This should be compulsary viewing
- Thread starter mojonaut
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I don't think it really helps to put Frontier up on a pedestal and that video watched with out rose tinted glasses is just a bunch of people talking about grand ideas.
There's not doubt there are a lot of talented guys and gals at Frontier but they've never attempted a game anything like FD before and its pretty clear from the state of the game that they've underestimated the challenges involved and are as a consequence releasing a game that is a long way from where it should be and in a state that is no where near the standard it should be. Some stuff in ED is great and you can see the link between what they are talking about in that video and what we find in game... Sounds design, visual design, visual FX. But much of it isn't anywhere near where they are talking about it being.
I want ED to be an amazing game as much as the next guy, but I'm also a realist and its not there yet, should not be being released yet and has gone down some fundamentally flawed design paths (dropping offline, no modding support, lack of narrative driven gameplay, homogeneous universe, far to easy and fast travel, too vast an inhabited space which is all the same, persistent online only universe that just dilutes our own efforts into nothingness with player and NPC actions.... I could go on).
I've gotten a reasonable amount of play out of the game so far and I'm sure I'll sink a few dozen hours in post launch. Certainly enough to feel like I got my moneys worth, but its not going to be a game I play for months let alone years, adjusted for time and tech its a pale shadow of its forbears. I'll play it, enjoy the good bits, get bored and move on. Maybe I'll check out the expansions but I didn't buy the pass so they'll have to work hard to pull me back.
There's not doubt there are a lot of talented guys and gals at Frontier but they've never attempted a game anything like FD before and its pretty clear from the state of the game that they've underestimated the challenges involved and are as a consequence releasing a game that is a long way from where it should be and in a state that is no where near the standard it should be. Some stuff in ED is great and you can see the link between what they are talking about in that video and what we find in game... Sounds design, visual design, visual FX. But much of it isn't anywhere near where they are talking about it being.
I want ED to be an amazing game as much as the next guy, but I'm also a realist and its not there yet, should not be being released yet and has gone down some fundamentally flawed design paths (dropping offline, no modding support, lack of narrative driven gameplay, homogeneous universe, far to easy and fast travel, too vast an inhabited space which is all the same, persistent online only universe that just dilutes our own efforts into nothingness with player and NPC actions.... I could go on).
I've gotten a reasonable amount of play out of the game so far and I'm sure I'll sink a few dozen hours in post launch. Certainly enough to feel like I got my moneys worth, but its not going to be a game I play for months let alone years, adjusted for time and tech its a pale shadow of its forbears. I'll play it, enjoy the good bits, get bored and move on. Maybe I'll check out the expansions but I didn't buy the pass so they'll have to work hard to pull me back.
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Marsman
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Much talk no show. Sorry but without actual game footage this is worth as much as the next indie studio talking about game features, dreamed up during a hot summer night.
Watch this, insiders should know what it´s about.
[video=youtube;2iu4iekX3WE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iu4iekX3WE[/video]
Watch this, insiders should know what it´s about.
[video=youtube;2iu4iekX3WE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iu4iekX3WE[/video]
Yes, yes, yes.
No need for rose tinted glasses here on my end. I love the toy Frontier offered me and I am enjoying it so much as it is right now.
The prospect of getting even more content leaves me all giddy and amped and I can't wait to get some more lore in game as I've enjoyed the "Tales from the Frontier" profoundly.
It's nice if the developer takes cool ideas from the community BUT w/o sacrificing the artistic integrity. There's a reason most of the Indie games today are so much better than the AAA titles:
Artistic integrity - one vision non diluted and executed from front to end w/o compromísing.
No need for rose tinted glasses here on my end. I love the toy Frontier offered me and I am enjoying it so much as it is right now.
The prospect of getting even more content leaves me all giddy and amped and I can't wait to get some more lore in game as I've enjoyed the "Tales from the Frontier" profoundly.
It's nice if the developer takes cool ideas from the community BUT w/o sacrificing the artistic integrity. There's a reason most of the Indie games today are so much better than the AAA titles:
Artistic integrity - one vision non diluted and executed from front to end w/o compromísing.
Maybe I am just reading too much into it, but he says "when composing for cut scenes...or scenes" and then I assumed the video was a segment of a cut scene.
Nah...; that's a wrong assumption.
yeah ...no time to explain grab onto our tongues :-D
He says "we weren't composing for cutscenes" I think he was pointing out that the ingame music had to reflect what you will be looking at and had to be relevant.
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Apart from the launch teaser I really cannot remember seeing anything that wasn't shot ingame. OK they use either dev cams or second ships to record the shots but it all is in the game
Thanks for posting OP. The thing that strikes me is the sense that they really care and are not just waxing lyrical to sell more units
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