Agrajag posted:

You're buying an actual finished product of good quality with Games Workshop so it really isn't a good replacement for CIG's Star Citizen aka SQ 42 aka PU 2.0 aka Star Marine.

Scruffpuff posted:

It's intended to give the illusion of open development. What it really constitutes is a form of public brainstorming - not the same thing. Open development would be showing systems in development; you know, something like a PLAYER INVENTORY which we still do not have any details on, spreadsheets about how the economy is planned, showing completed game maps etc. Open development would say what the backer money paid for (this is NOT the stretch goals page - that is just a bunch of bullshit they made up as a way to show incoming cash "unlocking" content - most of those systems have not been fleshed out or designed beyond the words on that page). Open development would have made it obvious over the course of 2015 that Star Marine was not coming out. They didn't just suddenly know that two weeks ago. That might have been when they made the call, but with open development, the backers would have been there right alongside them, seeing the increasing difficulty. They could have said things like "Star Marine as originally pitched might have to be rethought" and so on, taking months to show the direction it was going and why it was probably going away.

Open development would have follow-ups on earlier stuff. "Remember that thing we showed you last week? These 2 parts didn't work, so we took them out. Here's what it looks like today. Here's what we're hoping to show you next week." And then show it.

Instead of all that, it's just people sitting around talking about what might be cool, just casually shooting the poo poo. Nothing talked about is necessarily related to the game, and nothing in the game is necessarily talked about. In the same way they tossed out the PTU and said "gently caress you, no more refunds, and here's Star Marine btw", they toss out these videos and say "here's your open development, fuckers."

Beet Wagon posted:

I've taken to just skipping massive portions and trying to guess what happened based on context clues. In this way I will never really know if anything said in this thread is true or not. I call it Reddit Simulator 2016.

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

welcome commando o7

were you hooked on the platinum-only content?

Golden Goat posted:

Lol, reddit's getting super paranoid.

Also:

MeLKoR posted:

Nope, that was a solid Dolvak if I ever saw one. "I'm not sure the mails are true but also I don't like care if they're true or anything, you know?"

Dusty Lens posted:

I don't know if there's a word for when a dog is running on a exercise wheel super fast but then it trips and falls and now it's just spinning around and howling.

Maybe there's something in German I don't know.

Wafflz posted:

100 posts an hour since I went to bed.

illnevercatchupwiththethread.gif

peter gabriel posted:

Post this



Print job proposal from 2013

Golden Goat posted:

Lol, reddit's getting super paranoid.

Also:

Scruffpuff posted:

I've heard the phrase "those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it", but less often you hear the related phrase "those who DO study history are doomed to watch others repeat it" and I feel that's the heart and soul of this thread.

Nothing here is new. Chris Roberts has a history of failure and excess both in games and in movies. Now he's trying to make a movie game with backer money and nobody to answer to. We already know how this story ends.

We've seen it literally thousands of times over the years. It's not just Chris Roberts, Peter Molyneux, etc. - no matter the promises made during development, once you buy the game and load it up, within minutes you're seeing the "gamification" of the promised systems. You can see how they worked around limits, you can figure out the metagame, etc. It has always been like this, and it's not changing any time soon. Even if this comes out, within hours there will be wikis online telling people all the shortcuts through everything.

For every player who thinks he's gonna hide in a crate to be a space stowaway, there will be 100 players who are bunny-hopping all over the server rushing the shotgun respawns. For every player who wants to mine an asteroid, there are 100 who have memorized the most profitable run through the system and have been strip-mining it mercilessly. These fantasies won't just be destroyed by the game itself, but by its players. It simply can't work.

peter gabriel posted:

Post this



Print job proposal from 2013

DigitalMocking posted:

Christ goons, one sperg pops in with undying support for Sandi and this bullshit project that everyone except for zealots knows to be complete poo poo and you add 900 posts overnight.

Above all else, we should know, don't feed the trolls.

Also, this didn't get enough love:


That should be in the OP.

EminusSleepus posted:

change it to SQ42

AP posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3RHzcgrbV8

peter gabriel posted:

AP posted:

Can you do version with the most important cast member's face from SQ42 instead of the ship?

Tippis posted:

…and on an unrelated note, EVE gets an FPS tie-in on PC as Dust514 development seems to be winding down.

Between that and Valkyrie, it looks like CCP is taking more and more of a module approach to their PC gaming experience.

MeLKoR posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/43z9ge/squadron_42_release_date/

This thread is just surreal. I'm not going to quote all of it.

Tippis posted:

Don't you think the whole thing is weird enough without that kind of touch? Or are you suggesting that only he could possibly capture and convey the insanity of the whole thing?

quote:

I discovered a videogame film
of human ecstasies

and darkest inner turmoil.

As if there was
a desire in him

to leave the confinments
of his humanness

and bond with the 'verse

Roberts reached out,
seeking a Hollywood encounter

But in doing so, he crossed
an invisible borderline

and produced not game
nor a film

Chalks posted:

I wonder if the guy who made this back in Jan 2014 regrets his decision.

Chin posted:

It's a spaceship holding a shield like medieval fantasy video game paladins. The concept is silly and stupid.

DigitalMocking posted:

Christ goons, one sperg pops in with undying support for Sandi and this bullshit project that everyone except for zealots knows to be complete poo poo and you add 900 posts overnight.

Above all else, we should know, don't feed the trolls.

Also, this didn't get enough love:


That should be in the OP.

40-Degree Day posted:

Reading this thread makes me feel better for buying Starbound.