets'' and then it all went down hill
-you fly in and out of planets in a matter of seconds...
-no atmospheric re-entry effect.
Oh and lets talk about about the ships of no man's sky... or rather lets talk about the Z-95 , B-wing , CobraMK3 , Viper (BSG) and other such ships... yeah no ships in NMS just copies of other franchises.
okay they might be paying homage but damn , its borderline theft here (but hey if its not a crime its cool , I guess its ''fan service'' or something
The graphics , beyond the ships being stolen for the most part they look like they were made in the editor from Kinetic void (RIP KV)
But it all seems off , you see very well made humans (who vanish the moment a hostile action is made) but everything else beyond the helmeted humans looks cartoony.
The gameplay to what I understand is :
Do missions , explore (XP for finding locations) , find stuff to upgrade your ship , trade (but I have got conflicting reports about trade)
But what gets me about the gameplay is it has an endgame , yeah... an sandbox with an endgame...right , anyway you upgrade your ship to reach the core and then you end the game (I guess you can still play but thats the end zone or what not)
All in all it sounds okay , not my cup of tea for it being too simple and ugly in my eyes.
But what I hate , is how everyone is loosing there minds over NMS and just dismising ED and SC as being not as good.
Now SC is not out , so I will not be comparing it (and I have more faith in ED than SC anyway , never forget freelancer and how bad that was)
So the NMS galaxy is big , but not based on science , everything is generated based ''cool factor'' rather than hard science the resault will be space will all look the same in the sens that beyond nebula changing colour every planet seems to be the same type (I hope I am wrong about that)
Thing is I think it just looks like a watered down version of elite , taking out all the harder elements and replacing them with easy gameplay that rewards you with medals every 5 seconds.
It all gives me the impresion that the game is aimed at kids , however... I cant wait for it to be out.
We need more space sims , even if they are bad because it opens up more competition and makes things better (for example thanks to egosoft getting compition from FD they have added a lot of elite like features to Xrebirth such as FA/OFF)
So I just dont get the apeal , and I hate how ''profesional'' ''press'' insult elite dangerous whiles praising a game they have never played , whiles the things they praise about NMS are in elite.
Now again I have nothing against the game as a product , I dont get it , I think it looks terrible but I do want it to do well (as my hope is those who hate hardcore AI and slow pace will leave elite and go play NMS , and that NMS might serve as a tutorial for ED in a lot of ways)
Just ED and FD get hate all the time , for everything they ever do. every update is the end of the world , every tweak is the last straw and of course everyone keeps on ignoring the fact that soon elite will let us :
Land on all planets
Have full scale planets
Walk around
Player owned capitol ships of sorts
Walk around stations
Zero G combat
and so much more , if ED fails we play SC... but if both fail , I would rather play universal combat than NMS , so yeah... universal combat is better than NMS based on what I have seen , however.
I am not under the delusion that my opinion matters , or that even anything I say is going to matter and indeed it should not.
All I am saying is : NMS is getting rep for stuff that has been done before and will be done afterwards and everytime it seems , better
