Why does everything look the same?

[Eekhoorn]

I've been keeping an eye on this game for a while now and watched a whole lot of footage on YT. At first I was blown away by the whole concept of the game, but after watching all these vids it suddenly struck me that all the content looks very much alike. You would expect to see a little more variety in this HUGE generated universe, but so far it all looks more or less the same which is kinda weird since the whole prerogative of the game is to be an explorer of literally countless worlds out there. Am I the only one who feels this way? Did I miss something? Or is this going to be as repetitive as it looks now in the YT videos?

[sbobo3113]

They Used The Same Solar System for all the vids so they dont spoil too much

[Chaunsey]

it doesnt look the same.

there is more variety than in our actual universe likely.

[Eekhoorn]

Originally posted by sbobo3113:

They Used The Same Solar System for all the vids so they dont spoil too much

What's there to spoil if according to their own words 99.9% of the planets won't be visited?

[sbobo3113]

i know but they just used 1 solar system because it was a good one and it was there choice

[sbobo3113]

thats where the trailer came from and such

[sbobo3113]

but theres soooo many more types of planets there are no pre-based biome planets its all random so are Toxic Some Are Cold Some Are Made Of Water Or Ice Some Are Tempurate it all depends

[Eekhoorn]

Originally posted by Chaunsey:

there is more variety than in our actual universe likely.

Are you feeling OK?

[sbobo3113]

no its not a flop i have a whole discussion of info

[sbobo3113]

its beeing made by indie devs ho are not making it for the money but for a project that they want to share

[Pothocket]

They used the same planet because they were doing A LOT of press demos and when you demo a game again and again you want to be able to provide a consistent experience for everyone. That's why we've seen so much ice planet, because it's literally the same planet.

Before they would show a variety of planets and people would complain about lack of gameplay being shown. So now they're showing gameplay and people are complaining about the lack of variety being shown. Go figure.

[Eekhoorn]

Please don't derail this by discussing whether this is going to be good or not. All I want to talk about is the variety of the universe.

[sbobo3113]

There Is Loads Of Variety Bro Are Own Sun Would Burn out Before You Can explore the whole game thats the scale the game is generated as you go nothing is saved in the memory its a augorithim thats why its only 10GB

[Pothocket]

Originally posted by Mighty Squirrel:

Anyone with even a tiny bit of computer knowledge can tell this is going to be a flop. An indie studio cant create something even remotely as vast and diverse as this is marketed as with current tech.

That's why they developed their own tech. Took em like a year or so of coding before they could even begin to properly construct the game.

[Pothocket]

Originally posted by Mr. Calavera:

Please don't derail this by discussing whether this is going to be good or not. All I want to talk about is the variety of the universe.

All the variables used in generating content are not going to appear in equal distribution.

Think of pack opening in Hearthstone. You open 50 packs but that doesn't mean the next 50 will be the same. Sure, commons and rares will be the same but your legendaries and epics will be different. It creates a 'one more pack' type of addiction and I believe NMS will have a 'one more planet' type of feel to it for the exact same reason.

[Eekhoorn]

Originally posted by sbobo3113:

There Is Loads Of Variety Bro Are Own Sun Would Burn out Before You Can explore the whole game thats the scale the game is generated as you go nothing is saved in the memory its a augorithim thats why its only 10GB

I doubt there is much variety in the game. I mean, show me a random screenshot from the game and within a second I am able to tell it is from NMS. That doesn't feel right for a game that CLAIMS to be and ENDLESS generated universe. Sure it it nice to have quantity, but if every planet is instantly recognizable as NSM, something is wrong IMO.