As much as I'd like to see him do a paradox game, I'm pretty sure he's mentioned he doesn't like strategy games.Bedinsis said:
Zero Punctuation: Elite: Dangerous - Space Truckin'
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Those things all still happen. Nothing like getting pulled out of super cruise in your Cobra(kinda your standard multi-role ship) to try to face a Federation Dropship(It's a flying tank with lots of guns on it). I managed, but damn did I have a repair bill.Darth Rosenberg said:
I loved Elite back in the eighties, and I think I would quite enjoy Elite: Dangerous while waiting for Star Citizen... except for the price. E
is barely more than a modernised, prettier version of the original eighties game and I'm not going to spend the price of a typical AAA game for that. If it cost maybe a third of what it currently does I'd probably pick it up, but I refuse to pay that kind of price even for a AAA game let alone Euro Truck Simulator In Space.
is barely more than a modernised, prettier version of the original eighties game and I'm not going to spend the price of a typical AAA game for that. If it cost maybe a third of what it currently does I'd probably pick it up, but I refuse to pay that kind of price even for a AAA game let alone Euro Truck Simulator In Space.Link please? This sounds like it would be amusing.lonercs said:
I've played the gamut of Sim games lately. Construction, Trucking and Farming. This might just be the logical next step.
I think the key thing with this game is that your enjoyment will depend partly on what your personal goals are. The game doesn't at any point tell you what your goals should be, so success is how you define it.geldonyetich said:
For example, my friend's been playing the game since Christmas and still only has a few hundred thousand credits, because her goals involve exploration, a bit of bounty hunting and just slowly upgrading as she goes. She's not considered it a grind because she doesn't define her success in the game by how much money she has. Equally, she doesn't consider that I'm "better" at the game because I've got more money than her.
I, on the other hand, am trying to increase my bank balance as much as I can, as my personal goals include buying the Anaconda (~147m credits, not to mention a ~7m cr insurance cost and another 15-20m credits I'm budgeting for upgrades after I buy her). Our personal goals are different, so we play the game differently and derive different types of enjoyment from it.
One other point I've seen made frequently on the Frontier forums is that the game has been designed with a niche appeal in mind. It's unapologetically a game aimed at fans of the genre and of the original Elite, so there may be a limited appeal outside of that niche and that's something that potential buyers should be aware of.
"Is he going to keep avoiding Smash Bros?"
I kinda don't care at this point - the review I'd prefer is actually Captain Toad... (not that it'll affect my having purchased it)
I feel like We already know his opinions on Smash Bros., and he isn't going to say anything new this time, so the video will struggle to be funny. He's given enough justification to ignore it.
But Captain Toad hasn't gotten any previous mentions from him, and I wonder what he'd think of its gameplay.
I kinda don't care at this point - the review I'd prefer is actually Captain Toad... (not that it'll affect my having purchased it)
I feel like We already know his opinions on Smash Bros., and he isn't going to say anything new this time, so the video will struggle to be funny. He's given enough justification to ignore it.
But Captain Toad hasn't gotten any previous mentions from him, and I wonder what he'd think of its gameplay.
This actually sounds pretty interesting. If I didn't have a huge backlog of entertainment/games/anime I'd be all over another fun time sink like this.
Kind of makes me long a bit for the old flight stick I used to have as a kid.
Right here for yas. Spoiler = Buzzed Yahtzee moans. And it's...it's just magical.
Kind of makes me long a bit for the old flight stick I used to have as a kid.
infohippie said:
Right here for yas. Spoiler = Buzzed Yahtzee moans. And it's...it's just magical.
Well Frontier owes Yatzee 5.99 (10% is std yes?) I had never heard of this game before this video but it looks exactly like what I wanted when I bought X-Rebirth. X-Rebirth feels like what happens when a developer tries to "simplify" a game while failing to realize the primary audience for their game, likes it to feel like a big huge universe and sandbox.
Of course they make buying this game quite a challenge. You have to register an account, then go varify it, then go fill out a few forms, then you are allowed to buy it. At that point you are allowed to download the installer. Which installs a log in client. You sign into the client and it then sends you a verification code. You use the verification code and you can then start to actually download the game.
I don't know if there are more steps because I'm still downloading, but someone has failed to explain to Frontier the concept of removing every possible barrier between your client and the thing you want them to do (aka buy and install your game)
Of course they make buying this game quite a challenge. You have to register an account, then go varify it, then go fill out a few forms, then you are allowed to buy it. At that point you are allowed to download the installer. Which installs a log in client. You sign into the client and it then sends you a verification code. You use the verification code and you can then start to actually download the game.
I don't know if there are more steps because I'm still downloading, but someone has failed to explain to Frontier the concept of removing every possible barrier between your client and the thing you want them to do (aka buy and install your game)
Thankfully I bought the Saitek X-55 Rhino a couple of weeks ago, though I do seem to take forever to close in without overshooting a spaceport. I do have the landing part down, although even that seems to take a few extra minutes. Thankfully there's also a few spare unbinded keys for the X-55 so I could map some functions to them in the settings, now to figure out what I can bind to them without screwing the current settings in place.... Frontier needs to work on that a bit, most games at least warn you when there's a potential conflict when you're changing the key bindings.
Xcom says otherwise. Besides which, CK2 could be seen as a role playing game. And he enjoyed the nemesis system of Shadows of Mordor; I've understood that system is similar to how social interaction works in CK2.Dalisclock said:
Gazillionare? Was all space economics and no combat
http://www.lavamind.com/games/gazillionaire/
Kids today!
Was a space combat/trading simulator I saw someone streaming a while back. You start off with a single ship and can build up to piloting a fleet and having your own carrier ships and battlecruisers. top down 2D graphics. For the life of me I can't remember the name. I saw some people play it and they kept running out of fuel and getting blown up as they were too eager to jump out of the starting system.
Starflight was pretty good back in the day. Was mainly mining and looking for clues. Space combat was only a minor part.
http://www.lavamind.com/games/gazillionaire/
Kids today!
Was a space combat/trading simulator I saw someone streaming a while back. You start off with a single ship and can build up to piloting a fleet and having your own carrier ships and battlecruisers. top down 2D graphics. For the life of me I can't remember the name. I saw some people play it and they kept running out of fuel and getting blown up as they were too eager to jump out of the starting system.
Starflight was pretty good back in the day. Was mainly mining and looking for clues. Space combat was only a minor part.
I have still seen nothing more fun that being a bounty hunter who lives on the edge of the law with my friend. Almost nobody works together online so it makes things much easier when tracking, interdicting and killing wanted players. The occasional threat to other bounty hunters who are eating up our bounties. Following someone across 3 systems because they gave me a 250cr bounty when flying across my fire. Yes I will spend 45 minutes and accept a 4000cr on my own head just to prove a point.
jthwilliams said:
Woah, talk about barriers of entry. Heh, I assume they are trying to sell this game to other than friends and family?
I liked Elite from back in the day and I have watched some of the Dev videos but my interest was blocked once they announced mandatory online single player.
Just bind a key or button to 75% Throttle and hit that when the ETA hits the 0:07 mark, and (optional) back to full throttle again once your speed reaches the blue range to shave of a few seconds. Then again IDK how feasible this is with a HOTAS setup (i'm using a joystick & keyboard combination myself).sovietmisaki said:
Once you bind a key that was in use already, the game should tell you what it had been bound to somewhere on the bottom of the screen, but only for a second or two.
Being more of a sim-player and space geek, I really didn't like flying zero-g airplanes and got turned off the arcade-y flight model. Even if I can stomach playing without inertia (ie velocity doesn't accumulate), the terribly sluggish yaw rate makes it feel like you are turning into an air stream. All that's missing is that yaw would induce roll, and there's even an option for that in the controls!
Apparently they did that because the community got their knickers into a twist about giving mouse users the option to just sit still and track everyone with beam lasers. So they solved a problem they themselves introduced (by using a static frame, I mean "sitting still" is rather relative in real space!) by nerfing something core to the experience of 3D movement. That's crowd funding for you....
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Also, I've already spotted several inaccuracies in the astronomical part of it; they seem to have linked spectral class directly to mass, which is not how it works. Aldebaran is a good example, it has about a solar mass less than it should-- a star of that mass would not become an orange giant; also its companion is unlikely to exist since follow up observations in the last decades have failed to detect a companion, and the star's radius has been determined relatively accurately using modern techniques. Even if it does exist, the measurements of the properties of the main star would have to be accounted for.
Apparently they did that because the community got their knickers into a twist about giving mouse users the option to just sit still and track everyone with beam lasers. So they solved a problem they themselves introduced (by using a static frame, I mean "sitting still" is rather relative in real space!) by nerfing something core to the experience of 3D movement. That's crowd funding for you....
EDIT;
Also, I've already spotted several inaccuracies in the astronomical part of it; they seem to have linked spectral class directly to mass, which is not how it works. Aldebaran is a good example, it has about a solar mass less than it should-- a star of that mass would not become an orange giant; also its companion is unlikely to exist since follow up observations in the last decades have failed to detect a companion, and the star's radius has been determined relatively accurately using modern techniques. Even if it does exist, the measurements of the properties of the main star would have to be accounted for.
Good move. I like it, to a degree, but then again I spent the first twenty hours flying what was essentially a minivan with jet engines shoved in the back. I'd like it if the combat was more accessible.erttheking said:
Space can be good, especially if you can explore a vast galaxy, fight pirates or federal spacepolice, have like small teams of human people on a ship each doing their own thing (capital ships are coming in a patch), and exploring planets in first person (also coming in a patch), have your own NPC flight crew (also coming in a patch), at the moment its all about transporting cargo or getting in the odd fight which admiteddely is amazingly fun in this game for some reason. I think its because its so atmospheric, they just put so much polish on everything that you feel like your really piloting a ship. You can activate voice commands to do various things (using the word "computer" followed by the command). It gets quite good (unless you have a Scottish/Wellish accent XD).josh4president said: