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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2017-04-17 06:50 pm
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(Anonymous) 2017-04-17 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Eh, I think the problem is that it was massively oversold by its creators and the previews, so that there was literally no way it was ever going to live up to the expectations they'd built.

That said, I'm one of the few that actually enjoyed it, but I'm into super relaxed walking-sim type games to begin with. It still wasn't what I expected, from the hype leading up to it.

(Anonymous) 2017-04-18 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
Not living up to expectations is one thing. But claiming that the developers lied to us and that we were offered things that we weren't is another.

(Anonymous) 2017-04-18 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Didn't Sean Murray say that No Man's Sky would technically have multiplayer functionality but the universe was so large that two players would never meet in practice?

(Anonymous) 2017-04-18 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
I think that turned out to be true though.

(Anonymous) 2017-04-18 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
No it didn't, there's no multiplayer at all.

(Anonymous) 2017-04-18 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
I remember that players have run into each other.

(Anonymous) 2017-04-18 09:19 am (UTC)(link)
That was one of the lies

(Anonymous) 2017-04-18 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Wasn't there video of it? Player-captured?

(Anonymous) 2017-04-18 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
In this day and age, very few games aren't massively oversold by their creators.
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[personal profile] caerbannog 2017-04-18 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
Have they reduced the amount of grinding? I like walking-sim type games, but I'm not a fan of...well..constant item collection and building to be able to walk.

(Anonymous) 2017-04-18 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
Literally the entire game is grinding.
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[personal profile] caerbannog 2017-04-18 07:50 am (UTC)(link)
:( this is why i don't play minecraft... :'(

(Anonymous) 2017-04-18 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
The gaming community is - as a community - extremely dumb

(Anonymous) 2017-04-18 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
Not generally to the point of false advertising lawsuits though.

(Anonymous) 2017-04-18 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
False advertising lawsuits that Hello Games won.

(Anonymous) 2017-04-18 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
I wish I could find it, but someone actually screencapped the various promises by the creators and then the list of actual features.

(Also, their multi-player function - where you could happen upon other players - was explicitly promised and totally broken at release.)

(Anonymous) 2017-04-18 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
"Promised systems broken at release" doesn't seem like it's something that's unheard of in the industry, nor is puffery in terms of promises. It's hard to figure out why it caused such an overblown furor in this specific instance, or - to put it another way - why anyone would be stupid enough to uncritically believe the promises made by any publisher

(Anonymous) 2017-04-18 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
The furor may be overblown, but 'how could you believe those promises?' is not a defense.

(Anonymous) 2017-04-18 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I remember when it was about to come out and a friend of mine was so psyched, and we watched youtube videos about it and I was just like "ok so...what's the gameplay? What do you DO?". My friend kept saying stuff he thought it would have but all the videos we saw just showed the same cutscenes again and again with no substance. I'm glad I didn't preorder, he was pretty disappointed on launch day.

[personal profile] digitalghosts 2017-04-18 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
I did not hear anything about this game before release - only seen it after via youtube. How much was it? It is impressive to create such algorithm but not much else. It is weird that they did not make any plotted quests besides the metaphisical one. They could have made few static planets with story scripts and goals beyond that - even without much assets, animations or actors.

(Anonymous) 2017-04-18 09:21 am (UTC)(link)
$60
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