Thanks a lot.

"Excited" might not be the right word, but yeah, I'm looking forward to it. It's clearly still very early in development, and they don't really have an actual game yet, just a concept and what is essentially a tech demo. But it looks promising.

I want to see where this leads cause I always wanted to play a game that would let me travel to other planets like that

When I saw the first part of the trailer walking through that crazy world with all the colourful trees and grass, my jaw dropped. When I found out it was a randomly generated indie game with no purpose, I almost cried. Such wasted potential...

From what I've read, the game will be connected, but the sheer scale of it means you're highly unlikely to encounter other players (especially at the start of your game). The devs don't actually consider it an MMO, more of a giant single player game where you may encounter other players over the course of your game.

They've designed it to be more like the original Elite; a true open world game where you decide exactly what to do and where to go.

Everyone should be excited for it. So original.

From what little bits of info I've managed to piece together, there will be combat and gameplay mechanics other than just exploring, identifying new species and flying spaceships to procedurally generated worlds. But I think objective-wise, they won't have strict missions. It'll be a player lead experience although they may have a single over-arching objective for the game.

Yep.

Interview with the Sean Murray from Hello Games:

http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/x8pp1o/no-man-s-sky-vgx-2013--sean-murray-interview

Dev commentary with more game info:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bXANFZkcO4

Still can't believe only 4 people are making this game!