Portal trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8TnVKzGuIc

PSX gameplay (stunning): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmwG6Sj1Yfg

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I don't get the point of this game. What do you do? Just explore and then explore so more?
Why are people so hyped for it?

looks sooo good!

It's interesting that the Music and the creature sounds are also procedurally generated.

It's like a dream come true. You can go anywhere to explore different planets and it's never the same experience for anyone. It helps that the game looks amazing both technically and artistically.

Added the gameplay from PSX to the OP! Even more stunning and it runs at 60FPS!

Yes, but without some sort of community or gameplay elements added to spice things up, that will get old in about half an hour. The fact that this *can* be proceedurally generated makes this a really good tech demo, but we haven't heard anything about the gameplay itself besides fly around and explore.

It isn't just exploration

Non-violent:
- Exploration (discovering and naming of creatures, plants, locations, crashed ships, structures, artifacts, portals to dangerous planets)
- Resource Gathering (gather and sell minerals from a fictitious periodic table of elements using a multi-tool for scanning, a mining laser for gathering)
- Trading (buy resources cheap from one space station, sell them to another for profit)

Violent:
- Destroy Guardian Robots (gathering and killing too much alerts robots that hunt you down, you have weapons and grenades at your disposal)
- Escort and Defend (escort ships on their journey, defend them from enemy attacks)
- Destroy Ships (destroy trader ships, lone or groups of traveler NPCs, choose sides in huge fleet battles or evade them altogether, kill the local police)

There is also one "core thing" you can do for every solar system, and this "thing" is of great significance, fundamentally changes that solar system and players can choose whether or not they want to do that.

What do I do with all this cash I earned?
- Well, the main goal is to survive the trip to the center of the galaxy, so you want to make sure you can actually pull this off. There are three main things you can upgrade:
- Suit - (shields, carrying capacity, jetpack, degree of survival in toxic, corrosive, radioactive, acid and other environments)
- Weapons - (improve scanning range and type, resource gathering, laser beam, plasma grenade, energy shot, for space there are different weapons with different specialties like lasers for shields, plasma for hull damage, torpedoes for heavy damage but with slow projectiles)
- Ship - (buy new ones actually, but they can have different stats defined into three classes: Fighter, Trader and Explorer, different engines, stealth tech, different types of weapons for different occasions)

There is a central goal. You can earn money and upgrade your ship and the like. You can meet up with other players. You can find new places nobody has seen before. I honestly can't see how people can NOT be excited lol