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No Man’s Sky and Destiny sure have similar looking menus

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No Man's Sky looks a lot like Destiny

No Man’s Sky is racing towards release (finally), and in a bid to somehow outdo the massive buzz around the title in the weeks leading up to that have given us a handful of bite-sized trailers. We’ve seen the space simulator’s approach to Exploration and Combat already, but those are only some of the hooks aching to dig themselves into you when the game arrives. The other is Trade, which will have you looking at No Man’s Sky’s menus. A lot.

In fact, they’re menus that might look similar if you’ve been giving a lot of your time to Bungie’s shared world shooter Destiny. I personally think Bungie hit it out of the park with the UI design for Destiny, with sleek parallax powered overlays concisely displaying all the information you need at a glance. Turns out Hello Games loved them too, or this is just a massive coincidence.

There’s nothing wrong with it either, especially if the menus help condense the massive amounts of information that No Man’s Sky seems to be throwing at you when it comes to interplanetary trading. You’ll land on one of the 18 quintillion planets out there, harvest some of its natural resources and hopefully find some alien life out there willing to buy it from you at a premium. That is if you’re against going the whole pirate route and just shooting what you want, when you want, out of the sky.

Trade has always been a fascinating part of space simulators for me personally, so I’m interested to see just how deep No Man’s Sky goes with it. It’s a vast universe to explore with near infinite opportunities for exploration, so I do hope that there are more than a couple of surprises for avid explorers to dig up. It’s out on August 9th for PS4 and PC.

 

Last Updated: July 25, 2016

13 Comments

  1. I hope this game is a resounding success (NMS, not Mehstiny)

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    • Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0

      July 25, 2016 at 08:05

      It’s okay, Mehstiny is already successful 😛

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      • Admiral Chief - Check

        July 25, 2016 at 08:13

        …at reeling in the whales?

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        • Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0

          July 25, 2016 at 08:20

          What, you mean like microtransactions, surely Warframe doesn’t have those 😛

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          • Admiral Chief - Check

            July 25, 2016 at 08:43

            I like the shiny loot, it points out the whales in this FREE game, so I can laugh at them.

            Also, I can sell things to whales that I have duplicates of, so double win!

          • The Order of the Banana

            July 25, 2016 at 09:25

            Aaaarr! There she blows!

          • Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0

            July 25, 2016 at 09:41

            It sure plays like a FREE game

          • Admiral Chief - Check

            July 25, 2016 at 09:46

            I dunno man, by far the best free game, ever

  2. Kikker

    July 25, 2016 at 08:51

    Seems to me an article about same looking menus us just a way of mentioning destiny again. A lot of games share the same sort of menus. When you have for instance a trade menu. You are bound to have two columns. I say this article is redundant.

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    • Gavin Mannion

      July 25, 2016 at 09:01

      We are paid by Activision to mention Detiny at least every 3.2 articles or 1500 words whichever is shorter. Therefore we are honour bound to continously mention that Destiny is an amazing game that had us all hooked for ages and which had a menu system I hated at first and came to love.

      Some of the above is true.. you decide which

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      • Jonah Cash

        July 25, 2016 at 09:27

        Hahahaha!! Had a good weekend then Gavin?

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  3. The Order of the Banana

    July 25, 2016 at 09:01

    Ugh… gamespot… they’re just as retarded as kotaku and polygon, it’s almost as if they think that the box menu was invented by Bungie.

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  4. Railgun

    July 25, 2016 at 21:43

    Have any of these reporters (self-described UI experts) ever seen the periodic table? Same design, it’s a square grid system with lots of element information organized within the layout. Same design functionality, and been around longer than video games.

    But yes, keep making a big deal out of nothing.

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