No Man's Sky

MalicE said:
where the hell do you get a Steam Link??? :eek:

and no, it's nothing like Spore
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Steam links: They are everywhere. You see, you don't need a Steam Link device to stream steam games. Any old laptop with an hdmi port and steam client installed will do. Just make sure you have a wired, gigabit connection between your gaming PC and the laptop.
 
Mister 44 said:
Steam links: They are everywhere. You see, you don't need a Steam Link device to stream steam games. Any old laptop with an hdmi port and steam client installed will do. Just make sure you have a wired, gigabit connection between your gaming PC and the laptop.
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I've done that and it works quite nicely but you do have to have a wired connection for best results. Played most of Far Cry 3 like that. One of the only 1st person games I've played with a controller.
 
Gforced said:
I've done that and it works quite nicely but you do have to have a wired connection for best results. Played most of Far Cry 3 like that. One of the only 1st person games I've played with a controller.
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Nice thing also is that you can run Linux on an old PC and stream windows games to it.

And if your GPU is from Nvidia, you can (according to the interwebz, haven't tried this myself) use a Raspberry Pi with Limelight and set it up for Nvidia Shield streaming.
 
Mister 44 said:
Nice thing also is that you can run Linux on an old PC and stream windows games to it.

And if your GPU is from Nvidia, you can (according to the interwebz, haven't tried this myself) use a Raspberry Pi with Limelight and set it up for Nvidia Shield streaming.
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I wondered it I could get software to do just that. Cool I will look in to it, wanted to try the NVidia streaming.

No Man Sky looks real pretty on a big screen it should be a visual joy to behold.
 
Here's the first official review. (cached version since the actual site is currently down).

Oh, and as weirdly pretty as the game can be, things are marred by aggressively grainy pop-in, as textures and environmental details bubble into existence, pixel by pixel. It’s overwhelmingly ugly and happens on every single world almost every time one is flying through it.

There are also hovering buildings, floating off the ground like bad Unity projects, some of which end up “built” into mountains and hills with no way to enter their half-buried doors. This is not deliberate, mind you – the buildings quite clearly lack some collision detection when they’re haphazardly plonked into the surroundings.

I’ve seen so many planets, met so many aliens, and mined so much goddamn carbon and not once have I been surprised. Not once has the game thrown me a curveball. Every new location is just a different colored home for the same old routine, and the procedural generation means that things feel far less diverse than they could be – when randomized pools replace handcrafted designs, the lego bricks piecing everything together are far too obvious.

Like Spore before it, No Man’s Sky is a game that promised far more than it could ever deliver, but I can’t even blame my tepid reaction on hype. I did not for a second believe Hello Games’ vaguely described spacefarer could be anywhere near as varied and expansive as promised.

Even with my expectations guarded, however, I did not expect just another survival/crafting game that used randomization as a crutch to the point of losing all potential personality.

And I at least expected more to fucking do.

I’ve seen things you people would easily believe. I’ve not seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched no C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. There are no moments to lose in time like tears in procedurally generated rain.
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DieGrootHammer said:
You speak the truth Beo, but I neither need nor want another console in my setup. At the moment I've spent way too much on my Xbox One and pre-orders on it that I probably won't use the PS4 ever after playing NMS. Also, seeing as NMS is available on PC and I already have a working PC, I just need a better GPU, I can upgrade my PC and play the game without running the risk of exposing my Xbox fanboi hands to the coodies of Sony...
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Why not buy my still unused PS4 from me? I literally only created an account on it, downloaded the Far Cry 4 demo, couldn't figure out the whole key to Kyrat thing with [MENTION=4071]BeoTeK[/MENTION] and promptly turned it off. Haven't touched the console since. I still have the packaging in my garage as well...

I gief you nice price, yes?
 
FarligOpptreden said:
Why not buy my still unused PS4 from me? I literally only created an account on it, downloaded the Far Cry 4 demo, couldn't figure out the whole key to Kyrat thing with [MENTION=4071]BeoTeK[/MENTION] and promptly turned it off. Haven't touched the console since. I still have the packaging in my garage as well...

I gief you nice price, yes?
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Mmm

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DieGrootHammer said:
I literally cannot take the excitement and allure of this game anymore. I need it in my life. Alas, my PC is not up to spec to play it, and I cannot justify buying a PS4 just for one game. I'm at this point seriously considering buying a new GPU just to be able to play this game.

Ended up watching a few hours of streaming last night. It seems No Man Sky will go down this year as the most confusing game ever, as half of everyone playing it will hate it and find it boring, and the other half will be at the point of tears about how good it is.
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See, I need a new GPU, CPU, and thus mobo, which means new RAM as well. :( But I'd still rather save up slowly than buy a console, I use my PC for too many other things.
 
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