FlocksOfMice posted:

I listened to like one minute of this and it's one of the most ontologically terrifying things I've ever seen, unironically. Memetically humanity seeks to speciate, doesn't it? it's this why I can't understand Star Citizen? I'm no longer of the kind which has the organs to make sense of it

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Oddly enough it feels like the AAA industry has caught up to the Star Citizen development model where you shove in literally everything regardless of whether it works or how much it breaks flow.

I said come in! posted:

What Star Citizen could have that I think could work is ships that require multiple players to operate, and each person has an important task, with missions that take advantage of those important tasks. Everyone has to work together and communicate otherwise the ship explodes. What Star Citizen has instead is everyone on a ship just kinda clips through the ship and falls through space or a planet and then dies. You can't even actually do anything on the ships anyways, they are just for transporting players around.

Star Wars Galaxies had my idea as a gameplay loop, so i'm not mentioning anything original, just to be clear.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Oddly enough it feels like the AAA industry has caught up to the Star Citizen development model where you shove in literally everything regardless of whether it works or how much it breaks flow.

Time_pants posted:

I thought you were going to say AAA games finally caught up to SC how much money they demand after you already bought the game.

Biplane posted:

Star Trek Bridge Crew already exists, and is actually fun.

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Unlike other game developers who make simple systems but add much variety via those simple systems in a relatively short time CIG are going for more capable complex systems where future expansion is unlimited. Other games do not have nearly the amount of possible attachments Star Citizen and Squadron 42 have planned, indeed very often even with their limited capabilities games often ship with glaring issues like poke-thru and misaligned geometry. There is always a trade-off, you can have development time quality and variety but for each you have to weigh the cost benefit, variety takes time, quality takes time - even more so when you don't want to accept the standard game design limits. As Chris said at the last CitizenCon, they plan to keep improving and adding features and capability for the next decade and beyond, so there is little point in going for sheer volume just to amuse people for a while. They have to plan for the future capabilities to come, not just an 'off the shelf' game engine solution.

Anyone and everyone who follows this project knows that it has never been a project about a 'summer release' and grab as much cash as you can for 6 months while the company switches to a new cash grab product. They are building and expanding the game engine while they build a live release, no-one else does that and there are good reasons why no-one else does that. The reason it seems so odd to some people is precisely because they are used to short term approaches to game development by other game developers who use existing game engine technology. CIG are solving problems and limitations that are just accepted as reality or insurmountable by the standard game developers, they push the limits in just about every single feature they include, often-times far beyond what many even thought possible. Too often the criticisms come from those who spend little to no time actually researching how games are normally made, how things are fudged, faked and quick-fixes are adopted to cut down on development costs and ship games quicker to market. CIG are a victim of their own success, they make the virtually miraculous look simple to the uninformed.

Mirificus posted:

Iron Chef Ramen posted:

I wonder if Pisscat understands that he'll be dead long before Star Citizen is "finished".

Mirificus posted:

Tnuctip posted:

Is the game out yet, think it’s been a year since I last asked?

Tnuctip posted:

Is the game out yet, think it’s been a year since I last asked?

Buce posted:

will all the spaceships be romanceable at launch?