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No Man's Sky is perhaps one of the most ambitious and hotly anticipated games in the past several years. With two weeks to go before the release the excitement is huge. For a full story on the game see the wiki page.
The biggest note of the game is the sheer mind boggling immensity of it. It's a space exploration game, and the game has 5 quintillion planets (that's 1,000,000,000,000,000,000), all of which are explorable. Only a tiny fraction of the game will ever be explored. It's a "multiplayer" game in the sense that everyone will be playing in the same universe, but the sheer vastness renders it single player as the odds of running into someone are incredibly remote. There is a lot of detail to it too. Each planet, creature, environment is all procedurally generated off a mathimatical formula. Normally such things render games bland and uniform. However, the work that has gone into this game has given a huge variety of unique properties and creatures that are based on mathamatical constructs observed in nature. They range from the normative, to the fantastic. Further, everything is to scale. The game is so vast that it's impossible to succinctly explain it.
The goal of the game is to explore, fight, trade, and survive. Each time a person visits a new world, or discovers a new creature, they name it. The build ships to explore father and deeper into the universe, build resources, discover alien life and languages, and journey close and closer to the center of the universe, where thing progressively get more dangerous, stranger, and more rewarding.
I am so beyond excited for this game. It's the ultimate universe sandbox with painstaking attention to detail on so many levels (the game even has it's own periodic table).
Anyone else excited for this? It comes out August 9th.
The biggest note of the game is the sheer mind boggling immensity of it. It's a space exploration game, and the game has 5 quintillion planets (that's 1,000,000,000,000,000,000), all of which are explorable. Only a tiny fraction of the game will ever be explored. It's a "multiplayer" game in the sense that everyone will be playing in the same universe, but the sheer vastness renders it single player as the odds of running into someone are incredibly remote. There is a lot of detail to it too. Each planet, creature, environment is all procedurally generated off a mathimatical formula. Normally such things render games bland and uniform. However, the work that has gone into this game has given a huge variety of unique properties and creatures that are based on mathamatical constructs observed in nature. They range from the normative, to the fantastic. Further, everything is to scale. The game is so vast that it's impossible to succinctly explain it.
The goal of the game is to explore, fight, trade, and survive. Each time a person visits a new world, or discovers a new creature, they name it. The build ships to explore father and deeper into the universe, build resources, discover alien life and languages, and journey close and closer to the center of the universe, where thing progressively get more dangerous, stranger, and more rewarding.
I am so beyond excited for this game. It's the ultimate universe sandbox with painstaking attention to detail on so many levels (the game even has it's own periodic table).
Anyone else excited for this? It comes out August 9th.
