If this wasn't coming from a nearly half billion dollar squandering piece of vaporware that's enriching a family of grifters, I could see this as a brilliant teaser for a space sci fi Lovecraftian horror game.
If this wasn't coming from a nearly half billion dollar squandering piece of vaporware that's enriching a family of grifters, I could see this as a brilliant teaser for a space sci fi Lovecraftian horror game.
It's actually worse than that.
A ton of chuds see Star Citizen as the return of "real gaming" for vague self-conjured reasons, and it doesn't help that the setting and its lore are generally a mix of the worst of late 90s neoliberal techbro wankery (see "Roberts Space Industry" and its illustrious founder, Chris Roberts, which is directly the name of the head grifter of the grift, turning himself into a :melon-musk: style "innovator": https://starcitizen.tools/Chris_Roberts_(lore) ) and fascist power fantasy (see the setting being a "United Earth Empire" with a somehow elected "Imperator" in a kill or be killed war against the lazily named "Vanduul," and how people who serve in the military get to be, you guessed it, Star Citizens with exclusive privileges!).
I've seen with my own eyes vast walls of text that I'd rather not dig up now about how Star Citizen will somehow destroy SJWs and their agenda and bring nonpolitical real men games back. :jordan-eboy-peterson:
The loudest big spenders (Especially "Lethality" if you dare to look him up on the official forums) also have this "we are the last true hardcore G*mers which is why 10 minute walks to the spaceship are the only way to be real and epic like us" attitude.
Well then, critical support to crissy rob in separating g*mers from their money
Ironically more truth in this than anyone would care to admit. Vaporware has a long and storied legacy, even if Star Citizen is a high water mark in scams.
I'm old enough to remember the Horizons MMO, Duke Nukem Forever, the appropriately-named Phantom game console... You're not a Real Gamer unless you've been suckered by at least one of these.
I haven't heard anyone mention Horizons in a long time. :chomsky-yes-honey:
"Vanguard: Saga of Heroes" was an older version of the same "Hey Epic G*mers! Hate how GAMES THESE DAYS are? Come here to chase that dragon forever and ever!" grift. At least it actually came out, unlike "Pantheon" by the same "visionary innovator" grifter.