The SCIENCE! Behind No Man's Sky

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  • @MadelnOahu
    @MadelnOahu Před 7 lety +1395

    Shoddy is basically a gamers version of VSauce that swears profusely in your face

  • @austin.abercrombie
    @austin.abercrombie Před 2 lety +73

    god the difference from the game then, when this video was released, and now, is absolutely fuckin amazing. the game now is spectacular, and it’s probably the best comeback in all of gaming, and genuinely one of the best sci-fi games of all time. just some thoughts as i rewatch one of my favorite creators about a once-forgotten game. how the times change indeed.

    • @martinpat94
      @martinpat94 Před rokem +5

      Yeah for an indie game company they have done something amazing

    • @snek9406
      @snek9406 Před rokem +1

      Dude this game is still absolute dog water

    • @austin.abercrombie
      @austin.abercrombie Před rokem +4

      @@snek9406 im sorry you think that, but i absolutely love it even now. some people will like it, others won’t, everyone has different tastes

  • @paulward1544
    @paulward1544 Před 7 lety +174

    This actually makes a ton of sense when you think about the Atlas questline. Spoiler alert for anyone who cares:
    The Atlas seems to be a sentient deity/ cobstruct/ no one really knows, but it calls the player (Travellers, prophesied in the lore) to follow it. Ultimately it makes the player collect 10 Atlas Stones (who knows what the are really but not the point) which are used to, at the end, create a new star where another Traveller will begin its journey, possibly following the Atlas again to create a new star, etc. etc. Apply this to the video and you have a consciousness (the Atlas) which is trying to reverse the entropy of the universe. Unlike the Sentinels, which just seek to stave off destruction, the Atlas uses the Travellers as its mechanism to create while the universe is destroying itself.
    Now, apply THAT to the fact that the works of Isaac Asimov are a stated influence on the game, it can be assumed that the Atlas is basically the Multi/Univac from "The Last Question" and has found the Travellers as the answer to the question of reversing entropy.
    Or maybe I'm over thinking it.

    • @kaitokobayashi6394
      @kaitokobayashi6394 Před 4 lety +2

      Not as much as Austin or god forbid; MatPat so you're safe.

    • @chriscarleton358
      @chriscarleton358 Před 4 lety +4

      You're not overthinking, I think, 2 years after you thought you were overthinking

    • @csenky
      @csenky Před 4 lety

      So I'm not the only one seeing Asimov in NMS.

  • @arkangelderunheilig6683
    @arkangelderunheilig6683 Před 6 lety +102

    "Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
    - Arthur C. Clark

  • @Coolcleverstone
    @Coolcleverstone Před 7 lety +1085

    Wow, No Man's Sky is more depressing than Dark Souls.

    • @longislandlegoboy
      @longislandlegoboy Před 7 lety +3

      Hi again, I can never escape from seeing you in a comment section mr coolcleverstone.

    • @Coolcleverstone
      @Coolcleverstone Před 7 lety +9

      pokecrafter88 you can't get away from God forever.

    • @Coolcleverstone
      @Coolcleverstone Před 7 lety +2

      Muahahahahah

    • @WhiskeyTango76s
      @WhiskeyTango76s Před 7 lety +2

      Lol I don't get that feeling while playing NMS. That hopelessness is there in NMS but I'm only reminded of it while hunting after Monoliths

    • @Coolcleverstone
      @Coolcleverstone Před 7 lety +1

      ***** MERICA

  • @seth2428
    @seth2428 Před 7 lety +264

    LOL that .1 second frame of NUT!

    • @vavra222
      @vavra222 Před 7 lety +56

      Thats why i love Austin, he is fucking perfect for this job.

    • @dooflux
      @dooflux Před 7 lety +10

      +vavra222 I caught it just watching it the first time. Ahhh, good stuff

    • @Jack-lm8ry
      @Jack-lm8ry Před 7 lety +1

      when?

    • @seth2428
      @seth2428 Před 7 lety +1

      Pyrothief 7 watch it for yourself im not spoiling it :P

    • @Jack-lm8ry
      @Jack-lm8ry Před 7 lety

      Seth Delmar Nevermind, I found it.

  • @MrFalliorsLife
    @MrFalliorsLife Před 7 lety +185

    Technically the best selling game of all time is Tetris at 495 million copies, followed by Minecraft at 108 million an THEN Wii Sports at 82.7 million.

  • @hiyosee2082
    @hiyosee2082 Před 7 lety +315

    So we haven't met any other species in space cause humans probably are the youngest ones?
    Wait a minute, I need to lay down.

  • @Mazaroth
    @Mazaroth Před 7 lety +87

    About that plutonium part.
    Maybe the dev's do not/did not understand half life of radioactive elements?

    • @DruuzilTechGames
      @DruuzilTechGames Před 7 lety +27

      Too bad it's not 1985, where Plutonium was available in every corner drug store.

    • @renteryx2364
      @renteryx2364 Před 7 lety

      so true...

    • @WhentheworldendsWWYD
      @WhentheworldendsWWYD Před 7 lety +4

      holy reference batman.

    • @adamaj74
      @adamaj74 Před 7 lety +1

      Maybe they should have, at the very least, used google to learn about it if it's going to be a huge part of their game?

    • @Ayeloo
      @Ayeloo Před 7 lety +6

      The first intention was for the game to have a fictional periodic table. I think they assigned the fantasy elements to the closest irl counterpart in the rush.

  • @masterenviofficial
    @masterenviofficial Před 7 lety +223

    I really like your intro's. "Hi, it's me... Austin! :D"

    • @drdanger6755
      @drdanger6755 Před 7 lety +13

      MasterEnvi and then fuck you ! XD it killdd me

    • @unimornnbr1
      @unimornnbr1 Před 5 lety +3

      YOUR GAME MAKES NO GOD DAMN SENSE!

    • @anhbayar11
      @anhbayar11 Před 4 lety +1

      FUCK YOU............

  • @cherrydragon3120
    @cherrydragon3120 Před 7 lety +560

    this went depressing really quick ;-;

    • @ernesik4636
      @ernesik4636 Před 7 lety +8

      ikr? Science (specifically astronomy) is really depressing...

    • @TheGainnit
      @TheGainnit Před 7 lety +16

      we're alone, we're gonna die alone, science is scary, the end

    • @cherrydragon3120
      @cherrydragon3120 Před 7 lety

      Ikr

    • @darryllawrence7551
      @darryllawrence7551 Před 7 lety +2

      I love the wonder to science problem is when the scientists start digging through the discoveries they always find a way of explaining somthing so deep and meaningless i automatically forget about the discovery and go back to living real life sometimes i think the puppet show is more entertaining when the curtain pulled drawn tight

    • @cherrydragon3120
      @cherrydragon3120 Před 7 lety +2

      darryl lawrence you're right. So many things they explain so deep and depressing... its making the normal shitty life alot more meaningfull.

  • @thefoundation1826
    @thefoundation1826 Před 7 lety +239

    I'd like him to check out the science in elite dangerous. who else thinks that'd be cool?

  • @maxcorrice9499
    @maxcorrice9499 Před 7 lety +433

    Go to 5 planets and you've seen them all

    • @sigmamale3276
      @sigmamale3276 Před 7 lety +10

      Theres 18 quintillion, not 5

    • @maxcorrice9499
      @maxcorrice9499 Před 7 lety +52

      +Lord Gaben but the amount of stuff it's actually randomizing is very tiny, there's literally three different types of backs for animals and one type of plant that's not randomized at all but it's god damn everywhere

    • @napalm390
      @napalm390 Před 7 lety +36

      You got it pretty much right, i have been watching videos on it and that struck me too. They may all be different in some way, but they come off as very similar too.

    • @maxcorrice9499
      @maxcorrice9499 Před 7 lety +17

      +Rotary Saw I've been playing, they put so little effort into randomization I'm surprised they could release it as procedurally generated

    • @PS4sos21
      @PS4sos21 Před 7 lety

      No you haven't...

  • @b0tster
    @b0tster Před 7 lety +130

    You see, that preservation of the universe you said, would have been a great motivator for the reapers from Mass Effect.

    • @lordadmiralchowder1224
      @lordadmiralchowder1224 Před 7 lety +11

      that would have made such a good story, if the universe was dying, and the reapers were trying to prolong it before it was too late.

    • @b0tster
      @b0tster Před 7 lety +6

      Because all life forms do is consume resources. Damn. I'm even more mad now :c

    • @xelgringoloco2
      @xelgringoloco2 Před 7 lety +46

      I like how two guys based off only a CZcams video can come up with a better story for Mass Effect than their entire writing staff. 0/10 Bioware.

    • @tonyman1106
      @tonyman1106 Před 7 lety

      this is why you never work for EA

    • @sylvnfox
      @sylvnfox Před 7 lety +21

      that was basically the original story for ME, mass effect technology was "killing" the universe but the head writer left biowere after ME1 and the guy that took over changed the story and gave us what we got.

  • @supaspider1625
    @supaspider1625 Před 7 lety +146

    To be honest, I'm probably one of the few people who enjoy no mans sky for the grinding part, because I'm used to that because I love sandbox, survival, and rpg games

    • @BlazeingGoldReviews
      @BlazeingGoldReviews Před 7 lety +3

      Supa' Spider you're not the only one, I love grinding in games.

    • @entropyzero5588
      @entropyzero5588 Před 7 lety +6

      I don't mind grinding (I've logged numerous hours in minecraft doing nothing but digging up holes…), but the problem with NMS is that there's nothing _else_ . Sure, there are lots and lots of worlds - but they are nearly all the same. There's like four or give different types pf planets and then that's it - nothing interesting on them. And grinding should never be an isolated experience just standing on its own - it should always enable you to do something cool afterwards. Like killing a particularly brutal boss in an RPG or building something ludicrously large in Minecraft. But in NMS all you ever get is more of the same :/

    • @eminbobbytorlakovicbobby1715
      @eminbobbytorlakovicbobby1715 Před 7 lety +6

      Its not a bad game but the moral of the story of No Mans Sky is dont promise what you cant deliver

    • @insertgenericnamehere2077
      @insertgenericnamehere2077 Před 7 lety

      Supa' Spider

    • @devincombs4509
      @devincombs4509 Před 6 lety

      good on ya

  • @teoteous
    @teoteous Před 6 lety +13

    If No Man's Sky worked as promised we could have had an entire planet where it was all Bethesda glitches.....

  • @N8TM8T
    @N8TM8T Před 7 lety +227

    And he hasn't played Elite Dangerous... wow. Would love to see him SCIENCE that game.

    • @TheKodiakalpha
      @TheKodiakalpha Před 7 lety +23

      I'm with you! The Elite Dangerous galaxy feels a little more real to me, but I'd like to see what his take on it would be.

    • @iancollins9960
      @iancollins9960 Před 7 lety +4

      Question is. Will Austin SCIENCE the fuck out of the game? Or the game SCIENCE the fuck out of Austin?

    • @chriswhittington5790
      @chriswhittington5790 Před 7 lety +3

      yes please do the science behind elite dangerous, there's a lot of science in the game and is like to see that broken down

    • @Nemoticon
      @Nemoticon Před 7 lety +1

      Yes, DO ETTT!!!!!

    • @julian0451
      @julian0451 Před 7 lety

      Yeah, the Black Holes in particular could use a rework (aesthetically I mean)

  • @CutACrow
    @CutACrow Před 7 lety +170

    Wide as an ocean shallow as a puddle

  • @wuznab5109
    @wuznab5109 Před 6 lety +38

    HEY YOU DISCOVERED A NEW PLANET! What's new you might ask? Well you see that pebble right there... yea? Well it's moved one cm to the left.

  • @BlenderGeek
    @BlenderGeek Před 6 lety +6

    Honestly this story of a universe ending makes the main plot, your character forming a new star, actually have a little more depth. The more stars that are created the longer the universe can hold on.

  • @thebadger4040
    @thebadger4040 Před 7 lety +642

    Am I the only one who loves your cursing.

  • @sawedoffs
    @sawedoffs Před 7 lety +13

    "Hi! It's me, Austin!.. :D Fuck you!" I'm dead

  • @christianalbina6217
    @christianalbina6217 Před 7 lety +19

    This took a turn South real fast. REAL FAST! This also demonstrates the fear of impending doom if you were immortal and kinda settles the ethical debates on forced human evolution. I'd rather not be immortal in this form on this plane of existence... WORDS!!

    • @bryanpseno4203
      @bryanpseno4203 Před 5 lety

      Christian Albina exactly I love that feeling. Fun huh!

  • @KanetheSpaceWolf
    @KanetheSpaceWolf Před 7 lety +36

    the fact that we might not find aliens to hang out with gives me depression

    • @KanetheSpaceWolf
      @KanetheSpaceWolf Před 7 lety +1

      The end gave me double depression

    • @Niom_Music
      @Niom_Music Před 7 lety +1

      Just don't think about it

    • @madscientistshusta
      @madscientistshusta Před 7 lety +1

      RunethePony ya add that plus the Fermi paradox and it's a no Brainer we are alone

    • @fakiirification
      @fakiirification Před 6 lety +3

      It should give you relief. Ask yourself what forces would motivate a society to take to the stars? innocent curiosity and will to explore? PPFT! hardly. Space is expensive and harsh. The only reason to go that will ever "normalize" space travel is economic. The search for resources to exploit, be it siphoning atmosphere from gas giants, or grinding pale blue dots into dust to harvest the heavy elements within. If we met an alien race, it would be more like Independence Day than E.T. or Close Encounters. Except i dont think we would be able to upload a virus and disable their tech... If we meet an alien race, we will die soon after.

    • @morphingfaces
      @morphingfaces Před 5 lety

      I've encountered what I would call extraterrestrials, and nature spirits I don't doubt my own experience I think we already are interacting with extraterrestrial and nature spirits and interdimensional entities their are a endless variety of characters in the universe we have never been alone especially on this planet we have just exploited nature

  • @DamonFyrian
    @DamonFyrian Před 7 lety +48

    The way Austin described it, it basically sounds (to me, anyway) like Fallout in Space.

    • @sigmamale3276
      @sigmamale3276 Před 7 lety +8

      No

    • @ToxicTheEagle
      @ToxicTheEagle Před 7 lety +21

      I have no idea how you came to this conclusion. I'd like an explanation.

    • @oscars4608
      @oscars4608 Před 7 lety +8

      No. Don't disgrace Fallout.

    • @BustyNCrusty
      @BustyNCrusty Před 7 lety +7

      Fallout will forever be a classic. This will disappear into the great abyss that is horrific games.

    • @willeuwer
      @willeuwer Před 7 lety +2

      +ToxicTheEagle same here

  • @mountainjew2010
    @mountainjew2010 Před 7 lety +83

    what if the sentinels were left behind by the people to see the end of the universe...And put they're consciousness in the robots.

  • @Integer_Overload
    @Integer_Overload Před 5 lety +4

    "We suck at being alive"
    -Austin.
    So true 😆.

  • @jaytranscendencemodder1280

    "This isn't a game about survival, it is about delaying the inevitable"
    But... that's the same thing!

    • @blauwbeer556
      @blauwbeer556 Před 3 lety

      this is deep enough where you pause for a moment but not deep enough for where you go "dang, that's deep."

  • @SkyeRequiem001
    @SkyeRequiem001 Před 7 lety +5

    So a slight correction, stars with metallicities similar or greater than Sol began appearing roughly 8-9 billion years ago, or 5-6 billion years after the birth of the universe. Some stars with similar or greater metallicities that we have found are very near twice the age of the Sun. It's generally accepted that only 40% of the metallicity of our star is required to end up with potentially habitable terrestrial planets.

    • @SkyeRequiem001
      @SkyeRequiem001 Před 7 lety +4

      Among the stars provided here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_analog#Solar_twin note a couple of the highlighted ones, these are considered too old be a solar twin now (approaching the end of their lives) but the first highlighted star listed there is G2V (same as our star), has 2% less metals, and is 8.2 billion years old.

    • @obex6105
      @obex6105 Před 7 lety

      You make a good point, sir.

  • @HumeanPiano
    @HumeanPiano Před 7 lety +13

    things its hiding? well
    -multiplayer
    -deserts
    -flying animals
    -rotating planets
    -that end
    -FACTIONS
    -ship variations
    -ships collecting cargo
    and people are saying us fans made this game overhyped.

    • @HumeanPiano
      @HumeanPiano Před 7 lety +1

      also being able to land on asteroids

    • @faithgreene7624
      @faithgreene7624 Před 7 lety +2

      there are flying animals I found some on a planet the other day.

    • @IchKomentiereNur123
      @IchKomentiereNur123 Před 7 lety

      So you were a fan of something which didnt exist yet?

    • @itwasizawarudo1701
      @itwasizawarudo1701 Před 7 lety

      The fans sure as Hell didn't help. I wasn't hyped, I figured it was too ambitious and wouldn't be everything they said. I actually enjoy it.

    • @wolfattacker1
      @wolfattacker1 Před 7 lety +1

      or maybe the game is so big no one found those features yet.

  • @HarryJ10
    @HarryJ10 Před 7 lety +1

    Your videos are honestly some of the best on CZcams, such good knowledge supplied with one of the best humours on the Internet, bravo

  • @Snyper20
    @Snyper20 Před 7 lety +198

    If only your story was a part of the game, then NMS might be decent.

    • @ShadowAxon
      @ShadowAxon Před 7 lety +3

      Ithink the devs should work on it more give it a larger hidden story.

    • @10chb01
      @10chb01 Před 7 lety +12

      It is actually pretty surprising that this story concept isn't used very often. In fact the only times I can recall it being used is in doctor who and the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy series, and those both use time travel and in the later humor which tends to detract from the potential impact.

    • @ChexMexLex4929
      @ChexMexLex4929 Před 6 lety

      What the fuck is NMS? I KNOW IT IS A SCHOOL

    • @creedude2995
      @creedude2995 Před 6 lety +2

      +siahnara Decrosis it clearly stands for No Mans Sky

    • @kajbaldwin1868
      @kajbaldwin1868 Před 6 lety

      Thx ima use this for a school project
      (Need to write a small book for dutch yay....)

  • @StarCrusher.
    @StarCrusher. Před 7 lety +95

    The thumbnail is just beneath this channel. Just makes me sad you're stooping so low. Please don't turn into this kind of CZcamsr.

    • @rygreyrgbey4359
      @rygreyrgbey4359 Před 7 lety +57

      Its relevant to the discussion so I see no problem with it...

    • @r1ndiee
      @r1ndiee Před 7 lety +45

      you're overreacting

    • @tonyhuynh570
      @tonyhuynh570 Před 7 lety +10

      Oh no he made a sexist/clickbait thumbnail god forbid burn him at the steak >_>"

    • @potemadunne1350
      @potemadunne1350 Před 7 lety +7

      What? It's the best thumbnail ever!

    • @shiroikin
      @shiroikin Před 7 lety +16

      he does talk about a lot of fucking in the video.

  • @tolbeanqueen1174
    @tolbeanqueen1174 Před 7 lety +24

    welp my hopes and dreams of seeing an alien and going to different planets for fun are dead now. THANKS AUSTIN.

    • @tolbeanqueen1174
      @tolbeanqueen1174 Před 7 lety +1

      sarcasm aside i still love ya austin keep up the good work (in the platonic way of course)

    • @koboldhosamen1620
      @koboldhosamen1620 Před 7 lety +7

      So are my dreams of fucking an ayylmao

    • @NerfMaster000
      @NerfMaster000 Před 7 lety

      Well, at least we can be those Precursors race that leaves our tech shit on random planets for future alien species to discover and then worship us as Gods.

    • @tolbeanqueen1174
      @tolbeanqueen1174 Před 7 lety

      *unenthusiastic* yaaay god status

  • @jonutsthedanklordpayton
    @jonutsthedanklordpayton Před 4 lety +6

    This is me from the future here to tell you that no man's Sky it's just they didn't have enough time but they've been updating and it's gotten pretty f****** awesome

    • @sammylammy996
      @sammylammy996 Před 3 lety

      now we have volcanos and shit. Still waiting for drivable frigates though

  • @JCtheMusicMan_
    @JCtheMusicMan_ Před rokem +4

    I recently found your videos and must say that you are so incredibly brilliant and highly entertaining! The ending took an incredibly swift dark turn but was comedy plutonium nonetheless! I wish you could rediscover your secret sauce 😢 Love you brother! ❤

  • @The4j1123
    @The4j1123 Před 7 lety +45

    Well fuck.
    I'm writing a sci-fi space book that I worked hard on making insanely scientifically accurate ranging from planet distances, to realistic human technology in 3,000 years, to the appearances of some of the aliens due to evolution. The problem is that the main plot is about a war between two major alien races in the Milky Way that humanity accidentally stumbled in between while exploring.
    After watching this I now see that I have to rewrite the entire plot. It supposed to be really accurate to the future through predictions but how can it be accurate if its main plot is two very advanced alien species when it's highly likely that we are the oldest race therefore it is more likely that if we even DO find aliens we will be more advanced than them.
    FUCKFUCKFUCK

    • @moth8550
      @moth8550 Před 6 lety +8

      YDidU what. If we are the youngest race they would be more advanced than us?

    • @seancarroll9849
      @seancarroll9849 Před 6 lety +3

      It's not a bad trope you have there. Babylon 5, look it up. That series did it right. Most sci-fi tropes are mirrors to one another, so you aren't that far off the mark.

    • @yegr7763
      @yegr7763 Před 6 lety +2

      I'm also writing a science fiction book about a solar system very near ours that is hidden by the aliens there with a giant machine that creates an invisible emp that also hides their solar system. Generically the aliens are related to humans and earth was once part of their planet. Also there is magic and it was just forgotten as humans evolved

    • @The4j1123
      @The4j1123 Před 6 lety

      Timothy Castillo
      Yeah I fixed that. Thanks m8

    • @ScarfaceGameReviews
      @ScarfaceGameReviews Před 6 lety

      Suspension of disbelief is your lover

  • @FlesHBoX
    @FlesHBoX Před 7 lety +5

    No Man's Sky is basically 10% of the game I want to play.

  • @Dillsion1ALT
    @Dillsion1ALT Před 3 lety

    very appreciative of Jupiter from the planets music suite playing at 12:09, thank you

  • @sirotter1193
    @sirotter1193 Před 6 lety +54

    WAT ABOUT SPORE IT IS FRICKN AWESOME

  • @ThatIrishLass
    @ThatIrishLass Před 7 lety +3

    I cracked up when the screen kept flashing back up on the musical cues even though it kept dimming, like the editor and composer were having a fight.

  • @nickbryant723
    @nickbryant723 Před 7 lety +19

    yay. 20 mins of austin and science!

    • @jamesbryant8133
      @jamesbryant8133 Před 7 lety +1

      Hmmmm same family name as me And you like austin as well...... Where are you?

    • @nickbryant723
      @nickbryant723 Před 7 lety +1

      james bryant australia

    • @isham2044
      @isham2044 Před 7 lety +2

      I'm not supposed to be in this reply...

    • @poopboy3998
      @poopboy3998 Před 7 lety +3

      I read it as autism

    • @AIIEYESONME
      @AIIEYESONME Před 7 lety +1

      Well I just came here to use the restroom.....

  • @jacksonditsler4801
    @jacksonditsler4801 Před 7 lety +1

    I love the use of Jupiter in the background! Great vids, keep up the good work!

  • @grenmoyo3968
    @grenmoyo3968 Před 7 lety +10

    well...you went full blown existential nihilism.

  • @apexxvsounds1812
    @apexxvsounds1812 Před 6 lety +7

    Let’s start w some basics, starts explaining astrophysics and quantum mechanics, best channel ever 😂😂😂

  • @Nathan-W-umbo
    @Nathan-W-umbo Před 7 lety +35

    Why am I getting a playback error every 5 seconds in this video -__-

  • @legendarygaming8011
    @legendarygaming8011 Před 6 lety

    The music at around 8 minutes is gustav holst the planets also used in the seed warzone a game on ps2 i played when i was younger and it took me 17 years to find what the songs were

  • @giz6385
    @giz6385 Před 7 lety

    OMG I LOVE THIS GUY! puts a smile on my face, that is all I need. thank you Austin!

  • @swolelordnito2233
    @swolelordnito2233 Před 7 lety +26

    Not gonna lie I appreciate the sentinels just a bit more. As I have already seen the center of the galaxy and moved to another galaxy I'm curious if the Atlas has a meaning bigger than we know. Indexing all of our discoveries in an attempt to preserve and recreate the universe or it's a part of its destruction. Telling the player to blindly follow its path and essentially encouraging the destruction of worlds and knocking the aging universe off balance through some false promise of power and truth.

    • @AIIEYESONME
      @AIIEYESONME Před 7 lety +19

      Holly shit, right there, you right here, right now, put more thought and effort into a narrative plot for this game then anyone at Hello Games did over the past 5 years.

    • @charmagne2102
      @charmagne2102 Před 7 lety

      By the playing the first hour of the game I learned...Atlas is God.

    • @ventune
      @ventune Před 7 lety +3

      You. Have been to the center. The place that's over 170,000 light years from where you spawn. While you can only travel (at best so far) 1500 light years at a time. Not including the time it takes to get materials for the expedition, and the time it takes to get a fuckload of inventory space. You would still have to travel for (hyperdrive time) 2.83 hours. Of just a hyperdrive screen. Uh huh. (like I said, not including the time it takes to get everything needed for said expedition.) Sure yah did

    • @TheColdZephyr
      @TheColdZephyr Před 7 lety +6

      Lots of people have been to the center *of galaxies*. There's a video by TP Gaming about reaching an 11th galaxy.

    • @swolelordnito2233
      @swolelordnito2233 Před 7 lety +3

      +J Thom should've had me write the narrative than it wouldn't be so empty

  • @joegillespie4180
    @joegillespie4180 Před 3 lety +3

    Coming here after watching internet historians video on no man's sky is kinda fun

  • @trestenpope286
    @trestenpope286 Před 7 lety

    I love how you have Gustav Holst's The Planets suite in the background.

  • @cowartlogan
    @cowartlogan Před 7 lety

    Excellently said and edited. I applaud you!

  • @iclimbeverything2990
    @iclimbeverything2990 Před 7 lety +20

    No Mans Sky would've been amazing if it was multiplayer, and you started at the center. There is a full planet, a literal hub world, full of players. Then you are given an objective to go travel in some random direction, go to a string of planets, and reach the EDGE of the galaxy. Then you go to the new galaxy from there. Each new galaxy has its own hubs, it's own servers, and each new galaxy is like NewGame+ on Dark Souls. Maximum of 20 different galaxies, and a Max level of 200. Leveling includes new upgrades, new weapons (separate from your Multi-Tool) and more upgrades. Skill trees with respec abilities to make Exploration, Ground Combat, Space Combat, Mining, Settlement builds. You can build settlements on any planet, set up Warp Beacons for other players to see in a large list of all settlements with a search feature with information on how many players there are, how many NPCs, everything. Trading stations manned by players and NPCs alike, or actual factions and faction space combat. But of course that can't happen. That would take effort.

  • @dylanhd1536
    @dylanhd1536 Před 7 lety +104

    If his kid watches this in the future, I say hi to him sooo. HI👋

  • @abrb1989
    @abrb1989 Před 7 lety

    I'm about 30 seconds into the video and had to stop it just to comment about how excited I am to see the rest of this. Love your shit man!

  • @leojames4968
    @leojames4968 Před 7 lety

    I certainly do appreciate it Austin. I'm loving these videos.

  • @MrWolf-ln1gi
    @MrWolf-ln1gi Před 7 lety +85

    The fanboying in the comment section is unbearable. It's a shit game for 60$ the end

    • @MrWolf-ln1gi
      @MrWolf-ln1gi Před 7 lety +4

      +EPICx BE4STM0DE Hey if you like being lied to them overcharged for a game that is a blatant copy of other games and then charged twice as much as those games then be my guest. You're the fool not me, I wasn't even hyped for the game lol

    • @LordZharks
      @LordZharks Před 7 lety +5

      People enjoying a game doesn't mean the game isn't objectively garbage. Movies can be objectively bad and hated by critics, but can still be enjoyed by plenty of people. NMS is a terrible fucking game, quit being so fucking sensitive and just enjoy it if you enjoy it.

    • @MrWolf-ln1gi
      @MrWolf-ln1gi Před 7 lety +2

      +Breakfast _ Yes those are called niche titles and in most cases aren't sold at the same price as a AAA game. Also this game was developed as an indie yet sold as a AAA? That's what makes it garbage not the gameplay necessarily

    • @FoxiestDuck
      @FoxiestDuck Před 7 lety +1

      That's what happens when you get a AAA publisher :P

    • @leigncoelho1532
      @leigncoelho1532 Před 7 lety +2

      You can't really say a critic provides an objective assessment of a movie as they are giving their opinion on it, in fact many movie critics disagree with each other and there have been movies that were once bashed by critics but later lauded as masterpieces, movies just like video games are a form of entertainment and a product, its value as entertainment can only be seen subjectively on the basis of how much it entertains a person and while its value as a product can be seen more objectively in the revenue it generates by looking at that metric No Man's Sky has done objectively well

  • @powersettingsm7172
    @powersettingsm7172 Před 5 lety +3

    12:19 best line ever.

  • @forceastral4833
    @forceastral4833 Před 7 lety

    I always appreciate your stuff

  • @clockworkvagabond7975
    @clockworkvagabond7975 Před 7 lety

    Gotta say your musical choices for this video are inspired. Gotta to love The Planets suite.

  • @hoopsonwheels
    @hoopsonwheels Před 4 lety +3

    My new goal in life is to make a video game that is Austin proof

  • @hobabo9703
    @hobabo9703 Před 7 lety +18

    my dad started playing it and his starting planet was a planet i had explored! lol

  • @landofthedead09
    @landofthedead09 Před 7 lety

    Love the use of the planets suite In the background

  • @Talleyhoooo
    @Talleyhoooo Před 7 lety

    I love that you're playing Gustav Holst's music in this.

  • @chadkingoffuckmountain970

    clicked for that hot Gek on Korvax action

  • @niloc1229
    @niloc1229 Před 7 lety +4

    Great use of Gustav Holtz Jupiter there ;)

  • @jennanovello8575
    @jennanovello8575 Před 5 lety

    i love that you used the planets suite as background music for this video

  • @LegoSwordViedos
    @LegoSwordViedos Před 7 lety

    I love that he used Gustave holsts symphony of the planets for this video.

  • @tylerourada9719
    @tylerourada9719 Před 7 lety +215

    this is like a really vulgar version of Game Theory

    • @nikkothegoblin
      @nikkothegoblin Před 7 lety +24

      Shoddy cast isn't game theory. It's very hard to compare them since they are two very distinct channels. In my opinion they are both good.

    • @nikkothegoblin
      @nikkothegoblin Před 7 lety +5

      Shoddy cast isn't game theory. It's very hard to compare them since they are two very distinct channels. In my opinion they are both good.

    • @Matt-uk7zq
      @Matt-uk7zq Před 7 lety +3

      xX_illuminoscoper420_Xx but they are both practically the same

    • @stew2860
      @stew2860 Před 7 lety +9

      +DapperBubble yep, and Austin's been going downhill since

    • @Eminem12378
      @Eminem12378 Před 6 lety +4

      Drade You ain't lying. Don't follow him on Twitter, he talks about subjects that are still debated and have a lot of tension behind them (politics, race, transgender, ect) Not stuff that a content creator should be talking about on his official page, causes some of the audience to feel alienated. He always comes off as an arrogant prick who knows better than anyone when he's on Twitter, too. Plus he rarely makes new videos now. He seems like a great guy in these videos and I still love his videos but seeing how he acts on Twitter really convinced me that he's a dick with a bad "I'm the smartest guy in the room" complex.

  • @LunchBXcrue
    @LunchBXcrue Před 7 lety +15

    Is anyone else a little surprised that the foundations updates weren't dlc?! I figured that's where they were going with that

    • @freshlymemed5680
      @freshlymemed5680 Před 7 lety +6

      Bring me Peter pan seriously? salt about an update??? of course its an update, they arent ass hats who are greedy, they are people who just wanted to make a game, the only problem was it was overhyped, and the team is only dozen people, and when have you heard of a studio called hello games make a space game? usually space games are made by badass rich companies, like idk, valve, gearbox,call that badass shit, give the game more time, somewhere about 3 updates and it will be good, maybe even add modding apis and custom downloadablr quests

    • @sugoistalin7809
      @sugoistalin7809 Před 7 lety +8

      He wasn't being salty, just that it was surprising given the attitude most devs have with adding important game mechanics as dlc these days.

    • @sponge1234ify
      @sponge1234ify Před 7 lety +4

      They already getting bad press from delaying the game plenty of times, and releasing the game without most of it's promised features. Making their ranking go rock bottom by doing an abuse of the DLC system to grab in more money would just makes no goddamn sense.

  • @tobywenman4769
    @tobywenman4769 Před 7 lety

    I just found Shoddy cast and Austin really reminds me of game theory before the days of CZcams red, I love it.

  • @Arcsin27
    @Arcsin27 Před rokem +2

    The nostalgia at seeing ore sticking out of the ground lol
    I remember when nickle only came in arches. Idek if nickle is still in the game

  • @clickbait7682
    @clickbait7682 Před 3 lety +3

    8:40 lol 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @sebastianschumann4744
    @sebastianschumann4744 Před 3 lety +4

    Well that changed.

  • @ken90ny
    @ken90ny Před 5 lety

    I was paying attention to the soundtrack you used and I just realized you're using Gustav Holst's the planets

  • @SuperCrazy902
    @SuperCrazy902 Před 7 lety

    The fact you used Gustav Holst's "Jupiter" as background music makes me happy.

  • @user-sy2uc5zz7u
    @user-sy2uc5zz7u Před 7 lety +8

    what is the background music for this video its fricken graet

    • @dylanhemman1174
      @dylanhemman1174 Před 7 lety +3

      8:13-12:15 is the Jupiter movement from Gustav Holst's Planets Suite

    • @dylanhemman1174
      @dylanhemman1174 Před 7 lety +2

      Constantinos Veletas 12:15-15:40 is the Mars movement

  • @ShoddyCast
    @ShoddyCast  Před 7 lety +31

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  • @FSHR-kf3dk
    @FSHR-kf3dk Před 7 lety

    This is great. Subbed

  • @jubjub364
    @jubjub364 Před 7 lety

    I love your use of gustavs planets in this video

  • @patrickgambill9326
    @patrickgambill9326 Před 7 lety +3

    Shouldn't the rate of natural increase be much higher than 0.2% for robots? They would not die like an organism and they could be produced extremely quickly because there is no birth involved. If made in factories, robots would be produced much faster than humans. The other thing to consider would be how these robots are produced. It likely would not he exponential unless the robots create more of themselves. I guess what I am trying to say is the sentinel calculation may not be accurate.

  • @ThatRandomSniper
    @ThatRandomSniper Před 7 lety +18

    Play EVE you nerd. Best space game hands down.

    • @The_Duval
      @The_Duval Před 7 lety +3

      But Elite Dangerous. So no

    • @ThatRandomSniper
      @ThatRandomSniper Před 7 lety +1

      joshua florez Elite Dangerous is nothing compared the Eve. It's a title that hopped on the VR bandwagon early on to try and gain players. Eve is incredibly in depth and is home to biggest battles in the history of video games.

    • @ThatRandomSniper
      @ThatRandomSniper Před 7 lety

      joshua florez Not to mention, Eve has been going strong for almost a decade and a half...

    • @The_Duval
      @The_Duval Před 7 lety

      +ThatRandomSniper wow a decade and a half? That's cute. The elite franchise has been around since 1984. Elite dangerous was just another entry in the series and the best one yet. A scale replica of our Milky Way Galaxy, in depth lore that's been developed over a little over 3 decades. Amazing ship design, combat flow and actively changing economics. Elite Dangerous can't be beat.

    • @The_Duval
      @The_Duval Před 7 lety

      +ThatRandomSniper Elite dangerous didn't even start out with VR capability lmao. It hasn't tried to gain players during its time, most people haven't even heard of this amazing game and are only just discovering it because of how shit No Man's Sky is and the alternatives like Star Citizen are pretty disappointing.

  • @Unity-hk1bf
    @Unity-hk1bf Před 2 měsíci +1

    Its fun to come back to this because
    A. There are absolutely uncharted red star systems that have never been visited by any sentient species
    B. the sentinels didnt discover shit, theyre extentions of the atlas and just naturally exist everywhere

  • @1boyofsteel121
    @1boyofsteel121 Před 6 lety

    I appreciate your choice of song, because the name of it is mars bringer of war which is from a collection of songs that are named after all of the planets in our universe

  • @attilarischt2851
    @attilarischt2851 Před 7 lety +3

    Why not take apart Elite, then? They are really proud of staying as close to science as they can, so it might be a good game for you. If not by something stupid, but explaining something. Like the Alcubierre drive.
    Oh hey, you can talk about how we see in faster than light, as we shouldn't to my knowledge.

  • @Kockafalva
    @Kockafalva Před 7 lety +6

    Austin, Hallo Games should pay you for giving SOME meaning to this bullshit of a game.

  • @sashazvaners1528
    @sashazvaners1528 Před 7 lety +1

    i see that you used the mars theme from the planets. A job well done.

  • @TheSenator__
    @TheSenator__ Před 7 lety

    Much love man you're so much better

  • @allensmith471
    @allensmith471 Před 7 lety +4

    Was the ocean planet a nudge towards the 'survival' game Subnautica?

    • @haku301.
      @haku301. Před 7 lety

      Unknown Factor no, there is thousands and their made randomly, so for all I know the dont know wtf subnotica

    • @haku301.
      @haku301. Před 7 lety

      subnautica is

    • @allensmith471
      @allensmith471 Před 7 lety

      Yeah in all honesty I can't remember why I made the comparison and I don't feel like rewatching the video to find out

  • @SirBladewind
    @SirBladewind Před 3 lety +3

    I love how I discovered this one well after no man's sky turned it around and is now a great game.

  • @Lord_RoadRunner
    @Lord_RoadRunner Před 6 lety

    What you said near the end "we all die alone" is also said in a movie that i highly recommend to you donnie darko it gets confusing but its great

  • @maikeruthenoodle
    @maikeruthenoodle Před 2 měsíci +1

    I definitely wanna see austin do this video again since the game has updated significantly more since and pretty much everything that his conclusion relied on aka the plutonium is no longer present and the sentinels arent always everywhere (most of the time they are there) and have gotten more information about them. I wanna see him try again :)

  • @AsianNightly
    @AsianNightly Před 7 lety +5

    The secret is that No Man's Sky was actually One Man's Lie

  • @GuyFromCanada
    @GuyFromCanada Před 7 lety +7

    Nooooooo! The video is broken!

    • @lukamic1776
      @lukamic1776 Před 7 lety +1

      Same for me too, plays 2 seconds and then gets a playback error

    • @BeanCove
      @BeanCove Před 7 lety

      Fine for me

    • @alenkorez943
      @alenkorez943 Před 7 lety

      +Luka Emanouel ita not loaded till the end. give it 5 min

    • @hellraiserward
      @hellraiserward Před 7 lety

      Just like no mans sky :D

    • @alenkorez943
      @alenkorez943 Před 7 lety

      +hellraiserward they fixed pc for me in the latest update

  • @garbanzobean2479
    @garbanzobean2479 Před 7 lety +2

    9:40 I am thankful for you in every video for doing the math

  • @rainjones1994
    @rainjones1994 Před 6 lety

    I've been playing NMS alot lately and it's so hard not to think of this video and feel a mild tinge of guilt for depleting another planet of a significant amount of resources every time the sentinels attack me. I try not to ruin paradise planets so much. THANKS SHODDYCAST. JEEZ.

  • @JazzyJacksJokeShack
    @JazzyJacksJokeShack Před 7 lety +3

    The secret is the ending is pure aids

  • @paranoikoc
    @paranoikoc Před 7 lety +14

    Good video.Good job.But I still love No man's sky

  • @ShadofofaMermaid
    @ShadofofaMermaid Před 7 lety

    Good sir, your voice and your narration are funny to me. Subbed.

  • @saintwalker0834
    @saintwalker0834 Před 7 lety

    The choice of Jupiter as part of the soundtrack. Musical gold