This game, even if people are mad about it for a silly reason (Hey guys remember Bannerlord? Hey its coming in 2015! Hey its now 2016! Oh what you say, its 2017 now, we release it by then! What you say 2017 almost over, well that sucks doesn't it?)
People are just looking for silly reasons to get mad at a video game. From what I've seen out from an rather objective standpoint as an bystander, Star Citizen does actually looking brilliant and is a technical marvel in all aspects, too. This game seems way more impressive than what ID Software have done with Quake in 1996. There is pioneering 3d technology and then theres pioneering a fluid background simulation inside an extremly advanced 3d environment and I think that seeing this kind of development is a truely groundbreaking step for open world games. The scale and the immersion that makes it stand out is just so amazing compared to other static open world games which is why I'm way more understandable that this game has to spend at least 3 years more cooking in the video game ovens than other bystanders would probably say. And even then, thats only about 8 years of development with the game. Tons of games are in development for 5+ years nowadays so I don't really get what the fuzz is all about (also the whole irony of people saying that NMS needed a few more years of development but saying that Star Citizen will never come out, oh boy thats just funny).
Elite: Dangerous (a game that I've actually spend around 500+ hours in) already feels way more static than gameplay videos about Star Citizen, given how that space is created by very static set pieces which then blend together into the world, this means there isn't much variety to things at all. I've stopped playing that game for the time being as I'm waiting for the next add-on to arrive. While doing the same thing over and over again is fun theres tons of other games that do the same and are worth spending your time on, too.
One question though, I have not really seen any missions in Star Citizen however, it would be nice to see what kind of missions they have. Thats something I've always enjoyed in Elite, especially Elite 2 had some very fun mission concepts that would totally work here, such as passenger transport/spacetaxi/spacebus missions. What kind of missions are there and do they even exist yet?
And besides Star Citizens technical excellence I've always felt that the scheme of wasting tons of real world money for a ship or a part of a planet sounds like a terrible idea. You should be able to get everything in this game just by playing it like you do with Elite. People say that this is only to finance the development of the game and I hope thats true, otherwise this would suck big time for obvious reasons.
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