No Man’s Sky’s universe promises to be huge. So huge it will blow your mind. So huge that even the developer has stated that he doesn’t know what will happen when it launches.
Players are tasked with exploring this vast, procedurally-generated expanse to find materials to upgrade their ship and eventually reach the centre of the universe. However, despite bringing down the house at E3 with a trailer showing the exploration of a planet packed with exotic flora and fauna, developer and Hello Games founder, Sean Murray, has said that not every planet you visit in game will be as bursting with detail.
“Ninety percent of the planets that you visit should be barren, because that’s how it would be in our universe and anything else would feel fake. And then 10-percent of them should have some life, but that life 90-percent of the time should just be some grass and some shrubbery or whatever, you know, some insignificant life. But 10-percent of the time — 10-percent of the 10-percent — it should be real life. But maybe just birds, fish, and things like that, smaller creatures, 90-percent of the time. And 10-percent of the time it should be something a bit more interesting, like four-legged creatures. But that four-legged creature 90-percent of the time should be super boring.”
“People always talk about us being the game with space dinosaurs in it or whatever, right? Even those, they will be one in a million—like genuinely one in a million, like 10-percent of 10-percent of 10-percent of 10-percent of 10-percent, right? But even then, even though they’re one in a million, 90-percent of the time they should be a boring version of that. And we save the crazy interesting creatures for not one in a million, but one in a hundred million.”
With this latest news, No Man’s Sky continues to be an enigma. It’s unparalleled scope and realism could result in this being one of the greatest games ever or a complete failure. Gamers wait the announcement of it’s release date with great anticipation.
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