Hello and welcome to a special channel 33 podcast.

My name is Ben Lindbergh and I'm a writer for TheRinger.com and on the other line, putting

some plutonium in his mental multi-tool, as he's about to start mining for insights.

This is my fellow Ringer writer, Jason Concepcion, hey Jason.

Thank you for having me here.

I've just been naming various animals and plants throughout the galaxy.

So what we are talking about is this is the first, but hopefully not the last Ringer episode

about a video game.

We've thought the occasion called for it.

So we've convened today to discuss No Man's Sky, the most anticipated game of this year,

or really any recent year, which came out for PS4 and PC this week.

Earlier this week I spoke to Sean Murray, the creator of No Man's Sky.

So later in this episode you'll hear a condensed version of my conversation with him, but

before we get to that, we want to discuss our own week one impressions of this game.

And I wrote something about it for our website, so I sunk some significant time into this

thing and you had to do some real life non-isotope powered traveling this week.

So you're not quite as far in, but I'm not sure that my extra playtime has actually allowed

me to see anything you haven't seen, which is possibly part of a problem that we might

be about to talk about, but I thought we could frame the discussion this way because I think

the most important predictor of how you feel about No Man's Sky today is probably how

you felt about No Man's Sky a week ago before it came out because this is one of those games

that gets judged based on sky high, probably unrealistic expectations for what it would

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