No Man's Sky Official Megathread

[Rally]

Harr-de-harr, I was alluding more to the fact that the game boasts major replayability through many iterations of planets to explore, yet fails to deliver on any sort of draw beyond that. I like exploration, but usually as means of quantifiable accomplishment rather than doing for the sake of it being done. After three planets without any sort of content to really sink my teeth in, I olly-outied

It doesn't take two hours to visit 3 planets, lol. The refund system exists so you can get in-game for two hours and make a prediction based on two entire hours of game-play time. It doesn't exist so you can return a game that you didn't do any research on after playing it for several days

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[IkeTheGeneric]

It doesn't take two hours to visit 3 planets, lol.

Oh it doesn't? Wanna tell me how to properly enjoy the game? I had forgotten that the core experience of exploration games is to jump around the place like mad without trying to trot along at a moderate pace to fully soak in all the deets

It doesn't exist so you can return a game that you didn't do any research on after playing it for several days

Oh now it's because I apparently didn't do the research into a game I've been discussing publicly on this very loving forum pretty actively before actually trying it

forget off with this nonsense, the game is a bore and I'm glad you can enjoy it. I wish I could

[Rally]

Did you "try it" for under two hours and then refund it?

Oh it doesn't? Wanna tell me how to properly enjoy the game? I had forgotten that the core experience of exploration games is to jump around the place like mad without trying to trot along at a moderate pace to fully soak in all the deets

What the forget even is this sentence? The refund system doesn't exist so you can play a game for whatever loving amount of time you want and then get rid of it when you find out you don't enjoy it. Before the refund system people had to go look up videos and research the game after it came out to see whether or not they were going to enjoy it. It exists so you can make a personal decision before you decide whether or not you want to keep it.

If you plan on being able to refund it, you go into it trying to determine the worth of the game. You don't just sit on your ass playing the loving game for 3 full days and suddenly send it back when it fails to entertain you for 380 loving hours

[IkeTheGeneric]

Did you "try it" for under two hours and then refund it?

You're missing my entire point so I'll try to be as simple and cohesive as possible so you can't possibly misinterpret it up again:

Two hours = not enough time to figure out whether or not this particular game is good
Two hours = not enough time to know whether or not a lot of promised content is actually in the game
Two hours to your average joe is literally figuring out the control scheme and exploring the first planet for a little bit and is in no way indicative of the game's depth

If you disagree, then tough, the platform it's being sold on agrees with my sentiment.

What the forget even is this sentence? The refund system doesn't exist so you can play a game for whatever loving amount of time you want and then get rid of it when you find out you don't enjoy it. Before the refund system people had to go look up videos and research the game after it came out to see whether or not they were going to enjoy it. It exists so you can make a personal decision before you decide whether or not you want to keep it.

If "Fails to deliver it's core selling point in three days worth of gameplay" isn't refund-worthy, then I don't know what is. I completely backtrack on everything I said to zealot earlier. The devs literally loving promised the universe and then fumbled. Some people might not realize it as fast as others and valve realized this

[Rally]

If you disagree, then tough, the platform it's being sold on agrees with my sentiment.

It's funny because they loving don't

lol

Maybe you should send your garbage sentiment to Steam to see if they'll update their refund system to do every game on a case-by-case basis to determine whether or not you're going to need 30 minutes, 2 hours, 2 and a half hours, maybe 10 loving months to figure out whether or not the game is going to entertain them for the rest of their worthless life, or for your latest edit, to "deliver" on whatever your bullstuff interpretation of the "main selling point" is. The two hour policy has worked for every game without fail and just because Reddit had a collective hissy fit doesn't make No Man's Sky special.

[IkeTheGeneric]

It's funny because they loving don't

So they either back-tracked or it appears I was misinformed by the product of yet more outrage bullstuff, it doesn't really matter either way, I'm still going to stick to my guns whether or not people were actually getting their copies refunded regardless of playtime

Maybe you should send your garbage sentiment to Steam to see if they'll update their refund system to do every game on a case-by-case basis to determine whether or not you're going to need 30 minutes, 2 hours, 2 and a half hours, maybe 10 loving months to figure out whether or not the game is going to entertain them for the rest of their worthless life, or for your latest edit, to "deliver" on whatever your bullstuff interpretation of the "main selling point" is. The two hour policy has worked for every game without fail and just because Reddit had a collective hissy fit doesn't make No Man's Sky special.

So you're not actually going to refute anything I said and instead opt to insult? That's pleasant. I'm going to agree to disagree if you're going to take my opinion on a vidya game this personally.

[Rally]

Look at this massive loving chunk of Nickle, I'm standing on a ledge it goes down even further off screen



Also: this was pretty interesting, I originally thought that some kind of structure might've glitched into a cave or something, but it actually just turned out to be this massive tunnel bored down into a mountain with a monolith at the bottom.

So you're not actually going to refute anything I said and instead opt to insult? So you're not actually going to refute anything I said and instead opt to insult? That's pleasant. I'm going to agree to disagree if you're going to take my opinion on a vidya game this personally.

What is there to "refute"? You were literally wrong. You haven't given any reason why No Man's Sky should be the singular only exception to the Steam refund policy since it's inception other than vague statements with absolutely no reasoning behind them. Like what the hell do you expect me to say to "two hours is not enough"? Yes it is? Go ahead and send this garbage:

Two hours = not enough time to figure out whether or not this particular game is good
Two hours = not enough time to know whether or not a lot of promised content is actually in the game
Two hours to your average joe is literally figuring out the control scheme and exploring the first planet for a little bit and is in no way indicative of the game's depth

to Steam, and see what they say. I'm legitimately curious as to how they're going to get around this logical masterpiece.

[IkeTheGeneric]

What is there to "refute"? You were literally wrong

Nice

If you aren't going to bother reading anything I posted I'm not going to bother trying to respond any more. There's no reason to articulate any points further when you're just going to ignore them in favor of more tunnel vision bullstuff and insults

It boils down to you being a diehard fanboy of a game that people are sorely disappointed about and me being *loving gasp* misinformed about something. Go figure

[Rally]

If you aren't going to bother reading anything I posted I'm not going to bother trying to respond any more. There's no reason to articulate any points further when you're just going to ignore them in favor of more tunnel vision bullstuff and insults

Yeah that's very obviously not the case but whatever makes you feel better about being glaringly *loving gasp* misinformed about how the Steam refund system works despite treating me like a dumbass. Funny how whenever someone pulls the same bullstuff one liner about "you're not reading my points" that 100% of the loving they don't actually have a point other than making baseless claims and getting pissed off when they're not accepted as concrete fact.

Go ahead and stop trying to respond (this is the second time you've tried to justify not continuing the argument to the guy you're arguing with), saves me a headache.

[Arekan]

ITT: Ike and Rally keep getting on higher and higher horses

[Rally]

I set up that surround stuff for the first time ever

ITT: Ike and Rally keep getting on higher and higher horses

My horse wasn't high enough so I ate half of it then refunded

[Darryl McKoy]

Two hours = not enough time to know whether or not a lot of promised content is actually in the game

I wholeheartedly agree with this point. Hype didn't do this lol.

[Flatflyer]

If you play any game for 2 hours you'll have an idea of whether or not you want to refund it. I fail to see how No Man's Sky is any exception to this rule.

except most people didnt even get to play 2 hours since they had to spend a large amount of time stuck on loading screens/loving around with settings/having the game crash but still run in the background, clocking in hours.

it also didnt help the fact that the devs were pretty much like "oh yeah there's more content deeper in the game, you just have to keep going" when there is evidently NOTHING new.

[Shift Kitty]

Yeah. I did have probably up to an hour of trying to get the game to work.

And the first impression of the game is really good. It fools you into thinking there's actually some sort of progression. Which is why I played it for more than two hours. Oh nice, I can upgrade my stuff! Okay, I upgraded my stuff, but everything else is still the same. So I'm really just getting more slots to get more slots.

For someone who loves to discover and explore a game on their own without shoving their nose in spoilers and wikis, 2 hours is not nearly enough to realize how much No Man's Sky tries to pull you into it's nothingness.

[Flatflyer]

just realized this is a somewhat familiar situation

the same thing happened with WarZ too, if I recall correctly, maybe NMS will meet the same fate?

I doubt it, but I kinda hope so just so I can get my 70 dollars back and actually put it to something I'll enjoy.