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<span class="bold">No Man's Sky</span> a science-fiction game set in an infinite procedurally generated galaxy, is available to pre-order now — DRM-free on GOG.com





Intergalactic travel changes the notion of time. Unimaginable speeds connect impossibly distant worlds, dilating lifetimes, blending generations. A round-trip may find your world aged and unrecognizable, separated from your loved ones, irrevocably alien. In an intergalactic society, only the few set off towards the stars — explorers, those unafraid and with nothing to lose. They set off never to come back as far as our lifetimes are concerned. And thus, we still look up at an infinite sky, now within our reach, yet still untouched — a no man's land, a No Man's Sky.


No Man's Sky promises discovery of an infinite, uncharted universe. Its billions of stars, planets, unknown living creatures, breathtaking sights and lonely wastelands — all seamlessly connected — populated with explorers drawn to the distant mysteries of the horizon, eager to leave a permanent mark in their wake.
The frontier is merciless and dangerous. Exposed to a universe of extremities in your fragile suit and ship, you'll need resources and upgrades to get far — as well as the means stand your ground in fight.
Whether you journey to the center of it all or seek out the farthest reaches of existence, the trip will not be simple or dull. You'll catalogue things unseen, discover alien artifacts and reveal mysteries of the universe. If you survive.


The pre-order incentive for No Man's Sky includes the Horizon Omega ship — faster engines, better guns, all to kickstart your trip and help you survive longer on the interstellar journey.





Reach out and touch the <span class="bold">No Man's Sky</span>, available for pre-orders now, DRM-free on GOG.com! The game is scheduled to be released on June 21st in North America, June 22nd in Europe and Australia, and June 24th in the UK and Rest of World.
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supirman: Is not this game kind of MMO? How it can be DRM-free? Does the server is DRM-Free too?
It's a large world without the need to have interactivity with other players. I don't really understand if you can actually interact with others or if it's made intentionally hard to find another player due to the size of the world.
Looking at the vids i see things.... things i saw in other FPS-Games throughout the last twenty years - which look so badly, badly cheap....
Creatures trampling on one place just to turn around... What is that? A Triceratops moving to "Staying alive"? It stays on it´s place and turns - and turns.... To be honest, i never saw a Triceratops moving in real life - but i bet my ass that it was NOT like this...
HUD-layers everywhere - "HEY, explore me, explore me!" just to keep you interested, just to make sure that you have not one second to think "hey... where am i? What can i do?" or let you alone.
Spoon feeding exploration, a lot of crazy colors just to show the player " WOW, you are at a strange place with another athmosphere!!!"
In which reality i do land on a strange planet and run through immense herds of the unknown fauna while not knowing how they will react? Are they passive? Aggressive? No matter, i run through them....
And in which reality i land on a never-seen-before-by-anyone planet and look at the flora and fauna with a "scanner" which tells me the name and likings of that completely unknown, never before seen creatures? Where do they got names from?

Sounds just like another program with a massive ludonarrative dissonance for the masses.
Be another little human on one of another of thousands strange worlds which in the end are all the same, but of course each with totally different, deadly, mammothly creatures, which hunt and destroy, but you will always are the one who survives, even if you die sometimes.
Cause... you know... you´re the hardest, biggest, strongest and not at last the coolest guy in the entire universe...

And then 60 bucks? For a game that makes nothing new, but pretends to do so? Like every game of the last ten years promised? Sorry, i know every day better, why i am right to not buy a game which makes such promises "to be completely different and stuff".
They are ALL the same, and it´s no other with that....
A good list of things compiled on Reddit about NMS..

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/48w5f4/put_together_a_bunch_of_quotes_from_the_new/
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Prian: Looking at the vids i see things.... things i saw in other FPS-Games throughout the last twenty years - which look so badly, badly cheap....
Creatures trampling on one place just to turn around... What is that? A Triceratops moving to "Staying alive"? It stays on it´s place and turns - and turns.... To be honest, i never saw a Triceratops moving in real life - but i bet my ass that it was NOT like this...
HUD-layers everywhere - "HEY, explore me, explore me!" just to keep you interested, just to make sure that you have not one second to think "hey... where am i? What can i do?" or let you alone.
Spoon feeding exploration, a lot of crazy colors just to show the player " WOW, you are at a strange place with another athmosphere!!!"
In which reality i do land on a strange planet and run through immense herds of the unknown fauna while not knowing how they will react? Are they passive? Aggressive? No matter, i run through them....
And in which reality i land on a never-seen-before-by-anyone planet and look at the flora and fauna with a "scanner" which tells me the name and likings of that completely unknown, never before seen creatures? Where do they got names from?

Sounds just like another program with a massive ludonarrative dissonance for the masses.
Be another little human on one of another of thousands strange worlds which in the end are all the same, but of course each with totally different, deadly, mammothly creatures, which hunt and destroy, but you will always are the one who survives, even if you die sometimes.
Cause... you know... you´re the hardest, biggest, strongest and not at last the coolest guy in the entire universe...

And then 60 bucks? For a game that makes nothing new, but pretends to do so? Like every game of the last ten years promised? Sorry, i know every day better, why i am right to not buy a game which makes such promises "to be completely different and stuff".
They are ALL the same, and it´s no other with that....
So No Man's Sky might urge players to contemplate the futility of their own existence? That might just be worth the 60 bucks.
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HunchBluntley: [joins Crewdroog in jumping up and down excitedly] OMG I KNOW, RIGHT?!?! THIS IS AWESOME!! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S TRUE!! THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE!! I THINK I'M HAVING AN ANEURYSM!! ... WHAT ARE WE EXCITED ABOUT AGAIN?!?!
:P
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Crewdroog: HUSH! let me have my fun, dammit! I've been waiting for this game for a bit and I had no idea they were this close to release after seeing E3. I didn't spoil your party when you got all excited about your bologna underwear.
That was just some light late-night trollin'. (That was the most clever post I was capable of making right before bed. :P ) I hadn't seen you round these parts for a while, so I had to haze you a little upon your return. =)
The game actually looks kinda cool, but besides the facts that I'm virtually immune to hype, and that I wouldn't generally buy a brand-new (let alone unreleased) game, my computer wouldn't be able to run this thing anyway, so I'm in the "Maybe in a few years, if it turns out to not be crap" crowd.

By the way, regarding those bologna underpants: Thanks a lot for telling me, "Oh, yeah, it should be okay to run 'em through the washing machine, they're just underwear." They disintegrated!!! And the machine smelled horrible after that. In fact, the laundromat made me pay to replace the washer after everyone kept getting violently ill because of the smell of rotting lunch meat (and vomit)! 2/10, Wouldn't take advice on laundering edible clothing again.
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Kingpuddycat: That's actually a very good point. You have no chance to play the game, or even know if it works properly until well after the 30 day mark.

Unless it's 30 days after its release perhaps?

My rule of thumb, don't pre-order anything and wait a few months after the reviews are out to get an idea of what your looking at.
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Konrad: The Money-Back Guarantee is indeed valid for 30 days after release. Like you say, it doesn't really apply before that — you can cancel your pre-order at any point before release for whatever reason.
Thanks for the reply! Makes perfect sense then.
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Prian: Looking at the vids i see things.... things i saw in other FPS-Games throughout the last twenty years - which look so badly, badly cheap....
Creatures trampling on one place just to turn around... What is that? A Triceratops moving to "Staying alive"? It stays on it´s place and turns - and turns.... To be honest, i never saw a Triceratops moving in real life - but i bet my ass that it was NOT like this...
HUD-layers everywhere - "HEY, explore me, explore me!" just to keep you interested, just to make sure that you have not one second to think "hey... where am i? What can i do?" or let you alone.
Spoon feeding exploration, a lot of crazy colors just to show the player " WOW, you are at a strange place with another athmosphere!!!"
In which reality i do land on a strange planet and run through immense herds of the unknown fauna while not knowing how they will react? Are they passive? Aggressive? No matter, i run through them....
And in which reality i land on a never-seen-before-by-anyone planet and look at the flora and fauna with a "scanner" which tells me the name and likings of that completely unknown, never before seen creatures? Where do they got names from?

Sounds just like another program with a massive ludonarrative dissonance for the masses.
Be another little human on one of another of thousands strange worlds which in the end are all the same, but of course each with totally different, deadly, mammothly creatures, which hunt and destroy, but you will always are the one who survives, even if you die sometimes.
Cause... you know... you´re the hardest, biggest, strongest and not at last the coolest guy in the entire universe...

And then 60 bucks? For a game that makes nothing new, but pretends to do so? Like every game of the last ten years promised? Sorry, i know every day better, why i am right to not buy a game which makes such promises "to be completely different and stuff".
They are ALL the same, and it´s no other with that....
Well to be fair
most games are just reskins of former games with a bit of innovation.
Its extremly rare that you get entire new gameconcepts today.

So if youre looking for something new and fresh
you migth wait for long or just need to stop gaming for a lot of years.
Post edited March 05, 2016 by Lodium
Hmmmm, so I've gone through several videos of this game trying to get a better sense of it. And I still have not much of one, except now the sense that I get is "a whole lot of the same thing over and over with no seeming point" and I'm also confused. It looks like the explorer keeps "discovering new species" and this just seems all sorts of wrong. If no one has ever been there before, is it the player naming the stuff? What is the point of creating+gathering such information? To share with some other organization that will then colonize and exploit the raw materials? If that's what you're doing I'd think they'd have dispatched a team because exploring an entire planet with 1 person could take ages. And yet, it seems like the most I see happening is landing, looking around, taking off, landing, looking around. Shouldn't it be taken for granted that everything will be unknown and can we not then get beyond that into something more interesting? I see lots of dinosaur and herbivore+omnivore types, buuut, even though they might differ from this planet to this planet slightly, conceptually it all seems the same. "Oooo we've changed some colors and shapes! This grass is taller and wider!" BORING. And the color palettes are wholly unappealing, over and over. I've looked and looked and can't find a single bit of video that explores any water areas. Are there oceans and lakes and rivers and such in the game? Are all the planets inhabitable? Or are the only planets that you can visit habitable planets and the other 99.9% are still not explorable?

I'm not trying to be critical, I'm trying to figure out if the game is a real interest or waning. Right now it is waning. I had about 3 minutes of interest and about 45 of getting more and more turned off from what I see. Gimmicky and bland is where I'm at now. Pointing me to other features or videos that show more than what seems standard would be appreciated.
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Lodium: So if youre looking for something new and fresh...
try The Sunless Sea
Post edited March 05, 2016 by drealmer7
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drealmer7: Hmmmm, so I've gone through several videos of this game trying to get a better sense of it. And I still have not much of one, except now the sense that I get is "a whole lot of the same thing over and over with no seeming point" and I'm also confused. It looks like the explorer keeps "discovering new species" and this just seems all sorts of wrong. If no one has ever been there before, is it the player naming the stuff? What is the point of creating+gathering such information? To share with some other organization that will then colonize and exploit the raw materials? If that's what you're doing I'd think they'd have dispatched a team because exploring an entire planet with 1 person could take ages. And yet, it seems like the most I see happening is landing, looking around, taking off, landing, looking around. Shouldn't it be taken for granted that everything will be unknown and can we not then get beyond that into something more interesting? I see lots of dinosaur and herbivore+omnivore types, buuut, even though they might differ from this planet to this planet slightly, conceptually it all seems the same. "Oooo we've changed some colors and shapes! This grass is taller and wider!" BORING. And the color palettes are wholly unappealing, over and over. I've looked and looked and can't find a single bit of video that explores any water areas. Are there oceans and lakes and rivers and such in the game? Are all the planets inhabitable? Or are the only planets that you can visit habitable planets and the other 99.9% are still not explorable?

I'm not trying to be critical, I'm trying to figure out if the game is a real interest or waning. Right now it is waning. I had about 3 minutes of interest and about 45 of getting more and more turned off from what I see. Gimmicky and bland is where I'm at now. Pointing me to other features or videos that show more than what seems standard would be appreciated.
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Lodium: So if youre looking for something new and fresh...
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drealmer7: try The Sunless Sea
The understanding i get from this game
this game is an exploration game.
Think of it like a game where you are columbus with the task of discovering a new route to the east.
You explore the universe and find new planets and new animals.
If you find stuff thats not discovered by other players you can name them yourself
but its still not a multiplayer game, maybe more like dark souls co op mode or whats its called
At the same time you wil need to upgrade your suit and ship.
To upgrade you need to collect stuff but if you kill too many animals or destroy stuff to get materials then robot guards wil show up.
If you kill the guard, more guards and stronger guards will show up.

Something like that.
I guess one need to wait for more information on the game
and read user experinces when its out to really grasp the whole game and what it is about.
Post edited March 06, 2016 by Lodium
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Lodium: I guess one need to wait for more information on the game
yes, I was just figuring that with what I was "expecting" from what I read on the game page, that if I checked out 2, 5, 10, 25, 50, 200 different people's videos doing the game, I'd see 2, 5, 10, 25, 50, 200 different experiences, but it all looks like pretty much the same experience.
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Prian: Looking at the vids i see things.... things i saw in other FPS-Games throughout the last twenty years - which look so badly, badly cheap....
Creatures trampling on one place just to turn around... What is that? A Triceratops moving to "Staying alive"? It stays on it´s place and turns - and turns.... To be honest, i never saw a Triceratops moving in real life - but i bet my ass that it was NOT like this...
HUD-layers everywhere - "HEY, explore me, explore me!" just to keep you interested, just to make sure that you have not one second to think "hey... where am i? What can i do?" or let you alone.
Spoon feeding exploration, a lot of crazy colors just to show the player " WOW, you are at a strange place with another athmosphere!!!"
In which reality i do land on a strange planet and run through immense herds of the unknown fauna while not knowing how they will react? Are they passive? Aggressive? No matter, i run through them....
And in which reality i land on a never-seen-before-by-anyone planet and look at the flora and fauna with a "scanner" which tells me the name and likings of that completely unknown, never before seen creatures? Where do they got names from?

Sounds just like another program with a massive ludonarrative dissonance for the masses.
Be another little human on one of another of thousands strange worlds which in the end are all the same, but of course each with totally different, deadly, mammothly creatures, which hunt and destroy, but you will always are the one who survives, even if you die sometimes.
Cause... you know... you´re the hardest, biggest, strongest and not at last the coolest guy in the entire universe...

And then 60 bucks? For a game that makes nothing new, but pretends to do so? Like every game of the last ten years promised? Sorry, i know every day better, why i am right to not buy a game which makes such promises "to be completely different and stuff".
They are ALL the same, and it´s no other with that....
I have no experience with the game, but I'm thinking you're mistaking a promo trailer video as actual gameplay.
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Crewdroog: HUSH! let me have my fun, dammit! I've been waiting for this game for a bit and I had no idea they were this close to release after seeing E3. I didn't spoil your party when you got all excited about your bologna underwear.
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HunchBluntley: That was just some light late-night trollin'. (That was the most clever post I was capable of making right before bed. :P ) I hadn't seen you round these parts for a while, so I had to haze you a little upon your return. =)
The game actually looks kinda cool, but besides the facts that I'm virtually immune to hype, and that I wouldn't generally buy a brand-new (let alone unreleased) game, my computer wouldn't be able to run this thing anyway, so I'm in the "Maybe in a few years, if it turns out to not be crap" crowd.

By the way, regarding those bologna underpants: Thanks a lot for telling me, "Oh, yeah, it should be okay to run 'em through the washing machine, they're just underwear." They disintegrated!!! And the machine smelled horrible after that. In fact, the laundromat made me pay to replace the washer after everyone kept getting violently ill because of the smell of rotting lunch meat (and vomit)! 2/10, Wouldn't take advice on laundering edible clothing again.
LOL

and how has no one else replied to this? what a bunch of boring people!

I told you to do it on GENTLE CYCLE. bologna is a delicate. roast beef on the other hand, normal cycle. you didn't wash the gherkin pasties did you??? those you need to hand-wash.
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groze: This isn't a AAA game and, yeah, I understand why a lot of people aren't willing to trust a small studio with €60 in a pre-order [..]

All I'm saying is: give these guys a chance.
Of course. But then they also should give us a chance, especially when they don't have a reputation in PC gaming so far. Providing a demo is one of the first things I would expect for such a pricey game so that I can see if the game will run on my PC and if the game-play does fit for me before I spend so much money.
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Crsldmc: I'd rather go with Star Citizen, but good for GOG as Star Citizen will not use resellers according to them.
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ReynardFox: I'm still not convinced Star Citizen will ever be a finished thing.
It will be, they chewed more than the could at first, but since they've got quite a sum of money (which they're spending but that's what that money was supposed to be used for) and been working on Squadron 42 and SC actively.

It won't be ready tomorrow, or next year, but it will be finished I guess before 2020 if everything goes alright.
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nekomimi: The release dates are messed up?

to be released on June 21st in North America, June 22nd in Europe and Australia, and June 24th in the UK and Rest of World.

Since when has the UK not being in europe??
How's that phrase go? 'A part of, yet apart from'? : )

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HunchBluntley: By the way, regarding those bologna underpants: Thanks a lot for telling me, "Oh, yeah, it should be okay to run 'em through the washing machine, they're just underwear." They disintegrated!!! And the machine smelled horrible after that. In fact, the laundromat made me pay to replace the washer after everyone kept getting violently ill because of the smell of rotting lunch meat (and vomit)! 2/10, Wouldn't take advice on laundering edible clothing again.
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Crewdroog: LOL

and how has no one else replied to this? what a bunch of boring people!

I told you to do it on GENTLE CYCLE. bologna is a delicate. roast beef on the other hand, normal cycle. you didn't wash the gherkin pasties did you??? those you need to hand-wash.
Pretty sure you left that part out. :( Anyway, I always hand-wash my roast beef, so no danger there.
But you must be thinking of someone else with gherkin pasties. No pickle chips on these nips! (I am SO sorry to everyone for any inadvertent mental images.)
Post edited March 06, 2016 by HunchBluntley