Forum Overview :: Elite FUCKING 4
 
Forget it, folks, it's a disaster. by Carl McDiarmid 12/09/2014, 2:19pm PST
Now that the day-1 reset has been nixed, we know that this is the game we're getting. As a Kickstarter backer and fan of the original games, I was hoping for the best but expecting the worst.

Unfortunately, i got what i was expecting.

It's hard to know what they were thinking other than "we are now out of money how can we get more?" but that part is obvious from the initial and continuous touting of "400 billion stars!!!" Which is cool and all but if you look at the back of the Elite 3 box it sayhs the exact same thing so i guess they just cut and pasted that part of the code over and gave it a new paint job and prayed like shit that everyone would fall for it, which I guess they did, or some of them, for the beta...

Okay so we have the same "400 billion stars", what is there to do?

Well see you can get more money to get a better ship to get more money to get a better ship aaand thats about it. Okay so maybe there are interesting ways to get money at least. Oops. Let's see, you can:

1. "Explore", which means if you come across a star you haven't seen before you can press the "explore" button, wait ten seconds, and then you get money for that next time you dock. SO exciting. Pressing that explore button never gets old except after the first 3 times lol.

2. Trade which was actually more fun before one of the latest betas, before they put a "trade map" in the galaxy view, which doesn't even work, but when it does, it just tells you where to go. Part of the fun before then was to figure out your own routes but nope, no worries there, just follow the little colored line and make money so you can get a better ship so you can....

3. Combat! Oh boy combat! The preview videos looked so great, but in practice you are either fighting AI, which just means you have to get into an interminable turning battle with the dopey AI until he tries to get away or hopefully you disable his FSD so you can continue out turning him for another 30 minutes and kill him, or you might actually fight a real person, in which case whoever has the most guns can just hold down the fire button and win. Epic. Also not boring after the first three times.

4. Doing missions which are the same five missions with different flavor text. And which are also, "go here and get that", or "take this over there" or "do something noble for no money and we will like you more."

The main problem though is that you supposedly have this whole "universe" to explore, but everything is the same everywhere. That ring around the planet looks cool and then when you explore it and you see all the little rocks in there that's VERY cool. But then when you see every ringed planet is exactly the same, not so cool. And in the entire galaxy, there are only five or six types of space stations, all with the same British-accented voice welcoming you?

It's a small world galaxy after all I guess.

I'm not even touching the parts about getting rid of offline at the last minute and then letting the backers get an extra month in before the public gets to play without resetting the whole thing, but at this point, none of that matters. So much potential, wasted. An entire universe to do nothing in.

I'm very disappointed. I thought that the beta was like a sneak preview because obviously it wasn't finished, but now they're releaseing it as fnished. So they finally managed to kill off the Elite franchise. Well done.

sob.
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Forget it, folks, it's a disaster. by Carl McDiarmid 12/09/2014, 2:19pm PST NEW
    There is a Playstation-like update every time I go to play. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/09/2014, 7:10pm PST NEW
        Just gave correct password. Why a fucking verification code? by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/09/2014, 7:12pm PST NEW
            Hahaha, this piece of shit wants two-factor authentication to play. by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/09/2014, 7:13pm PST NEW
                Re: Hahaha, this piece of shit wants two-factor authentication to play. by Carl McDiarmid 12/09/2014, 7:55pm PST NEW
    I... FUCKING... by Mischief Maker 12/10/2014, 6:29am PST NEW
        I'm pinback, you idiot. NT by Carl McDiarmid 12/10/2014, 11:59am PST NEW
            So? NT by Mischief Maker 12/10/2014, 12:40pm PST NEW
                Izzat it? NT by The Bridge Tender 12/10/2014, 12:46pm PST NEW
                    If Pinback hates it I guess I need to cancel my preorder :( NT by WITTGENSTEIN 12/10/2014, 1:50pm PST NEW
                        I was doing social commentary. by pinback 12/10/2014, 3:00pm PST NEW
                            You misunderstand. by Mischief Maker 12/10/2014, 4:25pm PST NEW
                                Sword of the Stars ship customizatin was godlike NT by WITTGENSTEIN 12/10/2014, 4:36pm PST NEW
                                    True, but that wasn't an action/RPG hybrid. NT by Mischief Maker 12/10/2014, 5:47pm PST NEW
                                        Oh, that was the paragraph I excised. by Mischief Maker 12/10/2014, 5:52pm PST NEW
                                No, YOU misunderstand. by pinback 12/10/2014, 7:09pm PST NEW
                                    Re: No, YOU misunderstand. by Mischief Maker 12/10/2014, 8:23pm PST NEW
                                        RNG content is one of the laziest cop-outs to be embraced in the past 10 yrs by WITTGENSTEIN 12/10/2014, 8:34pm PST NEW
                                            Re: RNG content is one of the laziest cop-outs to be embraced in the past 10 yrs by pinback 12/11/2014, 3:52am PST NEW
                                                Oh shit, is it time for the annual Pinback "Fuck this place" temper tantrum? NT by WITTGENSTEIN 12/11/2014, 9:52am PST NEW
                                                    YES IT IS. Thank you. I'm done now. I'll hang up and listen. Love your show. NT by pinback 12/11/2014, 9:54am PST NEW
                                                        You have an interesting way of backpedalling after shitting on the game NT by WITTGENSTEIN 12/11/2014, 9:55am PST NEW
                                                            I wasn't shitting on the game. I created a character who was shitting on the ga by pinback 12/11/2014, 10:11am PST NEW
                                                                But you did such a GOOD JOB of critiquing it! Answer me you fucking faggot! by WITTGENSTEIN 12/11/2014, 3:00pm PST NEW
                                                                    Answers from a fucking faggot. by pinback 12/11/2014, 3:10pm PST NEW
                                                                        CLARIFICATION: When I say "money" I mean in-game currency. Not like, micro-tra NT by pinback 12/11/2014, 3:12pm PST NEW
                                            Re: RNG content is one of the laziest cop-outs to be embraced in the past 10 yrs by pinback 12/11/2014, 2:26pm PST NEW
                                                Release Date: December 16th, 2014 NT by You fucking idiot. 12/11/2014, 8:25pm PST NEW
                                            So what is your motivation to play after getting an Anaconda? by WITTGENSTEIN 09/15/2015, 9:19pm PDT NEW
                                        What "pain"? Wh- Wait, what? NT by pinback 12/11/2014, 3:48am PST NEW
    FREESPACE 2 vs ELITE by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/11/2014, 11:26am PST NEW
        Easy fix! by Mischief Maker 12/11/2014, 12:06pm PST NEW
            I'm a married man with four dogs, three cats, two spiders, and a mortgage. by pinback 12/11/2014, 12:25pm PST NEW
            Well, I don't know about you, but you sound like some kind of by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/11/2014, 12:31pm PST NEW
                Oh. I already had FS2 in gog. Well, thanks for that auto installer! NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/11/2014, 12:32pm PST NEW
                Is one of the stockings for your Discs of Tron cab? NT by Entropy Stew 12/11/2014, 10:42pm PST NEW
                    A brief history of the current hateful zoo by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/12/2014, 8:49am PST NEW
                        Re: A brief history of the current hateful zoo by Eurotrash 12/12/2014, 9:11am PST NEW
                            That hits a little too close to home. by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/12/2014, 9:27am PST NEW
            DUMBEST QUESTION! by The Happiness Engine 12/11/2014, 2:31pm PST NEW
                Yes, I've done it. by Mischief Maker 12/11/2014, 2:39pm PST NEW
 
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