Frontier wins another one!
http://www.pcgamesn.com/elite-dangerous/best-games-of-2014-elite-dangerous
Elite: Dangerous gives you a spaceship that feels like a submarine, except instead of floating through saltwater you’re sailing through interplanetary space, hurtling past suns at twenty times the speed of light. The stresses and strains of the infinite vacuum around you — and of all those fundamental laws of physics going wonky right outside your windshield — causes your ship to groan, creak and clatter like its made of rusted old iron. Everything sounds hollow and cold and about to fall apart.
Elite: Dangerous makes punching a hole in the fabric of spacetime look and sound, well, dangerous. Plummeting through hyperspace involves ricocheting about inside of a flickering tunnel of stars and nebulae, and the game’s audio does everything it can to remind you of the single sheet of metal between your cockpit and having your precious human particles smeared across several undiscovered dimensions. The bit in the new Star Trek film where everybody falls out of the Enterprise while it’s in warp? That’s Elite: Dangerous. Sci-fi with a risk of industrial accidents.
http://www.pcgamesn.com/elite-dangerous/best-games-of-2014-elite-dangerous
Elite: Dangerous gives you a spaceship that feels like a submarine, except instead of floating through saltwater you’re sailing through interplanetary space, hurtling past suns at twenty times the speed of light. The stresses and strains of the infinite vacuum around you — and of all those fundamental laws of physics going wonky right outside your windshield — causes your ship to groan, creak and clatter like its made of rusted old iron. Everything sounds hollow and cold and about to fall apart.
Elite: Dangerous makes punching a hole in the fabric of spacetime look and sound, well, dangerous. Plummeting through hyperspace involves ricocheting about inside of a flickering tunnel of stars and nebulae, and the game’s audio does everything it can to remind you of the single sheet of metal between your cockpit and having your precious human particles smeared across several undiscovered dimensions. The bit in the new Star Trek film where everybody falls out of the Enterprise while it’s in warp? That’s Elite: Dangerous. Sci-fi with a risk of industrial accidents.
To me the most important quote in the article is this one:
But Braben’s earned a degree of trust, and what Frontier have achieved so far is beyond what I ever imagined an Elite sequel could be. If they can tumble onwards through this developmental space-time tunnel without their metaphorical spaceship tearing itself apart at the seams, Elite: Dangerous could transform into something unfathomably brilliant.
I am currently enjoying myself immensely, and I think that what this small development company has accomplished without having to sell out to a large publisher that would squash the creative process is nothing short of spectacular, but beyond that I can't remember seeing a game in the last 20 years with the almost limiteless potential this foundation has.
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Wellington
Banned
No, just NO! Empty shell on release, gouging players for "DLC" which should have been in-game already.....prepare to be GOUGED!
Wellington is still waiting for his refund that he requested on the 20 Nov. In the meantime, this "person" is here to stay, to be negative and derogatory on anything positive said. Let him have his cry baby moments
Ahh one of those Steam type "Ermagerd worst game ever, don't buy, I want my money back!" (367 hours played) types eh? Those guys crack me up.
I haven't read the entire thread but I do have to point out that bit-tech is a relatively small site that 95% focuses on tech instead of gaming.
I'm pretty sure that if you go digging you can find most of the passable games this year as someone's GOTY. But there are good reasons for why this and the PC gamer mention above (which btw isn't their GOTY, just one of the games they liked in 2014) are the only mentions of elite on GOTY lists that I've seen. The game is an excellent framework for a game, but the game part is still shallow, simplistic, easy and unfinished.
I'm pretty sure that if you go digging you can find most of the passable games this year as someone's GOTY. But there are good reasons for why this and the PC gamer mention above (which btw isn't their GOTY, just one of the games they liked in 2014) are the only mentions of elite on GOTY lists that I've seen. The game is an excellent framework for a game, but the game part is still shallow, simplistic, easy and unfinished.
I hate all this GOTY rubbish at the end of every year. Quite how anyone comes to any conclusion what the best thing of something so subjective is beyond me, its all clickbait for websites like IGN etc to gather more advertisers in.
FTR my favourite game in 2014 was Alien Isolation, your personal mileage may vary.
FTR my favourite game in 2014 was Alien Isolation, your personal mileage may vary.
Because
A) Games have a technical aspect to them, which makes pretty much every other game better than AC Unity in that regard
B) People like reading subjective lists and very few will argue that these lists are 100% objective.
You hate it so much you've just done it yourself
Currently my fav game.
You hate it so much you've just done it yourself
I didn't give out any "awards" though...