Timed exclusive? but it looks like a seller to me.

I don't have a reason to get either next gen yet so the first good exclusive is going to swing me.

Captain Blood?

Molyneux is striking such new lows with Godus that it's getting harder and harder to hit that level.

Ah I suppose. I do get caught up on story a bit. Bottom line Im damn excited about this game.

They have said one thing though. Once you die, that's not it. But you do lose everything. Back to square 1 in terms of resources.  Life pod gets re-inserted back into your starter-ship.

Makes me think that this game could be quite punitive really.  Deliberately so, to ensure getting to the centre of the universe ain't no doddle.

I'm expecting a shiny Proteus. It's a 10 man team making a ruleset that to create a galaxy. Not a map 10x bigger than Just Cause 2, not a whole planet, thousands or millions of planets. All of the content is based procedurally created and procedurally laid out. Apart from things getting harder towards the middle, there's no level design going on here.

Fly to 9 planets and see nothing. Fly to the 10th and see some points of interest on the map. Maybe it'll be some valuable ore, maybe a wooly sabertooth rhino on a raping binge.

The duds will make the wildlife all the more interesting when you do find it though.

Make the game compatible with Spore. A universe of Phallians.

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Sasukekun wrote:

It'll be a game that the share function was made for at least.

There will be a massive temptation to follow someone on twitch once it's released. I may have to go dark on it until the Xbone release, don't want to spoil it for myself.

Can you spoil a universe that's randomly generated?

Journey is more story than game.

Paul the sparky wrote:

Course you can, exploring and discovering shit for yourself is what this is all about. That first planet teeming with life will be amazing to find, watching someone else find it less so. There's also stuff that they're keeping quiet about. I hope there's plenty to find that is a surprise to me once I actually play the game.

I'm still not convinced.  You'll fly to a planet, land, and go "oh wow this one's a bit more green than the last one."  Then after 6 planets of slightly different colours you'll find some sort of horse creatures and go "wow, I found some horses."  I'm not sure they'll manage to make it very interesting.

The fact that every time you get into space on the trailers there's a massive space battle going on means it'll have some shit, tacked-on story with missions etc too.

I just don't think the hook is going to work.  With Elite and its ilk you had total freedom but there was a structure; you could play a pirate, an outlaw, a bounty hunter, a trader, or work for some factions as a mercenary.  Lots of options, all free-form, and all relying on a bit of imagination.  That's what we need on a next gen machine.

What makes you think we're going to get tacked on missions instead of the emergent stuff? The interviews with the devs didn't suggest that at all. They've already mentioned pirates and bounty hunting etc. and said it's up to you what you do within the game, there are a few links on previous pages if you fancy looking this stuff up.

I reckon the trailers are a condensed version of what you'll be playing, I doubt that every time you leave the atmosphere of a planet there's a huge battle lighting up the cosmos.

I will basically be strafing worlds and denuding them of all wildlife to sell on to the Traditional Chinese Medicine market. Any kind of sandbox freeform game I tend to kill everything and sell the chunks.

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