Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Todd Howard on Starfield: New open-world space video game | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips" video.

  1. "Hiking alone, you realize that all this has existed long before you, and will exist long after." The weirdest part of being out in the countryside of New England (after living in California) is the idea that many of the buildings there are older than the trees, rather than the other way around. Also the roads. The road network was literally designed by bears, or something.
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  2.  @dravennolan4103  Have you ever seen the meme that shows an overhead view of Manhattan, captioned "New York, because we value your time and ability to get places" and an overhead view of Boston, captioned "Boston, because F* You"?
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  3. As far as awe goes, "No Man's Sky" does a pretty good job of giant bounding sandworms that act like a fifty-story-tall sine wave weaving in and out of the surface of the planet you're on. Even that gets old after a while in one play session, but I'm actually tempted to log back in right now to see if I can nab a scan of one.
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  4. 1. Start with "No Man's Sky" for a game environment. 2. Build Civ on top of it. 3. Add an Ultima-style RPG, using assets from the first two.
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  5. He got through this whole bit without uttering the words "No Man's Sky", didn't he.
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