If you want to annoy video game programmer and Hello Games managing director Sean Murray, also known as one of the co-creators of "No Man's Sky," just ask him when the game will be released.
His standard response?
"Soon," according to Movie Pilot.
"That's all that you're likely to get out of Sean Murray in this regard and even he himself seems to be fed up with the answer," the site went on to explain. "At E3 this year, he laughed at the idea of still showing off the game at next year's conference - though you can tell how much that would kill him."
"His own frustrations are etched across his face and when he can't speak about the madness of developing 'No Man's Sky,' he lets ducks do the talking for him," the entertainment and tech news portal added.
"These ducks know how I feel," he tweeted a few days ago. His Twitter post showed a Vine video of someone's hand pressing on a pile of squeaky rubber ducks, emitting a loud, collective sound that is very much similar to a crowd of people groaning in frustration at a soccer match.
Looks like the game's release date is a long way off, in that case. This is understandable considering that "No Man's Sky" reportedly has 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets, with each having "its own specific biodiversity and geographical features," as noted by Gospel Herald. Such an ambitious project would naturally make its creator's insides groan in collective frustration.
"Given the vastness of this simulated universe, even gamers in multiplayer may find themselves exploring new worlds alone. It will take 585 billion years to explore every single planet," the site also said.
Perhaps Murray should stop at 1 million planets to enable his team to finish the game soon?
Some have speculated that the much-anticipated game may be coming out in 2016. However, given Murray's frustration, it looks like the game won't be ready by then.
"It's impossible for us to say whether this title will actually make it on to the PS4, or even the PC in 2015," Movie Pilot mused. "I often wonder whether Hello Games knew what they were getting into in terms of developing this extraordinary game. But it's amazing how Sean Murray seems to see no end in sight."
"In 'No Man's Sky,' you play as an astronaut, piloting the kind of nimble craft that once flew on the covers of Isaac Asimov paperbacks," The Guardian said. "The game offers a curiously nostalgic vision of the future. Every player will start their journey on an undiscovered planet; they will be the only person to have walked its surface."
"From there, you can board your ship, take off, break the atmosphere and begin to tour the galaxy (all without the interruption of a loading screen)," it added.
This is probably because the game's universe isn't set on a hard disk or server, as the world is "generated every time the player enters the game, Gospel Herald said.
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