I'm so excited about this coming out its pathetic.
Is anyone out there playing the beta or as much in a fangirl flap about it as I am?

J

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I'm not playing the beta, but as a former Frontier player, I am very much looking forward to this. I hope it captures the same atmosphere and doesn't turn into generic space shooter #752

I am waiting on both this and Space Citizen.

My first PC game was Wing Commander I.

So space sims have a special place in my heart.

Kami

Quote from: Kamiki on November 18, 2014, 05:14:51 PM
I am waiting on both this and Space Citizen.

My first PC game was Wing Commander I.

So space sims have a special place in my heart.

Kami

God, Wing Commander... now that brings back memories. Cheesy movie but decidedly above average game series. Mark Hamill and Malcolm McDowell did a not bad job in the later ones.

My big fear for Elite: Dangerous is that it turns into an EVE clone. Not that I dislike EVE, it's just that, well, I wouldn't play Elite for the multiplayer and I hope that isn't a strong point in the game. Frontier always had the you vs the universe feeling... and I liked that immensely. I can't help feeling that adding multiplayer would ruin that and take away from what made the first two games great.

Quote from: Jessica_S on November 18, 2014, 05:04:08 PM
I'm so excited about this coming out its pathetic.
Is anyone out there playing the beta or as much in a fangirl flap about it as I am?

J

X

Okay this game bit me hard.

I just dove right in to a HOTAS Warthog and Saitek Pedal set up over this game (I cannot believe I spent over $600 on a joystick set up....$380 stick/throttle, $200 for the rudder pedals, tax, overnighted shipping....ack!)

But to be honest, the one that makes me warm and fuzzy inside, is Star Citizen. Cited by Popular Science as the most accurate space simulation ever devised SC has my eyes on it, in large part because Chris Roberts is why I love computers.

When I was 12 Chris Roberts' Wing Commander I enthralled me. It got me into physics, astrophysics, space and computers; all in one go. It changed my life. I would not be the same as I am today without having played Wing Commander I, then II then upgrading a pc for the first time in my life for III (had to add a 3.5 floppy since I and II were on 5.25!). As I grew older Freelander and its successors would likewise catch me. The fact that this (Star Citizen) is his magnum opus and well, you have a recipe for girlish glee in me.

Now with Elite Dangerous to play for now and Star Citizen on the horizon I am overjoyed and once again sitting eyes to the stars, both digital and real, filled with imagination and a slightly bruised pocketbook.

Kami

Quote from: Sephirah on November 18, 2014, 05:24:17 PM
God, Wing Commander... now that brings back memories. Cheesy movie but decidedly above average game series. Mark Hamill and Malcolm McDowell did a not bad job in the later ones.

My big fear for Elite: Dangerous is that it turns into an EVE clone. Not that I dislike EVE, it's just that, well, I wouldn't play Elite for the multiplayer and I hope that isn't a strong point in the game. Frontier always had the you vs the universe feeling... and I liked that immensely. I can't help feeling that adding multiplayer would ruin that and take away from what made the first two games great.

This is my largest fear for both Elite and Star. That the multiplayer, permadeath, online persistent nature of parts of the games will erode the single player experiences. Now do not get me wrong, perma ship loss and persistence appeal to me but I would like to have some of that you versus the galaxy feeling in the game as well as the you versus the other players.

Kami

Quote from: Kamiki on November 21, 2014, 11:56:23 AM

Okay this game bit me hard.

I just dove right in to a HOTAS Warthog and Saitek Pedal set up over this game (I cannot believe I spent over $600 on a joystick set up....$380 stick/throttle, $200 for the rudder pedals, tax, overnighted shipping....ack!)

But to be honest, the one that makes me warm and fuzzy inside, is Star Citizen. Cited by Popular Science as the most accurate space simulation ever devised SC has my eyes on it, in large part because Chris Roberts is why I love computers...

Now with Elite Dangerous to play for now and Star Citizen on the horizon I am overjoyed and once again sitting eyes to the stars, both digital and real, filled with imagination and a slightly bruised pocketbook.

Kami

Are you going fork out for an oculus rift when the time comes too?

Weirdly I managed to miss the Wing Commander series growing up. Went from an Atari 520stfm to a Pentium 75 without much in between and kind of never had the right hardware.

I wonder if elite dangerous will come with a book of short stories like elite II. (I must have read them a hundred times as kid)

Quote from: Jessica_S on November 21, 2014, 02:06:37 PM
Are you going fork out for an oculus rift when the time comes too?

Weirdly I managed to miss the Wing Commander series growing up. Went from an Atari 520stfm to a Pentium 75 without much in between and kind of never had the right hardware.

I wonder if elite dangerous will come with a book of short stories like elite II. (I must have read them a hundred times as kid)

When they come out, *hides in development version of her occulus*..... Um mayyyyyyyybe ^_~.

Kami

Okay now I know this game bit my backside....

I just paid to upgrade my DK1...to a DK2....DK1 just had rough graphics and response times.

It was either that or two more monitors and a head tracker, DK2 > headtracker+2 more 30" 2560x1600 monitors. Heck each monitor is more than a DK2.

Kami

I have a fantasy of an oculus setup combined with either



or the classic Eames chair

Pentium 75 will run it just fine. I think it was designed for a 386. It inspired John Carmack to create the Wallenstein 3d engine, which later inspired him to create the doom engine.

You can get most of the wing commander games on GOG.com, but I seem to recall they were lacking in some areas. With Wing commander 2 it was either lacking the voice pack or the special operations expansions. I don't recall if that was ever fixed.

Quote from: Jessica_S on November 21, 2014, 02:06:37 PM
Are you going fork out for an oculus rift when the time comes too?

Weirdly I managed to miss the Wing Commander series growing up. Went from an Atari 520stfm to a Pentium 75 without much in between and kind of never had the right hardware.

I wonder if elite dangerous will come with a book of short stories like elite II. (I must have read them a hundred times as kid)

So finally got the dream laptop (http://www.msi.com/product/nb/GS60-2QE-Ghost-Pro.html#hero-overview) and a saitek HOTAS joystick and started playing elite dangerous

And it's awesome, just awesome,

I am a space adventuress!