Star Citizen

[Nathan60]

Anyone heard about this game? Guy that made Freelancer and Wing Commander back in the day is making this it looks to be what EVE should have been.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M995Mqr67E&list=PLVct2QDhDrB3ZFJgUystJmvMXivxG-r3V

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/about-the-game
I went ahead an pulled the trigger and pledged, I played the everloving watermelon out of Freelancer and I think I will lose many of hour playing this.



Oh yeah there will be ground combat.  

[SirNuke]

My successor to Elite II and III may appear one day. We'll see how it turns out.

Also Elite: Dangerous is being developed as we speak: http://elite.frontier.co.uk/ 

[Bodhi]

I have pledged into way back in the beginning and have thrown some more in along the way.  The hangar teaser module is nice and I feel it is well placed as a fund raiser for future donations.  I think they know the alpha "dog fighting" module due out asap, better be awe inspiring which is why I think they delayed it.  Either way, they have brought in over 30 million through pledges that are very safe in protection for the one receiving the pledge, let's hope it's not a ball of toejam.

[bozon]

It always bothered me that these games had bogus space physics. Vacuum for some reason behaved like jam and inertia was just a fable. It felt nothing like space flight even if it was fun. The Star Citizen promises better than that and I really hope they can deliver.

"Elite: Dangerous" looks good even though the name is silly and grammatically improper (I think... not a native English speaker). I'll have to check what they plan on top of the space furball.

[Gemini]

I have a couple of accounts and 4 ships between them...went a bit crazy for a time and spent a couple of hundred bucks on this game that isn't even out yet! First kickstarter-style thing I have ever got involved with.

Since cancelling my AH account I have packed away my trackIR and various sticks, pedals and throttles...they will all come out again when it's SC time

[Wiley]

This is the one game out there that has a real chance of more or less permanently dragging me away from this game except for FSO.

I've been following it since last October, only pledged for 2 accounts, one for me one for the wife.  I didn't want to buy everything up front as I'd like to actually earn some stuff by playing the game.

It is astonishing to me the amount of money the game has brought in without having produced much yet.  If it is anything less than great, the internet rage that will come down will be apocalyptic.

Wiley.

[Gman]

I agree Wiley, it will be apocalyptic if it doesn't turn out well.  I do have faith though, having played every single one of the Wing Commander games Chris Roberts did back before there were even 3d cards, he always showed he could create a great game experience and story.

I read a post over at their bbs about how it could be the greatest scheme of all time so far as the net goes, using your rep to generate all that income, but I don't think anyone, including Roberts, ever thought he would get THIS much support.  I was stunned when they hit a million so quickly, and I'm still in shock that they got into the 8 digits so fast too.  I just hope they aren't trying to merge other old ideas into a single experience, ie a WoW meets Eve online meets Wing Commander type of deal.  I'm really hoping and expecting - since I've got several hundred into it as well - something new and special.

[Ack-Ack]

It's safe to say that Chris Roberts made a Hell of a lot better games than he did movies.

ack-ack

[BoilerDown]

I'm in for three ships, Gladiator, Super Hornet, and Constellation.  Found out about it too late for LTI but I found some friends to help with that.  I actually make quite a few references to Aces High on their forums as most people's only reference point to another dogfighting sim is not Aces High.  The joystick reviews here have been useful multiple times because people don't know which sticks have a reputation for crap quality.

I'm really looking forward to it and I follow the development quite close.  Chris Roberts and his team give such good inside looks at the development process that I believe it would be more costly for them to be faking it all than to be actually developing the game.

[Fulcrum]

It's safe to say that Chris Roberts made a Hell of a lot better games than he did movies.

ack-ack

I own Wing Commander the Movie.  I occasionally break it out when I've captured a terrorist and need to extract information from him quickly.  Most don't make it past the part where Fredie Prince Jr. starts whining about his dead parents.  The strong ones have made it all the way to the French dude yelling "Give them a broadside, Mr. Jerrold!" before their minds are reduced to a quivering mass of lifeless jelly.

The ACLU is suing me for cruelty and breach of Geneva Convention agreements.

[Saxman]

I own Wing Commander the Movie.  I occasionally break it out when I've captured a terrorist and need to extract information from him quickly.  Most don't make it past the part where Fredie Prince Jr. starts whining about his dead parents.  The strong ones have made it all the way to the French dude yelling "Give them a broadside, Mr. Jerrold!" before their minds are reduced to a quivering mass of lifeless jelly.

The ACLU is suing me for cruelty and breach of Geneva Convention agreements.

It could be worse. You could be playing the Mario Bros. movie.

Or anything butchered by Uwe Boll.

[Fulcrum]

It could be worse. You could be playing the Mario Bros. movie.

Or anything butchered by Uwe Boll.

What are you, a monster? Dude...there are some weapons that must never be used. Multi megaton weapons and anything by Uwe Boll are on that list.

[Wiley]

I own Wing Commander the Movie.  I occasionally break it out when I've captured a terrorist and need to extract information from him quickly.  Most don't make it past the part where Fredie Prince Jr. starts whining about his dead parents.  The strong ones have made it all the way to the French dude yelling "Give them a broadside, Mr. Jerrold!" before their minds are reduced to a quivering mass of lifeless jelly.

The ACLU is suing me for cruelty and breach of Geneva Convention agreements.

He was involved with that POS?  Wow.  The cinematics from the games were far better.

Wiley.

[Lusche]

Also Elite: Dangerous is being developed as we speak: http://elite.frontier.co.uk/ 

<- Eagerly awaiting that one.  Was totally addicted to the original ELITE as a teenager, playing it on my old Schneider(Armstrad) 6128 

[Nathan60]

<- Eagerly awaiting that one.  Was totally addicted to the original ELITE as a teenager, playing it on my old Schneider(Armstrad) 6128 

what got me looking around the net for something like elite or freelancer was I rewatched Firefly on awhim, so I go looking for a download of freelance and found SC, there are plenty of 4x space sims out there but nothing from this genre and now we have SC and Elite to look forward too. I went ahead and got the Freelancer pack and I might snag something a little more sexy as a single ship pickup maybe an avenger or 300i