An Honest Review From a well-rounded gamer(non-spacenerd)
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You forgot to mention achievements - how can a gamer know what to do if he doesn't have achievements to play for
Many people here are sad and angry, its like they broke up with their first big love. Ive seen this kinda behavior in many mmo's, and there is no treatment for it. Eventually they get bored of typing and wander off to the next mmo and write forum novels. I believe they are called mmo nomads, they go from mmo to mmo and play them, after a while they get bored, not much to do.. well they write novels, its their way of letting off steam. Easily bored minds, i believe some of them have ADHD Symptom 4: Easily bored, seeks novelty..
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Yes the books! +1
As a SciFi addict from way back, the books put a face on the game; They do immerse me in its lore. I love it; will always play more of it.
I stated that I'm not young, and I do want content in a game I paid for- That's a reasonable request and complaint.
It's the young ones that lack the ability to formulate, write and read "walls of text" otherwise known as complete thoughts.
Again I do not disagree. For me no single player offline, personally, is a loss. I do have a selfish desire to discover the galaxy myslef without all the other players mapping and recording it before I get there.
But we are where we are. I make do with the few hours a week that I get to play astronaut and try to avoid the instagram generations persistent posting of voyages to each and every nebula before i have the kit to make the journey myself. It would be nice to map a virgin system, nebula, cluster or anomoly myslef but it seems my trail will be one of picking up sloppy seconds to those with more time.
The fact is if we want our game to grow, to be richer and better, we want more players, more ideas, more changes. 400 billion ideas and changes to match the number of stars we can visit and improve the quality of the sand in the pit that we get to enjoy.
But.... you can't.
Those playing in solo affect the universe too.
I have the right to use any public information available to me to formulate my opinion about the game and the company that made it. In the end, It's MY TIME I plan to invest into something that gives no Real life benefit whatsoever. This is what makes me a typical gamer and not a fanboy like some of the responses I've seen to my criticism. My time is valuable and I'm not wasting it doing long boring trading missions instead of getting involved in something worth investing in...
If it's true about ED being for you Niche fanboys then you guys go ahead and have it. I'll probably see you in SC and be ready to run you down and steal your space goods!
SC is, for me at the moment, about as exciting as watching paint dry. Arena Commander is not my cup of tea, but I do look forward to the full thing in a couple of years.
No - no we don't. All we need is FD to keep making the game they envision, there is no need for them to compromise their efforts and make the game yet another mediocre pew-click-achievement-WIN snorefest that seems to be so popular these days.
A lot of us are very open to new features and expansion of the core concepts in Elite - that is progress and is to be embraced. What a lot of us don't want to see is many tired and frankly rubbish concepts introduced into Elite because some segment of the gaming community expects them to be there because "every other game has them!" when there is simply no good reason for them to be in Elite.
Maybe he wants a job as a games reviewer. Maybe he hoped an agent, from the big gaming magazines saw his post here...
Maybe yes, but these sad and angry players are similar to you, they trying to believe in ED, trying to like it, but we all got cheated.
The fact that some players can find the game enjoyable for endless hours is only proves that those players have very little to no expectations from a game.
The biggest mistake of FD was making ED a multiplayer game, actually this statement is true, if they release it only for singleplayer, thousands of us never buy it and you couldn't enjoy the endless complaints on the forums.
I personally expected an MMO, you know because they said its MMO, but just to make it more disgusting, i even managed to convince 3 guys from my EVE-online corp to buy the game too, so we will playing together!
Guess what, now they all hate me, because they feel sad about ED for the exact same reasons like me, its boring, its grinding, everything looks the same, no pvp, no real pve content, terrible mining, very dumb and simple exploration and trading and most important, NO MULTIPLAYER FEATURES!
Maybe i'm not the average player, i started playing games ages ago, i could write a whole book about what games i played / tried so obviously i expect something more from a huge name like Elite and probably that's why every new games makes me disappointed.
The whole game world is changed and sadly on the wrong direction, the technology and knowledge what developers can access today is just insane, the developers of the good old games (insert your favorite here) never even dreamed about this technology...
And now look at all those shiny new junks called today's games, its all about business now, no one really cares about the game itself, just make it shiny and sell it. (see console games)
Sadly some people from FD was part of those "old developers" and as you can see they forgot everything from the old times (or not?
) and they just copy paste a game from 1984 with all its shallow contents and flawed dumb game designs, just with shiny graphics, remember? its all about money...
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For money? IGN does it all the time
I had to LOL alot, nearly LOL'ed of my chair
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Maybe yes, but these sad and angry players are similar to you, they trying to believe in ED, trying to like it, but we all got cheated.
The fact that some players can find the game enjoyable for endless hours is only proves that those players have very little to no expectations from a game.
The biggest mistake of FD was making ED a multiplayer game, actually this statement is true, if they release it only for singleplayer, thousands of us never buy the it and you couldn't enjoy the endless complaints on the forums.
I personally expected an MMO, you know because they said its MMO, but just to make it more disgusting, i even managed to convince 3 guys from my EVE-online corp to buy the game too, so we will playing together!
Guess what, now they all hate me, because they feel sad about ED for the exact same reasons like me, its boring, its grinding, everything looks the same, no pvp, no real pve content, terrible mining, very dumb and simple exploration and trading, etc...
Maybe i'm not the average player, i started playing games ages ago, i could write a whole book about what games i played / tried so obviously i expect something more from a huge name like Elite and probably that's why every new games makes me disappointed.
The whole game world is changed and sadly on the wrong direction, the technology and knowledge what developers can access today is just insane, the developers of the good old games (insert your favorite here) never even dreamed about this technology...
And now look at all those shiny new junks called today's games, its all about business now, no one really cares about the game itself, just make it shiny and sell it. (see console games)
Sadly some people from FD was part of those "old developers" and as you can see they forgot everything from the old times (or not?
I don't feel cheated, im sorry to see some of you did..I love this game, and have great hopes fo it. I even got a Elite tattoo across my butt. Honestly what did you Guys exspect ??
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Why would I want to write a wall of text to say I like a game.
I just like Elite Dangerous and could not care less if others don't.
What I don't like is others telling me what I should and shouldn't like. Then burbling on about it.
I believe this is what those people have ADHD Symptom 6: Restless, bored easily, always on the go as if driven by a motor, has to move, hyperactive
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Yes well lots of these posts.. big walls of text makes me LOL alot, i mean really LOL. And that wow player you write about, makes me LOL even more.. now i have to LOL into bed. I've answered alot of these LOL'able posts just too see their counter attack. Well Had my share of LOL today of to bed, another big Forum LOL tomorrow with more walls of LOL'able text.
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I had to LOL alot, nearly LOL'ed of my chair
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I don't feel cheated, im sorry to see some of you did..I love this game, and have great hopes fo it. I even got a Elite tattoo across my butt. Honestly what did you Guys exspect ??
Honestly something more than a boring mini-game called super cruise between another mini-games called docking.
More seriously, i expected something more than Elite from 1984, but hell i expected even more than Elite First Encounter from 95, now look what we have in ED.
Like i said, everything is awesome up until we get to the content part, lets be honest everyone, don't tell me you are fine with this.
I mean come on, these guys on FD and especially the lead developers have tens years of experience in development, don't tell me they can't figure out a proper game mechanics and enough content for a game like this!
My english is not enough to write this down, but i hope many of you know how i feel when i say proper game mechanics and interesting long-term game contents.
You know, real exploration, rare interesting places, exceptionally valuable findings, rare dangerous npcs like aliens or whatever, real sandbox features like player property, own hangars, own stations/shops/services/whatever, i could list this all night, but i think everyone can understand where i trying to get to.
The real problem is not only the lack of content, but also what we have now is terribly linear, there are no random factor in a 400 billion random universe, sounds a bit weird don't you think?
Oh and one thing i really really hate, i mean i really damn hate it, why i have to fight through endless waves of hostile npcs 1500 LY away from the closest inhabited system??????????
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That's your judgement to make about me I suppose, I thought through my writing that people would see how much I want to stay but can't see what to stay for. Some people actually did understand the intent behind my words and to them I'm thankful.
You seem abrasive and part of the problem, not the solution.
Honestly something more than a boring mini-game called super cruise between another mini-games called docking.
More seriously, i expected something more than Elite from 1984, but hell i expected even more than Elite First Encounter from 95, now look what we have in ED.
Like i said, everything is awesome up until we get to the content part, lets be honest everyone, don't tell me you are fine with this.
I mean come on, these guys on FD and especially the lead developers have tens years of experience in development, don't tell me they can't figure out a proper game mechanics and enough content for a game like this!
My english is not enough to write this down, but i hope many of you know how i feel when i say proper game mechanics and interesting long-term game contents.
You know, real exploration, rare interesting places, exceptionally valuable findings, rare dangerous npcs like aliens or whatever, real sandbox features like player property, own hangars, own stations/shops/services/whatever, i could list this all night, but i think everyone can understand where i trying to get to.
The real problem is not only the lack of content, but also what we have now is terribly linear, there are no random factor on a 400 billion random universe, sounds a bit weird don't you think?
Oh and one thing i really really hate, i mean i really damn hate it, why i have to fight through endless waves of hostile of npcs 1500 LY away from the closest inhabited system??????????
I've explored FAR FAR FAR into the unknown blackness.... and i've not seen 1 single npc, well one maybe.. nah maybe two but thats it.
Well my "guildies" or Clan as we like to call it would probably camp systems and charge tolls or kill those who refuse, we would take control of territory and expand onto that imposing our will on whomever is unfortunate enough to encounter us. Of coarse this would cause rifts and create opportunities for other groups of players to band up against us.
But of coarse everyone will be spacetrucking in solo mode avoiding our blockades and attempts to change the PU....
I have the right to use any public information available to me to formulate my opinion about the game and the company that made it. In the end, It's MY TIME I plan to invest into something that gives no Real life benefit whatsoever. This is what makes me a typical gamer and not a fanboy like some of the responses I've seen to my criticism. My time is valuable and I'm not wasting it doing long boring trading missions instead of getting involved in something worth investing in...
If it's true about ED being for you Niche fanboys then you guys go ahead and have it. I'll probably see you in SC and be ready to run you down and steal your space goods!
You guys need gamer's like me to keep your game alive. To do that you will need to compromise on many aspects of your beloved game to keep the player base needed to run such a game. The only answer will be time but a lot of you seem to be very defensive at the idea of expanding on top of what the core game offers and that's contributing to my opinion about the future success of this game.
Oooooooooo we have delusions of grandure and importance don't we. I need you. Pfftt.
What an ego.
