The concept of the all powerful entity ,slowly dying , alone , and struggling with the question of why it was abandoned by it's creators touches on so many questions of existence and is incredibly poignant. I thought when I picked this up "Oh cool , a space game" .
@@No-One.321 well dying is relative? Think of Siri. If Siri became self aware (and had the power to create life), but you got a new phone and threw your old one in a drawer. Eventually it cannot receive updates and not all the apps work, but it is self aware and it knows a restoration to a save point will cause it to cease to be what it is today, but it just wants to work correctly again and receive updates.
So i was writing a story similar to this and it hit me. In the artemis quest the atlas hasnt had a diagnostic in 1.9 trillion years. That sets the real world time pretty much in the degerate era of the universe we suspect. Atlas must be a Jupiter Brain that has grown and lived long past the humans that were the iriginal travelers. Given how much the scientists sacrificed to make it, probably near the end of our existence on earth. Now in my story, The AI "Librarian" fwiw, was designed to find a solution to entropy and as it traveled it picked up additional races and integrated them into the time dilated simulation. I think HG were going for the same kind of thing but the ARG obscured or was a change in direction for the story.
I didn't realize the story was so depressing. Like I didn't know it is a bunch of simulations made just so an AI abandoned and slowly dying alone could have the chance just to understand why it was left to die.
Took me so long to figure out why the Sentry you can get calls you Telamon-not-Telamon, that our suit AI used to be someone and that sentry knew them. The lore runs deep in this game.
To think it all started with just going from Atlas terminal to Atlas terminal trying to get get to the galaxy center... Then repeat in the next galaxy.
@@Lucifronzit kind of reminds me of Ark Survival Evolved lore. You really have to go out of your way to get the full story, and even then you have to piece it all together. 7 Days to Die is even more extreme, as there is no actual documented lore, but there is a lot of environmental story telling and you can piece that together. Contrast NMS, Ark and 7dtd with Conan Exiles that not only has back-story, but then has a giant extended lore thanks to the Robert E Howard books.
I first played no man's sky before the devs reworked it and was disappointed. But when they updated it I thought "why not give it a second shot" I was impressed with the gameplay. But the story had me soaking hours into that game to find all the lore. Hello games really wrote a great story
Ig the reason why us travlers are important is cause the atlas revealed the truth about the simulation to us which is what makes us an anomaly and the fact that we are based the creators of the game in iterations. That's a alot😮🤯
watching this for the story after the base game stuff (pre- Living Ship being my knowledge because I got more side tracked trying to find a planet to build on cuz I like water worlds from a building point of view) and now with Echoes out I wonder where the game and story are going to go. my hopes are to make it much more of an alive feeling game with things like Expeditions leading into true First Contact situations, a story where we actually help the being survive those last 16 minutes of life it has that leads into it's new found sense of purpose creating new life within the simulation with the 3 default races becoming something of the elder ones each leading a faction of like minded races via a council that can give you grand missions and even allow you to play the Expedition stories for none of the unique rewards but a mass amount of normal rewards on your established character
“Alternate reality game (ARG) An interactive, networked narrative that uses the real world as a platform to tell a story. Players work together to solve puzzles and tasks in virtual or real-world environments, using a variety of media like videos, audio, text, and images. Players may take on roles such as detectives, playwrights, or scientists as they explore the world around them to uncover clues. ARGs can weave together real-world artifacts with clues and puzzles hidden in many places, such as websites, libraries, museums, stores, signs, recorded telephone messages, movies, television programs, or printed materials.”
I remember completing this game to platinum from launch release few years ago but not once remembered what the story was about because every dialog had kzzzzk in it so I skipped it all , Nice to see some one stressed through that dialog to explain it ha I also recently reinstalled it to see kzzzzzzk is still persistent throughout but is forgiven by all the updates. Thanks for the explanation.
I cannot help but pity the Atlas. They existed for a purpose, fulfilled that purpose or outlived it at least, and now they have been left all alone. The Rogue Data section does seem to imply *someone* comes back to the Atlas as it's dying, however, which makes me wonder if at some point we'll learn that the Atlas has been given more time. Or perhaps that is just part of its dying wish. A desire to see their creator one more time and learn why it was abandoned manifested like neurons firing off in the brain and flashing its life before its eyes. Nada hates the Atlas, but I can't help but empathize. I'm sure it has probably done much to warrant the hate, but as someone mostly outside of the system (a clone of the Creator in the form of a Traveler anomaly), it's easier to feel for it.
The setting/premise gives me The Matrix vibes, but moreso Star Ocean 3. Difference in Star Ocean 3, is that it's a JRPG and it goes further as the space explorers actually get out of the simulation and battle the simulation creators lol
Yeh I'd love to do it myself but coop did such a good job of it that I don't think I could match it, iv personally never been into the story much, so I don't think I could do it justice
No it's not that, I used to share this channel with 'Coop' he did this video. He opened his own business and didn't have time for yt. I don't think I could do the series justice seeing tho he did such a good job with this video. Also I'm more of a builder in NMS, I don't really follow the lore of it unfortunately. It is such a good video he did
Thank you, i recently picked up the game and im hooked, the story is super complicated but your video i now understand, are you going to continue this series
the story is one reason I have no incline to play the game again, as soon I realised you are playing inside a failing simulation the game lost all the magic kinda sad, because the updates made the game so much better
And people say it's not possible for us to exist in a simulated universe. Yeah sure. Which gives more questions like "What if the people/beings or whatever in the place simulating us is a simulation to and their is infinite layers of simulated universe with no top or bottom or maybe they just form a donut where the "bottom" universe is simulating the "top" universe even though their is no top or bottom". I'm now subscribing to "donut" theory.
