No Manâs Sky release date has been set for June 2016.
I genuinely canât see anything interesting beyond pretty colours and shooting chicken walkers. The best word I can find for the planetary transitions is âfudgedâ.
It will be an amazing success of course but after seeing what Infinity is capable of there is just no way to trump it.
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I will enjoy the exploration and uncovering the ambiguous mystery. I love those games. All that space sim / crafting / selling wumbojumbo is feature creep in my opinion.
Pretty much any space sim can have pretty much all of my money at the moment. Except Star Citizen, youâve already had your lot.
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I really donât get why people keep throwing so much money at that.
To me it seems games like NMS, I:B, E:D are much more interesting because of their more space sized game worlds and seamless planetary landings. But I guess for many that just doesnât matter as much.
Yeah. I donât get it.
It looks like itâll be just as boring as Spore, just in first person.
All the fudging they do with bad LOD transitions makes the planetary gen look terrible, too. 
E:D doesnât feel big to me except for the sloooowwwww travel times that add nothing to the game. Itâs full of loading screens.
Star Citizen is supposed to have procedurally generated planets and seamless transitions from space to planets, no?
Star Citizen appeals to me quite a bit except for their plans for the economy.
Some people are going to have stuff worth tens of thousands of dollars in that game, and eventually the servers will go down, or theyâll lose access to their account, or something.
Simple answer: No.
you are misinformed.
It was one of their stretch goals that they reached⌠50 or 60mil, I think.
The stretch goal was for a procedural generation R&D team.
The problem is that their landing zones, that they have spent lots and lots of development on, is not compatible with a fully free form planet where you can land anywhere. IF they ever do something it will most likely be similar to previous Mass Effect games where you get a cutscene while a planetary environment is generated for you to explore. It will still be a closed off (and separate) map though.
People expecting seamless travel down to the surface with manual control in Star Citizen are going to be disappointed.
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some procedural generation for asteroid, terrain and buildings but no seamless transition and not planets, simply limited maps like you find in almost every shooter.
Yes, Star Citizen has never promised fully seamless planetary landings. They might try eventually, but not at release.
Yeah, I guess they donât say there would be seamless transitions. But they do say whole continents with procedural cities.
I wouldnât try to read between the lines too much until they start showing prototypes.
He never mentioned procedural cities thoughâŚ
Large landmasses too explore, sure. As I said similar to what previous Mass Effect games didâŚbut of course these will be bigger and more detailed. At least I hope so since this is something noone should expect too see in Star Citizen until several years after the first official releaseâŚwhich is still maybe 2 years away. So the potential fruits of this work is maybe 4 years or longer into the future.
keep dreaming.
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So the release date got announced for No Manâs Sky today, 21 June, below is a quick preview.
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Kind of hoping that ps vr will be released (and supported) by then.
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Here is a bit of a more in-depth discussion of the gameplay that was revealed to some prominent gaming press, also I couldnât resist, pre-ordered the game a few days ago for the PC.
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Havenât seen anyone posting this video yet.
The only real problem I got so far is that I donât know how life (at that magnitude) can be developed at a -163.4°C planet. But iunno, as an exploration game it looks pretty. The last 2 minutes where he shows up the galaxy map is quite pretty.
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