The game needs some story and voice acting to be a successor to freelancer for me.
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And I think the developers overcare the amount of interest most players have in the actual story the way it is currently being told =P
They clearly have fun writing short snippets about random dudes doing random stuff in random places that won't change one thing ever in the life of any of Elite players. Maybe once we have real scripted events like you said, we will start caring.
That's Star Citizen, mate =P
Why assume open world space game and space cinimatic adventure should be one and the same? When the main story finishes Freelancer feels kind of empty like everyone's gone home and left you alone on the set of a movie.
Elite has always been about an open world. The idea with ED was to keep it dynamic and build on the possibilities for endless personal 'stories about spaceships'. Today's script is irrelevant tomorrow.
Elite needs more set pieces and more dynamic branching stuff certainly. But disagree strongly that it should be taking any queues from Chris Robert's 'Elite games with space adventure taped on' (and I say this with the greatest respect and excitement for star citizen - that's his thing)
The scripted/voice acting/motion captured cinematic stuff is nice for 10/20 hours of game-play then what?
I think Starlancer was highly praised. Freelancer was actually kind of a bummer for me after having played that, but I learned to love it eventually.
I even have the (more limited) Dreamcast version. Starlancer was very under rated. It got the same mix of reviews. Positive but hardly overwhelmingly so.
Nah. Frontier was very well received but Amiga power pointed out (fairly) that it was really stupidly slow on an Amiga A500 and not all that much better on an A1200.
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Totally agree.
But I think the current injected events, onionhead, slave revolts, emperor succession or the bloke who died in the pool are not enough to really motivate and make players care (except for those of us who like to roleplay a little).
Not sure what the answer is tbh but if those events were to be linked with more obvious game mechanics that had a visible potential to actually give a differentiating benefit to players then I think we would care more...
Also, PvP or Co-op emergent gameplay is imho what will guarantee long term in the game. So any way to increase the appeal for PVP´ers or Co-op´ers to participate in those events for a meaningful reason could go a long way. "Wing" size PvP or Co-op "advanced" missions related to those events (i.e. escort "El Presidente" with your friends while me and mine try to stop you, or some such) would be awesome. Make the result of those PvP or Co.op missions weight "much" more than other activities (i.e. trade or "solo" missions) in the faction influence PU mechanics and we are in business.
That would give 3 tiers of missions ranging from less to more impact on faction influence and player rewards:
- "Solo" missions (also played in OPEN), like the current ones. Or co-op ones when the wing mechanics come.
- Conflict zones
- Specific Wing missions directly related to major injected events (be it PvP or Co-op)
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Positive review from MMORPG. Gives ED 8.3 (and i'm glad i'm not the only one who give props to supercruise music theme - i find it amazing 
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http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/...us-OpenEnded-Vast-Procedurally-Generated.html
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Viajero
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Positive review from MMORPG. Gives ED 8.3 (and i'm glad i'm not the only one who give props to supercruise music theme - i find it amazing
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/...us-OpenEnded-Vast-Procedurally-Generated.html
That was a surprise. mmorpg rarely seems to go above 8.5 in its reviews...
And another one: spaziogames, http://www.spaziogames.it/recensioni_videogiochi/console_pc/17294/elite-dangerous.aspx : 8.5/10
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Elite Dangerous is just taking off
Elite Dangerous has just taken off. Surely it needs lots of improvements, but at the moment, with everything it already has, it's a pleasant and rewarding experience. Of course all those extras would add a lot of entertainment, and i really want it, but i think trying to play Elite Dangerous as another space opera shooter is a big mistake. It isn't one. I consider Elite a breed on its own. It's a game about exploration, commerce and enjoy space travel. If somebody buys Elite thinking about it as a Wing Commander-esque experience would be very disappointed.
Elite Dangerous has just taken off. Surely it needs lots of improvements, but at the moment, with everything it already has, it's a pleasant and rewarding experience. Of course all those extras would add a lot of entertainment, and i really want it, but i think trying to play Elite Dangerous as another space opera shooter is a big mistake. It isn't one. I consider Elite a breed on its own. It's a game about exploration, commerce and enjoy space travel. If somebody buys Elite thinking about it as a Wing Commander-esque experience would be very disappointed.
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"The third time I died, I realised I was hooked."[/h]
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It's on Zero Punctuation... bear in mind he amusingly slags off pretty much every game out there, this could be fun!
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/9991-Elite-Dangerous-Review
Edit: Ok, it looks like he actually liked the game which is pretty rare for Yahtzee Very funny review!
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/9991-Elite-Dangerous-Review
Edit: Ok, it looks like he actually liked the game which is pretty rare for Yahtzee
Very funny review!
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Yahzee's gotten soft. But I laughed so hard at the TLS joke, that heads popped up over cubicle dividers.
Zero Punctuation finally reviewed ED.....so much awesome
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