Good afternoon all and welcome to the Observatory. I was listening to the latest episode of the Bomb Cast and heard something that caught my... ear, I guess. Hello Games, makers of such games as Joe Danger and Joe Danger 2, announced on the Spike Video Game Awards (re-branded as VGX), have decided to branch out from their roots to build a procedurally generated Adventure/Space Exploration game in the vein of... well, nothing. Well, it's sort of like
Noctis, but there is also combat and what appears to be a very immersive galaxy filled with players (which is supposedly the actual size of a galaxy). I guess it's also a bit like a 3D version of
A.N.N.E. in that you can freely move between in and outside of your ship (but without the awesome platforming), and... Never mind, here's the trailer.
There are games that do offer this type of depth, but of a sorts. Games such as Frontier, Noctis, Evocron, and BC3K let you descend to a planet and land (and in some cases disembark), but nothing quite on the scale of No Man's Sky, where it seems to offer the kind of planetary depth you find within an Elder Scrolls game, but with the ability to get into your spacecraft and ascend into space and travel interplanetary distances.
Needless to say I am very excited, though there are things that certainly make me a bit wary to jump onto the hype wagon after
the crushing disappointment of X: Rebirth, and there are suggestions that this might not get an initial PC release, but still, the possibilities.
For those that feel like visiting the Spike website, they have
posted the interview with Sean Murray, the Managing Director of Hello Games. It's short but enlightening. There is also some info on the 12/10/2013 episode of the Bombcast on Giant Bomb (right around 2:15:00, I think).
The game is still early, and there is pretty much no info about other than the sources I cited, which leaves pretty much everything else for speculation. Will this be the generation where we get a space sim release on the PS4 and/or XBone only? To early to call it, me thinks. What do you guys think?
