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As much as I loved the original Elite, and sequel - To me, it sounds like he wants to make Eve.. Which, for obvious reasons, hardly gets me too excited at this point - 9 years after it has already been made.
 
Glaucus said:
Why do people say this? It isn't remotely like eve at all. It's not even an MMO. It's also fps style rather than clicky button.
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Every single thing he said is 'exciting' about the project, every single feature, etc. Eve already has.
Elite was ground breaking, exciting and revolutionary.. In 1984. It now needs something more i my opinion - Other games have already done what he is aiming for a long time ago.
 
MotherMayI said:
Every single thing he said is 'exciting' about the project, every single feature, etc. Eve already has.
Elite was ground breaking, exciting and revolutionary.. In 1984. It now needs something more i my opinion - Other games have already done what he is aiming for a long time ago.
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Couldn't of posted taht at a worse time. Even before taht video, there's a lot of stuff that hasn't been done before.
 
Elite was groundbreaking because it was the first of it's genre.

Since then the 'X' Series has re-done it all with bells on, except online.

X Online would be the pinnacle really.

Lets hope Elite can do it better.

I am really looking forward to this, only got to Deadly on the C64 all those years ago.
 
The x games although great, never had the scale. There universe is small.

One thing I hope elite does is thousands of weapons/upgrades/goods and more weapon classes.
Again x series have had a small catalogue. With those things as well.
 
MotherMayI said:
As much as I loved the original Elite, and sequel - To me, it sounds like he wants to make Eve.. Which, for obvious reasons, hardly gets me too excited at this point - 9 years after it has already been made.
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If Eve was ANYTHING like Elite i would have been all over it. But it isnt, so I wasnt. Cant see where the comparison is at all, other than theyre both based in space.
 
Sleepless said:
If Eve was ANYTHING like Elite i would have been all over it. But it isnt, so I wasnt. Cant see where the comparison is at all, other than theyre both based in space.
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Have you ever played Eve?

Every single feature/ambition listed in the initial video happens regularly within Eve.

Even after that latest video the only thing I can see this bringing over Eve is first person cockpit based gameplay, which will be truly great if the combat mechanics have the same depth as they do in Eve.

And of course the instanced gameplay with incredibly limited risk, which I personally think is a huge negative.
 
Video looking a bit more promising - as he mentioned quite a lot of stuff is placeholder assets or entirely missing which isn't a great way to show it off to the general public but gives a good idea to someone who has a bit of game development experience what to expect.

Looks like the combat will have a good deal of potential complexity to it (in the same way quake, etc. does) with lots of chances for emergent gameplay, etc.
 
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The dogfight in the video is actually taking place in the rings of the planet (which you can see disappearing off into the distance). Pretty cool if you ask me. Given that its development video 1, i'm looking forward to what we will see in the next videos.

I think it should hopefully silence the naysayers, its quite obviously no longer "vapourware".
 
PFS said:
Hopefully that video will stop the whiners from whining!
Look how detailed Mars is in this video!!
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Having Pretty graphics means very little...

It having great gameplay that counts



But then again the amount of people that spend hours playing with 3dmark I may be wrong :D.....:D........:D
 
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