No Man's Sky fans playfully plead with Hello Games not to "overpromise" as lead dev describes new game Light No Fire as "the first real open world"
No Man's Sky fans playfully plead with Hello Games not to "overpromise" as lead dev describes new game Light No Fire as "the first real open world"
"Looks amazing, Sean. Now, just make sure not to overpromise again"
Homie, I'm sorry but open world really just means its one map and it implies you might be able to go anywhere on the horizon. Rain World has an open world, Elder Scrolls definitely does except for Arena, pretty much any MMO, Astroneer, your OLD GAME No Man's Sky is open world. Seriously take a step back from your own project and breath for 4 hours before making announcements. That being said, Light No Fire looks ridiculously good and I can't wait for it.
79I think they're just talking about the game being open world in a full planet that you can clearly see is a planet and is large and diverse enough to actually feel like a full planet.
Still not the first at that either. Valheim for example is a round planet and open world and has several biomes. But there the world isn't really impressive, so maybe that's what they are trying to be the first of?
Based on the trailer they are clearly trying to be the first game to actually achieve something but it's hard to define what that something really is.
39They're being cheeky. It IS the first world that is fully open in a game.
No Man's Sky had open WORLDS. With an S.
6Arena is one of the most open world of TES games. You can go anywhere in Tamriel. That said, it's fairly limited with what it can do, but it's so much more open than later games. Daggerfall is similar, except it got limited to one region.
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Bets on it being a big map with not much to do in it?
44He did say he was making Earth, so.... yeah?
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IMO, on the Game Awards where it was announced, he looked extremely nervous to say much of anything. And he seemed like he was trying to downplay what the game has with his comments on it being a small team working on it. Which I don't blame him.
42That guy is always extremely nervous, that's just how he is.
Highly recommend Internet Historian's video about No Mans Sky development, it's fascinating
5Yeah I sure hope they've learned from NMS and specifically underpromise and overdeliver, but most nervousness can be explained by him just being an introverted dork. I can relate.
6IH recently caught for plagrirsm
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LOL here we go again.
41Gamers: Tell us what you learned, Sean.
Sean Murray in Sam Jackson voice: Not a god damn thing!
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Seems promising.
I'll play it somewhere in the next 3 to 5 years.
39Definitely one of the first strand type games.
24I put something like 500 hours into No Man's Sky at various points (PC and PS4pro). It was fun! I've moved on. But if they get anywhere near that with Light No Fire, I'll be buying in once again :)
15Did you play at launch?
3Yeah, but my laptop cried a lot 😭
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It's still procedurally generated, no? I'd have loved something handcrafted, but I also understand that they want to build on what they already have.
14I don't think you can handcraft a whole world with any reasonable team/timeframe for video game development. Looking at the (very short) video I suspect there will be handcrafted areas like cities, and they've put more emphasis on that than in NMS because the size is more manageable. But 80 or 90% needs to be procgen to make it something that can be delivered in years and not decades. Although being a single world, maybe that let them have more visibility of what was being generated (vs checking millions of planets) and then tweak manually large parts of it.
14Yeah, the size dictates what's possible and what isn't, and that's absolutely fair.
But hey, this is just a first trailer, so we shouldn't really make any assumptions, good or bad. Let's just wait and see.
4Well, with a powerful enough computer you might be able to make a model which creates realistic worlds.
Put in some information like planet size, density, materials, temperatures, biomes, timescale, etc and generate away.
Would definitely take a lot of time and resources to get it perfected but after that every game would be able to make a unique and open world planet.
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The people at Hello games must either be Masochists or Sadists...
But I'm definitely getting the game when it comes out.
13Wouldn't Minecraft count as the first or at least one of the early completely open worlds?
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4Astroneer is a game where if you run around the whole planet, you will end up right where you were. https://store.steampowered.com/app/361420/ASTRONEER/ Great game and worth a play even if it seems a bit kidish May not be earth scale but still fairly large planets
Space Engineers can get even closer but I have only seen it done with modded planets and they are still no where near earth size
2ECO Global Survival is based and also allows you to do that.
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There have been plenty of other open world games years before Minecraft existed. Elite 1984, Legend of Zelda on the NES, Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind. Etc.
The term itself just hasn't been around that long.
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It's the first real game
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