Loneliness simulator 2016

Tiller

Is it gonna be like this?


I sure hope they add some chat features or some way to meet up with real people in this huge universe so you can share your discoveries. Single player games are a thing, I know I play lots of them; enormous and infinite empty space single player game is another thing. Will the novelty wear off after a few Earth months for most people? Maybe.

"hey I'm looking forward to role playing the last man on the planet and trying to figure out how to get off it and then goign into space and spending many RL years alone"

Will NPC make the game feel alive to you? FOr some maybe, but most of us no.

Those of you who have seen "The Martian" that is essentially what you will be. Stranded and alone, with no hope of seeing or talking to another being.

I'm not honestly sure people can even fathom that they could literally play this game for 30 years and never see another player, or see anything anyone else has discovered. Real people will seem like a myth. You'll see videos on youtube "Is this a real player or NPC?" The more I study this game the more I am convinced this is some twisted social experiment. Eitherway I will most likely follow the rest of the flock and buy the game to try it out of curiosity more than anything. Will virtual solitary isolation and loneliness  be a thing in a virtual universe? No idea, but it will be interesting to watch.

SpottyGekko

Gamer's actually love "loneliness simulators" !

For some odd reason, they call them "single-player games", but we all know what those games really are. Most of those games have loads of NPC's to interact with (i.e. kill), and people spend 100's of hours playing them. Some even go to great lengths to create mods to make those games more lonely !

The best known "loneliness simulator" was "Elite" back in 1984. It set the standard and became a legend. People loved it so much that that they crowdfunded a new, improved version of the original, a version that is REALLY lonely. In Elite:Dangerous, you could play the game for your entire natural life without meeting a single human player or even a NPC !

I'm a bit worried that people may not like NMS, because there's too many NPC's and creatures around. It breaks the immersion. Instead of of just being you, your ship and empty space, it's going to be like modern city life here on earth. You'll be tripping over NPC's and critters everywhere you go, totally alone and isolated in the teeming crowds...

SEANMCAD

yeah I would like the 'alone' part. The not being able to build anything, world deforming resetting, no gas giants to study and horrible graphics (IMO) is what keeps me away

filmoret

Why call it a mmo if noone is actually playing together.  The players at least need to be somewhat consolidated.  The fact that you can play the game for 10+ hours without ever running into another player takes away the multiplayer feature entirely.  Why even make this an online game if such is possible?

donger56

I think the only real purpose of this game is to try something somewhat new. When you play WoW or any other MMO, all you do is run the same content for months or years until the next carrot on a stick is given to you. I really like the concept of procedural generation. Imagine if every time you went into a dungeon it was a unique run instead of the same tired content. I guess the key is how the variation works. I'm wondering if the uniqueness is just going to be a lot of the same stuff with a different color pattern or something.

I don't really see this game being a long term thing for most people. I think most people will get it for the novelty and ditch it in a couple weeks. I'm not buying because I know I wouldn't last a month but I'll be watching streams of it to see how it works. I'll at least give them credit for trying to do something different which no one seems to want to do any more. The MMO industry has been stale for 15 years now and shows no real sign of innovating much in the near future. I guess everyone is busy making junk like pokemon go walk into traffic and be the next Darwin award winner.....

SEANMCAD

donger56 said:

I think the only real purpose of this game is to try something somewhat new. When you play WoW or any other MMO, all you do is run the same content for months or years until the next carrot on a stick is given to you. I really like the concept of procedural generation. Imagine if every time you went into a dungeon it was a unique run instead of the same tired content. I guess the key is how the variation works. I'm wondering if the uniqueness is just going to be a lot of the same stuff with a different color pattern or something.

I don't really see this game being a long term thing for most people. I think most people will get it for the novelty and ditch it in a couple weeks. I'm not buying because I know I wouldn't last a month but I'll be watching streams of it to see how it works. I'll at least give them credit for trying to do something different which no one seems to want to do any more. The MMO industry has been stale for 15 years now and shows no real sign of innovating much in the near future. I guess everyone is busy making junk like pokemon go walk into traffic and be the next Darwin award winner.....

I have been basically doing that almost every day for more than a year playing 7 Days to Die

bartoni33

filmoret said:

Why call it a mmo...

Imma gonna stop ya there.

No one who knows what this game CURRENTLY is is calling it an MMO. No the Devs do not count if they have said it, and I don't think they have unless they are talking future plans.

I'll say it again: The amount of people who are going to be extremely disappointed in NMS will create the Internet shitstorm of our time.

SEANMCAD

bartoni33 said:

filmoret said:

Why call it a mmo...

Imma gonna stop ya there.

No one who knows what this game CURRENTLY is is calling it an MMO. No the Devs do not count if they have said it, and I don't think they have unless they are talking future plans.

I'll say it again: The amount of people who are going to be extremely disappointed in NMS will create the Internet shitstorm of our time.

Yes.

and in my view this is why gaming focuses on the young. They dont have the vast experience of being bamboozled many times as older folks have

Xarko

I still dont understand what is there to do in this game. People keep talking about explorations, but all the videos only ever showed empty planets with some kind of creature walking here and there, not even paying any attention to the player.

Volgore

Xarko said:

I still dont understand what is there to do in this game. People keep talking about explorations, but all the videos only ever showed empty planets with some kind of creature walking here and there, not even paying any attention to the player.

Same here, all i saw was flying sequences and planet surfaces with various flora and animals.
No idea what the player is supposed to do...

kill all inhabitants?
bring democracy?
mark territory?

catch them all?

Need more info!

ragz45

Xarko said:

I still dont understand what is there to do in this game. People keep talking about explorations, but all the videos only ever showed empty planets with some kind of creature walking here and there, not even paying any attention to the player.

That's exploration  Flying from planet to planet just to see what's there.

Sovrath

Volgore said:

Xarko said:

I still dont understand what is there to do in this game. People keep talking about explorations, but all the videos only ever showed empty planets with some kind of creature walking here and there, not even paying any attention to the player.

Same here, all i saw was flying sequences and planet surfaces with various flora and animals.
No idea what the player is supposed to do...

kill all inhabitants?
bring democracy?
mark territory?

catch them all?

Need more info!

Maybe in some ways this isn't a game so much as a toy. Or, perhaps an experience.

What about the game "Journey"? From what I understand one just "explores". You might see people or might not.

Funny enough, a girlfriend of mine who doesn't like video games actually played it with a friend and that was the game she loved.

GladDog

Volgore said:

Xarko said:

I still dont understand what is there to do in this game. People keep talking about explorations, but all the videos only ever showed empty planets with some kind of creature walking here and there, not even paying any attention to the player.

Same here, all i saw was flying sequences and planet surfaces with various flora and animals.
No idea what the player is supposed to do...

kill all inhabitants?
bring democracy?
mark territory?

CATCH THEM ALL?

Need more info!

That's it!  This is a secret super expansion to Pokemon Go!

Xarko

ragz45 said:

Xarko said:

I still dont understand what is there to do in this game. People keep talking about explorations, but all the videos only ever showed empty planets with some kind of creature walking here and there, not even paying any attention to the player.

That's exploration  Flying from planet to planet just to see what's there.

Yeah, but there was nothing there.

Avanah

All you needed was the title to describe this game. The rest is irrelevant.

Tiller

So really you could just watch Twitch live streams of this game and it would be as entertaining as playing it; more so because you could talk to people.

Nephaerius

I always conceived of this game as a single player title and never expected it to last longer than any other one. So yeah.... Not sure what you expected.

Personally I'll wait for some reviews, let's plays, and twitch streams before buying.

SEANMCAD

Tiller said:

So really you could just watch Twitch live streams of this game and it would be as entertaining as playing it; more so because you could talk to people.

sorry I would not want to talk to people

GladDog

I'm sure there are plans for MMO type action in the future.  Why would they make it multiplayer if you have virtually no chance of ever meeting anyone?  One they have cash rolling in, I bet they announce a major expansion with people finder tools, guilds, and so on.

I would expect the same for Elite: Dangerous.  Too good looking of a game to have unused multiplayer capabilitty.

SEANMCAD

GladDog said:

I'm sure there are plans for MMO type action in the future.  Why would they make it multiplayer if you have virtually no chance of ever meeting anyone?  One they have cash rolling in, I bet they announce a major expansion with people finder tools, guilds, and so on.

I would expect the same for Elite: Dangerous.  Too good looking of a game to have unused multiplayer capabilitty.

exactly! its kind of funny how that is over looked

'so large chances of you seeing someone is nearly Null'

'why isnt it multiplayer?'

Scottgun

Watching this video, it is clear that Sean Murray a) has some very strange ideas about the shared universe and b) is absolutely committed to those strange ideas in the face of all howling. Expect requests for easier matchups to go unheeded.

https://youtu.be/OYSZwtRH22Q

Personally, my interest in this game has cooled, but my son is still eager for it, so it's on the buy list and I'll be trying it natch. At the very least, the NMSDS (New Man's Sky Derangement Syndrome) has been amusing.

scorpex-x

I hope people who were conned into buying this as a multiplayer game can get refunds, a lot still think this is multiplayer.

OhhPaigey

That's what I was telling my friend, he's like there's billions of planets and all of this.. my very first question was, so how are you ever going to find players? XD

SpottyGekko

scorpex-x said:

I hope people who were conned into buying this as a multiplayer game can get refunds, a lot still think this is multiplayer.

I think a large part of the blame for this "multiplayer rumour" is due to the short attention spans of so many gamers, lol

They skim-read a feature headline and then make conclusions based on their own experience. It probably all started when someone thought: "NMS is an online game, therefore it must be multiplayer..."

There's no record of Hello Games ever calling NMS a MMORPG.
It is sold as a single-payer game on Steam.

So where's this "con" exactly ?
In the minds of players that couldn't be bothered to check the details, I guess...

Hellidol

Tiller said:

Is it gonna be like this?


I sure hope they add some chat features or some way to meet up with real people in this huge universe so you can share your discoveries. Single player games are a thing, I know I play lots of them; enormous and infinite empty space single player game is another thing. Will the novelty wear off after a few Earth months for most people? Maybe.

"hey I'm looking forward to role playing the last man on the planet and trying to figure out how to get off it and then goign into space and spending many RL years alone"

Will NPC make the game feel alive to you? FOr some maybe, but most of us no.

Those of you who have seen "The Martian" that is essentially what you will be. Stranded and alone, with no hope of seeing or talking to another being.

I'm not honestly sure people can even fathom that they could literally play this game for 30 years and never see another player, or see anything anyone else has discovered. Real people will seem like a myth. You'll see videos on youtube "Is this a real player or NPC?" The more I study this game the more I am convinced this is some twisted social experiment. Eitherway I will most likely follow the rest of the flock and buy the game to try it out of curiosity more than anything. Will virtual solitary isolation and loneliness  be a thing in a virtual universe? No idea, but it will be interesting to watch.

haha nice man yup its going to be just like that video, but there will be animals to attack you that wont attack unless you attack. Kind of silly imo. 

Viper482

Man, if you are not interested in it....don't play it!