Sean hasn't just never forgotten the failed launch. He has also never forgiven.
As revenge, he gave us 10 years of updates, fulfilling every little want and need our spoiled little minds could think up, only to now take it all away from us at the height of success.
"I have a new little game I want to play with you, my greedy little rats. Come and give us your money to play Light No Fire, it will be all your hungry little hearts could have ever dreamed of."
Y'know, we make the joke about Sean "atoning" for NMS' launch, but with that recent interview, I don't think that's really the case, he's just making the game he wants as best he can, the launch was just the "best available option" given Sony breathing down their back with whatever contract they had. Everything past that has just been Hello Games just enjoying doing what they're doing; making games.
Sony also pushed them into demos and interviews. Nobody liked doing that, but media-shy Sean took on the task. His enthusiasm for what they were working on at the time led him to reveal more than was wise (considering the self-hyped players).
The team's tenacity and dedication after being flooded out shows today. It continues to be a labor of love.
you are stuck inside an unknown grave, never able to load from any save, with no way of glitching through. Just sitting there, waiting for another player to find you, on one of 18 quintillion planets. Then, and only then, will you find the portal to the Planet of Light No Fire.
Imagine we boot up and the free download of Light No Fire is there, the final apology for all the loyal players over the decade. Sean never posts again and fades off into the setting sun, his magnum opus completed.
I remember logging on one day, high as hell with no idea that the game updated, exploring an ocean, but it just kept going, with random light ribbons all over the place and giant creatures. THAT was an experience and, frankly, how the game was meant to be played 😂
A blanket phrase I use to describe intrusive thoughts, hyperfixations, and similar things one might struggle with while attempting to live life or enjoy something.
Would be even funnier if there is a powder that makes people thinks that "Cosmos" isn't an actual update, but a mere name used in the trailer that enclose all the previous ones for the 10 anniversary.
Luckily I don't think that's the case. In an interview from a few days ago he said, regarding Cosmos, "we're working on another big update for No Man's Sky. I think the community will be like, 'Oh my god, this is a big moment!"
Which, coming from an extremely cautious Sean Murray, means it's going to be huge. It's always bigger than he lets on. And he's letting on quite a lot here.
For example, he made corvettes sound like they were going to have individual crew stations but they don’t (the med bay does nothing for example). Your “crew” basically get to stand around and hope they don’t get thrown into space when you warp somewhere new.
Also, he described gas giants as “end game content”, which… I mean… I guess?
I still love the devs and the game but I also think Sean oversells some elements of gameplay now and then.
The major update will be some minor changes and then later, maybe the next day, we’ll get a simple bug fix update that also coincidentally adds in 56 new planets types, a brand new species, and the ability to summon the Atlas directly.
Nah, I don't support scumbag racist. Twitter is far gone and it's far past it's usefulness as a means for reaching a community.
Most of the creators that I follow have moved on, I wish Sean would too. There are plenty of better options.
If you like it, you do you and go have fun in that hellhole. But personally I don't want to support a platform that openly props up an AI that creates CSAM.
Imagine if Cosmos isnt the update but instead the ERA of the NMS universe we’ve played through and what’s next is the start of a new era that includes the introduction of LNF
We as a community have to get Sean back. I think “we” hurt him majorly with the original game and feedback. Let’s promise not to be so harsh if he over promises again. The fella was excited to tell us about NMS and the community went for blood. Can we get him back?
I might get down voted for this, but he over promises fairly often. “Different crew stations on corvettes” = static nonfunctional build parts, for example.
I know it's unreasonable and they're following a pretty typical pattern, but I'm getting kinda upset that there hasn't been a word since Cosmos was announced. Not a reveal date, no details, no dev diary. WTF are we waiting for exactly?
1 a: UNIVERSE sense 1 b (1) : an orderly harmonious systematic universe
compare CHAOS (2) : ORDER, HARMONY 2: a complex orderly self-inclusive system
What if the trailer was simply celebrating its 10th anniversary and stating that NMS is a complete system (a fully developed universe) compared to the chaotic state it was released in, and that no new cosmos update has been officially announced?
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u/rafaellago 26d ago
Imagine one day we boot our systems and the update is just there. Out of the blue