I pledged to the original Kickstarter and by now I consider my $20 a solid investment since it allows me to dunk on obnoxious SC fans by calling them "band wagoners" and "fair weather pilots".
I will respect them being honest by putting the CON in capital letters.
When the Kickstarter was launched, I thought about pledging because I like space. Even if I would've only given whatever the minimum amount was to play the game, so glad I didn't give these guys a cent. Instead I pledged to Elite Dangerous' Kickstarter, and while that and its subsequent development had issues, at least it was a game that was playable and I had some fun with it.
Elite Dangerous was definitely lib-brained, though: just look at the in-game descriptions of the communist faction.
E:D was an incredibly competent space sim plagued by terrible leadership
I had so much fun taking my phantom out into the deepest edges of the Milky Way, but frontier essentially abandoned the game in favor of some crappy FPS that no one wanted
That's what I meant by subsequent development, did they think the terrible FPS addon would bring in Cawadoody players or something
It's baffling. A prime example of how to completely alienate your entire player base
One of the possible descriptions when a stations is controlled by the communist faction is something like
”Communism is a movement that wants to make everyone equal, although some are clearly more equal than others”.They're also one of the ”bad guy” factions along with anarchists and space pirates
the before and after stuff kills me, yeah it's because the game took 10 fucking years to make so rendering and modelling technology evolved in that time, lmao
Are they still using that? I remember even 10 years it was doubtful CryEngine could handle what they were trying to do.
Can't wait until they add the remaining promised 99 star systems, cram all of it into the size of a Crysis map and make everything in it so tiny that quantum mechanics start applying to your ingame characters
they're using amazon lumberyard which is a fork of cryengine when they went kaput
Star citizen was the game that convinced me to stop buying pre-orders. Bought the game 10 years ago and have buggy tech demo to show for it.
you would think roberts would be good at arcadey space fighter spin off game given that's what made him famous
That whole game Kickstarter hype of the early 2010s was largely driven by ”look at all these industry legends and imagine what they could do if you funded them and they had free rein to do what they want!”.
Thing is, Star Citizen is the perfect example of what a guy who's not so great at project planning does with no oversight. I don't want to present Microsoft or corporate managers in general as the good guys or anything, but Freelancer actually got released because they didn't have infinite tolerance for his BS.
I just know that not only is his company probably full of sycophants, Roberts thinks he's actually a legendary game developer and filmmaker because EA happened to give him a ton of money to spend at a time when FMVs were a big deal in gaming.
Wing Commander may have had Mark Hamill, but the X-Wing series always had the better gameplay
I wouldn't be surprised if that game was where all the ”DAE Empire cool tho?” shit started. It was really the first time the Empire was portrayed in a not cartoonish way.
The real entertainment for me is watching the people still defending it.
Love how gamers don't give a shit about anything they're pouring money into. Every role is a celebrity cameos by A list Hollywood actors? Hard pass
this reminds me of the first TOS star trek movie where the movie opens and just has 1 hour of pans of star ships while captain kirk looks on blankly. This is not an exaggeration.
also copy that delta cock sucker moving in to dock
Crazy that the game's been around for a decade at this point and I still can't tell if was a scam or not.
