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[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Bro got media trained the hard way. Given their comeback he could probably make a career in PR if he ever feels like quitting games

[–] Agent_Karyo@piefed.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

That's so true. Murray's publicity game become so much more cautious and focused after the initial disasterous release of NMS.

Respect to them for supporting the game for so long for free while having a simple and fair monetisation approach.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 20 points 2 weeks ago

I think the author might be interpreting a bit too much into Sean's words here. "In the background" could just mean out of the eye of the public and he said it's another tiny team, not necessarily smaller than the NMS one which he also calls tiny in the same post. Hello games is a pretty small studio. LNF could easily still be years away, but I don't think Sean's comment here tells us anything either way.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 weeks ago

Saved you a click: development of it has been slow and it's not coming out anytime soon

[–] TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Let's hope that he is doing open-world exploration right this time, instead of implementing a bunch of disjointed mechanics without a purpose to artificially lengthen the life of the game as a "sandbox".

[–] Vince@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Hopefully it gets polished and less buggy. NMS still seems a bit janky, and they're just focused on adding more content

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They probably have the finances to spend as much time they want this time around. I wouldn’t be surprised their Joe Danger money dried up during NMS development.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah. I barely played NMS, despite pre-ordering it due to launch fallout. Still worth it, because the money was for "the joe danger guys want to proc-gen a fucking universe? I'll kick in".

[–] twinnie@feddit.uk -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m not sure how I feel about this game. Seems like a less ambitious NMS.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Given how many systems NMS has and how disconnected they often feel from one another, taking a more focused approach might work out better for the game.

[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"Infinite" universes, like NMS or Starfield sound good in marketing, but if you're really moving around them, at scale speeds, they can't help but feel isolated and instanced. Even LNF, if it's a whole 'earth like' planet, is huge. Earth has about 50M square miles of habitable surface - if you drop 10,000,000 people in there randomly, you're going to have to walk half an hour to have a chance to find another player, if they happen to be on at the same time. It shouldn't have the sharp breaks between biomes that fast-travel to a different planet gives, and I expect that will make it feel a lot more coherent.

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not only do they feel isolated, they also feel the same. NMS technically has billions of unique planets. In practice it has about 10 or so because they all feel the same. And even those look alike because they're all sparsely populated worlds. Big stretches of emptiness filled with the occasional POI. Where are the mega city planets? The forge worlds with heavy industry? Any city with more than 100 inhabitants?

[–] TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Sentinals have wiped them out and destroyed every trace of old civilisation.

Then again, it's just an excuse; having them does not solve the issue. Most devs these days will prefer procedural generation with handcrafted POI on top, but having the player spend time on them is the issue, because HG are terrible at creating POIs with lore.