Interesting link** ... listen to it around the 30 minsWhilst I have fought for some people's desires if I read between the lines I suspect they may be disappointed. (I won't be - I think MB just made my night!)
In fact there were a few games which led the way to FE2 and FEE.
Mercenary: Escape from Targ, Damocles and Mercenary III: The Dion Crisis or Damocles II by Paul Woakes. Brilliant games and stories which gave you whole planets and a stellar system to explore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercenary_(video_game)
For clarity - that's not what the DDF are asking for ED either. The DDF asked to be able to leave Earth's orbit and pick up speed to fly to the Moon, and pick up a lot of speed and fly to Pluto within minutes, rather than have planets and stations separated into boxes. It's an in-system issue.
The realism I was talking about was the galactic mechanics. The fact that he modeled the milky way galaxy (to the best of his knowledge) and planets had realistic orbital movement. You could land on the surface of Titan and watch Saturn set over the horizon - that sort of stuff.
By the way I'm so glad the DDF convinced FD to ditch the boxes in space stuff. Free roaming play may be harder to implement in MP but it'll be so worth in imho
If you ever tried to manually fly to a planet and manually land on that planet in FEII or FFE you'll know how hard it is. How many of us who tried it, overshot it the first few times until we learned? Come on, hands up ... I know I did.Ask yourself how fast do you need to travel to travel from Earth to Neptune in a few minutes?
And now ask how easy is it to miss even a star sized object at that speed?
Michael
It's a game about space and for many people who backed ED, believably portraying space is very important to immerse into it.
So you wouldn´t mind loading screens? Or bumping into an invisible wall in space? I certainly would not like to see this. Same goes with bumping off space stations or another player and not taking damage, or absent friendly fire, like in some console action oriented space games of the past. If you want you can call it "cheesy" if you don´t like the term "immersion breaking".
still makes it more realistic - you could if you want, doesn´t mean you have to.
No it´s a SIM, big difference. It has always been a more hardcore genre then say.. Jump ´n Runs
no problem with that...
pfff.. wait for launch week...
So you wouldn´t mind loading screens? Or bumping into an invisible wall in space? I certainly would not like to see this. Same goes with bumping off space stations or another player and not taking damage, or absent friendly fire, like in some console action oriented space games of the past. If you want you can call it "cheesy" if you don´t like the term "immersion breaking".
still makes it more realistic - you could if you want, doesn´t mean you have to.
No it´s a SIM, big difference. It has always been a more hardcore genre then say.. Jump ´n Runs
no problem with that...
pfff.. wait for launch week...
I don´t think anything people post on forums keeps them from doing so
I wouldn't have a huge problem with an invisible spherical wall far away at the edge of a star systems, but who knows how ED will handle this, maybe we could indeed seemlessly travel between systems in a freeform manner given enough time, afterall they already have the seamless galaxy map viewer and hyperspace technology to make it work.
