Xaerael posted:

Lol at all the folks scrambling for their refunds now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfkNvOOiZ_8

Truga posted:

Yeah, honestly the x-wing/tie fighter series are better.

No Mods No Masters posted:

Broadly speaking Derek Smart was the one who publicized and gave a platform to the growing concerns about star citizen development being a mismanaged fiasco. This in classic Derek Smart fashion, using unceasing 10 trillion word blog posts

Karpaw posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY5KTVA_2ys

Why is this not in the OP?

G0RF posted:

One thing I do know. A year from now, Elite will be a better game. There's a quiet comfort in knowing that, one which Star Citizen fans may never really know.

tooterfish posted:

e:I can never remember the smilies...

tooterfish posted:

The laffo thing is because you're saying the new Elite is a clone of a game that came out a decade after its progenitor.

I thought you were making a joke...

Goredema posted:

It's not incest, it's a donation to your starfather's happiness. Now drop those spacepants and prepare for docking.

A Neurotic Jew posted:

around 36 hours 'til the Con

Variable 5 posted:

Thanks for this, I just updated my request originally sent in on the 25th and that's in the 133s.

Adar posted:

This is an amazing thread. Thanks for the secondhand drama, it's wonderful even to somebody who never backed the game.

As somebody who's seen a few companies fail from the outside and one on the inside, a word of warning: right now it's all fun and games, but companies run like this don't fail on the exact day they run out of money. There is always some amount of time before the failure is obvious to everybody, which is also when even the diehards who defend the company at all costs bow to the inevitable and the VIPs it's important to appease stop getting paid. Long before that, paychecks are "delayed", refunds are "backlogged due to high volume of traffic" and vendor bills are suddenly on a monthly instead of weekly cycle. The more megalomaniacal the management the more thoroughly scripted this part gets. If they have 8 mil left and are facing a 4 mil/mo burn they are now well into this phase and have been for months.

What I'm saying here is that anyone who needs a refund had better get it now before the run on the bank starts, and by now I mean two months ago. If you're reading this while still on the fence for whatever dumb reason, in the extremely unlikely chance all of this is bullshit you will still be able to get your fake spaceship this time next year for slightly more money, whereas if you are wrong you are in the absolute last stage where it's possible for you to see a dime.

ShredsYouSay posted:

The only real difference I see is that they crushed the blacks.

Maybe Sandi requested it.

Synchronized posted:

I would never put money into an unmade spaceship game that I wasn't willing to see disappear.

Xaerael posted:

Shut the gently caress up Octopode. You're always wrong. Your dream game lies a tattered, laggy, poorly executed wreck. If you have access to a building with more than two stories, well, you know what to do.

See you in the Hearse.

Hammerstein posted:

I imagined Squadron 42 to be the Call of Duty style space shooter to their Freelancer mmo. A 90 million budget might not be enough to pull that off considering that they do motion capture, facial animations, A-list voice acting talent and a ton of cut scenes. Games like Modern Warfare 2 cost easily 40-50 mill in production alone.

Sarsapariller posted:

They definitely did not just directly crib parts of the Vanguard for their new fighter. No sir. The wings/cockpit/engines/body are all 100% original.

fuctifino posted:

G0RF posted:

That is fascinating and I admit, even plausible, though it includes one potential flaw-- Sandi really can't act. All that emotion, the faltering voice, the eruption of her native "throw anotha shrimp on the barbee" accent-- it really did seem like a moment of genuine, unfeigned vulnerability. I suppose it's possible it was all an act-- I don't doubt she'd have the will to pull a con like that, but it's harder to believe she'd have the skill.

KiddieGrinder posted:

Only way a 40 year old woman with no acting career would get in any sort of production, be married to/sleeping with the director.

Itzena posted:

Someone link this to them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5MpzSudQvk

Octopode posted:

It is mission-based, but not with discrete "here's a briefing screen, here's your list of objectives, play mission, get results screen, repeat" cycles. Instead, there's interactive story bits between each mission that tie them together.

Dante80 posted:

Thats actually what Wing Commander was. WC also had different paths you could take, according to how well you did in each mission or what you chose in the segments between the missions.

If I understood what CR said in citizencon correctly, they are moving away from the strict WC style.

Reason posted:

The George Lucas thing was a message from Gary Oldman to the real world "Get out now while you can!"

Malleovic posted:

The absurd silver lining to CIG's lack of delivering on promises so far is that it's possible they'll just fail to deliver on ill-advised commitments to silly fluff features or some of the less necessary ships in favor of focusing on the more important core parts of the game. Trouble is they can't exactly stop making silly promises like these or the money might run out- the rational people who pledged because they wanted to see a solid spaceflight sim have almost definitely stopped contributing so they have to keep dangling treats in front of people who want the dumber stuff just to keep the cash flowing in. Admittedly someone at CIG would need to be conscious of this slightly-unethical strategy and actively working to keep the charade going in order to ensure something playable actually gets produced, and there's no real guarantee of that.

G0RF posted:

I beg to differ, Octopode.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_SL4Mb5Yhc

Also note: the video, while still on youtube, is not listed on their Youtube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=user?RobertsSpaceInd?videos

peter gabriel posted:

please tell meeeeeeeeeee

OhDearGodNo posted:

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Dapper Dan posted:

Ok, this is pretty rough, but I don't want to spam the thread so I threw it in a pastebin. Here is pretty much the brief history of Gizmondo along with Simon Elms and stuff:

http://pastebin.com/DDeWufw2

I might have missed some stuff and it definitely needs an edit or three, but it will help anyone who is wondering what the hell is going on with the Swedish mafia.

Chalks posted:

No disrespect, but at this point you've put your reputation on the line to say this game will fail. It's almost certainly going to fail, but if it turns out it actually succeeds, I imagine you'll be understandably frustrated that they some how pulled through despite such obvious flaws.

A truly unbiased commentator wouldn't care either way, but I imagine you do care, because being right on this is going to feel pretty good.

Not a criticism at all, there are enough ludicrous white knights on the other side of the table who will ignore every negative story that you need people on the other side pushing the negative (especially when there's so much to push). You're part of the natural balance, but I'm not sure you're going to convince me that you're just doing all this 'cause you're a nice guy who doesn't want to see anyone disappointed if the game fails.

Al-Saqr posted:

Sorry, is this for actual loving serious?! The Swedish mob? Do we have actual proof or are we letting ourselves hype ourselves over nothing?! I mean I WANT this to be real for the dramadey of it all but if we're gonna say this is a money laundering scam we better have something loving SOLID.

Dusty Lens posted:

Congrats. You're on to phase 2. If you get a followup sooner than a week from now you're breaking all kinds of records.

Dusty Lens posted:

How do you even answer that? The full value of the items in your hangar? That's what I thought the deal was.

mad.radhu posted:

Romes128 posted:

Chris roberts fist doesn't count as an augmentation.

Paladinus posted:

Okay, real talk. How can an electric buggy blow up? And why should it blow up from the gameplay perspective right now? Is there really some template for cars in Cry Engine that makes a vehicle explosive by default and they didn't even bother to change that?