Shout Out / No Man's Sky

• The player can encounter ancient black monoliths that, when interacted with, imparts information to the player new information.
• Resources are highlighted on player Heads Up Displays as groups of cubes.
• One player ship resembles the Viper from Battlestar Galactica (1978) and Battlestar Galactica (2003) while the wingman ships shown in the trailers are reminiscent of Cobra Mk. 3 starships from Elite.
• One of the planets shown in the "Infinite Worlds" trailer is called LV-426.
• The Alien Temples shown in the "Portal" trailer resemble both certain black monoliths and certain ring-shaped portals.
• The "I've Seen Things" trailer features narration reminiscent of the "Tears in Rain" speech from Blade Runner, provided by the same actor.
  "I've seen things... a few things before. Left the sun long behind... Galaxies waiting to be found. Planets rich in resources. Battles to be fought. Treasures unknown. The universe... you wouldn't believe."
• One of the heavy metal alloys you can find is called Lemmium.
• The top rank for number of words learned is Babelfish. One possible alien interaction is the receiving of a slug that goes in the player character's ear and teaches new words.
• This quote from a Gek Plaque which can be found in a Gek-controlled planet:
  We are the masters of galaxies, the overlords of the cosmos. Each foe will submit with bended knee to the ALMIGHTY Gek Dominion. We are the FIRST SPAWN. Look upon our works and DESPAIR.
• One of the damaged factories has you looping through time doing the same thing repeatedly, and one of the options to fix the problem is recharge the flux capacitor.
• One very easy-to-miss one is what happens when you use the Pulse Drive to quickly reach distant planets. You quickly rush past sets of 2 parallel lines. This may seem inconsequential, but this is a subtle reference to many old space shooting games that used vector graphics, where parallel lines moved past the player constantly to indicate forward motion. Here's Star Wars Arcade◊ as an example.
• Star Wars:
  • One of the components a certain type of ship can have are solar panels on the side, like with TIE Fighters.
  • Some Freighters have a distinct flat wedge shape with a raised command deck at the back, much like Star Destroyers.
  • Automatically docking with a Space Station (which can be spherical) and rushing past the beams on the side with tall vertical lights on them is extremely reminiscent of the Millennium Falcon docking with the Death Star via a tractor beam from A New Hope.
  • When you reject a Gek pirate's offer to pay them off so they won't attack you, they can respond "Very well, 'friend'. Let us move on to more aggressive negotiations".
• Traveler has wares, if you have units.
• Almost half of the achievements are named after famous works of science fiction.
  • Foundation
  • A Scanner Darkly
  • Who Goes There?
  • Stranger in a Strange Land
  • The Sentinel
  • The Star Beast
  • A Space Odyssey
  • The Forever War
  • The Stars, Like Dust
  • Have Spacesuit Will Travel
  • Contact
  • Use of Weapons
• While we are on the subject of great works of science fiction, you will be given a quote from either a great scientist, astronaut or science fiction author. Some of the books quoted include Dune, Neuromancer and The Time Machine.

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