I dunno - credit where credit's due it really did manage to appeal to that large untapped crowd as you say - however from the things people said and the questions they asked it was often apparent the game they were actually looking for was Elite, they just hadn't had any chance to see it. There was a running theme in reddit (last time I was looking at the wreckage) of people saying "oh yeah but look what's that over there? Elite? realish space stuff? actual trades and types of ships? ooooh!"
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CMDR_Orlando
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I'm not that negative, who took the blame was mostly Sean Murray, thrown under the bus by Sony Marketing department most likely for a big sack of money lol.
NSM was , in my view a way of PS4 fill a gap in their game roster that XboX already filled with Elite.
Even with all the badmouthing the game still sold allot, people will play it and want more, they will eventually buy some DLC's , the team making it is so small that the profit margins are huge for sony I would assume. PC version is already easily pirated and the modding community is growing stronger and stronger.
Comparing NMS with Elite makes no sense, they are on oposite places, NMS is a fantasy sci.fi with a VERY VERY easy barrier of entry, if none (maybe the UI and crafting mechanic lol). Elite is on the opposite end, it's kinda hard to get into for a new player, specially if it's his first space sim.
Star Citizen went further apart the "pipe dream" with their live Gamescom demo. It featured seamless and coherent gameplay and most of the features that makes it stand out. Space-planet-eva-fps-npc's, if you noticed they got around 35k new accounts created since that demo was shown, also 1.5$ millions pledged.
It also helped that major publications used it's presentation to get clicks by comparing it directly (shamelessly) with NMS.
It always seems so silly that any game will 'kill' another, given that each ploughs its own furrow. So I doubt that there are any 'uber' games left to be realised.
That said, I have heard from a friend that there is game coming called " P.A. McMan", a re-imagining of a game from the 8-bit days involving trench running and scooping cherries...
Going back to the early days of this thread is interesting, seeing how the hype took hold. Where is user NMS? Not seen since a couple of days after launch.
Anyhow there's mention back there in the long ago - the before time - it seems NMS started a PC game to be ported to PS4. This version of events seemed to tally with the versions of game shown in the early days.
The reason I bring it up is how much the PC version feels like a port of the PS4 rather than vice versa. Just saying... this isn't meant to be a console bash, if anything a Sony bash. Doing deals with the devil I guess
Anyhow there's mention back there in the long ago - the before time - it seems NMS started a PC game to be ported to PS4. This version of events seemed to tally with the versions of game shown in the early days.
The reason I bring it up is how much the PC version feels like a port of the PS4 rather than vice versa. Just saying... this isn't meant to be a console bash, if anything a Sony bash. Doing deals with the devil I guess
CMDR_Orlando
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The UI sure feels clunky no PC, made primarily with consoles in mind no doubt.
Its pretty easy to config it for whatever your using. I think Sony had a part in the ease of use of the game, that is for sure. However, it did start off as a pc game. But we all know how things work in gaming.
Yeah it is a bit garbage. I don't mind the interface too much, I use a controller on PC anyway, but let me stack items...
LOL - I love Yahtzee's review, and I still like the game.
What a difference it makes when criticism is delivered with humour and panache instead of boorish ranting.
What a difference it makes when criticism is delivered with humour and panache instead of boorish ranting.
I bought this game on steam and now I'm quite angry about it, actually very very angry.
I actually like the game a lot (from what I've seen) it really appeals to me, however my framerate is utterly diabolical and it makes the game totallly unplayable.
I am getting 14-22fps normally and it frequently stutters, pauses and the framerate hits 3-7fps I have been trying for ages to get it running ok, even reinstalled win 7, updated my nvidia drivers, and spent ages messing with the settings and try various things like no AA, no vsync, all gfx low, no shadows etc but still the game is so slow its unplayable
I gave up last night, admitted defeat and applied for a steam refund, only to get an email this morning and be told it was refused as I have 4hrs in the game.
This isn't 4 hrs played. I've not sat on my behind enjoying the game for 4 hours, this is me starting it over and over trying to get a decent framerate and having to sit through the long intro piece over and over. heck, I've not even got a single achievement for it, so you can see I've not been 'playing' it.
Quite frankly I'm on a tight budget and dropping £40 on a game I cannot play is just a major punch in the guys. I feel ripped off, not by hello games, but by valve,
I'll not buy games from steam in the future, I'm done with them.
My specs, for those interested:-
cpu: AMD FX6300 (3.6ghz, 6 cores)
ram: 16gb
os: Win 7 64 bit Home Premium
gpu: EVGA GTX 770 2gb
I just hope in time they patch the game so it runs on my system but atm it's simply unplayable
That 2 hour play test is for working games isn't it??? Not some broken buggy mess. Take them to small claims court and charge them 4 hours for wasting YOUR time LOL
So he compares it to ED and uses trading as a plus that makes it more interesting over NMS. Does he even play ED - I'm thinking not and such a seruious blunder like that really doesn't help out his review at all. You could easily argue what's the point of doing anything in Elite as all you can do is keep earning money. If anything, he should have been saying it's as shallow as Elite is and needs work.
Let's see him do some trading for 3 hours straight and see how he feels about the game.
Dude, he reviewed ED way back when it released, and talks quite positively of it in this review, over one and a half year later, I'm fairly sure he has done a lot more than three hours of trading.
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I don't know how you can argue that with a straight face. If I sit and watch somebody play skyrim all the way through, you're saying that I don't know the game because I wasn't touching a mouse and keyboard?
Do I need a typewriter before I can know what a novel is?
rootsrat
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Maybe he's love the game so much, he's playing it 24/7 and doesn't have time for Frontier forums anymore?
Indeed, and he also made vague comparisons of ED to Euro Truck Simulator in the original review so it's not like he wasn't aware of that whole aspect!
Ian Phillips
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Last report I saw was that he loved the game, but was having trouble getting it to run
This was soon after launch, so I presume he is curently lost in space somewhere.
This was soon after launch, so I presume he is curently lost in space somewhere.
Let's hope SC comes out soon then ED can be compared against real things rather than dreams!Maybe he's love the game so much, he's playing it 24/7 and doesn't have time for Frontier forums anymore?
I'm not sure the other spacey games coming out threaten to impinge on ED's territory much - will be curious to see how much exploration there is in ME:Andromeda. It's healthy to have real competition so people can appreciate just how fine ED is - easy to get used to it when it feels so natural most of the time
The typewriter comment, makes no sence.
Regards the other comment, no, if you play Skyrim, that is completely different to watching it played.
Pretty sure he plays Elite, or has at least put some reasonable hours into it. He happens to like it, same as lots of other people. He happens to find NMS boring, same as lots of other people. Conversely, plenty of people find Elite dull and NMS amazing. His is a subjective review of the game, and doesn't claim to be anything else.
I've just refunded NMS. I played for just under 2 hours on my first night, and decided to give it a week or two and see if I felt any compulsion to return. I didn't, because it's not the exploration game that it was advertised as and that I expected it to be; it's a survival-sightseeing game and as such holds little pull to me.