Elite 4 has been in development for (10?) years. I can't trust him to make it. My heart has been broken too many times to trust him again.
Submitted by Misterecho on Sun, 2012-11-11 00:28
I hope they work on making the game fun.
After very much enjoying the first ELITE, I spent sooo many hours trying to enjoy FRONTIER, but their obsession with realism eventually killed it for me ... the worst part for me was the space combat while travelling at high speed! and the many hours it would take for an attacker to get in weapons range just to whiz past and take forever to apply enough thrust to come back in your direction just to fly by again.
Submitted by Bigger Rob on Sun, 2012-11-11 19:43
Big R has a point about Frontier. I remember playing loads of it on my Amiga 500 (1MB). It looked awesome but took FOREVER to get anywhere and space combat was pants. You can't make space combat pants, that's most of the fun.
I think E4 is well placed now. No-one's done a good space shooter/explore game for a while, so we're ready. I know Eve is awesome but it's not really seat-of-your-pants-pew-pew-pew and Freelancer was cool (and the new one will be cool too) but that's still not Elitey.
What they mustn't do is fuck it up. I'll drive to Cambridge and have his balls.
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Elite 4 has been in development for (10?) years. I can't trust him to make it. My heart has been broken too many times to trust him again.
I hope they work on making the game fun.
After very much enjoying the first ELITE, I spent sooo many hours trying to enjoy FRONTIER, but their obsession with realism eventually killed it for me ... the worst part for me was the space combat while travelling at high speed! and the many hours it would take for an attacker to get in weapons range just to whiz past and take forever to apply enough thrust to come back in your direction just to fly by again.
Big R has a point about Frontier. I remember playing loads of it on my Amiga 500 (1MB). It looked awesome but took FOREVER to get anywhere and space combat was pants. You can't make space combat pants, that's most of the fun.
I think E4 is well placed now. No-one's done a good space shooter/explore game for a while, so we're ready. I know Eve is awesome but it's not really seat-of-your-pants-pew-pew-pew and Freelancer was cool (and the new one will be cool too) but that's still not Elitey.
What they mustn't do is fuck it up. I'll drive to Cambridge and have his balls.