Greetings All; Shardvixen Here,
I started playing "No Man's Sky" without knowing any thing about all the game hype. I thought a game where you could explore space, whats not to love. I remember my first sci-fi series I read were "The Ship who Sang" and "Dragon Riders of Pern" by Anne McCaffrey and The Darkover series by Marion Zimmer Bradley. I went on to read both classics and new Sci-Fi. Both of the above authors showed two very different concepts about space. The authors used the spectrum of science and fantasy in the ways I liked and I write in those same ideas.
So when some of the YouTube creators I watch began to talk about the game and my roommate suggested I play it on his PlayStation, I was intrigued. I always wanted to go to space as a child and see new worlds, meet new beings and animals and learn we were not all alone in space. I was five years old when the astronauts walked on the moon and I remember the black and white news on our new color TV. I couldn't understand at the time what the big deal was because of "Lost in Space. (yes I know about the moon conspiracy theory, I don't believe it.)
Now I could go to other galaxies and explore planets. But it was a video game and apparently there were things wrong with it. Here is what I found. Like any other game, I could get into trouble and find new ways of making the game play longer then it needed to be, (Watch me play Dark Souls). I lost needed tools without understanding how and did more walking then I should have ( I must be a really healthy and skinny astronaut.). I kept watching various people stop playing the game as it became clear that there was no easy way to win.
I realized very early that the game was like MineCraft for me. I could follow the plan (the big red ball tells you want to do) or I could go off on my own and cook up lots of trouble, like crash between a floating island and the ground and die or freeze and drown on the same planet but later. Then come back and my ship be broken and the one mineral I need to get off the damn frozen hell is now where to be seen till I walk the whole planet twice.( Yes I did a series of videos.) It was at that time I realized, one could play this game for at least 6 months and do all kinds of things. Meaning someone out there could devote a whole series of videos on discovering and naming systems.
I wasn't too heartbroken that you couldn't play with other people since I don't play with other people much (because I am very unpopular, have no friends or at least ones who play video games and I am not a great player), so I was good on that part and hell, I WAS IN SPACE!!!!!!! I have a cool exo-suit, spaceship and tool I could upgrade. So what does that mean for me and the game in the long run. Well the roommate is moving out, so there goes the PlayStation which means my space travel is going to be short. But if I had a PlayStation would I buy the game for myself, yeah when the price came down in a year or so. I don't buy new games because a lot of time (not all the time), I don't think the game play is worth the price of the game when I can wait and get the game and all of its DLC later.
If I had dropped the $60 on this game thinking I was getting a totally different game then what I got, I might be pissed as many are but since I didn't have any expectations, I like the game. Do I like it as much as my role playing games, no because the story is either not there or it is hidden in the languages you need to learn. It is a lonely game with little to no interaction with other characters. Maybe that is the point, maybe space is lonely. I know it is hell because I have been frozen, radiated and cooked as well as attacked by the flora and animals on the planets I have thus far visited.
The one thing that does bum me out is the center you find is of the galaxy you are in. Now whether that means you have to go through many other glaxasies to find the center of the universe or if the center was some weird myth cooked up as to say there was an end to the game, I am not sure. I haven't really checked up on the news about "No Man's Sky" because I don't really care. I have played Minecraft for about five years now and still haven't gotten to the dragon but then I don't really try that hard. I spend my time building civilizations. MineCraft is a lonely game as well and it will eat up your time which is why I have been playing it off and on for about five years. I think that will be what "No Man's Sky" will end up for me.
I do think the creators were inspired by other space games and movies. Some of the aliens look kind of familiar but that might just be me, I remember shapes and see them in patterns. I see some familiar faces from places I have lived here where I live now. If you are interested in the various ways people have played "No Man's Sky" I would look up these channels:
ItsJosiePosie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFrmn9OArNY
Geek Remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGzKbYYURO0
theRadBrad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAIafpmqnLI
And of course me, Shardvixen. There are lots others as well and if you go to my channel and click on the playlist for the game, it will have others to look at. These were the ones who either are still going on, or quit (thus have an ending) or ended the game.
It is interesting to think about what would space be like and why haven't aliens showed up yet.
Here is a list of theories as to the why of it all.
http://listverse.com/2014/09/30/10-reasons-that-we-still-havent-found-aliens/
I sometimes wish they would come here because then maybe humanity would band together but it is more likely we would sell out the aliens and ourselves. I don't believe the character you play as in "No Man's Sky" is human. I think it might be a clone created by the aliens which need you to complete the red ball quest, the Atlas to find them or their lost selves. I think there was a galactic war between the googy creatures and the Atlas. Which one of them owns the Sentinels I am not sure as of yet.d But I could be way off in the story, maybe there isn't a story at all which is why it all seems so slow. It will be fun to see how it all plays out either on my channel or another's. At least one good thing came from it all. I GOT TO EXPLORE SPACE! And maybe other games will come after like this but with more to offer the players.
If you want big time spoilers go here:
http://nomanssky.gamepedia.com/No_Man%27s_Sky_Wiki
I am outta here; See you all on the flip side. Peace!
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