The "average players" piloting skills = ROTFL!
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Honest excuse, I have missunderstood you then (doh) and agree with you of course. But I didn't read that in the post you were refering to.
However, keep posting, I like what you're doing.
I have been thinking the same. I'd love to see some thing similar to the training machine in Wing Commander and the guides that I remember in some Super Marion Bros RPG game where it gave you on screen help as to when to press a button for a given move. In Elite something that gave a few combat scenarios to play out with several levels of guidance (complete help saying exactly when to do a manoeuvre, partial help giving an indication that a manoeuvre needs to be done but not which, and then no help at all). Currently the game doesn't offer a way to practise without risk, even real pilots have training and mock battles that help them hone their skill in a controlled environment, allowing them to improve certain skills.
One could also call it "interactive entertainment" in contrast to "passive entertainment".
Passive entertainment has it's limits. The current rung of triple A games are heaviely story driven, but the "interactivity" they offer is very limited.
It pretty much doesn't matter if you chose option A, B or C, the developer made sure that all of them are "valid" and progress the storyline to some end, which it inevitably has to reach, since the arc of a story is hard to stretch past certain timeframes without becoming increasingly repetitive and dull in the end.
One of my favorite "passive entertainments" of the last years was that new Battlestar Galactica. They managed to create several story arcs that spanned 60 or 70 (?) pretty entertaining hours, however it had to come to a close, since they explored into so many aspects, the cliffhangers, stand-offs and "unexpected" plot twists (final five) could not have carried on longer.
ED I have over 400 hours and exploring into my own interactive "plotlines", where some stuff might work and some might not, but the system is open ended enough to allow for a rather high number of possible approaches that just increase with every patch.
That's the brilliance of the show.
Can anyone what's going on in the context here? It looks like a stuck keypress or controller malfunction to me.
Is it really pure incompetence on the streamer's side or is it a failure to recognize equipment malfunction and assign the bill to the game? I really don't understand how this can happen outside of the controller or keyboard sticking.
I was entirely unaware that whining was a name that you could call people? Sure, lazy and derisive are negative, but is this forum really going to turn the word "whining" into a name?
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Hear hear.
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That's why there is more than one game in the world.
There's a whole slew of FPS'y games I'd quite like to "see" for the graphics/willingness-to-enjoy-almost-any-scifi element but the combat is way too twitchy and hard and annoying to me.
So I'm here *waves* enjoying this. You don't see me on their forums demanding their games be nerfed so I can play them. I go find a game I enjoy and like playing - games don't have to all be suitable for everyone to be a success - they just need to be true to themselves. Elite wasn't
Totally seems a reasonable excuse for stopping playing..........wut?!?!?!?
In my opinion, that video had nothing to do with piloting skills. Without knowing what control system he was using, it's hard to say for sure what the problem is. It looked like he didn't know either, and ran out of time trying to figure it out. I would agree his over all game skills seamed lacking.
Spot on.