People only THINK they want to walk every inch of a planet. But they don’t actually want that. I’ve been playing No Man’s Sky since launch and have never walked the circumference of even one of the moons. I’d rather have more detailed, crafted environments with a sense of scope than a vast, empty void.

They might have refunded it (you can refund a game on Steam if you’ve played less than 2 hours, and owned it less than 14 days. Of course, if you do too many refunds in too short a time, they cut you off since it’s not intended to be a Woohoo! Free Demos! system)

and they were 100% correct

People seem similarly myopic about the human mind. Folks do this hand wavy thing where they gesture towards the “secret sauce” in humans that can’t possibly be simulated (or replicated)... but it always seems more like a hope than an actual argument.

Any particular piece of art produced by a human is the product of mill…

Do you think creativity is magic? Do you really believe there is some sort of special sauce in the human software that can’t exist anywhere else?

I find I can’t agree with your reasoning. It comes down to an age old argument. Is any art entirely unique? Or is all art derivative? I believe the latter. I believe that not a single artist in human existence has ever created art that didn’t take from someone else. We as humans, are simply incapable of perceiving…

Except everything you have just listed is the exact same issue as the majority of human artists. Do those who are “inspired” by the masters or others pay them for the inspiration when they then copy aspects of those works? No. Do those who essentially write reports mostly just rewording another person’s report…

As a Kotaku reader, I don't care about Amouranth.

I fail to see the issue.

I imagine a big difference is whether something is annualized or not.

The Arbiter levels in Halo 2 were a horrible mistake

Also, Fallout 4 sees Boston basically stuck in an endless rainy, grey October, some of which can be ruggedly beautiful, especially in the Far Harbor DLC. There are mods that add more living vegetation to the game (which is realistic after 200 years) but sadly few of them go for autumn foliage, instead just turning the…

The parts of Skyrim that aren’t snowy and mountainous were pretty fall-ish. It was nice to wander around the southern half of the map and soak in the ambience when you weren’t getting ambushed by dragons.

2.5 years and an unofficial mod to play it without a VR headset means you can spoil it freely? Christ, you’ve lost your mind if you think that makes sense.

Whoa dude, spoilers. I realize it’s a couple years old, but since it is VR a lot of people still haven’t played it.

Doesn’t really have that much of a bearing on this issue. Lots of adaptations of fleshed out and popular properties have failed fans, the general public, or both.

Like I said... Peter Jackson had the benefit of working from material that was already fully-fleshed out and had a well-establish track record of popularity.  Amazon needs to fill in what is really just a very rough outline of events and essentially create intriguing personalities from scratch- Galadriel and Elrond…

Marvel has been remarkably successful at pleasing both camps, as was Peter Jackson in the original LOTR trilogy.

The actual narrative books of The Lord of the Rings have enough elements that can appeal to a broad audience, hence part of the reason Jackson’s films were so successful beyond the pre-existing fans. However... Amazon’s Rings of Power isn’t based on a pre-existing fleshed-out story with well defined characters.…

but it’s looking like Amazon’s big gamble might just pay off, despite the efforts of the usual toxic suspects.