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An Obsidian Developer's Opinion On No Man's Sky Development
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"the only way to know what you look like is for another player to see you." on the Late Show, there better actually be some form of multiplayer possibility in the game.
If there's no player modeling in the game and actually no multiplayer possibility, you really should not say stuff like that.
If you worked on multiplayer and something happened right before release making it impossible, tell people that. Otherwise people have no choice but to assume that multiplayer concept was a straight up lie.
As it is, they sold a $20 game for $60, and "promised" free DLCs in the future.
Too bad most gamers know what developer "promises" are generally worth.
The makers of Sword Coast Legends, for instance, promised all kinds of fixes and future content for their half finished, overly hyped, and underwhelming game, and then their company went under.
So what were their promises worth? Yeah....
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No Forests - Debunked
No Large Lifeforms - Debunked
No Faction Interaction - Debunked
No Large Space Battles - Debunked
No Oceans - Debunked
Etc
Etc
Etc
I am having loads of fun playing and discovering NMS. It doesnt bother me if others dont like the game.
b) is disappointing, but I'd be willing to overlook this. I had a great time with games like "Cosmic Osmo" as a kid: realism isn't everything.
a) is more troubling because Sean had plenty of time to correct this implication, and didn't. Remember this photo?
Yeah, that was July 7th.
...no word that anything was going to be the slightest deviant from what was presented in interviews from that time until now.
The way I see it, from July 7th until the beginning of August he had two options:
1: "We need more time to give you the game we promised. It may be a while, but we are dedicated to bringing the vision we've presented to you to life"
or
2: "We've had to cut some features from our game; here is what's going to be different"
Instead, Hello Games' approach seems to be 'launch, and hope no-one notices'. This appears to have backfired.
I can't say whether they deserve it or not.
"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
I'm fine with delays or problems occurring, just bloody tell me lol, but when they keep hush and in pretty much every interview up to launch say one thing, then launch comes and we're given something else with not very much explanation, for me, that's a problem.
Why are other developers having to guess or try to explain it? We need info from Hello games on this.
If he / they would have just come out an been honest saying we had to cut XX because of X. You know people might have got mad for a bit but they would have atleast came into the game with the right expectations.
A game like Skyrim is worthy of a pre-order. Made by an experienced team with several big successful games under their belt, and a year or so of in-depth disclosure, previews etc about the game itself before release.
Why do you do it?
I don't care "how the sausage is made", who is responsible for what and when decisions were made.
It matters that a game was sold at a AAA price without being a AAA game or really in "release condition". Missing features that were promised, another thing that doesn't matter to me as to why, except that they are missing.
So really, they can parcel out the blame among themselves, that is not for me to do.
It was for me to get a refund.
That being said I never actually got the impression from the studio about a lot of "you can do this with multiplayer" or "you can do that" because they were vague and really did the dance of "we're exploring what's possible with that multiplayer". Also there is a part of the "there's none of that in my game" but "well its in everyone elses game except yours" ordeal.
That's really I feel is the problem; the hype when you visit forums, critic sites and tons of other stuff, the hype took an amazing life for itself! If you solely read and watch what Hello Games and Sean Murray said, especially at E3, you got the "hey this is a space exploration game that never ends" and there wasn't any emphasis "hey its such a vast universe with multiplayer" or "its going to cater to player-to-player interaction" or "you're going to be able to explore everything on the planet and achieve outcome x, y, z" because I don't even recall that ever being said.
That's where I am really puzzled because I never got the impression or belief of what a lot of people are posting [and that's even after several hours of youtubing as much as possible before wondering if I should get Fallout 4's season pass and a few rentals or No Man's Sky].
The communication on Hello Games, I do admit, is a bit lackluster and I feel the only thing they needed to do was really be concrete on the core aspect of what you can do on the game more so than the last E3 announcement because, even after the E3 gameplays, a lot of the websites from Kotaku to Toms to whatever just took a life on its own.
My gut level reaction (may be wrong, of course) is that he was lying (misrepresenting). I'm thinking of the questions he was asked about being able to see other players and whether griefing was possible. He did later come out and say on twitter clearly that there was no multiplayer, but it was pretty much at the last minute before release.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8P2CZg3sJQ
I am not counted among them as I don't fall into the hype anymore. I go into games with no expectations, unless it is a developer I have trusted for a while, then I may have some expectations. And I will very rarely preorder a game, total of 2 in the last 5 years, and have stopped backing games altogether now myself.
But I do think those gamers that bought into this game thinking it was going to be more of a multiplayer aspect do have some room to be upset. If they preordered based around when the developer was hinting at multiplayer then sure they deserve to get a refund if they are that upset about it.
Most people understand there are issues and things get cut last minute, etc...but don't set release dates at all. Do like others and say it will be ready when it is finished. Don't hem yourself into a deadline. I know this can be really hard for a small team as they need the hype and the money to keep going which you really only get with deadlines, etc...
Overall the game is not a bad game for what it is. It is more of an exploration game, which is a good feel for this game. Would it have been nice to be able to explore and run into others, sure, but is that game breaking if you don't, no.
Since the game has launched and nothing can be done about that now, something that can make this a really good game is the developer working with modders now. If something is great and a ton of people are using it reach out to the modder and get their permission to actually add it to the game. Sometimes mods are better than the original and it is always a good idea to look at the talent that could be added in the future.
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Some dude spent a lot of time/effort on such a list. I personally have no idea how accurate it is as NMS isn't a game I followed. From the brief skim I did of it looks like he only sourced from official statement about features promised-not delivered. Doesn't appear he's got any he said/she said stuff in there. /shrugs if it's at all accurate and if no official statement prior to point of sale informing those features cut wouldn't be in the game...I can see why people are upset if they purchased based in part or in whole based upon those features.
https://archive.is/V5Zns
EDIT warning the document is frigging huge(swhy I only skimmed) so set some time aside if you wish to peruse.
As of today the developer has came out and flat out said that it is a single player game so that no one is confused by this. Believe it was done by tweet can't remember.
I'm still hopefully for the future of NMS (the procedural tech as a base is pretty cool), but it desperately needs some big improvements in gameplay (and I don't mean a scripted story, it should remain an exploration game) if it has any hope of being more than a curious tech demo (and any hope of people buying NMS2).