March 20, 20233 yr 3 hours ago, HiFlyer said: I admit to not being sure of the exact distinction from many other games... Don't we travel in our ships and through the environment in Elite Dangerous? No Mans Sky? The X series....? Not really, and that's what makes Star Citizen so enjoyable for me. I can give you a small example: remember the moment in the old Star Wars movies where everybody is in the Falcon Millenim seating in the cockpit, but suddenly they are under attack by Tie Fighters, so some passengers (Luke and Obiwan maybe?) have to raise from their seat, run through the corridors to the side guns, take seat there, and try to destroy the ennemies ? In Star CItizen, you can do that. Exactly that. All of that. In no other games can you do that. You might be able, like in Arma, to teleport from a seat to another, yes, but that's not the same. 3 hours ago, HiFlyer said: Actually, speaking of the X-series, I was thinking about the feeling of vastness/strangeness/wonder in playing those games, and how relatively sterile and bland things seemed as I ran through the Star citizen world last night, with the NPC's all standing rigidly on tables and chairs while staring sightlessly ahead.... Meanwhile in chat, all anyone was talking about was what was not working, who was stuck where, and what mission they could not complete because XYZ. It felt like somebody had thrown unlimited money at an interesting but still not playable tech demo, creating a not-all-that-unique world that felt much too safely formulaic. Yes, the world in Star Citizen is still feeling quite empty, that is a fact. And yes the many bugs and lags server-side are ruining the gameplay quite often (and all of the time in 3.18...), but the gameplay mechanisms they have brought in the game are super cool and those of us who are following the evolution of the game can see how they are building bricks to later on build buildings. But... this is going slower than everybody expected, for sure.
March 21, 20233 yr There's never been a game before, where you can get out of bed, eat something, put on your spacesuit, walk through the space station interacting with people on the way, walk to the landing pad, open your spaceship door, mess about inside your spaceship, walk into the cockpit, fire up your warp drive, leave the space station and fly to a planet, enter the atmosphere and fly down to the surface, get out of your ship and mess about on the planetary surface. Not cuts at all. That was a very long sentence. 🤔
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