Personally I don't like the No Man's Sky vid at all. Undiscovered system but has a beacon on it to beam up one's 'discoveries'? And already has some robot guards or something there to protect the planet? Almost instant hyperspace travel over a couple of hundred lightyears? Cartoony graphics? Sorry, might be fine for consoles, and they can have it, but doesn't come close to Elite or SC in my opinion. And that guy constantly referring to their 'galaxy' as the 'universe'........?
So, what are the exciting E3 announcements?
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Why Braben blog may be misleading but from his yesterday blog it seems there will be nothing else announce for Elite at E3. I hope I'm wrong.
I'm sure it will be a good game, but I'm not sure how anyone can say that based on a few videos of unfinished material. I suspect all early space games of such massive scope are going to have content issues to some degree.
I am sure that the announcement will be that they're removing PowerPlay.
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Watch it 3 times at one week intervals and it will gradually get less awesome.
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Watch it 3 times at one week intervals and it will gradually get less awesome.
On top of that, Sony....really, I can't even pretend to give them money.
No Man's Sky at the very least makes it clear that what most of us want from things like planetary landings are going to be possible, despite those who insist it's not.
Of course it's a LOT less accurate than Elite, that's what makes Elite much more ambitious. But ambition is one thing, delivering it is another. The guys that designed No Man's Sky were just a few and up until a few months ago it was just considered a minor indie game.
It might not have the accuracy and realism of Elite, but at least in that one, what you see is what you get. It's been over half a year since release and what we got were minor tweaks and additions that are nothing compared to the promised additional content.
If they don't announce something big soon, the player base will decline dramatically (even with the Xbox release)...
You, you're a rebel.
LOL
I'm actually starting to think the announcement will be something of significance. I haven't lost faith, yet!
Thanks! Probably could have googled that. Don't know why - it takes LESS effort to google it, but somehow I feel lazy when I ask here.
I will definitely play both. Each has it's own draw. There is a great feeling of freedom in NMS, but also the unrealistic art style, the tiny planets, and the fact that it isn't really based on anything (like Elite being based on the Milky Way) are worrying my hopes of long term enjoyment. But I love these "endless" games of discovery.
Elite will do it different, and for me at least, way way better. In Elite the planets are full size and realistic. And MODELLED on something. NMS will have much much more variety, most likely, but Elite and realism are my thing
Play Elite for 6 months with additional content 0.01% of the starting (released) content and it will gradually get less awesome as well...
Xbox release is a GREAT way for them to make a heck of a lot of money, which is exactly the kind of thing that will motivate the next big releases like planetary landings
Elite...I don't think you get how young Elite is. This isn't a short game, this is a 5-10 year game. Relatively speaking, we have nothing to complain about
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I really can't get around the art style, particularly the colors, in the video for No Man's Sky. It gives me a headache. Seriously.
They are announcing a new game - presumably Elite: Roller coaster.
That certainly implies we will get nothing for the foreseeable future. However, the virtually content free blog by the XBox producer (https://community.elitedangerous.com/node/203) does say
Whilst 'soon' does not necessarily mean 'at the E3', it does seem to be hard to square withGary Richards said:
DBOBE is not one to usually give up an opportunity to do a sales pitch, and they certainly would not say anything without his explicit agreement, so the parsimonious conclusion is that we will not get anything. But, hey, DBOBE may have done a Milliband (UK politician who 'forgot' to mention the economy, and never recovered from the ridicule) and just forgotten.DBOBE said:
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Must be for a younger set of folks...or the more psychedelically minded
I know. So would a payed expansion. But they haven't announced anything yet.
I can only speak for myself of course, but I am at the point now that, if nothing big is announced in the next few weeks I will start forgetting Elite, but if planetary landings were to be announced (or another big addition) I would keep playing like crazy...
Exactly this ^^^ No mans sky looks boring and automated. The game looks like a N64 game and the exploration doesn't make sense. "Never been to this system before 200 lys away" but there's a beacon there, a atsr fleet that loks identical to yours and every animal there is aggressive. AT EVERY PLANET. No thx.
i agree, childish cartooney graphics puts me off this.
And in the video, he says that those massive space battles are happening all over the galaxy, and you can choose a side.
Remind you of anything.