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The latter is full of shit imo. He opens by saying that anticipation for NMS was only matched by Spore in recent times. I'm a gamer and I've literally never heard of Spore. Has this guy not heard of Grand Theft Auto?
It's a fair comparison. Spore was pretty hyped when in progress. Came from the guy behind SimCity and The Sims, and was aiming for letting the player be the god in an intelligent design type of development.
GTA, Fallout etc are all hyped now but everyone expects more of the same. NMS (and Spore previously) were a new take on things rather than a more polished version of the previous game (okay, GTA3 was pretty revolutionary, but I don't remember it being as interesting an idea as Spore). Pity Spore turned out to be crap.
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The latter is full of shit imo. He opens by saying that anticipation for NMS was only matched by Spore in recent times. I'm a gamer and I've literally never heard of Spore. Has this guy not heard of Grand Theft Auto?
All that stuff about 'purposely misleading statements' is bullshit too. Any large IT project has scope changes during its lifetime. Clearly multiplayer is something that they thought they had time to add later on, it's only the neckbeards who've seized on it like it's final proof of Sean Murray's evil. It's just so weird. The guy is clearly an honest, humble, intelligent, talented guy who's running an indie studio from Guildford - I do not understand the level of hatred he's getting.
What I also don't get is the sheer number of 'gamer vbloggers' who have a negative opinion on this. Are they really respected in the industry? No wonder gamergate happened.