The game is supposed to have 18 000 000 000 000 000 000 planets in it. That's an 18 followed by 18 zeros. So lets say every star in the game has 10 planets. That's still 1 800 000 000 000 000 000 stars. If we say that each galaxy is on average the size of the milky way containing 100 billion stars (100 000 000 000) and we do some simple division, we have 18 000 000 galaxies in this game. That's 18 million galaxies.
The goal is to get to the center of the starting galaxy. So it only seems natural to assume that there is intergalactic travel. And if you can travel intergalatically, that makes getting to the center of the universe a kind of inconsequential point. So it doesn't seem much of a stretch to come up with the idea that once you get to the center of the galaxy you unlock intergalactic travel. Sean Murray has dropped hints about this. I forget which video I saw him say this in but he said something very close to...
You think the game is on one scale, then suddenly you pull back and you realize how much grander it is
Not an exact quote, but that's essentially what he said. Besides, it kind of makes sense just from a gameplay point of view. You take all this time, traveling all this way. The reward is a hyperdrive that allows you to travel just about anywhere instantly, including other galaxies. I think that make sense. Because what if you want to go back to a world you found near the beginning of the game. Do you have to make the long journey back step by step? Unlikely. But of course, this is all just speculation.
I'm sure it will. Doesn't seem like its too far off.
Jayden Cox
How much did they pay you to make this thread every day you double nigger? Sage.
Michael Kelly
It better fuckin release... I preordered that shit
Michael Rivera
It better be good, because video-games are getting boring to me nowadays. Last thing I played was the Witcher, and that was almost 6 months ago. Still haven't even finished it. I need to put this gaming rig to more use other than porn and Sup Forums.
Jackson Sanchez
>sage >thread still gets bumped to 1 okay
Brandon Russell
>And if you can travel intergalatically, that makes getting to the center of the universe
getting to the center of the universe. lol
Michael Nguyen
Hey man take your time with The Witcher its worth it.
Austin Gutierrez
this universe is not ever expanding. so there would be a center plebboy
Robert Morris
>look at how big this is >who cares if gameplay sucks look at that big number >so what if its the same shit 18 with 18 zeros times big numbers lol
David Garcia
Okay, the game is big? Who cares. Games like these get my 12-year old brother horny but nobody else I know is even remotely excited.
Even if it's like they portray it to be, with unique planets and monsters (which won't happen) it will suck. People will go around naming planets/things for a few weeks then they will get tired because they realize there's really no fucking point (no ranking system or place to showcase your shit at). Also, everybody will just name their things "dickysopious" and "Vagniasaurus" etc etc.
It won't even be unique from planet to planet, the planets will just look slightly different (one has blue sky, one has red sky), which fucking sucks and gets boring super fast.
I can't believe that you're over 13 years old if you're excited over this game, maybe you have some mental disorder or downs syndrome that makes it hard for you to perceive things and understand. The sole fact that you think "18 000 000 000 000 planets unique WOW" makes me embarassed for you.
Also, your speculation sucks dick. The game is not grand, it's shit and it will suck unless you're 8-12 years old or mentally disabled.
Anthony Wilson
the gameplay was rated 18 quintillion too ya know.
Oliver Evans
It will be better than Mirrors Edge Catalyst you mtn dew drinking swill.
Cooper Powell
How long will it take before someone names a planet "this game sucks"
Jason Ramirez
Oh, I know. I play it non stop for the first month, then occasionally here and there. I'm probably going to pick it up again soon, seeing as the new DLC is finally out. That game is beautiful. The random shit you run into is great. Even little things, like coming upon a camp while strolling along the countryside, having a few drinks with strangers, passing out, and then getting your shit stolen and going to track them down, leaving them naked like they left you. That's brilliant. Bethesda needs to take notes, for sure.
Cameron Fisher
I'm naming a planet My Cuck A Bee
Brayden Lopez
hahha yes i remember that exact quest. the people at CDProjekt Red know how to tell a damn story! and the DLC is amazing man.
Leo Butler
there will probably be a filter for stuff like sucks, but cuck might work.
Blake Morales
...
Carter Butler
Fuck you! At least I'm not wasting my time on this shit-tier game.
Michael Wright
so where is it?
Logan Rogers
kekd at the picture, saved.
James Gomez
cen·ter ˈsen(t)ər/ noun 1. the middle point of a circle or sphere, equidistant from every point on the circumference or surface. 2. the point from which an activity or process is directed, or on which it is focused. "the city was a center of discontent" verb 1. have or cause to have something as (a major concern or theme). "the case centers around the couple's adopted children" synonyms: focus, concentrate, pivot, hinge, revolve, be based "the story centers on a doctor" 2. place in the middle. "to center the needle, turn the knob"
James Price
18 gazzilion planets and they are all the same with different paint jobs.
Justin Gonzalez
prove it
Jacob Gonzalez
honestly man I'm not hyped at all. it looks like some fuckin mine craft-esque shit and I never got into that.
Sebastian Phillips
Games of this kind of scale just seem pointless. Its cool if they could pull it off, but who's really going to devote the time to exploring more than a fraction of a percent of what's out there?
If someone made a game that even had the entire U.S. in it, that would still be an insanely large place to explore.
Austin Howard
you might want to go read some modern astrophysics then.
Angel Johnson
even if everyone who bought it spent 24 hours for a whole year they would not see 1% of the game. Thats not what its about.
Josiah Johnson
just a gimmick
Liam Brooks
Elite dangerous is also on this scale, but some say it's mostly empty, they're just getting around to adding planet surface stuff but their expansion payment scheme puts a lot of people like me off to trying it.
Ryder Cook
this game is not modern astrophysics. its a video game.
Aaron Rivera
no shit?
Benjamin Clark
so why would i want to study modern astrophysics to debate a video game?
Eli Harris
starbound
Nicholas Reed
Twist: most of the planets are just giant balls of gas & you can't actually explore
Aaron Lee
different game sir =]
Elijah Rodriguez
who cares what you want to do, I'm just laughing at your ignorance is all.
Easton Lee
Fuck these faggot ass developers who come in here and fuck up Sup Forums with their shitty game adds. Game doesn't even have multiplayer. Fuck outta heeeeeeeere
Jaxon Murphy
nope 2d version
Michael Price
Laughing at ignorance is pointless. I'm sure I could find a subject you are mostly ignorant about and I am fluent in. Like cunnilingus for example.
Josiah Reyes
different name, different dimension. good bait but i am master troll hunter =]
Dominic Torres
poor pup
Nathaniel Peterson
Insider here. The developers found out, while testing it, that no one wanted to play it a second time. No one except the devs know what they are doing to enhance the game but I don't think it's enough to save it.
Robert Ward
it's the same
Cameron Clark
any proof? people from ign were begging to play it i heard.... how so?
Gabriel Sanders
everything really is pointless though...
Brayden Jenkins
No multiplayer?
Liam Jenkins
LSD is pretty cool
Austin Baker
planets re-textured, animal life generic not suited to any world, no real content
Gavin Martin
nope, at least starbound had this..
Julian Cox
the game is simply procedural, the devolper just spit out a number when he said 1800000000000000000 stars, whenever you go to a new system the game will just generate a new world, but you will have a minute chance to "join" someone elses world.
there is nothing "amazing" about this game from what i can tell, hell it doesnt even have real orbital mechanics.
Alexander Richardson
but this has like space cops
Adrian Wright
RIP devs.
Justin Brooks
it does have real orbital mechanics.
Juan Gutierrez
...
Hudson Carter
aliens are confirmed! =]
Luis Campbell
This basically describes Elite: Dangerous. As it's the only game I ever got less than a few week's worth of gameplay out of and literally regretted grinding out a few hours to make sure I got "into" the game.
Jeremiah Wright
But this game has cooler concept =]
Carson King
Samefag
Tyler Harris
Plus the final DLC is out for it now.
Cooper White
newfag
Jayden Lopez
so theres a ton of planets n shit what do you DO on them?
Thomas Reyes
actually OP, correct me if im wrong but i dont think they ever said that there are multiple galaxies, so if what you're saying is correct then that means that the game is way more big and awesome than what we innitially thought
Liam White
> Neckbeards > On Sup Forums
It's mostly twelve year olds actually. I doubt their balls even sank in.
Anyhoo, I think it's going to be a good time waster, but there really needs to eb a feature to get close to friends, fast.
John Mitchell
Big numbers don't make a game good.
Jose Long
literally nothing thats whats wrong with a game of this scale, if you make it huge you cant fill it. from the little i heard youre basically startrekking.
you go around and catalogue stuff and discover things likes new species and worlds
its a cool concept but its not a fun one, there are people who get paid to do this in real life becuase its boring and menial
it would have been awesome if it was a small little indie game that cost like10 bucks and had 1 solar system that was just chock full of shit to do
Leo Cooper
you explore and craft and survive, you meet alien races and learn their language to better communicate with them. you can side with factions or just be a dick to them all. There is a lot of potential.
i believe youtu.be/vKkzLs2I98o?t=4m16 a minute in and a half in he starts talkking about it and goes on to mention there is more than one galaxy. I speculated from there. =]
Jaxon Lee
/thead
Isaiah Walker
analytics will tell you different.
William Richardson
wrong. uneducated about the game and upset they are late on they hype due to cynicism
Thomas Sanchez
mad their "cool space game" is just a job
Logan James
Weird because the person's age starts showing A LOT every time I enter this board.
Alexander Fisher
i never got this whole "Sup Forums is filled with 12 year olds meme"
yea theres probably a shit ton but it might just be that people suck and are immature
Nathan Evans
at least i'm white maturity and age are two different things
Ryder Bennett
just newfags
Brandon Carter
/thread
Nathaniel Hernandez
utter bullshit. you land on a planet and walk around. theres no meeting alien races, no communicating, no factions just mindless ai that walks about.
Adam Myers
Well now you're describing KSP
Christopher Cook
0/10 anyone who cares already knows the truth.
Blake Sanchez
This game is gonna be all world and no content, just like skyrim was. Just wait and see. Once you've explored a bit you're gonna find there isn't much to do.
>b-b-but senpai you can land on the planets yeah I'm sure the surface of each planet looks the same on one hemisphere as it does on the other.
>wow cool it's procedurally generated content! Oh wait doesn't that mean content created without creative design? the generated dungeons in bloodborne felt pretty repetitive and formulaic after a few runs
>b-b-but senpai there's gonna be like cool worlds to see and stuff yeah pretty much, you're paying full price for the extended edition to the galaxy map in mass effect
Imma just keep playing Elite Dangerous
Jayden Hughes
0/10 reply
John Ross
the universe dont expand, steady state theorie!
Kayden Gray
you explore and craft and survive, you meet alien races and learn their language to better communicate with them. you can side with factions or just be a dick to them all. There is a lot of potential.
Jack Brooks
its true it does not expand nice quads
Carson Lee
bullshit
Zachary Barnes
It seems pretty grand but then so did spore. But that was a terrible game. All you could do was travel to different worlds, observe the species living there, travel from planet to planet and the goal was to get to the centre of the galaxy. Wait, what was no man's sky about again?
Jaxon Jackson
Oh I'm sure there's gonna be plenty of complex alien races, not just like, probably 3 or 4. Wow factions too? and crafting? I get to play fallout 4 again!
Nathaniel Lopez
yah imagine spore crossed with starbound with less content
Eli Richardson
not bullshit you are just ignorant and cynical =] ill even give you an example. You learn these alien languages by discovering something like a Rosetta stone and each stone will unlock key words to better speak with the race. Thus helping you trade more efficiently, and survive.
Ryder Jackson
looool have you been watching the gameplay too?
Isaiah Sanchez
you wont be doing fetch quests for these factions you will be in all out space battles with them. much cooler imo. if you wanna compare every game to something then they are all pong cause they use pixels. faggot.
Christopher Brooks
you don't have to travel to different worlds.
Jason Stewart
damn what a REVOLUTIONARY GAME MECHANIC please let me call the fun awards this game is sure to rake in the most fun because you can read alien dragon runes off of walls like in skyrim so you can better scream at the fucking degenerate xenos
Carter Diaz
link proof
Aaron Perez
you can fuck the aliens too, so it must also be mass effect right? wait til the game sells millions and you are here crying about it.
James Wood
Also, I will admit, I got sucked in on the spore hype but like most people said, the novelty wears off fast and then you're playing a boring game alone. Massive size only means that many more potential players will be daunted by the fact they will never complete the game, and probably never see anyone else.
Justin Ross
really though all you have to say to kids now is "The world will be massive and not actually designed by hand for the most part, also aliens, also factions, also choices that you can make, the kiddies love that, oh the hardcore kiddies like survival mechanics and crafting too, so we'll just lump that shit in there as well."