Elite / Frontier David Braben: An Elite gamer
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Sorry, but what? I am not mindlessly Frontier-bashing, but what is this guy getting at?
A recent history of safe, cutesy kids' games, a canned action RPG and no promises on E4? How is that creativity? The reviewer writes as if they are breaking boundaries and leading the way!
Perhaps i misunderstand though, so feel free to put me in my place!
No - it's hard to not come across as entirely negative but with the one thing that we've really been hoping for looking further and further away, it's hard not to feel a bit like all these games have been a case of treading water for Frontier.
From a gamers perspective I'd like to see something come out of Frontier that I could get my teeth into and I'm sure from the development teams perspective there must be those that would like to see something of a more seminal nature on the drawing board. The Outsider is for all intents and purposes down and out, time to shelve it and move on to bigger and better things. Here's the opportunity to show the likes of CCP and Egosoft how a space game is supposed to be done. Lets see some of that genius that first put DB on the map.
From a gamers perspective I'd like to see something come out of Frontier that I could get my teeth into and I'm sure from the development teams perspective there must be those that would like to see something of a more seminal nature on the drawing board. The Outsider is for all intents and purposes down and out, time to shelve it and move on to bigger and better things. Here's the opportunity to show the likes of CCP and Egosoft how a space game is supposed to be done. Lets see some of that genius that first put DB on the map.
I agree with Turwhitt - I'm not sure what Frontier are expecting to win this year?
I like the company, sure. I bought Kinectimals with a view that Frontier would put the revenue to good use...yes it's a good looking game, but my daughter spent five minutes on it and hasn't picked it up since (sorry guys, but it's true).
If you're looking at a British company that can make games to be as proud of as the King's Speech, just take a look at companies like Rock Star North, whilst it's not my cup of tea, GTAIV is incredibly successful and well reviewed, Red Dead Redemption (a joint effort with Rockstar San Diego admittedly) is also a well reviewed and very good game (and if you've played it, not too dissimilar to Elite if you know what I mean - imagine the towns are stations and the landscape is space??)
Looking at http://www.frontier.co.uk/games/ there's nothing really there that you're going to be talking about in ten years time...what Frontier do, they do very well, buuut, they haven't rocked my boat - yet. (All the more the shame, because The Outsider looked very promising).
I like the company, sure. I bought Kinectimals with a view that Frontier would put the revenue to good use...yes it's a good looking game, but my daughter spent five minutes on it and hasn't picked it up since (sorry guys, but it's true).
If you're looking at a British company that can make games to be as proud of as the King's Speech, just take a look at companies like Rock Star North, whilst it's not my cup of tea, GTAIV is incredibly successful and well reviewed, Red Dead Redemption (a joint effort with Rockstar San Diego admittedly) is also a well reviewed and very good game (and if you've played it, not too dissimilar to Elite if you know what I mean - imagine the towns are stations and the landscape is space??)
Looking at http://www.frontier.co.uk/games/ there's nothing really there that you're going to be talking about in ten years time...what Frontier do, they do very well, buuut, they haven't rocked my boat - yet. (All the more the shame, because The Outsider looked very promising).