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New Videos shows walking on Planets and new EVA
Daikuru
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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"The simple is the seal of the true and beauty is the splendor of truth" -Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Authored 139 missions in Vendetta Online and 6 tracks in Distance
or Elite: Dangerous
Personally i think this will be added soon in Star Citizen too.
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- Albert Einstein
In E:D as I understand it there currently is no EVA: you are always in some form of vehicle whether spacecraft or rover. This may seem like splitting hairs, and yet there is something in my mammalian brain that wants to stand on a planetary body with two feet in a game. Planets(?) have no atmosphere? The "barnacles" just don't do it for me. It's a nice effort and yet... I can't help feeling that it could be so much more.
No Man's Sky looks... colorful. However, do you really think each of those quadrillion(!) planets is going to be truly unique? To quote Stephen Colbert, 'wouldn't it get old after the first trillion or so?'. I'm still not 'sold' on NMS; I just don't really understand the 'point' of the game. So, you go around and collect resources and name things, and there is combat versus NPCs, and you are trying to get to the general vicinity of the center of the galaxy. It sounds great on paper, but the 'exploring and collecting resources' part I am just not convinced will work well in a game world as expansive as NMS'. I'm totally being an 'armchair developer' here, and maybe it will rock. Who knows? It certainly seems as though it may be a 'killer app' for PSVR?
With Star Citizen, we're still in the realm of 'it could be anything' (maybe one of the CIG/RSI knights will come to my rescue here), which makes it easy to like.
However, as stated before, I am the type of gamer that could be happy just running around randomly generated terrain.
"The simple is the seal of the true and beauty is the splendor of truth" -Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Authored 139 missions in Vendetta Online and 6 tracks in Distance
One thing I will give CR; I've always more or less agreed with his artistic sense. People rag on his filmography, but when the cards are down Lord of War, The Punisher, and The Jacket were all watchable flicks.
"The simple is the seal of the true and beauty is the splendor of truth" -Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Authored 139 missions in Vendetta Online and 6 tracks in Distance
Also, I'm really not knocking the game, but comon, this is pretty elementary video game stuff here. Nothing to really get all hyped about. How about I get hyped when I'm told all the super awesome stuff I'm gonna be able to do on those planets?
The background looked nice I will give them that but if they really wanted to wow me then they should have ran over to the hills in the background. It looked like to me they had to stay confined to that small area otherwise they probably would have fallen through the floor into oblivion.
The fight scenes in The Punisher were excellent.
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It it is solved differently in Star Citizen where stays persistent.
https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/306254/i-don-t-understand-procedural-planet-generation/p1
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
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The cake is a lie.
As it were, it was less than half a minute of an avatar running around in a small circular area with some distant background that wasn't interacted with. We've seen procedural planets previously with basically one land type. Atmosphere has to be implied or imagined as well other than a haze around the planet. Didn't appear to be any change in the ship's handling or anything on the way in. And the only previous landing on a procedurally generated planet was done at an existing station. If landing on an unexplored, uncivilized planet is the same as landing at a station, that's pretty banal.
If anything, the part that would most interest me was completely omitted. The discovery of the planet and the transition from entering atmosphere to landing to disembarking for exploring, not just at another station.
They seem to work a lot based on implications and imaginations though. Then they can remold and fill in the blanks later with whatever the current reality is being what they meant all along.
I'm a skeptical believer. I want to believe this game will happen, but it has been Freelancer 2.0 almost to a T. Big and ambitious feature list with things never seen before. Years late and out of money, Freelancer was taken over with many of the features working only in a rudimentary state. Most of those were scaled back heavily or dropped completely. It was still a pretty good game with a good degree of polish on what did end up making it, but only a shell of what it was supposed to be. The years late part can, and has, been debated incessantly and either side can be/is right. Whatever. We're at the many features working only in a rudimentary state though. These features still need to be polished substantially and brought together. Or dropped. Or partially realized.
Nothing has really been groundbreaking yet. It's all been done before. The putting it all together and making it work is where the groundbreaking part comes in and we haven't seen that yet. Except implied, imagined, or inferred. I still want to believe, but I'm definitely skeptical. Freelancer was a good game. Freelancer wasn't what most people were expecting based on what they were hyped for though. Freelancer 2.0 would likely not do well now with there being more competition with the mini resurgence of the genre happening right now