I totally agree,
everytime a new sci-fi space game comes out it uses the following words to appeal:
vibrant
breathing
living
Just like the once famous word "epic" every use of them makes them less significant.
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Is Elite Dangerous a Dad's Game Played mainly by "non-gamers"?
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I totally agree,
everytime a new sci-fi space game comes out it uses the following words to appeal:
vibrant
breathing
living
Just like the once famous word "epic" every use of them makes them less significant.
Actually, not quite.
I have a V, outfitted, and I will eventually get me a new ship.... but an Eagle!!!
God I just so love that bird, even if extremely vulnerable.
I took on up to elite Condas with it, and turn them into dust.
But they may not hit you, not once.
No, see, being autistic... it's like OCD: I just NEED!!! to get top rank in my faction.
I can't care less for credits, I just want to get my top Rep ranks.
I can't help it, sadly...
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WE NEED EPIC, dammit.
No, actually, I need it... *sigh*
Seen the best movies, played the best games, God i am so spoiled.
[video=youtube;yQdxPxJW68M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQdxPxJW68M[/video]
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So true, but... there IS more... if God agrees to it.
I'm a dad: Check
I like games: Check
I liked games before I was a Dad: Check
I like ED: Check
I like other faster paced games: Check
ED isn't a fast paced game: Check
Conclusion - There are no gamer games. There are no Dad games. There are just games. Each have their own merits, and you either like them or not. Sometimes a change of pace is refreshing.
I like games: Check
I liked games before I was a Dad: Check
I like ED: Check
I like other faster paced games: Check
ED isn't a fast paced game: Check
Conclusion - There are no gamer games. There are no Dad games. There are just games. Each have their own merits, and you either like them or not. Sometimes a change of pace is refreshing.
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Having an epic intro didn't improve that movie at all
Does E: D have epic trailers and movies? Yep.
I'm probably classed as a 'dad-gamer'. I've never spent a huge amount of time on games and will tend to have one time-sink on the go with smaller casual games for when I have a spare fifteen minutes here and there. My time-sink is ED and my casuals at the moment are Defence Grid 2 and Big Pharma.
So despite playing games to some degree since the Spectrum 128K+2 in about 1987, I wouldn't say I'm an avid gamer despite always having something, be it computer or console, to play games on.
So despite playing games to some degree since the Spectrum 128K+2 in about 1987, I wouldn't say I'm an avid gamer despite always having something, be it computer or console, to play games on.
I think ED has brought a lot of old gamers back who might have been out of the scene for a while and has also attracted a large solo game player. On the one hand I think that's a fantastic achievement and welcome but I do find the anti PvP sentiment somewhat naive.
maybe its just the way i look at things.. but it is often the annoying things, or the unintentional hiccups that provide the most realism (whether by design or fault). i mean, why should the rep work the way you want it too? why should a particular mission type always reward the same rep/influence/credits? why should everything have the predictability of a metronome. do you mean the quick rep route, from mode switching? if so, when they took it out, that wasn't a nerf, that was a fix.
some people are only happy playing the game for rewards, while others get rewards while happily playing the game.
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True, but when someone says Epic and thinks of of a song, it'd probably is this one. XDHaving an epic intro didn't improve that movie at all
Does E: D have epic trailers and movies? Yep.
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Morbid Angel - To The Victor The Spoils is for most "kids" apparently THE issue, where i can't be bothered with them.
Unless, you see rep as spoils, of course.
Note: Since a pure combatant, I am relying on a certain type of missions, sadly.
I could go pirate and just do billions of those missions, but i am no pirate...
Odd, why do pirates and other criminals DO get missions, where Empire/Republic/Independent lack these?
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most of the anti pvp sentiment has come from players personal experience of pvp.. so how exactly does that make it naive?
25 years old, just fresh out of studies, girlfriend but not a wife.
I want Elite to be more deep, complex and hard, more socialized and pvp oriented.
I don't want Elite to stay as screenshot simulator 2033.
I don't enjoy the game yet and would like to see Frontier choose their side.
I want Elite to be more deep, complex and hard, more socialized and pvp oriented.
I don't want Elite to stay as screenshot simulator 2033.
I don't enjoy the game yet and would like to see Frontier choose their side.
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Yep, I 'check' with those points to. Just one more:
Middle Aged with growing belly: Check
I am a PC gamer who plays/played a variety of games eg Stalker Series (still!), Football Manager in its various incarnations every year since '94, all Fallouts, all GTA's, all Xwing games, Falcon 4, all Wing Commander Games, Dishonoured, Alien Isolation, all Doom games, Euro Truck Simulator, all Arma games, Half Life 1&2 and on an on.
I'd say thats a reasonable mix of pacing throughout. I would not consider myself a 'non gamer'. Actually let me clarify myself as a 'PC Gamer' as i don't do mobile games or consoles. (What's that? The xbox I bought for the kids at xmas? Shhh, nobody will know that the Forza 6 just ordered is for me)
Aye.
Cheating, exploiting, all these things, game after game, made me a fairly strong Anti-PvP'er.
There's unintentional things that provide a certain realism and unintentional things that just demonstrate that the background simulation / generation / seeding is faulty and actually unrealistic ... "does not make sense".
Can't let the developer get away with the latter.
For the mission issue - I'd guess they added new mission types with Horzions, but forgot to either
a) increase the number of total missions available to give the same intended width of choice
b) tinker with the probabilities of certain missions being created, marginalizing some that were "working as intended" before, while overrepresenting some others
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It doesn't matter other than satisfying my curiosity. There's definitely nothing wrong with being a dadgamer or dadgame.
For me complex and hard is great. More Social and PvP orientated not great. Just not my thing. I enjoy the game at the moment.
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You have to be more careful with your pvp games then.