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no man's sky is out at last is perhaps the most hyped game of our generation here with me to tell us about it and his experiences of the first mobile force hours he's game sports Dave do it hello give us a little taste it feels like the hype has sort of become more of this more the story of this game than the actual game so when you when you start at the game when you actually begin playing what happens what is this game you it's it's a strange way it doesn't hold your hand at it at any moment it kind of just gives you this universe and says they go we're used to a lot of games be like okay you need to go here you need to do this you need to follow these objectives no man skies more like this is what you kind of want to do but you go at your own pace buddy okay you start the game you're stranded on a planet and one of the 18 quintillion planets that this game has you're stranded you've got to find resources repair your ship get into space when you're in space you have to get fuel hyperdrive stuff and then you can explore the the wider galaxy all right but the best part of this game for me at least is just that like I said it's 18 quintillion planets that that's a lot to explore and each one has its own star it's it's own fauna its own flora alien races I don't know if it's going to be for everyone though why is that because it's there's moments that it feels very grindy it's a lot of menu management resource management to do some of the more exciting stuff in the game means basically walking up to like a cell of plutonium and holding down like right trigger to mine it because otherwise you just straight up and get off the planet okay so it can break the flow of the game when you're exploring the galaxy and then all of a sudden your engines just like by the way I'm empty you might just want to just go and stop and pick up some plutonium and if you're in the middle of like chasing down pirates or examining a space station that could you be like come on man like let me just explore why is this why is this bishop not so eco-friendly yeah it should be powered by like the Sun or yeah I just us yeah also it seems a bit weird to fly to a planet that you know you won't be able to get off unless you can find some plutonium on it I pretty much every plutonium every plutonium every planet will have plutonium it's there's there's what if it doesn't Dave well then it was going to be very lonely on one of those 18 quintillion planets I think no man's sky is a prime example of one of those games where people have kind of built it up into something that was never actually promised okay let the hype kind of just snowballed out of control if you love exploration games if you love getting lost in into these worlds and exploring and resource gathering you're going to love it if you get love like games like minecraft or rust okay then you will really enjoy this game but I just hope there's not so many people just going in and expecting instant action and instant gratification because no man sky does make you work for it okay let's talk a little bit about the the hype factor because you mentioned that this game isn't sort of living up to the hype but do you think if it had been released with no fanfare like for example i'm thinking minecraft and left to sort of gather its own sort of popularity in a slightly more organic fashion do you think it would be do you think it would feel more exciting because I mean we've had we've had years literally years of hype about this this being a total game changer yeah and it sounds like it is it sounds like it's got some really cool procedures got your amazing ideas to it yeah but if Sony wasn't heavily involved it would have been an early access thing on steam it would have come out in an alpha and then slowly built up with like live player feedback which could have made a completely different game right but I mean I think we're all slaves to hype at this point mmm sometimes sometimes it lives up sometimes it doesn't we've just got to kind of temper our expectations and enjoy the game forward it is rather than what just random internet forums and videos kind of hyped up to be no game is going to be the best thing ever that was good analysis Dave thank you if you want to know more about no man's sky you can find it all on cnet or indeed on gamespot com you