Well, Colbert is a huge nerd himself, so I'm sure he's legitimately fascinated by the game and anxious to play it himself.

+Mellonxcollie It's also entirely possible that the game appeals, in some way, to his theological interests.

+Spore6001 Are you teeny-boppers still butt-hurt about that? Move on already...

If i was ever a game developer like this guy (and happened to have lots of money), i'd build my facility into the side of a mountain just so i could reply to basement jokes like that one and make him feel bad for not owning big enough property

I wonder how old and crusty you actually have to be to use the word "teeny-boppers"...

yea, fuck kemmel

+Josh McDonald Yeah! He knew what an ATRIUS was!

+Josh McDonald Stephen is a big Star Wars fan ( though not as big as Tolkien) so a part of him must have fanboyed.

+Josh McDonald Well said Josh, Colbert was actually genuinely interested and impressed by the sheer magnitude of this game. Either that or he's a great actor, a fantastic segment nonetheless. Colbert is a class act.

+Josh McDonald Conan would have made so many sophomoric "Nerd!" jokes at his expense which would have derailed the whole thing right away.

I was thinking the exact same, maybe Sean Murray is God!?

So deep i found Adele roling

+Lord Voldemor LOL

Or disappointed... xD

Nah, more philosophical. Probably more specifically existential?

I love watching all this pre launch stuff.

Light No Fire !

ikr?

Yeah it's sad that Fallon used to do video game week on Late Night but abandoned it when he moved to Tonight Show, probably to keep a wider audience by playing celebrity games

Conan may not have the devs as guests but does a brilliant Clueless Gamer segment every so often. Check it out on KZfaq.

Jayneel Ramjee I know, he's funny as hell.

+SheWhale well he is god...

You can't compare Kimmel to Colbert. Colbert is the king of TV and talk shows. He's amazing. One of a kind, at the moment.

+Vexed Films Doesn't act like an ignorant oaf...he is an ignorant oaf, xD.

Colbert has the ability to relate to any guest and display interest. Kimmel is just a jerkoff.

+Vexed Films Are you teeny-boppers still butt-hurt about that? Move on already...

Stephen is also a huge nerd. Like he actually beat the Lord of the Rings film's Tolkien expert in a trivia contest. He has a replica of Sting and the Captain America shield.

Holy god you're right

They must feel lost.

sadly the "point" of the game which is reaching the center was already done after 20 hours. The guy who did it also said that he used no bugs or exploits but a mechanic that is just really unbalanced. Hope they fix this since just going from planet to planet will be boring after awhile.

The "point" is to explore. If someone wants to just grind and rush through, then I'm not surprised they made it that quickly. I'm not sure what they wanted out of it except to maybe say "First". I'm not all that impressed.

Challenge excepted lol

He DOES move around alot.

I think thats what Stephen meant when he said "I can't wait to actually play the game" in the end.

+Lassi Kinnunen for example?

Lassi Kinnunen Like what?

like multiplayer and being able to see other players if you're right in the same spot.

+TheRealWitblitz Craig Ferguson interviewed Notch once, though you could tell that Craig had no clue what Minecraft was and only had heard about it through his son.

+TheRealWitblitz That's about time. They should start inviting these people more often. Gaming is bigger than movies ffs.

+TheRealWitblitz The guy did a great job, I imagine not a lot of game developers have to deal with that kind of media exposure. It would be easy to crack under the pressure. I've been tracking this game for a long time now, looking forward to seeing its release.

+Kleavers lol, gaming is not bigger than movies. Movies are massively mainstream, gaming is just starting to get SOME mainstream attention. I think it will always be at least a little niche just because of the cost of consoles and time it takes to play through a game.

resevil2396 I was referring to the market value, which is like 93 billion. Yet mainstream media don't really talk about it. I'm glad to see Colbert is trying to do that in a normal way like you would with movies.

Yess

+vugibu oip He loves sci fi

If I only come into contact with one other human in my play through. I hope to god it's Steven Colbert

hes an actor, hes not excited. hes trying to expand his audience, by pretending to show interest. the people brought onto his show are carefully chosen to bring ratings. its not like hes actually going to play this game.

+Derek B Boo on you sir. Of course he's trying to expand his audience, but that doesn't mean he's not genuinely excited by this. THis is a man who can recite Tolkien from memory. Can YOU do that?

+boomersooner413 you should make a steam group detected to finding it and expand it to a league of hundreds of players. Then, send out entire fleets of people scouting for the Colbert System

+Diamond Miner Animaniac Such a good idea I did it. Join it! search steam for Universal Colbert System Search Fleet. Or go to steamcommunity.com/groups/searchforcolbert

whoa lol I was joking, but I am happy to join it

+boomersooner413 I'll join once I get the game!!! This may be the only way we are also able to interact with each other, so why not make it a quest to reach that instead?

What is the colbert System?

groboSWE Me. He still should’ve listed all the things that had to be removed from the game. But glad it seems he felt guilty and worked on it until people were happy.

Well now it is even better!

@@rastislavvassilev8157 Damn it... You beat me to it! lol

@@rastislavvassilev8157 And it just got even better!

@@rickysandwich ..And better

Didn't expect to see you here. How goes it?

+takahata101 Shouldn't you be editing something?

+takahata101 Two things im looking Forward to this year taka This game and Hellsing abridged!! :D

+takahata101 It's about time too, the Video Game industry is perfectly respectable and their developers are (generally speaking) hard workers.

+takahata101 coan o brian lol

+Mr. Tulip dont forget youtubers...

+DG-PublicDomainTV Corden just put all the biggest youtubers on his show too. CBS is trying to get the young crowd big time

DG-PublicDomainTV I'm really against content creators getting more press than they already have since I don't even consider it a real occupation so I didn't include that on purpose

+Mr. Tulip okay fair enough

+Mr. Tulip Self made people pioneering new mediums discovering lucrative financial strategies? Yeah, totally not a real occupation. You can't just make enough money to support yourself financially and then go around saying "I make enough money to support myself financially." Like how do you even know how much you get paid if someone else doesn't write you a paycheck, amirite?

Aye

@Regan Olley No.

Im a new player and a huge fan its crazy to see how it started out horribly and they bounced back

@Nog They look better

The game is way BETTER than it is in this video lol.

I, too, watch internet historian

Anyway, it ended happily (and actually, it's still going on), and that's great.

I'm watching this in the future

+Mirror Yeah, haha. Looks like it might even be in response to Kimmel's failure at gamer shaming.

+Mirror this

+Mirror tbh, kimmel just did it for views. colbert did it because he was interested.

It's probably on a very powerful PC. It'll probably be closer to what we've been seeing previously when it's on an average PC/console.

+matt4045 Hmm, why do you think in this case a more powerful PC was used than previously with other live showings? I would think that more or less the same environment (hardware included) was and is being used when demoing.

+matt4045 they were on a ps4

+matt4045 Still odd tho he was using a PS4 controller, don't you think?

+Alysa H No. It's wired, if he were using it on a PS4 he'd let it be wireless. You can use a DS4 on a PC with a wired connection.

well that's what happens when you play on a console with 30 fps

+Slothboi PS4 is 60fps... pretty sure he was talking about the gameplay itself

Nik Robinson yeah but 60 fps looks so much nicer

I just said PS4 runs in 60fps. You sir are ignorant

Nik Robinson oops thats true lol

You do realize each player has a lobby that a player can join. Those two players were in separate times on the same planet. Then again he has said to play it like a single player and he doesn't consider this game a multiplayer. Whatever whine like a bitch

they were both there at the same time steaming on twitch.

It's amazing how he's been saying from the start that it's not a multiplayer game and some people still can't wrap their head around that concept.

It's been confirmed that it was day 1 server issues.

twitter.com/NoMansSky/status/763270512277594112

+Mikhail Kalashnikov It's cool, but I can't shake the feeling that it's going to be the next Spore. Kind of cool, but without real depth after a while. People are freaking out because they have a pretty cool procedural system in place, but is it going to have an actual in depth story or true interaction system between players to keep people interested for a long time? And is it just procedural plants/animals? What about intelligent life and civilizations. Also I kind of am annoyed how Sean just says "we use math" every time he speaks about this game instead of trying to actually explain the systems they used a bit.

+martinaee Well, no matter how good it is, players will inevitably break it down to its component parts, which will make it less interesting eventually. But purely on the level of being able to fly around a procedurally generated galaxy - that seems fun enough in itself to support the game even after that happens

+martinaee Given the time constraints and the specific audience- more a mix of the mainstream viewer than a more gamer-centric one, let alone a programmer/developer-centric one- they probably weren't looking to bog things down in technical bits, especially given there is actually a video that goes into more detail behind the scenes for those systems; kzfaq.info/get/bejne/npObnMl0vrrTcYk.html Although keep in mind, it is half an hour long, 'maths' is brought up more than once, (and to be fair, it IS a unified series of procedural algorithms, and like math, the same input will always result in the same output,) and even though it does go into MORE detail, there will still inevitably be questions left unanswered. Least there was for me. x3

I think the buzzword the creator here uses a lot is procedural rather than ever saying randomly generated. I get there is a difference, but it in practice IS random if it never exists anyway until you get there. I guess that doesn't matter, but the truth will be how long will it actually be fun to see world after world of randomly generated stuff (in essence). I'm wondering what kind of other actual goals will be in the game if any.z beeblebrox

+martinaee What do you think random means? Random doesn't at all mean something that is generated by your presence. The thing that is generated is actually 100% set in stone, not a random thing at all, it's actually the complete opposite of random generation, it's deterministic generation.

+SK There's a possibility we'll get it today. I forget the name of the event, but Sean Murray is going to some big event to - once again - talk about No Man's Sky. He might give us the release date if we're lucky (which I highly doubt).

+Legionnaire159 I think it was the New Yorker Festival/Tech@fest

gewittersturm Yeah, that was it. Thank you.

+Legionnaire159 I understand people's frustration as some fans have been following this for three years, but I know that I am curious to play it however long it takes to come out and have preordered it just to stop myself checking for news! It would make sense whilst its profile is raised by this New Yorker Festival's Tech@Fest long demonstration today with Raffi Khatchadourian for there to be some announcement of a release window - like "Spring", for example Without that I fear that the hype bubble will burst for a great many who are unhealthily obsessed about the game. It could be that it will come out so it coincides with PlayStation VR to give people a compelling reason to invest in Sony's "Eyephones". It could still be coming out in 2015. No news is not bad news. No news is no news.

+SK probably be announced at PSX in december.

yes, yes he does

he doesn't sleep

he deserves to

It's a good thing that he smiles so much, it makes people more likeable if they smile a lot.

Hubert cumberdale I bet he's not smiling now.

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+Lewis T I think I heard it mentioned before that there may be ways to get around that and meet up with them, instead of just blindly searching

It's possible Hassan. If I had to guess, I would surmise that they won't be including a friend finder at launch. Murray wants to dissuade the fan base from overestimating the multiplayer element.

Lewis T yeah, he's been very particular with his words, because every interview he seems to get asked "is it multiplayer?". Can't wait for the first people to meet so we know what we look like!

yeah i know right. im pretty sure they said that if a planet was discovered every second it would take 585 billion years to discover them all. MIND. BLOWN.

You serious?

+Slartibart Fast you must be so fun at parties

+Tyranidus That's the question on everyone's mind, and frankly once it's answered I guarantee we're going to have another Spore situation on our hands

+Slartibart Fast Dude you're creepy

***** wtf is that empty link to lol

+White Antelope ''after two-three hours'' are you serious xD Wouldn't you at least want to get to the center of the galaxy?

+White Antelope Agreed. Really cool mechanics but I don't see a lot of depth. Star Citizen is more for me but I can't knock this. It's a ten man team that put their heart into it. I'll give it a whirl and support these guys just so more like them get the courage to build some new stuff.

***** Yeah but there is actually depth into this game. There's lots of gameplay that you can do with upgrading your ship, solving the mystery of the universe, discovering some right odd stuff near the center of the galaxy etc etc. The thing is, they don't want to show a lot of stuff, because the game is about exploration and they don't want to spoil it. If you watched the first trailer we saw these huge 1 mile long sandworms on one planet. That was their first trailer, to catch many people's attention. Now that they have that attention, they don't need to convince that many people anymore. But yeah I'd play this game even if it was just that one solar system!

It depends if you like exploration or not. You can easily get 300 hours if you love it and want to reach certain goals. But if you're not really into exploration, 2-3 hours seems about right.

+White Antelope Knowing gamers they'll discover and do things in the game that the developers didn't even think of. The ideas are exploration, discovery, being creative. We don't know what the computer will create. We don't know what's out there. Maybe will meet another player and what happens then? I don't know. What's out there waiting for us in the Universe?

I've actually just found one that looks like the cover art :) beautiful game

Wtf how???

it looks better? have you seen the game? XD you're demented

Giuseppe Lomi Yes I have played it and it looked like dogshit.

yeah the game in this show is deferent, my no man's sky not like this!!

Exactly. I was impressed by this. He knew way more than I expected

Conan tries to and sometimes knows what he's talking about

+Riserow Dude Conans doom playthrough was hillarious

Conan. Rekt.

+GoobersGaming poor Conan, they dont pay him enough to actually learn, plus being the only idiot streamer sort of gives producers comical advantage

He knew what a local group was.

yeah, that was prob Conan's worst interview. we know he's not the kind of guy that dosent respect intelligence though. he did graduate from Harvard after all.

+Lucas Swart So did Ted Cruz, though...

Google stop it i meant people who arnt psychopaths

+Cornelius Maximillianus late night shows are all playing characters. that nots how kimmel really is dude. its just his character on the show being a dick

LOL!

he said one thing that was false and it's not even meant to be multiplayer, I don't get how it's a big deal

Slothboi Actually several things were false... But keep defending him bro.. I got the game pirated I am not about to give 60 bucks to this fucker

pinochska name some other things because the multiplayer thing is the only one i know about

pinochska and I don't really get how saying it's not a big deal is defending him either, people nowadays are critizing games more than their own life

Slothboi Just search for "Sean Murray lying" and you will see more than I would honestly care to type here. And also, some people paid $60 for this game I think they deserve to get clear answers on what the game has and doesn't have so no illegitimate criticism there as far as I can see. Plus the game looks like shit IMO.

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Yeah what an embarassment.

I thought it was obvious once he named something after colbert almost instantly.

Lol, I didn't even notice that :D

It's clear that EVERY demonstration of the game up until release was scripted and prepared in advance.

It's untrue that one player CANNOT run into another? Because he said it was unlucky. (I don't even have a current gen console, just curious tho)

I am non currently in 2024. I was in 2016 but that was a looong time ago.

+Tarek Chamas same.

+Tarek Chamas all it does is make me really excited and feel assured I'll have plenty of entertainment from this game for years to come.

+Mikey Unovapix Then you need to step back and realize that real life has even more stars than in the game. What this game does, is not just provide fun for a few hours, it lets you comprehend the immensity of our own universe in real life.

+Baleur actually, ingame there is more stars than in whole our known universe...

I didn't get goosebumps I lit candles and jizzed

+COSMO EXACTLY !

+COSMO but with 50000 times less investment.

+Pirate What do you mean by that?

+wonderr Activision has an investment plan of $500 million for Destiny.

exacly man!

Might just be a bug/glitch that you cant see other players at the moment? Maybe so, maybe not? Can't really call bullshit until we know right? The games been "out less than 3hours"

I just hope it's just a bug?

He confirmed that you can't meet other players now, so yea, he lied.

@Dave M Because it's PS exclusive...

I don't understand why people are so hyper-focused on multiplayer when they've stated over and over again that this is supposed to be a single player experience. I would imagine they wanted it to be so you could come across other players, probably had some issues getting it to work how they wanted in the game, so just decided to put it in in a patch down the road, not realizing that the internet is the internet and that people would be insistent on trying to find each other despite it not being a focus point of the game. People want this to be an MMO or multiplayer game or something, but it's just not. Let it go.

It's ridiculous how people ridicule a game when they hear a simple rumor.

+Fresh Dookie hasnt it been said that it was taken out because of problems? Or was it confirmed that it was server issues? Either way, OP isnt gonna buy the game because he cant find a player, something that was stated to be nigh impossible. OP is moron.

Weird, how is it that you'll be able to scan for nearby players in the next patch then? They will have implemented a full player positional system in less than 5 days?

You must be getting paid a lot to shill. Give in, hes the next Peter Molyneux, and this is the next spore. Anyone with half a brain could tell he was lying from day 1.

Todd Rowsell You didnt read what I posted did you?

It doesnt matter. You dont buy a game not caring if its good now if itll be good in the future.

No its not like Minecraft or subnautica where they released a beta and tested it and took feedback. They lied and charged full triple A price for an unfinished product. It’s good that they’re trying to fix it but it shouldn’t have had to be fixed.

That fnaf dev did it lol

I would disagree, but Stephen saying "So this game comes out soon and that's why you're on my show right?" seemed a bit of a tip off, kinda hoping Stephen knows something we don't and that wasn't just a simple joke. I mean, of all the devs that Stephen could have had, it doesn't make sense to pick Hello Games if No Mans Sky WASNT out for a long while, so I think a hard launch is exactly what's gonna happen, the only question is when.

+carcrash2000 They were on the show to promote that they will do a presentation of the game at the New Yorker festival. So it probably had nothing to do with announcing a release date.

+lotsofotherstuff so let me get this straight, they were on a show that gets broadcast internationally, to promote an appearance at some random NY exclusive event? Yeah either they reveal the release date at the event today or that'd render it pointless, most people interested want to see something new shown and the release date would be it.

carcrash2000 Why not? When bands go on shows they promote the fact that they are doing shows in the local area (plus that they have released a album). I don't know the exact reason why they did it, but that was what Stephen said at the end of the interview. So just assumed that is why they were there.

Makes perfect sense, actually.

Or Plaid :P

I would buy the hell out of that book.

jb111082 same :)

I would buy so many copies of that sh!t

F*** off

+Giggity Goo lol

Ur gunna name it that aren't u lol

john I'm naming my first galaxy "Harambe (Dicks Out)"

Anal Vacuum Childish Moron

+Nosajjao Colbert should invite Gabe Newell on to announce Half-Life 3 on his show.

+WinterXL For sure. It would be the biggest gaming flop in history.

+14Schofield NMS biggest game flop in history? no, those words are reserved for Halo 5....

borntorazehell777 No, Half-life 3.

14Schofield Even if the game is horrid mess it will not be a flop because it will sell a crazy amount just based off the name and hype alone.

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If you are playing this game because you are excited about seeing another player online in a large virtual universe, *there are lot's of other games for that*. This game is about *you*, one person, exploring this incredibly beautifully weird universe with 18 quintillion planets and the paths that take you ultimately to the 'center of the universe'. This game is NOT *supposed to be* multiplayer. Why the FUCK do people keep trying to stick a square peg in a round hole, and then bitch about how it doesn't work or fit their expectations?? This game is for people who like to explore for the sake of exploring, collect for the sake understanding more of the game, solve puzzles to unlock new equipment, engage *AI based* space pirates and sentinels, etc. If you want to play a MOBA, go play one! Want to play a MMO and group up with other No Man's Sky players to take out the elite sentinels on that one planet (out of 18,000,000,000,000,000,000) ?? Forget it. Not going to happen. Go play Destiny - Taken King. Let the rest of us wander through the NMS universe in awe of what the Hello Games team has created. I, for one, love the damned game. If I'm the only one who appreciates it, I don't give a shit... It's great, and I recommend it wholeheartedly for PS4.

+vaprex Buyer's remorse really comes out in interesting ways in some people, doesn't it?

I have played nms only for 14 hours and i can say its repetitive. You collect mats for upgrades for your stuff then you warp do the same thing warp again etc. It's bland :/

How much were you paid for that comment vaprex ? I finished the game yesterday and I can say after experiencing everything it has to offer. It is garbage. It is not about you, you are not a lone explorer. Every single planet is clustered in the same old boring space stations that are all 5 feet away from eachother destroying your immersion if you had one to begin with, how do people still think that procedurally generated is something good, it is not, it looks like shit and feels empty. The planets feel cold, small, ugly and boring, you will stop exploring after your fifth planet or so because there is 0 reward and excitement to gain from doing that. Every system you goes to looks and feels the same, because they are. But the biggest problem in this game by far that I haven't seen a reviewer or someone tackle yet ( probably because not many people have finished it yet ) is the horrible progression. You are forced to do the main story aka "I submit to you my god" x10 with no explaination what is going on to get the necessary items to move forward ( recipes, atlas pass, ability to track black holes ) after that you get credits and warp fuel thrown at you like its dirt. The game delivered nothing but lies, there was a thread on reddit about what it promised and lied about and it was fcking huge. It got deleted just like the account of the person who posted it after reaching the front page. this is propaganda level of fanboyism we are seeing with this game. Pathetic www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/4y4i3a/wheres_the_nms_we_were_sold_on_front_page/ www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/4y046e/wheres_the_nms_we_were_sold_on_heres_a_big_list/

the game seemed so appealing before the launch, but now after seeing what it has to offer, watching these interviews is painful.

+Benjamin Benjamin and sean is looking further into it

+Benjamin Benjamin we all hope so! also coming out for pc so oculus also on the cards!! Sean Murray recently mentioned VR in an interview, he said, "i'm not sure what i'm allowed to say but theres nothing more cool and sci-fi than VR and no man's sky" sounds like it may be added down the line!!

yeah i am not into buying a 400 oculus rift and also buy a 1000 dollar pc. i rather play it on a ps4 for 400 with the game included and 400 dollars for a ps vr.

+Benjamin Benjamin Or a Rift/Vive... I really hope the game adopts VR support.

it will shuhei yoshida was asked a while back if it will support and he didn't say no if it wouldn't support vr they already would have said no. also if you watch this presentation you hear colbert ask if there are different points of view. where sean murray answers NO. look at a game by campo santos called Firewatch it has the same point of view and gameplay mechanics. they also confirmed working on vr. if sony would box No Mans Sky in with every PS VR system and it would sell like hot cakes. also have you ever typed PS4 while holding shift PS$ caching.

Lmao right?

If that were so, how do you explain him responding to Colbert's questions?

One word; Scripts.

***** My point is, some of the things that happened wouldn't have been done if Colbert didn't ask. And there's no way Sean could have guessed. Also, how in the name of sanity do you expect me to believe that he scripted a rendered video? That just doesn't work. Also, I HAVE the game. I still enjoy it. Don't nay-say about it just because everyone else is.

Oh, and another thing? I've seen enough to believe that the features that are not in the final game are just not fully developed yet. Sure, they shouldn't have shown them off in the trailers, but with there being "deactivated" portal monuments, and other things, I'm pretty convinced that all those things will one day be in the game. They just need more time to develop them, that's all.

If I was even remotely close to a system named Morgan Freeman, I'm definitely going there.

+Patrick Cusack A place where everything you thought you knew was something else entirely and nothing makes sense.

just stfu

+Endri Golloshi It is what it is, deal with it.

LMAO. I bet you were one of the millions that was blown away at the number of planets. Small brain, big mouth... dads computer.

+ifitscool he's right, u clearly are simple minded

+Shelby Schmader are you angry because you blew 60 Dollars into the hype machine?

You're not really up to date about the recent state of events? Huh? www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-08-10-no-mans-sky-players-meet-at-the-same-location-but-cant-see-each-other title: No Man's Sky players meet in same spot, but can't see each other

+funnychilli123 two people yesterday found the same exact spot in a stream and couldn't see each other. That's why everyone is so butt hurt

+cole moore It will be added later on but seeing another player isn't the point of the game.

If you wanted this game for a multiplayer aspect, you have interpreted the game wrong.

KillerBees I haven't played it, but I can see why people are so mad. Sean Murray always said there was a small chance you could meet up with someone.

Or he really didn't think people would meet so soon, since it was a 1 in a million chance, so he figured focus on what matters. He forgot that 1 in a million is still 1 in a million.

Proof? I'll wait...

I understand now how the 'univserse' in this game is made. Its generated on each system (PC, PS4) then its just a database with the names or what people name the planets/flora/fuana. There will NEVER be player to player contact.

And still are? Because apparently people have meet again at same place at same time, and nobody haven't seen anybody... so I'll say they are full of shit in regards to "multiplayer" (and bunch of other stuff). They probably didn't bother with multiplayer at all, since they believed that chance of players finding each other is so small... And if they would find each other, they can always blame it on "servers". Also, if game has multiplayer, why there is no data transfer from game to that "server"? When I play it, my network activity is zero. Even if it has some rudimental multiplayer, occasional synchronization with server should occur... But here; nothing....

Sadly the game had a rocky launch partly caused by Sean Murray being a bit of a lousy PR guy and, as much as I hate to admit it, lying about some crucial elements of the game, but thankfully most of the stuff he showed in this interview has pretty much been there from day one (though for whatever reason they switched back to using the actual periodic table rather than the fictional one) and, in its current state, No Man's Sky is now 100x better than what was shown in this interview. I'm glad Stephen took an interest in this game and I'm glad it mostly worked out well, but I think indie devs should take this as a cue to not treat a beta as a final build and maybe even to consider their situation carefully before signing any contracts that could be used to push them into releasing a game before it's fit to play. People accused Sean of being a snake oil salesman when the game was launched but ignored the fact that Hello Games was in no financial position to get away with pulling an EA by selling a broken game and laughing their way to the bank, such a strategy would mess them up in the long run so there had to be more to it. Sadly there was a little bit of truth to this as a lot of people figured out that Sean was using demo builds of the game that were designed to make it look more capable than the release build which is a pretty ballsy move for a small company, I think this combined with their studio getting hit by a flood and destroying a lot of the important game files and their backups didn't help matters much. My best guess is that they were contractually obligated to launch the game within a certain timeframe and decided to basically create a build they felt would be good enough to buy them the time they needed to release some super patches to gradually fix it over time. The game is still missing some crucial things that Sean promised (such as the ability to seamlessly travel between systems using just the pulse drive) but again, I'm still willing to bet that a lot of those things will either be added via some huge update or, if necessary, they might release a sequel to the game. Short version: the launch went about as badly as any game launch could go for a small indie team but they've done a pretty impressive job fixing the game up to a standard that's more decent even if it doesn't quite reach the ridiculously high bar that Sean set during his many interviews. I'm hoping the other things he promised that honestly seem impossible on the release build of No Man's Sky will manifest in some kind of sequel that can run on a better optimised game engine.

Yea, seems like he has a better grasp on "games" than most people over 40 too

+TheReal SMNK He does have a kid

+ExlcusiveSodak I guess that would help

+Vault Boy but then someone will name it that in the first 30 minutes of the game being out

(Lame Darth Vader voice) NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

It's not the same man, it's... just not the same.

So I guess once there's one Colbert Prime, there can't be a second one. I guess that means I better hurry to name my first planet "The Real Center"

+Racist Bassist Fallon would showcase videogames on his late night show. The only asshole, really, is Kimmel.

+Racist Bassist Fallon has had segments dedicated to gaming, as well.

Yeah, Fallon played Goldeneye 64 with Brosnan, and Punch Out! with Mike Tyson.

Ok (Has social anxiety which makes him seem like he's lying)

@@benatrix7965 he was lying tho, my comment wasn't made because it seems like he was lying, it was made after the game came out and it was confirmed he lied

There isn't a character model in the game so yes, he lied. You can't see other players.

New update has changed this I think

You can now see other players with the new update

He obviously planned to have those features in the game at the time. But because of the unforeseen anticipation for the game and the pressure to release ASAP, they weren't able to include them at release. Most of them are in the game now.

When your social anxiety gives you the body movement of a lier:

+xXx_Bilbo_$waggins_xXx He had a show on Comedy Central called the Colbert Report. He's really a fantastic talk show host whose humor and wit are head and shoulders above the competition.

+D0NTST4RT as someone from the UK, I hadn't heard of him either and it was refreshing to see a funny yet serious interview. If it was letterman or Conan it would have been all about them. I like this guy.

+Tiger Mask IV i liked the fact that he wasn't distracted by his own voice, you'll notice that Stephen sometimes interrupts himself to focus on the point that sean is making, most chat show hosts would just talk over their guests but stephen actually seemed to be making an effort

Exactly

*cough* Conan *cough*

Yes it does tf?

puffwad no it doesnt, i HAVE the game

GheyForGames So do I... What's so different, precisely?

puffwad the graphics for one, every planet you go on is a barren rock nowhere near that amount of life or that variance not only that the buildings and other such things the game is empty as fuck

GheyForGames The planets have varied for me. Some look like utter shit but others look really fucking good.

They will wipe the server

+A Weed There is no server for anything except names of objects.

+A Weed not necessarily. It's not like anyone's going to find a planet shown in the videos anyway.

+shitpost “CielTheOldRitual” senpai that's the server I'm talking about

Every Legendary game has been made like that,games like Half-Life,Doom,Unreal Tournament etc..all classic games that revolutionized the gaming industry were made by a small team of very talented & innovative people. I really hope this game also revolutionize the gaming industry for the future of gaming.

elite dangeurous.

Minecraft Not kidding, trash talk all you want, but saying that minecraft hasn't caused a revolution on the gaming world (and outside) it's to be retarded. Hate the game, but don't deny it's relevance

+Fala que Eu Ajudo what are you talking about. Minecraft was never talked about. Stop getting so offended.

TheOutcast I was continuing to talk about games that were breathrough with a small team of people, do you even know how to get context?

+Tea Dawg Disabled for player surprise.

+Tea Dawg Choosing not to do something is very different than being unable to do something.

+Tea Dawg It's a design choice. probably a bad one. Not nearly as bad as making a non-cooperative MMO. people are going to get pissed when they fully understand the lack of social tools this game will have by design.

Matt Sweeney It's their own fault for not being smart enough to understand what Sean has been telling them. He told people it's not a Massive Multiplayer Online Game. It's a Massive universe, but a shared one. For all intents and purposes it's a Journey shared Singleplayer.

+xtremetuberVII its a massive universe. its online. and its shared with multiple players. It's a non cooperative MMO. He can do what he wants, but I think it's silly to take things gamers specifically like and leave them out of your game. Social tools, building, and character customization. They may not be necessary to a game, but they are things that gamers like. Also it takes away from the sandbox feel. I can do anything I want in this universe! Well, except build a house. Or play with my friends. Or customize the color of my space suit.

+Cerberusballs Nono. Each star is surrounded by worlds waiting to be discovered.

+Lord Kham ......I need a PS4. RIGHT NOW.

Its on pc too!

+Lord Kham ...........I have an iMac.

+Cerberusballs... I'm so sorry...

+YarrBr0 yeah, you caught that too.. Stephen is talking serious shit here.. he knows his stuff and THAT is so impressive, although why should I be so blown away, it IS Stephen Colbert after all :))

SAME i came just to check and was surprised

It's because most of the views were before the game was launched. Shows how much people were fooled.

@@metafis2490 *misjudging

also, he literally "can't wait" to play the game shown there, as he would have to wait forever to play a nonexisting game.

ok

What if the alien races have a religion in the game and what they worshipped is Sean Murray that created the universe

+Rezeno 56 That'd be nuts! Considering Sean is in another plane and won't ever manifest to them, because they're artificially made to just exist in NMS plane and won't ever meet their god, even if he did show up to them, they wouldn't understand who is him because they're not meant to. If Sean ever goes bananas and starts modding this game to recognize Hello Games as a deity it'd be a delightful god-creation experiment to watch.

+Zachary Russell what if our entire universe is inside someone's car battery

Diamond Miner Animaniac i like the rick and morty reference

Zachary Russell lol thanks

G..........A............Y c:

+KingOfMadCows This song has been popping into my head every time I see NMS gameplay. And I love it!