Difference between No Man's Sky and GRAV? (Now with 2 GRAV giveaways!)

GRAV's graphics are not that bad either (and not so much different from NMS) and isn't it about exploring as well? I can see that the focus lies more on exploring planets rather than the universe, but then, isn't No Man's Sky just like that?

No problem. I've given it some time so that more people can enter.

Yeah, especially if you have to grind a lot for even basic things.

I am just curious how is it a survival game without the crafting and such then?It just another FPS without those.I mean unless you count it as a survival just based on not dying and trying to survive being killed.Though in that case pretty much any game is survival.

Anyhow i am just saying the whole point to the survival is to survive by crafting stuff/growing food/killing things/building.I do agree some of them take it a bit far where it becomes more of a chore then fun then turns into a game of resources and collecting that takes way to much time.Though i think a lot of that is due not being balanced because they focus on surviving with others and not alone.So when you are a alone everything takes a lot more time and effort.

I just do not care for most of them myself for the fact that most always seems to include other people and turn into just a huge map of player vs player,so it just becomes a glorified shooter with base building and little to do with survival but more to do with i built this now come get me.Or huge clans destroy all you built while your away because thee always a few players with no life who can grief people while they are busy living there life.

HaHaHa! I run around in Ark chasing beacons and taming dinos and never even getting roofs etc on my "bases"

I seem to never get out of "caveman" status.

7 Days to Die is similar.. now that they kept buffing zeds and making them smarter about breaking down your base I refuse to build one and just live like a nomad in prefabs, leaving caches of loot all over the world.

I think after the runaway success of minecraft, (and even before, to a much lesser extent) crafting has become a trend that developers are following because they think a lot of people want it.
Oddly enough, IMO,the success of Minecraft had more to do with building than crafting. (and yes, there is a difference).

I don't know if if there's a story -as in, a plot with a beginning, an end, characters, and of which you play a central part- but there is a goal (get to the center of the galaxy) and it seems there will be a lot of lore to discover.

Space exploration single player with no or only a few survival elements. I actually was eyeing no man's sky before noticing it was tagged as multiplayer.

Hmm, ok, time to look for no man's sky giveaways then :p

That's just the impression that I've been getting from it, having watched some videos. It's hard to tell though, as they've not actually said all that much about the game, they've mainly just been showing off their tech.

The only multi-player element comes from the fact that everyone's discoveries and other tracked information are all uploaded to a central server. So it's a shared universe in a similar manner to a MMO. But it's so freaking huge that the chances of you actually encountering another player are on the order of "not in your lifetime". There also doesn't appear to be any player-to-player communication.

Perhaps if the game is a success they'll build out more cooperative aspects to the game. But right now it's a solitary exploration game, with the vague goal of getting to the center of the galaxy.

Hype means nothing to me- and yet, NMS appealed far more to me than Grav from the start.

Grav is a generic-looking FPS survival MMO styled game, with apparently fairly generic gameplay as well. It's not particularly appealing, even without the criticisms it receives on gameplay. It doesn't do anything particularly unique, and seems subpar [at least in presentation and by typical reviews] compared to more interestingly themed and presented multiplayer survival games like Ark.

NMS, aside from having gorgeous graphics, is a[n exploration] sim rather than a survival game, and really shouldn't be compared directly to Grav in the first place.
It's a game that promises to finally offer one of the dreams of gaming: the ability to have truly unique experiences. The thrill of not knowing what's around the next corner, that it'll be something potentially unique to you and potentially incredible.. it's a compelling idea. Add in that it's a play-as-you-will single player exploration game [without the usual RPG/survival/platforming/etc emphasis], it's a rather unique offering.
In other words, the appeal is in the mystery and the exploration and the walking-simulator-like enjoyment of such. (Theoretically it'll be more comparable to atmospheric games like Journey or even Life-simulation games like Spore, than to MMO or survival games).
Any actual [eg survival] gameplay elements would be more for heightening immersion than being the real draw of the game.

Of course, a lot depends on just how incredible the procedural content generation system actually'll be. If things start becoming too repetitive after say, the first 200 planets, it'll probably burn out pretty fast. But if they can truly offer what they're promising, the ability to occasionally find something truly unique [even if it takes you a few repetitive planets in between], then it'll be a game that may truly steal you away.

In that sense, the hype may work against it, if it can't deliver. But if it can- oh, what a special game it'll be.

Grav, though? Survival and MMO games are a dime a dozen, and without it standing out, and with the criticisms against it, it just doesn't have much impact. When you contrast it with something like NMS, which is essentially in its own subgenre, it's pretty easy to see why it seems less interesting by comparison.