X4 is my first X game! Somehow I missed all the rest when they came out. I do own a few of the X3 games, along with X-Rebirth VR, but I haven't invested much time into them because X4 is keeping me plenty busy right now (and I like my space legs).
X4 is my first X game! Somehow I missed all the rest when they came out. I do own a few of the X3 games, along with X-Rebirth VR, but I haven't invested much time into them because X4 is keeping me plenty busy right now (and I like my space legs).
I am mostly and ideally I would like to play every game I can on a console and preferably on a Playstation, but I did go through a PC "phase", mostly between 2005 and 2012, after I bought my first PC.
My PS2 and later PS3 were still my primary gaming systems, but I bought and played 20+ PC games in that time, including Black and White (1 or 2, I'm not sure which), CoD 2 (which was on the Xbox 360, but not on PS3, while we got the console exclusive, Big Red One on PS2, the first full CoD game we got on Playstation was CoD 3 on PS3!), The Movies and a few other games of note, the games I really got into were AoE III and X3 Reunion!
(and later the other X3 trilogy games, I also went back and played X2 and liked it quite a bit.)
I played X3 Reunion, Terran Conflict, Albion Prelude and AoE III to death and in particular, I still go back to AoE III about every six months to a year...
My first PC started giving me trouble around 2011 and it was hard to keep playing games on it after that, while it was starting to struggle to play newer games anyway, regardless of hardware issues.
I couldn't afford to buy a new PC until about 2017 and it wasn't quite as good as my previous one and it's still the PC I'm using now...
I played the demo for X Rebirth on it and it could play it at a bit above minimum settings and I indeed bought the full game - I didn't like it as much as the older games and didn't really get into it, while my current PC isn't good enough to play X4, which I gather is a lot better than Rebirth (though I find it quite strange that the Borons were only just added to it and weren't in the game from the start! )...
Most due to the fact I'm not really into PC games anymore and as said, was never into them as much as console games (as well as the pretty high cost of one), I haven't bought a PC powerful enough to run X4.
Anyway, long story short, I had some fun with some PC games and a lot of fun with others, but I wish they were all available or coming to consoles, though I celebrate all the games we do have and are getting .
Edit - Also, just refreshing my memory of the X games on Wikipedia, I literally just found out that in the recent years in which X4 was their main game, they brought out a new entry in the X3 Universe, which supposedly takes the best bits from Terran Conflict and Albion Prelude and is apparently free on Steam to owners of AP...
Indeed of the three X3 games, AP is good, but the weakest, being a slightly rushed reworking of TC itself, with a new, never ending war mechanic, which can make just playing the game quite exhausting and a chore, even if the game did add many cool new ships and factions - its' gameplay needed a fair bit of expanding and MAYBE Farnham's Legacy is just that! .
The Thargoid war is a nice feat, but only appeals to a fraction of the playerbase, and even those are getting tired and burnt out. Player numbers have been steadily dropping again after the small increase when the Thargoid war launched.
It's the only thing we have, and while it's only a subset of all players, I see no reason why the trend across the whole playerbase should be somehow vastly different.
It's the only thing we have, and while it's only a subset of all players, I see no reason why the trend across the whole playerbase should be somehow vastly different.
Sometimes it's hard to accept that everyone is a little different.
An opinion should not be carved in concrete, but should be adjusted again and again.
Don't you ever get tired? Even Chomical Ali had to throw in the towel. This thread is called "Odyssey Going Forwards". The only progression being that caused by the second law of thermodynamics.
Don't you ever get tired? Even Chomical Ali had to throw in the towel. This thread is called "Odyssey Going Forwards". The only progression being that caused by the second law of thermodynamics.
It isn't tired, just my ribs ache from laughing so much from perceived DOOM because of "factor X".
The game will shut down when Frontier decide it is time... The doom & gloom crew have been foretelling the demise of the game since Alpha, apparently. One day they will be correct, until then, the hilarity continues.
It's the only thing we have, and while it's only a subset of all players, I see no reason why the trend across the whole playerbase should be somehow vastly different.
It's not the only thing we have, though - plenty of other measures of player activity exist: EDDN activity, squadron leaderboards, Powerplay/Thargoid War quantities, and so on.
As far as comparing them goes, I'd say that there's no reason to believe that the Steam Charts are wrong on direction of change, but they do somewhat exaggerate the quantity of change both upwards and downwards because relatively small changes in the amount people play can lead to big changes in the peak number online simultaneously.
(The main reason they get disliked, I think, is because of the number of people who can't tell the difference between "peak concurrent" and "total active", and will post a Steam Chart saying "only 3000 people play Elite Dangerous" which is orders of magnitude wrong. I haven't seen many people do that recently but it was a big thing a few years back)
Actually it hasn't. Aside from one or two new mission types and a few payout balancing passes nothing has changed with the Odyssey content, which is space legs. The Thargoid war wouldn't even require Odyssey at all so far, aside from the engine upgrade. Horizons 4.0 owners can enjoy it in full. We may or may not get on foot Thargoid combat, now that would be Odyssey actually moving forwards.
If you say so... Perhaps we expect different things?
ETA: Until 4.0 was released as Live, and the old 3.8 client finally dumped from active development, all of the content from EDO was unique to the expansion. Will there be unique content going forwards? Who knows, but I doubt any real effort will be made to create it.
but, in the words of the man himself:
Behind every bug fix, design decision and community post is a person who cares a lot about giving our players best possible experience
Wouldn't Horizons 4.0 changes fall under Odyssey changes? I'd say that there's been quite a lot changes since the hallow Brebus (praised be his name) made the OP.. As far as doom is concerned, would they really have spent effort on opening the console transfer again if they were planning to milk the game for what it's worth and then turn off the servers?
It's the commanders staying on 3.8 (forced or voluntary) that have seen what is essentially maintenance mode, even though it appears that Frontier has at least made the effort to reinstate some CGs.
It's the commanders staying on 3.8 (forced or voluntary) that have seen more or less what is maintenance mode, even though it appears that Frontier has at least made the effort to reinstate some CGs.
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