Bryank75 on 07 March 2016
After a couple of years now of being very unsatisfied with the quality of reviews, hyperbole, clear bias and moving goal-posts, I am going to use this preview as a case in point to highlight how useless and misleading some in the media have become.
Amorpisseur's translation and summation of the Gamekult preview;
To sum up:
- The journalist played mostly on PS4 and was show a PC version before
- crappy FPS and low details on planets on PS4 vs PC
- shooting feels boring (no feedback)
- No reward/loot for killing on planets or in space, confirmed to be like this at release
- Sloppy controls of both walking and flying (walking is too slow, and flying is too simple to be interesting)
- Space station (big crystals) are big and empty (just a terminal to buy/sell stuff)
- Police robots on every planet, even unexplored ones, kills the immersion
- The feeling is that the developers were pushed to show it to the press, but it feels like as if they did not like the idea of showing their game in this state
- This all looked scary for the journalist with the June release date in mind, based on his game-previews experience
To the first point: what PC? was it an i7 with a GTX970? Not everyone has one of those in their house. I don't have the time for PC gaming and can put up with a little lost detail.
It is an entire universe (several quaintillion planets) I imagine there would be a little bit of pop in alright (Idiot!) and of course fps.
Point two: Shooting is not the point of this game, exploring is. If you don't want to explore F**k off and play COD! It is a "Multitool" not a gun.
Point three: There are rewards for destroying ships in space, it was outlined as one of the main ways to get resources to upgrade your gear. Killing the wildlife on each planet isn't really the point of the game, is it? (Bloodthirsty git isn't he... send him to war I say, he'll come back better for it.)
Point four: Sean Murray said they were tightening up the controls still but there was a run button (so don't know why he didn't use it if it was too slow)
For the flying, there is a game called Microsoft Flight Simulator if you think NMS is too arcady for you... I don't think space flight works with one person in real life....
Skipping five: nonsense complaint. Space is lonely!
Point five: Police robots are NOT NOT NOT on every planet and this was information available since August or September last year... Seriously!?
Point six: Amazing intuition, really... just amazing.
Point seven: Scary for the journalists? Imagine for the Devs... letting intellectual minos like this in to point out how not like COD it is.
I want to explore the nothingness of space, I want to name species and planets, I want to discover. Expand your mind, look at the bigger picture, that is what this game is about. Limitlessness not the neanderthal level concept of killing all that surrounds you.
The following video is going viral and inspires the wonder inherent in the game.
