No Man's Sky has gone gold
An image of the master disc released on Twitter perfectly captures the small team's jubilation at nearing the finish line of their four-year odyssey.
Sean Murray of Hello Games announced on Twitter that No Man's Sky is, at long last, finished and ready for distribution.
"It's happened. No Man's Sky just went gold. I'm so incredibly proud of this tiny team. 4 years of emotions," he wrote alongside a picture of the tiny Hello Games team celebrating complete with the first pressed disc containing years of blood, sweat, tears, and procedurally generated planets.
"Gone gold" is industry jargon for a developer producing a master copy of a game's code and sending it off for mass replication, packaging, and distribution ahead of release. That doesn't preclude things like day-one
No Man's Sky is a science-fiction-themed adventure and survival game in which you will explore a procedurally generated universe made up of 18 quintillion planets purportedly containing unique landscapes, inhabitants, and vegetation.
Hello Games has been on a procedurally generated journey of its own. Since the game's inception, development has been a long, winding road littered with delays, legal disputes, and floods. The team rose above adversity and is proud to announce that No Man's Sky will be available on PS4 and PC on August 9.
Congratulations to everyone at Hello Games.
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It seems to be a typo. I assume for Gonad.
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Precisely! (Fixed that and one other slip.)
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Gotta use the month to add some gameplay mechanics to it.
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I suppose the serious answer would be to give the publisher time to market the game, seal up some deals here and there, generate keys, manage services, maybe some further/last minute playtesting for critical bugs and time to patch them.
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No one really knows, it seems. But most people won't be surprised if it's like Elite: Dangerous: Horizons: Another DLC, a mile wide and an inch thick. There's only so much gameplay you can offer with procedural generation before it all starts to look and feel the same. There needs to be a ton more variables in procedural generation for us to feel like it offers more on the plate than just scraps.
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I strongly suspect that if you're not interested in exploring new (procedural) world's, this game is not for you. Everything else about the game centers on moving from place to place, upgrading via combat/exploration/trade, and then repeating that process on successive planets.
To me, it sounds like a great game for just vegging out on the couch with, especially when combined with say, weed.
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What even is No Man's Sky? I don't care! It's pretty!
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The VR version might be good.
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I'm worried about on foot movement. If it's standard FPS analog movement, it's a no go for me and a shit load of other VR owners.
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Does it support VR right now?
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No, nor have they confirmed that it ever will. It was rumored at one point that it might launch with PSVR, but that got shot down quite some time ago.
I guess I'd be surprised if they didn't eventually support it, but I'm not expecting it to happen soon.
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I don't think anyone will dispute that. It's "for how long" that everyone is curious about.
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That's been the case with Elite: Dangerous: Horizons: DLC Name Here. Most people got pretty bored of it after about 20-30 hours, but there's a small community that have no problem playing the same, boring mechanic over and over and over again for endless hours on end. I'm definitely not one of them. Once a game loses its challenge or I beat it, I move on to find a new game.
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Yeah, it was surprising how quickly the hype built up for NMS. It might bite them in return if the game turns out as shallow as everyone fears, but then again they probably got a boatload of money out of it. Can always form a new dev studio, though it might hurt the reputation of Sean a bit.
I really, really hope it's not shallow but as complex, challenging, and fun to explore and play as I had hoped Elite: Dangerous to be.
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Space exploration and combat being taken seriously as a game core is exciting as fuck.
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I'm really looking forward to this. I've never really put any time into some of the games that it takes after, so this will largely be a fresh experience for me.
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What even is No Man's Sky?
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My god.
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I no longer know how I am supposed to feel about turtles.
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So, basically you want to have a gun to slaughter all the poor, innocent alien lifeforms you'll encounter in No Man's Sky?
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NO HATS?!
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Has anyone ever point blank asked them if you can be at the same spot on the same planet with someone? They've never shown anything like that I'm pretty sure.
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The last I saw it mentioned, they were pretty clear that if you somehow were in the same place at the same time as another player, you would see them, but that you wouldn't necessarily even know it was another player.
They never clarified what that meant though. I suspect it means something like the "ghosts" in Dark Souls, but that they won't be obviously different from other NPCs.
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CHEST AHEAD THEREFORE TRY THRUST IN SPACE
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PRAISE THE SUN BUT DON'T FLY INTO IT IN SPACE
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I've never thought of them as "playing both sides of the fence." Everything I've seen said it would be an enormous feat to actually meet another player, left alone a friend you'd want to play with. I've never had any illusions about the multiplayer aspect in this game.
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Great news, i hope its really awesome. Ambitious projects like this is what makes this industry so much fun.
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We're still explaining what "Gone Gold" is on a gaming website in 2016.
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Because it's free marketing.
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Wait a week for reviews to come out and suckers preorderers to opine about their experience.
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Anyone know if it supports multiple cores, and/or DX12? Probably not DX12 I'm guessing, but I pray it supports more than 2 cores...seriously, it's 2016, support at least 4 cores :P
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they've got a girl and a brown person, what more do you want
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From what little they've shown I'm not convinced this is a 60€ game.
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I'm very excited for this game. Even if it was just a playable version of the demo they have showed a million times... it will be fun for me. Just walking around exploring planets and hopping into ships and checking things out. I could get many hours of fun out of just doing that stuff.
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Exciting; the game looks very cool. It seems like No Man's Sky and Astroneer are destined to be compared to one another, rightly or wrongly. It's definitely a good time for sci-fi exploration. It must be awesome to be 10-12 years old or so right now--in that period where you have those really big thoughts about space and planets and other worlds--and then these games hit.
