“No Man’s Sky” is easily one of the most anticipated games right now, and many people have been following its development closely. However, it looks like the game will not be coming out this year as some gamers were hoping. The developers have been aiming at a 2016 release for a while now, so it wasn’t very realistic to expect that the game would be ready this year, but some fans still had hope.
At the moment, it’s expected to arrive in June 2016 as the developers are reportedly currently battling some technical issues that have been giving them a lot of trouble. We don’t know the exact state of the game – and how serious those issues could be – but the situation has made some gamers a little skeptical for the future of the game, and some are starting to doubt that it will come out in the state it was initially advertised with.
On the other hand, some critics have been talking negatively about the price of the game, claiming that it doesn’t look like the kind of title that warrants being sold as a full AAA release. While “No Man’s Sky” is reportedly going to offer quite a lot of content to explore, the entire game is based on the idea of procedural generation so it’s hard to put a price on the value of that content until we’ve seen it with our own eyes.
It’s also not clear if the game will be able to meet its current release date at this point, as the situation has been getting a bit sketchy. There are some rumors that the studio has been dealing with issues related to the technology that they are using, but nothing has been specified yet so we are refraining from discussing the possible implications this could have on the game’s future.
The game itself has a very interesting, innovative idea and it definitely has a lot of potential to succeed if it’s made right. Procedurally generated games are the hottest trend of today and this game is pushing it to the limit, allowing players to explore an entire universe full of procedurally generated content, from major setups like planets to small details like the flora and fauna of each planet.
Various technical tricks have apparently been used to create this vast, diverse world, and the game seems to have various ideas planned to fully immerse its players and make them feel like they are really in its world. Of course, most of what we know about the title is coming from the developers themselves, so it should all be taken with a grain of salt. It’s possible that their marketing talks have generated more hype than the studio can handle, and it wouldn’t be the first time we’ve seen that in the gaming world, even with smaller titles.
But people attached to the project at least seem to realize that this is a problem, and they are mostly trying to avoid making people too excited for the game. Because of this, all information coming out about it has been controlled and verified quite carefully. At the same time, fans have been digging around trying to find any kind of news but mostly to no avail.