Starbound: It sure does exist

And if that were truly the definition of a game, than every sandbox ever created would not qualify.

 

It's a possible formal definition of a game (Eric Zimmerman's, specifically.) Minecraft actually does qualify on account of having a score at death and a credits roll.

Edit: And they're "activities" if not games, apparently.

 

Highly subjective. Starbound has thousands of quantifiable outcomes. How many planets visited, number of weapons collected, highest equipment tier achieved, most pixels obtained, most pixels in a set time, most codex entries found, X Object found, etc, etc. Just because the game itself isn't keeping track of all that doesn't mean it's not there to be quantified.

Granted ive not played Terraria in a while, last I recall it had neither of those. Nor does Landmark, Darkout, Space Engineers, star forge, starmade, and dare I begin mentioning the plethora of MMOs?

There is little difference between personal goal and coded goals when defining what constitutes a game.

 

I think it does for the purposes of the formal definition.

But none of it really matters. I'm just saying you could argue it isn't a game under a certain definition. You could probably argue the other points, too, somehow. (Not physically. Sentence was typed. Although the last one is logically sound: A&B -> A, even if B is false.) OP can't win.

 

Starbound is like Terraria and Metroid, except not! It is a 2D game with pixel-style art, except not exactly! It is playable, while still not being done!
It is fun except when it isn't.

ABSOLUTELY NEUTRAL!!!

 

there has not been enough average apex who have seen this "Big Ape" to confirm the exact degree of handsomeness. Miniknog are biased towards him.

if we are going with undeniable facts, then I present this:
"It is my opinion that Starbound has great potential"
this is a fact because that is my opinion, and the opinion itself is irrelevant so long as it is one I agree with.

this is also a neutral statement as I only state what my opinion is. (PLEASE DONT HURT ME!)

 

Every solar system has an identical flying gate.

 

Two pages and I've already lost control.

Fact: my failure is abject.
Fact: my failure is encompassing
Fact: The Chucklefish logo uses the colour orange.

 

Shots fired!

Do you always have to beat up on me? What have I ever done to you? What? Disagree with your opinion? And now you're going to give me attitude whenever you see one of my posts?

 

Neutrality is boring.

This game is boring without mods.

Mods regulate forums to be neutral.

Mods are neutral.

/repeat

 

Do you always have to beat up on Chucklefish? What have they ever done to you? What? Have their own ideas of what their game should be like? And now you give them attitude whenever you post on their forums?

See what I did there?

 

Beneath the waves of ocean worlds, things get really really dark at night.

 

See Chucklefish owe me and a million other people a finished game. So what did they do to me? They took my money and then mismanaged their project, so it'd be silly for me not to ride their asses.

You and me? There's nothing unless you want to make an issue out of it.

 

If you knew it was an early access game, then why'd you buy it?

 

Something I posted on reddit yesterday that seems fitting here (or at least not as off topic as some of these posts )

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Entire Game

• Steam Folder: 2.71 GB / 974 Files / 313 Folders
• Assets: 1.05 GB / 38,513 Files / 6,579 Folders

Objects / Items

• 2053 Objects (furniture / decorative / placeable items)
• 691 Armor pieces (264 Head, 182 Chest, 181 Leg, 64 Back)
• 262 Consumable Items
• 241 Codex documents
• 19 Shield types
• 44 Crafting items (Ore, Upgrade Modules, etc.)

Weapons

• 113 Guns (46 Crafted, 43 Random Generated, 24 Biome drops)
• 20 Staffs
• 57 Throwable Items
• 416 Melee Weapons (crafted or unique drops)
• 48 Random Generated melee weapon types

NPCs / Monsters

• 135 NPC types
• 100 Unique Monsters and 13 Boss types
• 12 Categories of Procedural Monsters
• 535 unique Procedural Monster parts
• 10 Pets, 70 Critters, 46 Bugs

Biomes / Dungeons

• 18 Planet types (Biomes) across 6 tiers
• 44 Mini-Biomes (Alpine, Tar, Oasis, etc.)
• 32 supportive biomes (atmosphere, core layer, ocean floor, etc.)
• 27 large Dungeon types
• 716 possible rooms in those large dungeons
• 30 Challenge Rooms
• 12 special dungeons (Outpost, Ark, Floran Mission, etc.)
• 479 Biome structures/encounters/microdungeons
• 38 Surface Microdungeons
• 167 Underground Microdungeons (22 Apex, 40 Avian, 27 Floran, 13 Generic, 57 Glitch, 5 Human, 3 Outpost)
• 359 supportive Microdungeons (unique tunnels, terrain shapes, etc. with objects and liquids placed)

World / Environment

• 209 Block types, 19 Platforms, 7 Skyrails
• 52 Material Mods (grass types)
• 304 Parallax images
• 1490 Tree parts (trunk and leaf variations)
• 1120 Plant Objects (bushes, flowers, etc.)
• 21 Weather types
• 13 Liquid types

Other

• 115 Animations
• 85 Particle effects made up of 288 specific particles
• 1225 User Interface elements (graphics)
• 62 Songs (background music)
• 65 ABC notation songs for 30 ingame instruments
• 1,566 Sound Effects
• 650 Projectiles (bullets, weather types, statuses like burning)
• 74 Quests
• 1,363 Crafting Recipes from 27 Crafting Stations
• 56 Ship designs (7 races, 8 upgrades)
• 134 Status Effects
• 34 Techs
• 35 Colony Tenant types

 

Yes, they do indeed owe us a finished game because we bought into it, but that doesn't mean you get to degrade them every chance you get till then. That is typically called "slander".

Was some of the money mismanaged? Probably. No one is perfect, they are people too. Hell, at my work just yesterday I received 4 computers when I only ordered 2 because accounting mismanaged things and submitted the order twice. Oh well, life moves on.

The game is actively being worked on, this is a fact. Lots of different things are being done, which you clearly don't approve of, but that is what you get. The developers vision of their game. This is early access. You bought into an unfinished game with no guarantee of when it will be done. That is what we buy into with early access and beta status games.

 

For sure, by a long stretch, the game's biggest asset are it's vast ocean of assets.

 

Aaaand ignore.