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from know people who don't know what no man's sky is it is a very ambitious space exploration game that kind of took the gaming world by storm if only because people kind of projected these may be unrealistic expectations on what this game is gonna wind up being including david katz mine so excited he's very excited to play taking off right at the show running home and downloading it cuz the steam is actually able now so on Twitter people are asking people to go to their houses and download the game for them so it's ready when I really work yeah okay it's not that big of a game gonna be one of those weekends yeah yeah I've been playing it for about 15 hours it's it's different I think for a lot of people it's a game that they weren't expecting and again that is not a throat that's not throwing shade at the developers I think this game kind of got away from everybody and once that big sort of e3 demo happened a couple years ago it kind of blew everyone's minds and completely changed the perception of what this game actually is and what people kind of wanted it to be so I get that knots understandable at its core no man's sky is really just a resource survival Matt of a survival game inventory management game I know that was that's like the trio kiss of death there are moments in this game that you will literally you know not believe what you're seeing yeah but after a while you kind of understand what this games about I feel terrible saying this because I'm sitting next to someone who is very excited to play for the first time I am still excited regardless of how many times yes which is great and you should be because the first couple hours are great i will offer my own disappointment ya know like I died and i think it was sat on monday when i come in she's gonna rest for you the Holy See version might take advantage of better specs yeah they're usually really that's that might be but the game might look better yeah that might be it though it's not going to change gameplay it's not going to bring you to a level you're like oh this game offers a different feature set on PC at least not at the beginning I mean it i don't know if there's modding or whatever but at the end of the day these guys are also saying they're going to improve aspects of this game a big selling points for me was like that there it's a community it's a vibe basically like a big mama por even though you can't actually you know interact with people right environment wherever there's so many cool things about the game that made me really intrigued I mean it's it obviously the biggest thing is every planet you go to is spontaneously created for you which is kind of cool and right and for me like that like the reason I'm going to go back and play some of that again this weekend is because I just like rolling the dice I just like seeing what the game spits out it's something technically no one else will ever see so that's kind of fun just the notion of like hey the math that this game is relying on allows it to create stuff that odds are no one else will ever see so you know you have dice so it's like you know you roll a six it's a blue sky you roll a 1 it's a yellow sky putting it on down the line so it is party or beef it is not enough dice there's not yeah stuff that can be different about each world like is it too similar to despite the fact that they say there's whatever 19 quadrillion possible worlds that people can get to and that's yes simply put like yes that is the complaint it's because the the asset pool that this game continually draws from doesn't allow and I get it like it's in it it is an achievement what these guys have done at hello games like this is a technical achievement at the same time though because of that and what they did you know the game does not allow for the variance that people kind of project where it's like Oh every this could be anything like it's just not that there's different terrain the first time I landed on like what was mostly a water planet was pretty cool yeah um so I think like that's what you got to kind of keep in the back your head because after you play for about five six seven hours to see the same kind of you get it you understand like what's happening here every now and then I'm like I like that is uh there's this here yeah that's interesting okay again the sense of scale for me is the best part of this game this game treats you like you are this small a comic little thing in a gigantic seemingly endless endless universe so for me that sense of scale they nail it I email it's so interesting cuz that's like the thing that video games kind of have done recently like I always think a Witcher is like largest game world I sure experience where you you're like all of a sudden you're in this other island that's huge right and and some dudes went out and made all of that by right every little turn on the on the trail as you're riding along and and even the dlcs gigantic right at game and it's so big that i still haven't explored every part of it and i'm wondering you know it and it seems like every time you go there's something new and different right with this it's obviously infinite basically yeah it's essentially infinite and when you look at something like the witcher you're right every square inch of that map was drawn and render and put together and preconceived shy can and a gigantic where no man's sky it's sort of just like hey here's this you know blender we have let's stop it and see where it stops and that's kind of like the best way I can explain Harold's wondering if you guys think because it'll be too taxing on pcs which your to discover did you think it was just texting when you're playing on ps4 there's a couple times where you hid some pretty significant frame rate frame rate dips pc it's gonna be fine it's gonna be fun it's not you know it taxes the ps4 hardware and i think at points you're like okay yeah maybe Neil will do a better job with no man's guy but i don't think the way to think about it is like oh this is going to run super smooth on pc either i don't think the the sort of like ecology within the game is open to like very variable perform you know sort of improvements just based on the hardware running it I don't know that's sort of the vibe we get there's a lot of like texture drawn that you'll probably wind up seeing in the ps4 version that maybe you won't see in the pc stuff i don't know yet and it's a ball usually a pc release you know there's gonna be bugs sure no and there's buggy a peaceful yeah exactly so I'm not expecting a totally smooth weekend yeah because obviously there's a huge day zero path right i think it's baked into the steam it's definitely bacon so like i want to worry about that but you know it's it's still not gone thing it's going to be the smoothest experience I don't expect most day one games to be perfect yeah I'm we spat rooms I'm definitely curious to hear what you're saying Monday morning yeah sure there's a few people asking about availability for the games that they are wondering about them if it was available on early access for steam ID no and consoles which is ps4 it just ps4 and PC that's so Xbox announced right yeah I would that's gonna power not be a thing really yeah that's crazy i could i remember reading that going wat why that's yeah I don't know you got you can infer what you want maybe Sony paid for some of that development that's just speculation and hell followed up peace was wondering if it's essentially a pretty walking sim uh you know you're walking for some of it in the beginning but then it's kind of like flying soon mm-hmm for a lot of the rest of that game warping sim it was that warping sent warping sent warp sales in yes so there's a no man's sky if there's anything else or no do you guys think it was overhyped one of the persons one of people earlier our chat was wondering why are we doing so much news about no man's sky and it was a very big a very big driver of news this week do you think over the course the last three years it was overhyped versus what you were playing now definitely everything's overhyped like let's not it's not exclusive to no man's sky everything is overhyped it's the things that supersede expectation that really are the remarkable things right most things are overhyped goodness to assess what so I feel like you have to really take it for what it's worth like this game I think it's more remarkable that this game had that reaction and again like we talked about earlier you can't fault anyone for it like you can't look at the developers bill you guys made something that seemed to cool you should have talked down your games ya can't believe in joyed the the roller coaster that was you know leading up to the release no was it over hyped absolutely so you're saying not game of the year it isn't I do not believe that will be game of the year