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Was No Man’s Sky Actually A Mistake?

ThisGenGaming says "After a disgruntled Hello Games employee tweeted "No Man's Sky was a mistake" it made us think whether or not it should be considered a mistake. ThisGenGaming weighs up and answers the question of whether or not No Man's Sky should be considered a mistake."

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uth113500d ago

I don't think the game was a mistake, but it needed more time, it was probably forced out the door. That was the mistake

Overload3500d ago (Edited 3500d ago )

It was a mistake. The interviews and communication were a mistake, the hype was a mistake, Sony's partnership was a mistake, the launch was a mistake, the silence after was a mistake, the tweet was a mistake. It was all a mistake.
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phantomexe3500d ago

Wtf overload you alwasy post that BS. I'll say this again for you. Research your games before you buy them. There more to that link but you have to have an objective mind. If anything i want a refund for fallout 3, skyrim for the ps3. Those games were never fixed and crash to this day.

Chris123500d ago (Edited 3500d ago )

And yet Overload was defending it like mad on release. Various posts from NMS threads at the time:

Quote 'This game is so freaking good'
Quote 'Nothing stops this train'
Quote 'This is why people are trying so hard. The game is an insane success'

I think your defense was a mistake.....

Overload3500d ago (Edited 3500d ago )

Yep, that was a mistake too. It was all a mistake. Lol.

Outside_ofthe_Box3500d ago

* * * * * " I don't think the game was a mistake, but it needed more time, it was probably forced out the door. That was the mistake " * * * * *

Then people would have bitched about the delay.

Liqu1d3500d ago

They already did. People even handed out death threats over a delay.

uth113499d ago

Of course they would have. Many gamers do nothing except whine about every single thing

VforVideogames3499d ago

This game its gonna end up next to E.T. from Atari ..... do some research if you don't know what I mean.

lelo2play3499d ago

It was a mistake for most people that purchased the game.
It wasn't a mistake for the developers, they sold a crap load of copies at 60€.

IamTylerDurden13499d ago

Speak for yourself. I bought it day 1 and i'm happy with my purchase. I've put 50+ hours in and counting, i got my monies worth.

kevnb3499d ago

It was never going to be good, it's simply not fun.

IamTylerDurden13499d ago

Again, speak for yourself. I enjoyed it very much and so did my brother/friends. I enjoy grinding and upgrading (see Borderlands, Warframe, Destiny, any mp game), discoveries, space fighting, and trying to survive. It is always exhilarating landing on a new planet for the first.

No Way3499d ago

I think the majority (on here, anyway) feel like it was a terrible experience. I'm glad you enjoyed it - that is the point of playing games, afterall. But, I lost interest of searching new planets after like.. the 6th one. It was all the same thing, just a different shade. Ahem, "it was the same bed, just a different sheet," kinda thing. The "animals" all looked about the same, I never ran into a huge space battle (like I seen in videos), the aliens were all the same, the ships didn't offer much in terms of gameplay - I could go on.

But, again, this is my opinion. Glad you enjoyed it, I just think it could have been so much more..

kevnb3499d ago

Most people think it's horrible.

IamTylerDurden13499d ago

Sold 2.5 million, has a Metacritic in the 70's, was very innovative. No, it was not a mistake. I'd call MN9 and Recore more of a mistake than NMS.

CorndogBurglar3499d ago

You bought it day one and have only put 50+ hours into it?

That isn't that much....

No Way3499d ago

Unless he, uhm.. yanno, has a life, too, lol.

TheEvilResident19973499d ago

It may have sold good but that doesn't make it a good game sales are not even getting that far now.

kevnb3499d ago

Just goes to show how worthless a meta critic score really is, the game is widely considered terrible .

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ElectricFeel3499d ago

I agree. The devs were certainly over-ambitious and promised too much. I definitely think it was unfinished on release.

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trouble_bubble3500d ago

If it was sold at more of a budget price like $29.99 - $39.99, and without some of Murray's promises, I think people would be happier. Should've kept marketing it as an indie rather than a AAA tent pole. Woulda added another 10% to the avg score if expectations were kept in check.

JackBNimble3500d ago

It should have been sold at $19.99 and then no one would have felt ripped off.

IamTylerDurden13499d ago

Idiotic to suggest it should've been $19.99 at launch. Regardless of whether you thought it was good, the potential hours of gameplay and production value warrant more than a $19.99 launch price tag, especially considering it had a physical. A game like Eve Valkyrie is $60, has free 2 play style microtransactions, and yet you ppl eat it up..

IamTylerDurden13499d ago (Edited 3499d ago )

They never called it a AAA, it was ppl and their made up expectations. It is closer to a AAA than an indie though. I've never seen a game that sold great and had an acceptable Metacritic score get viciously attacked so heavily.

Yes, $40 would've been an appropriate pice point at launch, but the ppl who claim it should've been $19.99 are straight fools. At least it has dozens of hours of gameplay and is adding content and support.

uth113499d ago

It's because people invented a game in their head based on the trailers. When they saw the game wasn't much like what they imagined it would be-- it was much more 'indie" than AAA, they tried to get refunds when rumors spread that people were getting refunds, when that failed, they went over every single thing Sean ever said cherry picking statements they claimed were lies, and claiming they were mislead into buying this game. Sorry, but adding sandworms and Journey-like multiplayer is not going to change this game enough to make it the AAA people were hoping for.

Fact is, they preordered on hype and faith, didn't bother to research the game, wait to read reviews or anything. That's a risk for any game, especially from a small developer whose previous efforts were nothing like this game. They gambled, they lost, now they want a 'bailout'. They can't face that maybe they made a poor buying decision by preordering on hype, so they are going to cry like infants and slam the game at every opportunity until they get refunds.

Imalwaysright3499d ago

@ uth11

People watching the trailers and expecting the game to be like thay is not inventing a game, it's false advertising. Listening to what Sean had to say about his game is cherry picking? How? Why? He was the one that said those words so if he was talking about the game he was developing and if what he said about his game isn't present in it, that's false advertising.

In what world is watching the trailers, watching live "gameplay" prior to the game release and listening to the words of the people that created the game, not researching a game? What kind of logic is that?! What more research do you want consumers to make? People don't want a bailout. They simply know that as consumers they have rights.

The people that aren't facing their mistakes are the one that developed the game. Haven't heard a word from them since they released it.

TheEvilResident19973499d ago (Edited 3499d ago )

Dozens of hours of gameplay yeah if u like very repetitive games you're very offensive over this game I'm glad you like it but IMO I don't see anything fun about this game at all.

kevnb3499d ago

Sony marketed the hell out of it and made sure that meta score wasn't too low, but the game is garbage.

hirobrotagonist3497d ago (Edited 3497d ago )

We've yet to see any new content and the lack of communication is totally unprofessional given the launch of this game. People are complaining for completely legitimate reasons. This is an early access game at AAA price and it gets stale after 6-12 hours. 6-12 hours of doing the same things over and over isn't equal to a short singleplayer campaign with AAA production values. You know, including: story, voice acting and an actual end goal with a variety of gameplay. The Order 1866 offers a better experience for the money than NMS does.

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CorndogBurglar3499d ago (Edited 3499d ago )

Why does there seem to be this huge misconception of what AAA and Indie mean?

An indie game can have a budget as big as any blockbuster out there. It can also have more content and higher quality, but it would still be an indie game as long as the developer is an independent studio.

When are people going to learn that being an Indie game or AAA game has no bearing on these things? ESPECIALLY price of the game.

IamTylerDurden13499d ago

The perception of AAA and indie has moved far beyond the original meaning. Far beyond the developer being independent. So Insomniac is an indie dev? R&C is an indie huh? RaD is an indie dev? The Order is an indie? The term indie has taken on a different meaning. It's used to judge production value more than anything. Is Crytek an indie dev that makes "indies"?

Summons753500d ago

That's what Hello Games said before they deleted the tweet and blamed it on "be hacked" instead of once again owning up to their mistakes.

As for the game itself, I don't feel it's a mistake per say. What happened behind closed doors in terms of marketing, promising the world but showing the same thing over and over becasue that was the extent of the game, then the post release where they just went MIA when questioned with the lies and what they would do to fix it. That was a huge mistake.

nicsaysdie3499d ago

I feel it's much more likely, given the way people talk about this game, that they were hacked. Also, if your Facebook, or whatever social media you use, was hacked, wouldn't you remove the statements you didn't make? I think you would. Otherwise your mom would be sitting their wondering why you told her to go f*k herself, with a tear rolling down the same cheek she used to snuggle up to your face when you were a baby. But you wouldn't care because YOU would be secure in your actions not to admit a hack, otherwise the hackers win. RIDICULOUS. Of course they removed the tweet and commented on the hack. Who wouldn't?

IamTylerDurden13499d ago (Edited 3499d ago )

Wtf are you talking about? Showing the same thing over and over? I saw numerous gameplay demos pre launch, maybe you need to pay attention.

They put out numerous patches the first month. The game runs great on PS4.

eldingo3500d ago (Edited 3500d ago )

Not really no however it is a great example of how hype can turn to bile and anger towards a game.

great concept but it needed more time to actually develop it into something that translated into compelling gameplay.

It's marketing in general along with allowing sean murray to do interviews in the way that he did now that was a huge mistake.

the worst part is that they kept the floor demonstration of the game up as one of steams trailers for the game now that is an amazing example of not caring whether your trailer video is representative of the final product or not.

IamTylerDurden13499d ago

So Sean should've declined interviews and underhyped his game? Right...

eldingo3499d ago (Edited 3499d ago )

perhaps if he did that the backlash against the game would not have been so strong as to last long after the games release afraid we will never know now.

All i know for sure is that most people participating in the backlash see murray as a figurehead for where to direct their anger which tells me had he not done those interviews perhaps the backlash would not have been so strong and lasted this long.

V0LT3500d ago

For $60 it was a mistake.

joethetimelord3499d ago

Exactly. Especially with Elite Dangerous starting at half the price, and Space Engine for free.

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