Frontier is Weird as Hell

Cmnd Fulsom

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I was just on their main sight, which does not have a direct link to their on-line store by the way. I ended up looking at their games, and man does Elite look incongruous next to games like Zoo Tycoon, Rollercoster Tycoon, and Kinectamals.



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Riverside

Riverside
Cmnd Fulsom said:
I was just on their main sight, which does not have a direct link to their on-line store by the way. I ended up looking at their games, and man does Elite look incongruous next to games like Zoo Tycoon, Rollercoster Tycoon, and Kinectamals.



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Cmnd Fulsom
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The Elite franchise pre-dates the others by quite a bit :)
 

Cmnd Fulsom

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I mean, I know. But it doesn't stop it from just looking really strange next to their other offerings. It would be like rare releasing an actual title after so many years producing X-box shovelware. Like, imagine Conker 2 sitting right next to Kennett soccer or whatever on their website. I'd be glad to have it. But it would stand out is all.

EDIT: I'm aware, just took me a little longer to find my way to the store through the ED website. Thanks for the heads up regardless.



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Shadowdancer

Shadowdancer
You will find that with many corporate sites. It's supposed to tell the press, people in suits or rather their aides, and potential job applicants, who they are, what they (roughly) do, and how financially sound they are. It's not a consumer-facing product showcase.
 

Aashenfox

Aashenfox
Elite in 1984, Elite in 2014, everything else is just cream, to keep the Elite fires burning. ;)

Planet Coaster has Frontier's typically involved interface, but is by miles the best rollercoaster game ever.

Their site is indeed utter crap (compared to other game sites). What makes me laugh is they often break the first rule of titling articles... Don't use the words 'Today, Tomorrow, or Yesterday', as on persistent content on the internet, they are MEANINGLESS. There is an article still up on the news page saying "2.3 Today!" for months. lol.

"Free beer tomorrow!" ;)
 
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Cmnd Fulsom

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Fair's fair though, EA got that way by incorporating the titles of other companies as they acquired them. As far as I know these are actual Frontier titles, produced in house.



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CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
And there's a new game in the way soon™!

Based on some movie franchise. But we don't know what yet.

I'm hoping for Jurassic Park.
But others are speculating it's Harry Potter.

If it's the latter, I'll lose all faith in Frontier. :p
If it's the former, I'll pre-order. I don't care what type of game it is. I want it. Lol

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GraXXoR

GraXXoR
CMDR_Cosmicspacehead said:
And there's a new game in the way soon™!

Based on some movie franchise. But we don't know what yet.

I'm hoping for Jurassic Park.
But others are speculating it's Harry Potter.

If it's the latter, I'll lose all faith in Frontier. :p
If it's the former, I'll pre-order. I don't care what type of game it is. I want it. Lol

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
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You like Jurassic Park? Crikey, your taste in games is so old it's practically Cretaceous!
 

Cosmo

Cosmo
"incongruous"

Say what lol.

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CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
GraXXoR said:
You like Jurassic Park? Crikey, your taste in games is so old it's practically Cretaceous!
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:p

I love Jurassic Park. I used to love the completely Trespasser JP game. Hilariously difficult to play, due to the odd way you controlled the characters arm and hand independently. Amazing graphics for its time though.
And there was some game on the Mega CD, which was some sort of point and click adventure I never quite figured out.
And Operation Genesis, the theme park with dinosaurs. Lol
 

Doolittle

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Cmnd Fulsom said:
Fair's fair though, EA got that way by incorporating the titles of other companies as they acquired them. As far as I know these are actual Frontier titles, produced in house.



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Cmnd Fulsom
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EA, Sierra, and many other big pubs that also started out making great PC games then turned into cookie cutter factories that gobbled up other great titles and turned them into a tasteless cookies. That was a fear for a long time in PC gaming, watching our surprise sleeper titles like Battlefield get eaten up by EA or some other major pub after BF2. Then of course EA grabs DICE and the franchise goes console and the game turns into CoD on roids with little of the interest that made it the hit on PC. Rip out all the cool and put in more arcade. Typical practice. Pubs usually rip the creative hearts out of devs.
 

Cruel_R

Cruel_R
CMDR_Cosmicspacehead said:
And there's a new game in the way soon™!

Based on some movie franchise. But we don't know what yet.

I'm hoping for Jurassic Park.
But others are speculating it's Harry Potter.

If it's the latter, I'll lose all faith in Frontier. :p
If it's the former, I'll pre-order. I don't care what type of game it is. I want it. Lol

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
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I seem to remember Michael Brooks saying it was "a well loved British film franchise" but I'm paraphrasing a bit. A British film franchise... erm... Monty Python? Good god, now that would be a thing.
 

William J Smith

William J Smith
Cruel_R said:
I seem to remember Michael Brooks saying it was "a well loved British film franchise" but I'm paraphrasing a bit. A British film franchise... erm... Monty Python? Good god, now that would be a thing.
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Or maybe the "Carry on" series... :eek::eek:

Bill

"Infamy Infamy, they've all got it infamy!" :D
 

CMDR Ellegon

CMDR Ellegon
CMDR_Cosmicspacehead said:
And there's a new game in the way soon™!

Based on some movie franchise. But we don't know what yet.

I'm hoping for Jurassic Park.
But others are speculating it's Harry Potter.

If it's the latter, I'll lose all faith in Frontier. :p
If it's the former, I'll pre-order. I don't care what type of game it is. I want it. Lol

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
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If it is Harry Potter, I want an "Expelliarmus!" spell for my Sidewinder. Would be a hoot to see all the lasers, railguns and cannons fly from a Corvette every which way.

But then again, maybe not....
 

XW_Ziggy

XW_Ziggy
One way to look at is is that FDev has always had two distinct genres: The Elite space sim franchise, and the Rollercoaster Tycoon franchise. Both have been successful enough to merit FDev as a stable developer over the years.

LostWinds, Kinnectimals, and Dog's life are the things that smell like "Let's try our hand at something new" games. LostWinds I think was pretty popular, and Kinnectimals spawned a franchise simply because there was nothing else like it for a while.

I have not doubt that Elite will be FDev's bread and butter for a good while yet, and that the Rollercoaster stuff is a decent backup plan that has always catered to a niche market.

TBH, I've never forgotten how entertaining it was in RCT to beat your competing park through sabotage. Sure - you could build a better park than them, but it's way more fun building one-way suicide rides that eject people from your park into their park because the deaths and injuries occur on their territory, not yours :)
 
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