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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Stage Demo- No Man's Sky - E3 2015 [Watch (HLS stream): Stage Demo- No Man's Sky - E3 2015](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/p52wjQXH.m3u8) (16:41)  _Published 2015-06-22. Stage Demo- No Man's Sky - E3 2015_ --- Jul 27, 2023 6:27 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [No Man's Sky Atlas Rises Update Trailer](/video/0QQ3XoP4/) ### No Man's Sky Atlas Rises Update Trailer [No Man’s Sky E3 Gameplay Trailer](/video/GjBtxhmG/) ### No Man’s Sky E3 Gameplay Trailer [No Man's Sky - Gameplay Trailer PS4](/video/Fn4siQWC/) ### No Man's Sky - Gameplay Trailer PS4 --- ## Transcript Hello, welcome back to Game Spots continuing coverage of E3 2015 live from the LA Convention Center right here in Los Angeles, California. And the Irish are taking over. [ LAUGH ] The pride of Waterford, Ireland Shawn Murray. Yeah, Waterford it is. Specifically. Exactly. [ LAUGH ] We're representing right here on On the Gamespot stage. Hello sir, how are you doing? Yeah, not too bad. How are you? I'm not too, I'm doing all right. I'm feeling, apparently I'm fresh faced according to your crew. You do look fresh faced. You on the other hand. You make me feel tired cuz I just, I suddenly feel tired. You're sporting your development beard. Yeah. So whenever we see you with a beard it means you've been Just sitting down hammering a keyboard for six months. And we met at the Playstation Experience back in December I guess it was. And since then you guys have kind of done a media blackout almost. You're kind of just in development mode. Yeah. What was the reasoning behind that? Well I just dropped off twitter and things like that, which doesn't sound like a big deal. I wasn't the biggest twitter user anyway you know. We just didn't post anything, we turned down lots of press and stuff. There was just loads of interest around the game and we could actually have done, Press every day, and then just not get any of the game done. So that was one reason. Just wanted to get our heads down. Another reason was I suppose a lot of people said there was a lot of hype around the game. Yeah. And. That's a weird feeling as a developer actually, you think it will be a good thing, Mm hm. Because you want people to be excited about your game, you know. And But it's a, a double end sword because then- Yeah- Expectations are kind of almost getting out of your hand, i guess. It's a scary thing. yeah. But then i suppose probably bigger thing that i just said personally I just didn't want, I wasn't getting anything from it. I didn't want to do any press, you know? And we were booked to go to like GDC and [ UNKNOWN ] and stuff like that and do talks and I just said like to the rest of the guys, you can do it but I just don't want to. I suppose just a really personal level. It sounds really selfish. Like I just don't enjoy it. So what's it been like then, for six months, being able to sort of concentrate on your baby and not worry about distractions? Has No Man's Sky changed in any way in its direction in the past six months? I think like E3 for us now is showing like we think it's really coming together you know? I was actually going to say that on stage and they said don't say [ INAUDIBLE ] you know [ LAUGH ] like you know but that's what it felt like for me you know? We'd show videos before and those videos were a fair reflection you know? But I don't think people realize how impressive it is to be able to just stand there and pick any star at random and just go there and say, it might not be perfect, but like, I'm happy enough to show this kind of thing. Yeah. I think for some of the other demos as impressive as they are, like Most games don't get scrutinized to the level that Nomad Sky High has been because I think there was this impression that there's a smoke and mirrors aspect to it. So yeah, it's kind of a ballsy move to go on the Sony conference and then just pick a random level and see what's ended up being there. A lot of the hype thing Is like we could have done a very stage demo. But all I felt that would do is increase hype, and I wanted to just show something that was more real. So to me, that demo was sort of boring. Just pick a planet, you go there, you land, And you go up to Beacon and almost you could see no one even knew whether it was over. You didn't seem like you knew when it was over. I guess we stop there. Back away from it. I'm out of time. As opposed to showing five minutes of space bottles and everything else. Yeah. Well, I was joking before today about Every demo pretty much on all the conferences so far, 50 % of them end with like a monster coming out screaming like and then it cuts, fades to black [ CROSSTALK ] game day. And you were saying with Or whatever. E3 fish. I'm uploading some coordinates. It sounds pretty bad when you put it like that and it kind of and we'll leave it there I guess. So what else could have happened? In like all the other universes we live in, you know all the other universes that exist. So we saw with exit rehearsal like you know where I would land. I was hoping that I would land and there would be lot's of creatures there and then I could talk about that a bit. The back up to that was like if there's nothing there, it's a more barren planet, I'll just like mine some resources, show that the planet's destructible and stuff. So that was kind of what we went with. Like you know, you just have to kind of roll with it. The ideal is that you do land and there's a crazy big creature and you can kind of show that off, kind of like that huge dinosaur you saw in the previous E3 demo. But then if that had happened, probably everyone would have said it was staged. So. Yeah, good point. At the start, there was that really sort of cool space ship battle, like we're seeing a lot of new footage here as well, actually, which is fantastic. Yeah, that big space battle, you said you could pick which side to take in that battle. Just wondering about those sort of situations, I play lots of games like Elite: Dangerous and stuff where that's sort of stuff is, you've chosen already. In that situation, are you just picking who to battle with based on just what's happening, or do you have allegiances with specific parties? We're nothing like GTA It's the easiest way I have to explain it. If you play GTA and you go to a rival gang's region, they'll instantly just start attacking you. Yeah. If you start attacking some pedestrians, then the police will have a reaction. And so we have a similar kind of system. People might have noticed it, that there's a wanted level up in the top right hand corner. And so if you start attacking innocents or you start attacking traitors or freighter's then police will have a reaction to that and start chasing you. And if you attack police who are just on patrol or military than similar thing will happen. And with regards with factions their battling that goes on anyway, that goes on whether you're there or not. You can just choose to join in. If you attack one particular faction, then they're gonna remember that, and they might shoot first next time. If you decide instead, kind of protect freighters from like pirates and things like that- Should be you could have a mission to help them get through, perhaps or- But it's not really missions. Yeah. It's like if you imagine If you imagine DTA but you don't do any of the missions and you just interact with the world, that's kind of what we're after. Like an action sandbox basically. Yeah, is that what No Man Sky essentially is? It's almost like, cuz the thing is when we talk to you about these games, like, you're, it's almost like a reticence to try and explain them but I guess if it's a Action sandbox, and by explaining it you're kind of ruining the fun. Do you want people to get in to No Man's Sky and not know what the rules of this world are? Yeah, absolutely. And the more we do these shows, the more we probably ruin it for people. We try to hold a little bit back, at least. I don't know, not trying to over- explain it. Minecraft. The coolest thing about Minecraft was that they didn't tell you what the crafting recipes were. And I don't know whether I would've Had the nerve for that, to release a game without doing that, but it's so cool. And some people will just go and create wikis and some people will go and read wikis, and some people will just want to go find out for themselves. And we have kind of elements. We actually have crafting in the game as well. We have Like these ways that you interact. I'm talking about police or military. Even things like that aren't made super obvious to you, you just see how they're interacting and you follow it from there kind of thing. And that's what we want. So presumably you're just creating this sound box and looking forward to when people get to play it themselves. That information will propagate That's the idea. All the systems have to work and create nice game loops, kind of like so many games, particularly on PC at the moment, like Stranded Deep or Salt or Terraria or Star Land. Those kind of games have Have that system, where they just have here is a set of rules. Here's a world. Go out and play it how you want. It is very different and it confuses people a bit. And it hard to talk about a game like that before it comes out. Normally, those games just come out. And they're found on early access and people figure them out as they go along. And then the media picks up once there's been buzz. Exactly. Or as you guys unfortunately have to go through, a couple of years of Well we can't complain, though really. It's lovely that people are interested in the game Fires itself to make it. You know what I'm saying? I don't want to do press. It's not cuz we aren't happy that people are excited about the game. Of course we are. You know? That's a continuing sort of problem with games coverage as well. I saw a really good talk at GDC a couple of years ago about that from the guys who made Frog Fractions. Oh yeah. And they're trying to keep wonder because when we grew up You know, playing Gomonor games like in Mortal Kombat you're wondering like somebody said, oh if you do such and such like Spiderman turns up and like who knows? [ LAUGH ] Like maybe it's possible. At one of the areas I remember we talked about last year when we did the video series on Game Spot, was how this world, how it's one big world. And obviously like you probably don't want to get into the nitty- gritty about either but the idea that you could find this planet and then, Somebody else might run into it, like now everybody's gonna be looking the the E3 planet. But this is a world where you can play with others but is it sort of you're playing with them in the, you're noticing where they've been rather than you're actually dog fighting along side other humans? Yeah we're very careful about saying that. This is not, if you're expecting a you know, a death match game. Yeah. or an MMO. An MMO, yeah. This is not what this is, you know. And it's like journey, you know, journey as a lovely multiplayer component to it. But you would never say [ UNKNOWN ] [ UNKNOWN ] yeah, yeah like Let's all sit down on Friday with a few beers and play Journey. You know it's just not that kind of game. And that's that would be the same for no man sky you know? Yeah. And it's interesting when we talked last year as well it seemed like you really had a strong idea. Here's you wondering if you should finish the demo or not there. [ LAUGH ] Yeah. It seemed like you had a really strong identity of what the game was. Has that changed in the past 12 months? No, I'm like really proud of the guys that we haven't done this. Mm- hm. That like all this interest, and hype, and things like that, we've just kind of kept focused. Hm. And that's why like people SOmebody said to me like, you know it's b een three years since you announced that game, when are you gonna release it? It's like, no it was about a year and a half ago and we've only shown it, like we've shown it, the first time at VGX, then E3, then kind of PSX and now Again, where as most games, you know that, from the kind of cycle- Oh yeah. You're seeing them at every- Every couple of weeks, but you may have events like now. You've actually skipped quite a lot of them. We showed Joe Danger way more. No one paid any attention. Hey, Citizen Game paid attention. You guys did. [ LAUGH ] Like I was saying to Brad, who I work with. And just before E3, before the press conference there was new screen shots from no end sky leaked and it went on all the websites. And I was like where were these guys for Joe and AJ? It don't ever link to Joan Acer's screenshots. That's in Sue. You need a fake. You need to make some fake Reddit accounts and just start pumping them out there. Fake, unannounced. Come on, somebody pick up on this. Yeah. guerilla journalism from inside the games of this phase. So we can't complain about that, like that makes it way easier and we're not On the show floor, just trying to drum people in and stuff. And that allows us to focus on development, and we need to, because we're being insane in the type of game that we're trying to make. Yeah, we didn't try and make something small and it always seems like it was gonna take a while. Like you don't have a release date for this. It's obviously not coming out this year. Do you know when it's gonna be, like are we talking 2016 early, late, do you have any idea? So we're not saying year and things like that. We really wanted to announce a release date. And like, it's really hard to explain, most people will think their used to somebody much more important sitting here talking about a much more important game, and they'll say you know. They'll have a real clever press plan. Yeah. You know, we want the game to be out. If we thought it was good enough we would release it. If we thought it was finished we would release it. We just have to make sure that it is. We were going to announce a release date There's reasons why we began to realize that it might not be accurate. Okay. Some reason outside of our control and I just don't want the pressure of that to be honest its like what I would create by you actually create people. Being upset with you. Yeah. You know for announcing your release date and then changing it. It's the worst thing. It's like saying Christmas is the 25th of December and then changing it to like you know actually no we'll have Christmas a little bit later this year. See you can't say that to me now Sean because now I'm like well it could be out this year I guess. If you're going to say it that way. And I've already got the witcher. Bloody Fall Out four is now apparently coming out. The problem is I have The Witcher. [ LAUGH ] I haven't opened it. It's still wrapped up. Don't open it. Where's Alex? Is he out there? Don't let Sean open The Witcher. [ LAUGH ] Don't let him play Fall Out four. We need to get [ INAUDIBLE ] at some stage. So I'm guessing when you're closer to release day, you'll probably talk about it then. Are you going to be shopping it around for the rest of the year? Are you going to be at Gamescon? Are you going today to Pax's? I'm personally just gonna try and limit it as much as humanly possible. I know that sounds bad again, but I don't think I don't think it actually does anyone any good. [ CROSSTALK ] You know, if people are excited about the game and they tell me I actually feel bad. I just feel like- You feel like you've got a lot of stuff on your shoulders, almost, like- It's not out yet. But get excited about it when it's out I have to say like you want people to know about the game and stuff so it is important to do this kind of thing, but right now we feel we probably have what we need in that we have people who will at least read a review and see if the game is any good. If we've got that, then we're kind of happy enough. We just need to deliver it for them. Awesome. Last question 'cause I know you're a very, very busy man. It must have been cool to be able to go on the PC Gaming show, and say yeah, this is actually coming out for PC as well. Yeah, that was really nice. It's a thing we've known for awhile. And like Sony have released more of it actually. Which is nice. I mean, you can see that with a bunch of other games that they're doing, like Street Fighter and stuff like that. We always assumed it would be a problem but actually they've been good about it, you know. Do you know whether or not it will be [ UNKNOWN ] and [ UNKNOWN ] on both platforms? As close as we humanly possible can. Awesome. Sean Murray, pleasure as ever to talk to you my friend. Thank you so much Johnny. Best of luck with Arrested Development. Don't touch any. I know 2015s ended up actually being a pretty solid year for game releases. Don't play anything else. We need to get No Man's Sky. I feel bad. You feel bad for me. Yeah. I feel bad for me. Thanks so much for coming. I really appreciate it. Thanks a lot. Xbox stage continues here at E3 2015. Let us know what you think about No Man's Sky in the comments box below. And we'll be back in a minute with more video games. [ MUSIC ] ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Stage Demo- No Man's Sky - E3 2015","description":"Stage Demo- No Man's Sky - E3 2015","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/p52wjQXH/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-22T17:42:51.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/p52wjQXH.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/p52wjQXH/","duration":"PT16M41S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/p52wjQXH/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```