I mean, everything they showed in the trailer is in NMS right now, and it’s pretty clearly in the same engine.
With No Man’s Sky, it was a [relatively] unknown studio making some pretty massive claims and then showing what turned out to be pretty exaggerated footage to sell it. There’s no getting around the fact that they over promised and under delivered, to say the least.
But this is different. They have done everything they’re saying and showing is in this new game now, it’s in NMS right now, you can go play it and do all the same things but with a scifi flavour instead of fantasy. I’m not sure where people’s doubts are coming from.
Whether or not it will be good is subjective, there are still people who don’t like NMS’ gameplay loop and that’s fine it’s not for everyone. But the features are there.
I get that it’s really easy to be negative and jaded about it but cmon, I just want more (good) MMOs to play. Hello Games has both the budget and the experience to make it a good game, and the fact that they are trying to do it in a pretty struggling and stale genre is commending IMHO.
Of course I’m not preordering or believing anything they say until I see it for myself, that goes without saying - but we shouldn’t actively root for them to fail like many of the comments here are seemingly doing. Let’s not be “those” always-negative online people just looking for a reason to hate, I’m sure this game will finds its audience the same way NMS did eventually and I personally hope I’m one of them.
Don’t worry, when it fails to live up to the expectations they’ll spend the next decade slowly adding some features. People will love them for continuing to do their best.
At this point under-delivering is a marketing strategy. Just promise the world to lure in pre-orders, then release it too early in a broken state and spent the rest of the time that you had planned to develop it anyway to fix up the title and reap the press articles about your comeback and how much work you do for the fans. Gullible idiots will praise and defend you with their lives on social media. Worked for NMS, CP2077 and many other titles.
They have NMS running very well with billions of planets. They should be able to make one good planet. Gameplay is where this game will succeed or fail.
They have NMS running very well with billions of planets.
Eh, more like 10, each with a couple of variations: grass world, toxic world, radioactive world, ice world, desert world, scorching desert world, volcanic world, dead rock world, anomaly world, swampy world.
I also distinctly recall the game’s framerate taking a nosedive with nvidia drivers 421 or newer, some years ago. Standing still and moving the camera around would freeze several times. Using older drivers made the problem go away.