Have been a little rough on Frontier recently, poor communication with the fanbase, rushed completion, not being clear whether or not something is a game feature or a bug (i.e. attacking wanted targets, now cleared up as a bug). Now, I stand by those criticisms 100%, but sometimes we all need to take a step back a gain a little perspective. Compared to so many AAA games developed on massive budgets by massive studios, this really is very polished, I'm confident that the numerous bugs will be fixed and the promised features (save offline,) will drip through post-release. The oft cited lack of depth is a big issue, but again I'm confident, I'm as certain as can be that the narrative will compensate once the soon-to-be-late Emperor finally shuffles off his mortal coil....
So, come on, let's face it, this is already a far superior experience to many well-reviewed games that frankly are a complete mess, Assassin's Creed Unity springs immediately to mind. Yes, there have been numerous things that Frontier haven't handled well, but they've done a far better job with far less money, far less time and a much smaller team than many studios orders of magnitude their size have achieved with their top projects. This looks and feels better than most AAA experiences I've played, and on top of that, it achieves the frankly unprecedented feat of balancing real intelligence, high octane action and that kind of wonder you get when faced with the staggering immensity of the cosmos. If all goes as planned, political intrigue should soon be added to that list. Has there ever been a game that has managed to pull this off? On their budget?
So developers, please understand one thing, for many of us, Elite, Frontier and FFE were really important parts of our childhood, until now there's never really been anything that's hit the spot—not privateer, freelancer, X-beyond-the-whatever or anything else for that matter... And I really have spent years-and-years looking! This really does hit that spot more often than not, but when it doesn't we revert to the petulant teenagers we were when we first played Elite, Frontier or FFE (me included)... C'est la vie! This is THE game that many of us have been waiting decades for, checking in video game stores, then when the internet became common, we looked on Happy Puppy and the other various gaming sites of the 90's... Anyway, I'm 32 now, and right now you've made me feel, think and behave like an over-excited moody teenager again...
We're so tantalisingly close now...
So, come on, let's face it, this is already a far superior experience to many well-reviewed games that frankly are a complete mess, Assassin's Creed Unity springs immediately to mind. Yes, there have been numerous things that Frontier haven't handled well, but they've done a far better job with far less money, far less time and a much smaller team than many studios orders of magnitude their size have achieved with their top projects. This looks and feels better than most AAA experiences I've played, and on top of that, it achieves the frankly unprecedented feat of balancing real intelligence, high octane action and that kind of wonder you get when faced with the staggering immensity of the cosmos. If all goes as planned, political intrigue should soon be added to that list. Has there ever been a game that has managed to pull this off? On their budget?
So developers, please understand one thing, for many of us, Elite, Frontier and FFE were really important parts of our childhood, until now there's never really been anything that's hit the spot—not privateer, freelancer, X-beyond-the-whatever or anything else for that matter... And I really have spent years-and-years looking! This really does hit that spot more often than not, but when it doesn't we revert to the petulant teenagers we were when we first played Elite, Frontier or FFE (me included)... C'est la vie! This is THE game that many of us have been waiting decades for, checking in video game stores, then when the internet became common, we looked on Happy Puppy and the other various gaming sites of the 90's... Anyway, I'm 32 now, and right now you've made me feel, think and behave like an over-excited moody teenager again...
We're so tantalisingly close now...
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