No Man's Sky

Started by Lipstick Vogue April 11th, 2016 1:58 AM
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Leviathan

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I was hyped until I saw the price. :') I thought for some reason it might be cheaper, but €60 is still pretty steep to me. I might wait to see if it goes on sale...

Satoshi Ookami

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I was hyped until I saw the price. :') I thought for some reason it might be cheaper, but €60 is still pretty steep to me. I might wait to see if it goes on sale...
Well, 60$/€ for nearly infinite content isn't THAT bad.
While it is an indie game, it's pretty AAA.
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People are paying more than a hundred quid for yearly shoot em up and sports games, I don't really see the problem. Just because it's technically an indie game I don't think they should be forced into selling cheap.

Of course, if people find the exploration part overly repetitive and boring then this price is going to drop pretty quickly.

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Compared to what I got for Elite Dangerous's price tag of $60, €60 is a pretty good deal.
As far as value proposition's concerned, $60/€60 are all the same. That's just the games industry. And considering ED went down to $30 within a year and Steam sales- well, I wouldn't really compare the two anyway as I see them as vastly different ideas with vastly different focuses and also space.

But as far as content, it's not really looking like one's a particularly big step up over the other yet, mainly because what you can do in No Man's Sky is mostly hearsay. We've seen things that look pretty neat, but my personal prediction for the game, and why I'm not completely sold, is that you can indeed go from planet to planet and see cool muk, but how functional that cool stuff'll be is probably not much.

I suppose my biggest problem is that they've given us an idea of the amount of freedom we'll be given but they haven't given that idea a metric. We have no real reason to think that the freedom we'll be given here is any more engaging than the freedom we're given in, say, Grand Theft Auto or Minecraft.

And it's good that people are hopeful, but I just worry that the hype surrounding this game doesn't (or hasn't) become a shovel for its own grave. And of course I want the game to be good, but I'm also very skeptical about the fact that how much we know now is about the same as how much we knew at E3 years back.