Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12
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Bah! You don't understand the genius of Chris Roberts.
He's plummeting expectations so low, that they'll suffer an integer overflow error, and come right back around to the Best Darn Space Sim Ever!!!
Never been done before!!!
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Meanwhile that other space game is on sale again for less than half the price of these heads.
Their update delivery system, instead of it's usual delightful ability to completely swamp my connection, is now hobbling around at under 4Mbps with no throttling or network lulz on my end.
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Good news:
Star Citizen Birthday 2020 - Roberts Space Industries | Follow the development of Star Citizen and Squadron 42
Roberts Space Industries is the official go-to website for all news about Star Citizen and Squadron 42. It also hosts the online store for game items and merch, as well as all the community tools used by our fans.
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Plus, tune in Saturday for the latest on Squadron 42 with the premier of The Briefing Room.
A couple of months ago CIG said that the six-month delayed Sq42 update video was named The Briefing Room. Whoever bet that the video was being delayed until Citizencon, congrats cos you won!
worth every penny
Surely silly mask/helmets are needed for Payday-esque bank robberies in the 'Verse!
If they're going down the novelty cosmetics route, loot boxes can't be far behind.
Nah, CIG have done novelty cosmetics for years.
An interesting question, albeit moot as the 'answer' is in the broader picture.
ED is set in an 'as accurate as reasonable' simulation of our Milk Way, consisting 400,000,000,000 star systems to visit, each one with (potentially many) full-sized planets to visit, a good proportion of which can be landed on now, 'soon' with even more to land on being added in Odyssey along with the ability to optionally get on-foot. You can explore each system in any manner you wish - no fixed routes to follow, just head where you want as the planets rotate on their axis, and circle around a star. It is a VERY BIG space game set in a '1:1 simulated Milky Way'.
SC has 1 star system with (is it?) three reduced sized planets/moons to visit, with a necessity to go on-foot. It may in time be a (potentially very limited) space game.
NMS has 255 entire galaxies' worth of planets to explore, totaling up to more than 18,000,000,000,000,000,000 worlds, with a necessity to go on-foot. It is a FLIPPING HUGE space game that would require nearly 585 billion years to see all the planets.
My feeling is that it whether a game is a 'space sim' is not defined by whether the player can travel on foot, but more in the desire to 'model reality' in a meaningfully large sector of space.
In that regard I think ED is more of a 'space sim' than NMS, and they are very different games. NMS is more of a 'space game' than SC/SQ42, and very different games. In fairness SC/QS42 are incomplete and unreleased, so it's hard to say what the final product might be. Whatever SC/SQ42 is, or will become, it is a game set in space, and is therefore a 'space game'.
I think ED will be better with walking, which won't change one jot how much of a 'sim' it can be considered. I think NMS was better when they added base building, which in no way added to its 'sim' credentials. I think SC/SQ42 may never be properly released, and will never reach all, or even many, of its goals - sadly.
TLDR: Any game set in space is a space game. None are real simulations as that would be mind-numbingly boring, but some are trying to reflect 'reality' more than others. In this regard I think it is hard to argue that any game comes close to ED, but equally, I don't think the debate is meaningful. I love NMS, and it's as realistic as my intentions regarding Kirsten Dunst.
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If CI-G introduce an in-game Crossbow Rabbit Guy outfit - I am totally going to spend actual cash.
It would be worth every single penny.
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Hey, given them a break, they haven't done lootboxes... yet.
Good news:
Star Citizen Birthday 2020 - Roberts Space Industries | Follow the development of Star Citizen and Squadron 42
Roberts Space Industries is the official go-to website for all news about Star Citizen and Squadron 42. It also hosts the online store for game items and merch, as well as all the community tools used by our fans.robertsspaceindustries.comPlus, tune in Saturday for the latest on Squadron 42 with the premier of The Briefing Room. A couple of months ago CIG said that the six-month delayed Sq42 update video was named The Briefing Room. Whoever bet that the video was being delayed until Citizencon, congrats cos you won!
So, yet another format for a video where they still won't talk about anything like actual release dates.