Recent content by Hyena200

Ahh, but you're confusing 'random' with 'procedural'. Again we don't know for sure how it will work, but a lot of games have you set up an autosave before you start. Procedural generation assigns mathematical seeds to everything, which stay the same every time you visit the point where that seed...

Whilst I expect the complete opposite to you and expect it to be far more popular than anyone here realises its going to be, as the single player game it was always intended to be. Also there's been no talk of any chart making functionality and from what we've seen of the galaxy map so far its...

Every player starts on the edge of the starting galaxy, not randomly throughout the universe. The goal is to get to the centre of the galaxy, from the edge. Imagine a ball, when you start the game we're all sitting on the surface scattered all the way round the whole of that sphere and then...

I think you're grossly underestimating the size of the game. The chances of meeting another player are infinitesimally small. You'd have to be on the same planet at the same spot at the same time, or in the exact same sector of space at the same time. Players are separated from each other by...

Ummm... its gone gold. It comes out in 3 weeks. How is it 'stuck in development hell'?

Its your logic actually. You're the one going on about size. And for the...what is it.. 3rd... 4th time now? Sigh.. I didn't say procedural content was new, I said no game has used it for every single part of it, which NMS will be doing. So yes, it absolutely is as procedural as I think it is...

Also what does the size of it have to do with anything? In km squared yeah its bigger than you or I can imagine but thats possible because its all procedurally generated and conceived by some clever bastard who also happens to be a maths genius who devised a method of generating procedural...

Can I borrow your time machine?

No, other games haven't done this before, like I said, this is the first time a game has used procedural generation for EVERYTHING. Your examples are of games which used it for 'certain' things. Not 'everything'. There will be a difference in what happens when people play it. But to appreciate...

I just said the ground its breaking. No other game has attempted an entirely procedurally generated universe. Where every single thing, from the gun you shoot to the grass you walk on is generated by a mathematical algorithm. It is breaking new ground, like it or not. And the gaming conventions...

Well we'll see won't we. You seem cast iron sure its going to be shit, even though its not out yet, you haven't played it and you don't actually know what it'll be like. Personally, I'm keeping a more open mind. Most likely neither of us will be right and the game will hit a more middle ground...

Its certainly being judged currently by all the known gaming conventions we can think of. I seem to remember an early interview with Sean Murray in which he said you need to think beyond what you currently think games should be doing to get what NMS is about. But thats easier said than done for...

Its 'procedurally' generated, not 'randomly' generated. There's a big difference between the two. With procedurally generated content you can have infinte variations, you can't with random, which means in No Man's Sky its actually very unlikely that you'll see the same assets popping up over and...

It was pretty groundbreaking at the time. Did slow mo shooting in FPS pretty much better than anyone else had... in fact had anyone else done it by that point or was Max Payne the only other shooter with slow mo? and that was 3rd person. I loved F.E.A.R and agree it was a phenomenal game that...

Its been delayed once. Just once. That happened a few days ago when it slipped from June to August. This post on the No Man's Sky reddit explains it better than I can: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/4lfsu1/delay_debacle_what_we_do_from_here/