Why I’m Excited For No Man’s Sky

<p><em>No Man&&num;8217&semi;s Sky<&sol;em> has had my interest for quite sometime&comma; I honestly can&&num;8217&semi;t even remember when I first heard about it&comma; but when I did&comma; I knew that I would love the concept&period; Hello Games wanted to take us to space&comma; but not space in our galaxy&comma; space in another galaxy where your goal is to get to the center of the universe&period; Sounds like a blast to me&semi; however when I first heard of this game I read that it would be a download only title on the PlayStation 4&period; That worried me seeing as my hard drive was getting fuller and fuller&period; What worried me even more was the fact that in this game you can visit any star&comma; any planet basically anyplace you see&comma; which means it is set to be a huge game&period; The announcement of a <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;no-mans-sky-launches-june-21&sol;">physical release <&sol;a>has re-sparked my interest&comma; and I&&num;8217&semi;ve become super excited for June 21&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The first thing that caught my eye when I saw images from this game was the fact that every image I saw reminded me of the 1960&&num;8217&semi;s&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t know if it was the color pallet or just space travel in general&comma; but these images took me back to the old sci-fi comics like <em>Solar&colon; Man of the Atom<&sol;em> and brought back some great memories&period; I enjoy that era&&num;8217&semi;s pop culture and many of the comic books&comma; and just to be clear I wasn&&num;8217&semi;t alive back then&comma; I was lucky enough to have some of the <em>Solar<&sol;em> archives that I read and drew the comparison&period; Seeing a game fully realized with these pastels and that motif throughout really draws me in&period; As I stare at the screenshots of the game I can&&num;8217&semi;t help but think this is how the 60&&num;8217&semi;s looked&comma; with the colors and the dream for the stars that President Kennedy made a reality&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;101102" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-101102" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-101102" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;03224524&sol;NewEridu&period;jpg" alt&equals;"&lpar;NO MAN'S SKY - HELLO GAMES&rpar;" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"359" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-101102" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;No Man&&num;8217&semi;s Sky&comma; Hello Games&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>As more and more information is being released about this game&comma; I can&&num;8217&semi;t even fathom how many hours I plan to spend exploring the stars&period; Your character can be many things&colon; a fighter&comma; a trader&comma; a scavenger and just a plain old explorer&comma; but I&&num;8217&semi;m guessing you&&num;8217&semi;ll have to do all these things to survive&period; Staying alive on these hostile environments will not be easy&semi; you&&num;8217&semi;ll have to kill predatory beasts&comma; withstand the weather and climate and find supplies to keep you alive and continue your journey&period; These supplies will fuel your ship&comma; will help you craft items&comma; will keep your life support in tact and so on&period; Being someone with OCD&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m going to love finding all of these supplies and elements to make my spacesuit and spaceship better&period; My OCD will make me the best of the best of the best&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>You will be landing on planets that no one has explored&comma; in game and in real life&comma; so no walkthrough will exist if you get stuck&period; That brings out the <em>Dark Souls<&sol;em> love in me&semi; only this time absolutely no help inbound from a website or even a friend who is playing&period; For quite sometime&comma; you will truly be on your own in this game&comma; and that is fascinating to me&period; I grew up in a time where there was no internet&comma; no walkthroughs and all I had were expensive guides that my parents would not buy and 1-800 numbers that were also too costly&period; Flying around space with only my wits and whatever supplies I can scavenge or trade for seems like many amazing nights at home&period; I cannot wait to land on a planet&comma; name said planet and then begin exploring the planet so I can delve further towards the center of the universe&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;101109" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-101109" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-101109" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;03224511&sol;Fleet&period;png" alt&equals;"&lpar;NO MAN'S SKY - HELLO GAMES&rpar;" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"360" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-101109" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;No Man&&num;8217&semi;s Sky&comma; Hello Games&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>I plan on saving and scrimping so that I can pre-order this game for a Day One release&period; Since my generation was born too soon to actually explore the stars&comma; it is nice that Hello Games will be giving us a little taste of what future generations may have the joy of doing&period; Hello Games has been very smart releasing little tid-bits here and there because I salivate for more and more news about this insanely original IP&period; Originality is something that developers and publishers have been losing for a long time&period; It is nice to see a company come out with something that is not only original&comma; but something that can make money and show other developers that there is money to be had in said original concept&period; I can only hope to find out more about <em>No Man&&num;8217&semi;s Sky<&sol;em> in the next several months to add to my excitement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;