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Why mace griffin bounty hunter is the most necessary game of 2016 FirstAidKite posted:Get a load of this guy 
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MinibarMatchman posted:LOL jesus christ this article. It's a strong contender for the dumbest thing I've read on Kotaku.
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Aug 11, 2016 15:12
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Cardboard Box A posted:If there were any eggs, they have already been beaten Mixing enemies isn't gonna sound as good as beating them, and just like the eggs, she'll beat them
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Aug 11, 2016 15:12
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Doctor Spaceman posted:It's a strong contender for the dumbest thing I've read on Kotaku. I couldn't bring myself to actually read it. What's his thesis?
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Aug 11, 2016 15:16
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No Man's Sky does not have multiplayer. Sean Murray is a lying jerk, he probably didn't mean anything by it and they clearly are working on multiplayer features but they're not operational right now and he needs to be honest because SO many people keep thinking there's multiplayer and there just isn't. You're supposed to be able to see people on the map; but you can't because the servers are overloaded. But even if you could do that; there's nothing in the game that will let you actually see other players. Everything is locally instanced; its single player offline with a database connection for the map and for naming things. Its a great game IMO but not for everybody, its a game about exploration first and foremost. I agree that it'd be easier to stomach at $40. Its not a $15 game but its definitely an indie game and there's a lack of polish in some areas, they let Sony kinda over advertise things for them and it got away from them. But Murray absolutely needs to be more honest about the game, he's really loving awful at just... talking. Still though, very fun game.
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Aug 11, 2016 15:18
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voltron lion force posted:I couldn't bring myself to actually read it. What's his thesis? quote:Every astronaut that travelled into space and turned to look at the Earth has had a common revelation. The planet is small. So small and fragile. It’s just hanging there in a black void, housing all of our history and probably most of our future. They describe it as the most amazing sight in the universe. Even if they were standing on the moon or could see countless stars, almost everyone who has left the Earth has said they couldn’t take their eyes off our home planet. Any problems or differences human beings may have on the surface instantly disappear and mean nothing in the blackness of space. From out here, two countries going to war seems about as important as an overdue gas bill. I don't have a problem with Sagan's Pale Blue Dot, but it's incredibly loving hyperbolic to suggest that No Man's Sky is a revelation in regards to humanity's place in the cosmos.
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Aug 11, 2016 15:20
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Splatoon was the game we truly needed, not this No Man's Sky, it was the only game that could have possibly brought everyone together and peace for a million years but the higher ups at Nintendo just didn't understood how an israel vs palestine splatfest would help heal the world.
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Aug 11, 2016 15:25
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Doctor Spaceman posted:I don't have a problem with Sagan's Pale Blue Dot, but it's incredibly loving hyperbolic to suggest that No Man's Sky is a revelation in regards to humanity's place in the cosmos.
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Aug 11, 2016 15:28
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Doctor Spaceman posted:This isn't the whole article, but it captures the essence: Oh Raygun, oh Raygun no... PBS Newshour posted:Splatoon was the game we truly needed, not this No Man's Sky, it was the only game that could have possibly brought everyone together and peace for a million years but the higher ups at Nintendo just didn't understood how an israel vs palestine splatfest would help heal the world. Stretch this into 1500 words, give it a clickbaity title and you're hired
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Aug 11, 2016 15:30
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No nukes, only inkstrikes.
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Aug 11, 2016 15:33
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Zaphod42 posted:No Man's Sky does not have multiplayer. Sean Murray is a lying jerk, he probably didn't mean anything by it and they clearly are working on multiplayer features but they're not operational right now and he needs to be honest because SO many people keep thinking there's multiplayer and there just isn't. It's basically modern Noctis and I want to play it
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Aug 11, 2016 16:12
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What is happening with the reception of No Man's Sky is the ultimate game syndrome. It's the idea that you could simulate a person's whole life or a whole living world or let the player be a god with all the complexities and consequences that come with it. Every game that rubs against this concept in some way will have a lot of people drawn to it that project impossible expectations onto it - it has to offer neverending content with neverending depth. It also explains the Space Citizen phenomenon where every fan idea thrown at the developer is met with 'of course this will be in our game' and people lose their minds. There are still better and worse sandboxes out there and I haven't bought NMS yet to see which category it falls into but still - it's a sandbox with all the limitations that come with that and not this impossible dream game that some people created in their heads.
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Aug 11, 2016 16:14
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I watched a two hour video of it and you don't do anything. I thought you could build stuff like in Minecraft but all you do is collect endless resources
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Palpek posted:What is happening with the reception of No Man's Sky is the ultimate game syndrome. It's the idea that you could simulate a person's whole life or a whole living world or let the player be a god with all the complexities and consequences that come with it. Every game that rubs against this concept in some way will have a lot of people drawn to it that project impossible expectations onto it - it has to offer neverending content with neverending depth. It also explains the Space Citizen phenomenon where every fan idea thrown at the developer is met with 'of course this will be in our game' and people lose their minds. Yeah absolutely. Its weird that everybody goes so far with it. I mean, playing the game, its pretty natural to be in space and think stuff like "oh man, what if you could command a fleet of ships?!" and "what if there was an alien city?" and things like that, which aren't in the game. But then I just shrug and go, well, whatever. The game as it is already took a ton of work, and it delievers on the experience its supposed to. You can spend hours and hours just exploring and crafting and shooting things. But you can't expect any real game that exists to be the god-game of your dreams. And that's how all videogames are, its just space games tend to make people get more dreamy for some reason. I mean you can play GTA and there's a poo poo ton of things you can do, but there's still times where you're like "man, what if we could just rob a bank" or "remember bowling in gta4? but its not in 5..." things like that. Games can't do everything, it takes tons of work just to let you do the things they already let you do. Cool thing is sounds like they're gonna support it and add more and more over time. In Training posted:I watched a two hour video of it and you don't do anything. I thought you could build stuff like in Minecraft but all you do is collect endless resources You can fly through space, land on a planet, walk around, then fly off the planet and go land on another planet you saw way off in the sky from the first planet, all without loading. That's really loving cool and no other game really does that. Its definitely not a building game because you're supposed to keep moving, keep exploring, not come back to the same place over and over. Its closer to Skyrim or Pokemon Snap than it is to Minecraft. But they are adding building in at some point in the future. (no clue how that's gonna work)
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Aug 11, 2016 16:17
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In Training posted:I watched a two hour video of it and you don't do anything. I thought you could build stuff like in Minecraft but all you do is collect endless resources it's about exploring. sometimes you explore a red rock and the sky is green. sometimes the sky is purple. the same palette shifted tree is on both of them though
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Aug 11, 2016 16:21
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the ultimate chill game man. love to chill and throw on a podcast whilst. i'm talking about putting two paint color samples together and imagining there could be life there of course
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Aug 11, 2016 16:23
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I don't own NMS and probably won't bother with it until it's cheaper, but also from what little I paid attention to it until now it appears to be everything I expected it to be. Like everything I saw leading up to its release made me think it was an exploration game where that was pretty much what you did and that's what its ended up being
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Aug 11, 2016 16:23
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I got to the center of the universe in No Man's Sky and let me just say... you won't believe where DB Cooper ended up!
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Aug 11, 2016 16:25
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oddium posted:it's about exploring. sometimes you explore a red rock and the sky is green. sometimes the sky is purple. the same palette shifted tree is on both of them though Try checking out some screenshots, if the game was 'red rock green sky, green rock red sky' it'd be super boring. But its not. My roommate just created a new game, he spawned on an ocean world. He spent hours just swimming around collecting things and naming fish. It also had these wild tower structures with donuts on top, dotting the landscape. Most of them were just rocky but had grass on top, some of them were actually in the water and the part of the tower that went underwater had barnacles all over it, but the parts above water were just smooth rock. Looked really cool. I have yet to see a single ocean in my neck of space, I've had a mix of pink grass and tree covered Dr.Seuss planets and barren green and brown rocky volcanic planets, there was a yellow planet that was fine normally but would have acid raid storms at times that were nasty, there was a toxic planet with zero life becuase of all the poison that had poison spores in the air, things like that. There's actually a surprising amount of variety to the planets and things to explore; since that's the whole point of the game. PBS Newshour posted:I got to the center of the universe in No Man's Sky and let me just say... you won't believe where DB Cooper ended up! The FBI finally closed their case on DB Cooper. Its the end of an era 
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Aug 11, 2016 16:26
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I sat on a sofa and watched someone play the first three hours of their NMS game, last night. It was awesome and is totally a game I would play myself.
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Aug 11, 2016 16:27
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From what I understand your goal is to reach the center of the universe and they bind your ship's capabilities to resources so you jump from one planet to another in search of those resources in order to be able to jump to planets further away until you can reach your goal. What is supposed to make this journey cool is the procedural creation of dreamy space environments that you travel through. There's nothing more to the game and unless you dig environment exploration / visuals / chilling out to podcasts or music while this interactive screesaver is taking you to worlds you imagined as a kid then it won't be for you.
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Aug 11, 2016 16:29
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Zaphod42 posted:Yeah absolutely. it's Noctis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b-gSeLji-o
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Aug 11, 2016 16:29
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I guess you could think of fun as a resource
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Aug 11, 2016 16:29
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Nice new av Video Games! It lets me know you'll be watching over us!
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Aug 11, 2016 16:29
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It definitely is a modern, prettier Noctis, but not everybody played Noctis.
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Aug 11, 2016 16:31
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Zaphod42 posted:The FBI finally closed their case on DB Cooper. Its the end of an era I know he is still out there, watching over us, and possibly games thread poster Palpek.
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Aug 11, 2016 16:31
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axleblaze posted:Nice new av Video Games! It lets me know you'll be watching over us! Thank you! I vow to keep all the posting heroes, posting!
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Aug 11, 2016 16:36
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Imagine Eurotruck Simulator but if you could go out and walk around the dirty smelly gas stations and talk to other angry truckers. That's No Man's Sky but in space and the gas stations are quite beautiful and instead of truckers there are exotic animals.
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Aug 11, 2016 16:37
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Sean Murray is the next Molyneux.
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Aug 11, 2016 16:40
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Palpek posted:Imagine Eurotruck Simulator but if you could go out and walk around the dirty smelly gas stations and talk to other angry truckers. That's No Man's Sky but in space and the gas stations are quite beautiful and instead of truckers there are exotic animals. Could I split the difference and get like a Space Truckin game
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Aug 11, 2016 16:48
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Monkey Fracas posted:Could I split the difference and get like a Space Truckin game
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Aug 11, 2016 16:52
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Why does Bravely Default cost so much more than Bravely Second?! Wtf
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Aug 11, 2016 16:58
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Gwent closed beta starts October 25th 
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Aug 11, 2016 17:08
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Palpek posted:Yeah, it's called Elite: Dangerous. Unironically I play more of the arena battle stuff in ED than anything else. It's still a fun game but the instant Spaceship PVP is too gratifying to avoid.
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Aug 11, 2016 17:10
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I have played a lot of games like nms and nms is the worst and most shallow of them. Do not buy it unless you want my copy
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Aug 11, 2016 17:52
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Real hurthling! posted:Do not buy it unless you want my copy I think there's a guy wanting to buy it for $40 on SA-Mart right now, even.
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Aug 11, 2016 17:55
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The Story of NMS is definitely an OK indie game that was overhyped and overpriced Endless Ocean seems like a better "wander around and chill" game, IDK though
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Aug 11, 2016 19:18
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So Star Citizen is still the best space sim?
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Aug 11, 2016 19:21
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Real hurthling! posted:I have played a lot of games like nms and nms is the worst and most shallow of them. I'll buy your copy for $40 shipped
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Monkey Fracas posted:Endless Ocean seems like a better "wander around and chill" game, IDK though There's also that Abzu game that just came out, too.
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