There is no intent to do so because the actual mechanics are impossible to realise in many cases.
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Aside from their networking fantasies, and the whole concept of NPCs being indistinguishable from players, there really isn’t a lot in Star Citizen that is impossible. Plenty of games have realized, in far better depth, what Star Citizen has been promising since 2012… and many of those games date back to the late 90s. The central issue with SC is that many of those games specialize in that gameplay, and SC should’ve been aiming to be a generalist, given the computing budget they have to work with, rather than specializing in everything… except at the one thing it should specialize in: being a space game.
There is already Elite Dangerous, X3, NMS, etc as good generalist games. That's not what backers want from SC. You have nailed it, we exactly want a game that specialize in everything. That's why we fund CIG, because it's the only one that at least try to do it. ED could have made this switch, but they have secured EDO to the minimum and just put the FPS part beside the flying part. They have missed a big opportunity. Even Starfield will not do it as all clues points toward flying and fps gameplay completely separated. Even flying in space and flying in atmosphere will be separated.
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Yeah, I'm saying the everything game is impossible. You HAVE to specialize at some point and you HAVE to rule out concepts that collide with the general idea of the game. Any major re-orientation in the fundamental design is problematic and SC has seen a number of these. The everything game is just an amorphous blob you project wild dreams on and they stick, because the nerds breathe so heavily dreaming exciting fantasies. In other words: It has nothing to do with game design.
You understand that a game that specialises in "everything" is, by definition, a generalist game?
I don't think he does. He's living in alternative reality where lies are true and oranges are red.
Truly, rummaging through boxes is peak SC...
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Love the bit where he celebrates the game only being 15% complete too
2012: 0%Love the bit where he celebrates the game only being 15% complete too
2022: 15%
2032: 30%
2042: 45%
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2072: 90%
2077ish: 100%
oh yeah the bugs, no one denies that sometimes it is buggy of course it's not for everyoneTruly, rummaging through boxes is peak SC...
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Love the bit where he celebrates the game only being 15% complete too
ED experience its umatchable and unique. Let me share an experience we had this week:
We where split in 2 groups doing different things, 1 group were doing base raid missions, and in one of the missions they got jumped by pirates inside the settlement, an intense firefight started so they called for our help
The second group assembled on an Anaconda and head out to the location for support, while inside the Anaconda we went to our outfitting menu and equipped our armour, guns, and... hold on, nah, its just a click of a loadout, no faffing about. I can't express how much time we didn't have to waste actually getting ready while waiting a long time to arrive, because we were there in just a couple of minutes. Which is pretty useful considering our friends were under attack and didn't really want to wait for us to arrive while we faffed around getting equipped!
We arrived at the location, red alert, turrets manned, luckily everyone was inside so destroyed the enemy ships on the ground and enter the settlement, flanking them and finally killing all the pirates. Our team was fine though, they healed themselves and recharged their shields.
Then we told the pirates if they pay we won't kill them (hold on, we already killed them) and for role-playing they accepted, we scorted them out of the bunker (not sure why in the original they only escorted one out? I think in the original they meant something else, its confusing), once every one was on their ships we give them a salute and left on our way
You can't find that experience in any other game, not DCS, not in war thunder, not in Star Citizen, not in SQUAD, not in Tarkov, ED is unique, and we have a complete working game instead of a buggy alpha, with more DLCs on the way. Just imagine what it will be like 4 years from now!
EDIT: The point i really want to make, besides the obvious no other game has what SC has in terms of experience is guff, is that many games provide a unique experience, and if you try and include every bit of unique experience, while totally ignoring what you can't do, then you can write this sort of guff for many games and declare it to be the only game that allows you to get this sort of experience.
This is a long standing issue i've had with backers who compare SC to other games, be it ED or others (although ED is usually the prime target, although CR isn't averse to comparing SC to many other games). They list only what SC has and other games don't have, ignoring what both have, and refusing to even discuss what the other game has that SC doesn't have, and often fall back on the ITS ALPHA excuse, and that its still in development, and that one day SC will have it all!
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Yes.
And if CIG achieve to specialize in everything = become a generalist game, in the same time it will redefine our expectations toward actual generalist games. By now, we don't expect from generalist games to have the same specialization level than specialized games. No one expect now EDO or NMS to have its fps gameplay at the same level than Escape from Tarkov.
oh yeah the bugs, no one denies that sometimes it is buggy of course it's not for everyone
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Yep, it certainly is a buggy alpha. And an acquired taste for all that
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really? something doesn't fit here, tell it to the thousands of people who have opened their eyes and have been able to see for themselves,
The sole problem in your exemple is that its a made up exemple that never happened and will never happen in ED. Sorry but you can't have this level of interaction in ED on the fly...
The level of piracy you can experiment in ED is absolutely not on par with the level of piracy that can be done in SC.
I'm almost certain that you don't have really understood how the players pirates had interacted with the other players. For sure your are confused by the description, you don't know what can be done in game.
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really? something doesn't fit here, tell it to the thousands of people who have opened their eyes and have been able to see for themselves,
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You should really include the 'thousands' who now think it's a scam too
Some fun case studies:
Ship purchase sourcing here
Conclusions?:
- There's been a range of responses. They're definitely not all happy bunnies
Worth another look in 6 months?
- Definitely. The biggest 'refugee' glut was in July, for a start.
- 3.14 seems to have been particularly unwelcoming to ED noobies for some reason. A much higher ratio bailing outright. (6 out of the last 10 for example).
really? something doesn't fit here, tell it to the thousands of people who have opened their eyes and have been able to see for themselves,
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LOL. Thousands of ED refugees! They are everywhere! All flocking to the BDSSE (alpha)!
You miss the thrust of my post though. You can make many games sound as wonderful as the other guy did with a little creative writing. Then you can declare no other game provides an experience like the chosen game provides.