SUITING!!!

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will people ever get that?! O____o
i thught the same about angelina jolie once - until i noticed the obvious surgery. ;P

But wasn't that surgery done in a more...... subtractive spirit?

Ah Derek Smart. I suddenly got hit by Newsgroup nostalgia. :P

... what? Any (and in fact every) random dictionary says that the verb is in fact to sue.

I'm still waiting for the full page New York Times ad that warns about Star Citizen

Ah good ol' Derek Smart
http://www.somethingawful.com/news/derek-smart-not/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIn1_9YvGds

I actually bought into Star Citizen, Elite Dangerous and looking forward to No Man's Land when it shows up on GOG in April.

To be honest, I have rarely touched Star Citizen, I'm not too thrilled with the "nickel-and-dime" approach to funding a game. I have played several hours of Elite Dangerous, but to date, have not taken advantage of planetary landings.

Of those two I mentioned, I really like Elite Dangerous, however it is very strict on its simulation. They don't add anything imaginary to the game.

I'm looking forward to No Man's Land, since it's not extremely strict on simulation, and the transition between planet and space just look, well, really cool.

...and if you really like "Space" games or simulations, don't forget Kerbal Space Program, one of the best offerings they have here on GOG.

<*necro-yawn*>

It may be so, but however, since some of these projects are coming to fruition, it's not a bad idea to look on past, present and future criticism. Also a good chance to see if any input from the community has affected the projects in any way shape and form.

Now, if they would only start making my Elio.

I've read over Smart and other's critique and criticism and done my own research and if anything, I am even more excited about the game now rather than less. Everyone always finds something to hate on though, to the point where if they _don't_, it is almost dreary proof of failure.

Not sure if it will meet my own expectations or not, but I withhold that judgment until the game is actually completed and released. Then I'll look at the cost, terms and conditions, DRM or lack thereof to see if it meets my criterion or not, and potentially buy it if all checks out. I'm not going to let public ranting and raving form opinions in my own mind though.

For the record, despite it being vaporware for practically infinity in the video game world, and despite it being highly criticized as well - Duke Nukem Forever is fairly highly rated both on Steam, Metacritic and other sources, and once I got around to playing the game I thought it was awesome despite all of the mud-slinging that a seemingly highly vocal minority managed to have captured the Internet with.

So, whether Star Citizen comes out next month, or in 2022, I'm putting my faith in Chris Roberts and company until it actually exists. Once it exists, if it turns out to be as if Peter Moleneux was involved with it then I'll make that call once the cards are on the table though.

... but that day is not today... :)

Well, that's the thing about space, it can be infinite. :)

Being serious though, I have Star Citizen, it is a bit interactive just to get to a ship, but that's not a bad thing. I hope when 1.0 ships, it meets expectations. However, I would strongly recommend that you save as much as you can to get a really good gaming rig, because as it is now, it's very graphics intensive and turns my machine into a space heater when playing. The game is coming along, probably not as fast as many hoped it would.

I mention No Man's Sky again, because when I did my search on YouTube, it was brought up in a list of "Space Games", to be honest, this one looks really close to completion and probably fun to play. Apparently GOG is staking their reputation on this release date, they've been pretty good so far about delivering. (Well, there were the people who rated DOTT Remastered low because it was a couple hours off being available.)

My system itself is strong and usually matches the "Recommended" specs of any game coming out exactly - minus my GPU which is a Radeon HD7850. I managed to tweak The Witcher 3 and a few other recent games to work acceptably with it, but I'm pretty sure other high end games coming out will likely start to struggle more and more as time goes on, as well as being completely unable to handle VR.

Since I have no plans whatsoever on upgrading my GPU though, I more or less am considering all future games that will need a newer GPU as well as the VR technologies as pie in the sky pipe dreams for my foreseeable future anyway. So if they take a month to come out or 5 years it doesn't really affect me overall, but the longer it takes them to release the likelihood of the games being more complete, more stable and reliable, and more graphically pleasing are higher. So I'm one of the few who actually is not at all opposed to waiting longer for games like this. Plus, in the case of Star Citizen specifically, I truly would like to go into it with VR, and I don't see that happening for me any time soon with the prices of the hardware plus GPU requirements. Just a personal choice, but a choice nonetheless. ;)

No Man's Sky is also on my wishlist for the future, but also on the "someday" list rather than the "must buy the day it comes out" list. Unlike probably the majority of the gaming community out there, I'm rather patient about these things. In order for a company or individual game to get on my shit-list so to speak, they have to fail so miserably in every way imaginable that it is just unforgivable. Examples of this that meet the criteria for my list include but are not limited to: Raven's Cry (no matter how many times they change the name or dodge near death on Steam store), Godus, Batman Arkham Origins and Arkham Knight, any game shipping with Denuvo copy protection, just to name a few.

On the note of bad reviews for games that are an hour late or a day late, or are missing someone's favourite language or whatever, I find that a pathetic abuse of the review system which makes the rating system more or less useless for the rest of us. It is worse on some sites than others. For example, I just do not trust the GOG 5 star rating system and reviews. Every game in the catalogue seems to be rated 5 stars whether or not someone has played it, just because they remember the nostalgia of when the game came out in 1994 or whatever, and if someone has any beef to pick with a game, its developer, some missing feature, an even minor bug they find irritating, or some other minor issue - they rage about it and give games review scores of 1 star or something unrealistic like that, often en-masse like an Internet posse of vigilantism to "stick it to the man" or whatever. The end result is that reviews and ratings are almost never objective or balanced anymore and so they're useless - in my eyes.

I generally refer to Steam ranking/reviews coupled with Metacritic and a few other sources out there, as well as Angry Joe and other popular reviewers that I trust with my own metrics, it tends to be a much more reliable method for me. Problem is that existing ranking systems are so broken and gameable that they just can't be reliably trusted, and I don't think anyone can really come up with a system that is resilient enough against gaming the system or eliminating unobjective ragers from the picture.