The Star Citizen Thread v5
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I would rather interpret these aliens in a implicitly racist logic that was already very obvious in the Wing Commander games where the Kilrathi seemed to represent the Japanese and the good guys where resembling the US. Roberts gave this interpretation himself. Btw.: In the end of Wing Commander III you are basically dropping the A-Bomb but in this case it is actual genocide because you destroy the whole planet Kilrah: the player enacts genocide in Wing Commander III which is presented as a heroic act at the same time, let that sink in!
So in my opinion the old-fashioned trope of disgusting, aggressive aliens is more like a war-like propaganda tool to dehumanize a perceived threat by another state/society/culture which in the case of Roberts Games are other species. This enables the player not only to kill with pleasure, but it also opens the space for every imaginable measures in this then 'total war' for survival. No prisoners are taken.
So in my opinion the old-fashioned trope of disgusting, aggressive aliens is more like a war-like propaganda tool to dehumanize a perceived threat by another state/society/culture which in the case of Roberts Games are other species. This enables the player not only to kill with pleasure, but it also opens the space for every imaginable measures in this then 'total war' for survival. No prisoners are taken.
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So you've gone from supporting CIG to giving money to some random bloke on the internet whilst simultaneously throwing away any consumer rights you had. You may also have helped an online criminal with money laundering and tax evasion.
What you are isn't a canny investor or even a supported of CiG/RSI, you're just carrying the debt with absolutely no recourse when the whole thing collapses. And you're encouraging others to form another layer in the jpeg debt pyramid.
You've been had.
It's not a coincidence that Roberts chose to set Star Citizen exactly 1,000 years after the United States entered the Second World War. I believe he has explicitly stated that he is recreating the "war in the Pacific", but in a futuristic setting. Is there a racist undertone? Probably, but that's not unusual for people whose formative years were within 30 years of the end of that war.
Space games don't have to be about war, and they don't need to be about a faceless enemy. They are necessarily about escapism, and about giving the player pleasure from the rewards of (arbitrary) achievements. The game could be so much richer if there were moral dilemmas to overcome, if the outcome of first encounters with other cogent life could be determined by player actions: shoot first and risk an unnecessary war, or try to understand the needs and motivations of the Vanduul. However, there appears to be little subtlety in their character as currently presented.
Space games don't have to be about war, and they don't need to be about a faceless enemy. They are necessarily about escapism, and about giving the player pleasure from the rewards of (arbitrary) achievements. The game could be so much richer if there were moral dilemmas to overcome, if the outcome of first encounters with other cogent life could be determined by player actions: shoot first and risk an unnecessary war, or try to understand the needs and motivations of the Vanduul. However, there appears to be little subtlety in their character as currently presented.
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You are mixing up Star Citizen with Americas Army. Wiping out 1930's Germans and Commie opponents in video games has been a staple of video gaming since the early 90's.
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Well I'd say a big reason for my utter lack of excitement upon hearing this information is that Ultima VII (being the only one he worked on) was released 24 years ago and featured AI that by today's standard is about as intelligent and immersive as a lobotomised sunflower.
I love how this project keeps bringing long-forgotten nobodies into the limelight... I wish the man all the best and such but he hasn't touched a game since 1996.
He literally has zero credentials in the games industry other than being Chris Roberts' coworker at Digital Anvil... not that he has his name on any of the games they made, but whatever right?
If that doesn't speak volumes about the kind of people CR is surrounding himself with then I don't know anymore.
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1996 you say, plenty of experience with FMV in games then...!
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Ah but so well remembered by a generation with plenty of money to keep throwing at CR!
I would dearly love to know what proportion of the money we see pouring in comes from new customers. I'm increasingly suspecting it's very small.
Hell yeah, I'm confident someone who left the industry before the end of the DOS era is well-equipped to help revolutionise PC gaming.
Honestly makes me wonder how many people CIG has on payroll in non-technical/non-art positions that have no real reason for being involved other than being glad to get paid.
...A certain VP of marketing comes to mind.
Looking at the number of limited edition starter packs that remain on the digital shelves over at Roberts Space Industries (there's a daily allowance of 1,500 of each, I think, and there are more than 2,000 of each unsold at present), I would imagine that the majority of funding comes courtesy of sunk cost fallacy. I also quite like the idea (further up in the thread) that the sales of unfeasibly large spaceships may be linked to a masculine desire to be the biggest and the best. I'm sure that plays a part.
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In soo many games.... :|
[video=youtube;1PFMPhXXd58]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PFMPhXXd58[/video]
1km long.
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Ah! Nice spot, didn't think to check that at all.
I'd say that's almost without question. Gamers are terrible for it like lads for fast cars. Sporty machisimo is funny enough but the virtual version gets downright bizarre. Look at my corvette, see my engineered FDL, get out of open.
There's an amazing pilot on the EDC group on facebook who happens to be female and it just fuses many of their brains, it's great.
http://www.gamespot.com/gallery/26-...b52f&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
Guess what movie is in the Gamespot list? Tip: #9.
I just think that is unfair that Uwe Boll did not have the chance to do something with 140 million dollars.
Guess what movie is in the Gamespot list? Tip: #9.
I just think that is unfair that Uwe Boll did not have the chance to do something with 140 million dollars.
Lol, I have to say this thread is the most fun Ive had in a long time. The salt here can fill the pacific ocean. Its that entertaining. The best part is that the comments I read here prove CR was right for going crowd funding to make his game. You guys/girls are the publisher, the exact thing CIG was avoiding. Deadlines, Will is it done? We dont care how good it looks, we dont care how good it plays, when will it go to steam? when will the first expansion come out? Money well spent in my book.
Time to buy some new ships this weekend but I dont fancy the F1 looking ships, too many lines imo.
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The only salt is in tears of laughter, mush.
Ofcourse this is the most fun you've had in a long time. Or will have. Thats the problem with not having a working product.
it's much better once you block the crazies, the rest of us have little to nothing invested and are quite realistic about the situation.
disappointed perhaps, not salty in the slightest.
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<Said through a stream of hot tears that are salty enough to poison the Earth's oceans>
Dude, just stop it already.
Nobody is convinced by your attempts to "puppetmaster" the commenters here that *we're* the ones that are wrong and that everything to do with Star Citizen is coming along just fine and smelling of roses... because that is the furthest thing from the truth as can be possibly made.
And the fact that you so casually disregard things like "deadlines" and "accountability" as if they were totally irrelevant, makes me wonder about your self-made-claims that you are a project manager at all.
"We"? When you say "We" in name of whom are you talking about?
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