Why can't you name yourself in No Man's Sky? :/

[jlrmarin]

I don't know what to say other than this is one of those major facepalm design decisions I've seen in my lifetime. The devs really need to consider at least allowing you to have your single player character have a name of your choosing, and not your FREAKING STEAM ACCOUNT NAME.

Talk about destroying immersion in the universe Hello Games so painstakingly built over the years. This is such a simple design decision, it gives me cold sweats to think someone made this kind of choice and stuck to it.

For the love of the game, please, PLEASE allow us to name ourselves.

[RemingtonRyder]

You can have a profile name on Steam which is different to your Steam account name. The game uses your profile name if it is available.

The same profile name won't necessarily be immersive in every game, however.

[jlrmarin]

Originally posted by Marvin:

You can have a profile name on Steam which is different to your Steam account name. The game uses your profile name if it is available.

The same profile name won't necessarily be immersive in every game, however.

I mean

They can just... allow us to name ourselves!?

I honestly don't think this is a very intelligent decision. It's not a small thing, either. In the absence of playing a role, I want to name my character. This is such a flawed choice by the game devs, I've never seen a company drop the ball on such a straightforward thing to implement in a game. Even Starbound lets you name your own characters, and that is a very low bar NMA did not meet.

[Fienyx]

I've seen this in some other games too. I agree the option to name yourself in game would be nice.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Change your Steam name if it really creeps you out. Seems like something way down the list...maybe completely off my list of things I want them to work on.

[SumGumption]

Do any of you actually use the titles? I don't. I like being unique.

[jlrmarin]

Originally posted by Deadly Peanut:

Originally posted by jlrmarin:

Talk about destroying immersion in the universe Hello Games so painstakingly built over the years... it gives me cold sweats to think someone made this kind of choice and stuck to it.

although i agree with OP that it would be vaguely pleasant to be able to name your toons/saves in NMS....

first... you get cold sweats because you can't name your toon in a game?

and second... what immersion? i've never noticed any immersion in NMS. to wit:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2514236753

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2524808689

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2440627008

Yeap. I dislike it! Going around as the name I use to purchase games sucks. And I gotta change my account name on Steam if I have another playthrough?

As for immersion, I don't understand your comment. Are you criticizing the idea that I would be immersed in a game, or the idea one can immerse in NMA? If you don't experience immersion when playing games, then you're missing out.

[Saadiya]

Deadly Peanut is the resident complainer, better just pass over what they say I think.

Also space isn't just black, there are a kalidescope o colours out there. Probably nothing like NMS's acid trip of whacky colours though.

[CaptainNebulous]

They probably just don't feel like babysitting names (because you know like 20% of the people will make names who's only purpose is to offend others)..... so they just leave it up to steam's filtering system and filter-bypass bans

[davidb11]

Space is colorful. Inside Nebulas. :P
Outside of them, space is dark simply because of the vast distances between sources of light.

That being said, Deadly Peanut is known for being a little harsh in his criticism of this game. :)

[SynapticBoomstick]

Sometimes the NMS discussion board fills me with disappointment.

[jlrmarin]

Originally posted by SynapticBoomstick:

Sometimes the NMS discussion board fills me with disappointment.

Me too

[tkwoods]

Originally posted by davidb11:

Space is colorful. Inside Nebulas. :P
Outside of them, space is dark simply because of the vast distances between sources of light.

That being said, Deadly Peanut is known for being a little harsh in his criticism of this game. :)

Well not really.. Space is dark because of the lens settings on video to see close up items that are usually very bright. Very few people have been to space to actually know what it truly looks like. BUT I guess we can trust the self appointed experts.

[davidb11]

Huh? I'm sorry, but there's plenty of photos taken from space to prove how dark space naturally is.

Heck, even the photo of Earth from the Moon shows how dark space is normally, and that's from only 250,000 miles away. :P

[KellyJelly625]

Quality bait

[Rare Utobitha Employee]

Yes omigodd i can't belieb et game destroydededruinedded

Seriously how would it be any different? You'd be ruinning past a bunch of PoussaySlayerMagnifico users.