"Hello Games Says New Project Is So Ambitious It Would 'Seem Impossible'"

[kane_magus]

Full headline, due to limitations of Dreamwidth: "Hello Games Says New Project Is So Ambitious It Would 'Seem Impossible' Even With a 1,000 Person Team"

"Speaking to IGN, studio co-founder and managing director Sean Murray said that, while it's not a sequel to No Man's Sky, the new game is just as ambitious.

"He said: 'For a while now we've been working on something pretty ambitious in the background. It's a small team but we like it that way.

'Similar to No Man's Sky, it's the kind of project that even if we had a thousand people working on it, it'd still seem impossible.'"

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Did this stupid motherfucker learn nothing from No Man's Sky? Nobody, not a single person, should believe even one vacuous, fatuous word that comes out of Peter Molyneux'sSean Murray's mouth, at least not until this new game has been out for at least five years and has actually shown itself to be worth the hype, which No Man's Sky absolutely did not, at least not when it originally launched.

And some would say not even now. Like Fable before it, as I've said several times in the past, No Man's Sky as it exists now is a good enough game on its own merits, sure, but it is not the imaginary, non-existent, pie in the sky that was presented to the world prior to its actual release. And it never will be that, I don't care how many more years worth of free content updates Hello Games may release for it.

I fear this new thing will end up the same way. Whatever this new thing is, if it turns out as passably okay as No Man's Sky has, then that would be great and all, but nobody should be boarding the hype train based on Sean Murray's word or based on any pre-release trailers, that's for goddamn sure.

Comments

[kane_magus]

Yeah, assuming it ever sees the light of day, I'd absolutely wait until it hit a steep sale, most likely several years after it came out. If I got it at all. It might not be something I'd care about in the first place.