Author Topic: remember "Elite"? (Read 519 times)

SFRT - Frenchy · « **on:** September 17, 2002, 06:33:44 PM »

I was waiting for the same thing online ... well

Dedicated flyer since AH beta, I'm now burning out ... The population makes AH looks like quake more and more, too many don't care for their lives anymore and their main goal is to see how many planes they can HO before they die:o ... Plus I start not to share the direction that HTC is taking with it's sim. I'm an hardcore player, starts to be a lil bit too gamey for me.

In any case,

No more Spit dweebs, no more LA7 runers/vulcher messing a 10 minute fight, no more systematic HO freack, no more FW outdiving P47s ... It will be all the same but with different flying machine names.

Earth and Beyond

Frenchy.

XNachoX · « **Reply #1 on:** September 17, 2002, 07:15:22 PM »

So all I have to do is sign-up (just did it) and I can download the extremely small (1.02GB) beta, and game away? Or do I have to be selected or something?
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Sandman · « **Reply #2 on:** September 17, 2002, 07:59:01 PM »

I remember Elite... was a cool game.

I participated in the JumpGate beta test.

It also shares many similarities with Elite.

SFRT - Frenchy · « **Reply #3 on:** September 17, 2002, 08:46:17 PM »

Jumpgate is still in Beta?

No idea Nacho.

Kratzer · « **Reply #4 on:** September 17, 2002, 09:34:09 PM »

Jumpgate is out of beta. Netdevil is actually here in Louisville, CO with me.

Pei · « **Reply #5 on:** September 17, 2002, 10:01:48 PM »

I used to love Elite! Used to run it on my 32K BBC Model B.
I always ended-up smuggling slaves and narcotics and having to jump to a new galaxy to get away from the police Vipers.

Take a look at http://www.eve-online.com: it's a game along similar lines. The graphics look awesome

Vulcan · « **Reply #6 on:** September 17, 2002, 10:28:43 PM »

No player vs player = boring

-tronski- · « **Reply #7 on:** September 17, 2002, 10:35:31 PM »

Had Elite for me C64, and then my Amiga...

Tronsky

Octavius · « **Reply #8 on:** September 17, 2002, 11:09:41 PM »

I participated in the closed beta for Earth and Beyond and its quite good! Westwood is continuing a good line of games with this one. Its currently in the open beta stage now (anyone can play). The release date has been pushed back to the 24th (or later, I forget)

Supposedly, by Westwood releasing E&B, SW: Galaxies isn't going to be 'as groundbreaking' or 'genre defining' as it's said to be. (These are other players' observations)

Gameplay is pretty fun, the world is HUGE, and it looks great (eye candy is nice). Many neat innovations. It does not, however, have many simulation aspects... player skill does not determine his strength or survivability... its more like Everquest in space. Seeing that I've never played Everquest, that comment might not be too accurate

Its fun, download the beta and give it a try for yourself before the open beta is finished (maybe a week or so left).

oct out!

Octavius · « **Reply #9 on:** September 17, 2002, 11:14:19 PM »

Something a little different that looks to be fun (I hope).

Planetside

john9001 · « **Reply #10 on:** September 17, 2002, 11:53:24 PM »

elite on a C64, also smuggled slaves an drugs in anarchy planets, the bad guys would send out escorts to protect and escort me in, lol
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AKIron · « **Reply #11 on:** September 18, 2002, 12:46:08 AM »

No idea how much time I spent on Elite for the c64. Probably in the hundreds of hours.

Karnak · « **Reply #12 on:** September 18, 2002, 02:56:39 AM »

Elite on the C64 was great. The Atari ST and Amiga versions sucked. They took all the randomess out of it.

bounder · « **Reply #13 on:** September 18, 2002, 03:12:59 AM »

I can proudly say that I reached the hallowed status of Elite. 32k BBC B and the saviour of any elite pilot - a disk drive.

No realisation fo Elite has ever come close to the cold simplicity of hidden wireframe that made it such a fantastic game.

The scanner, too, was an excellent design, although when you dropped unexpectedly out of hyperspace and saw a forest of contacts on the scanner you knew that a)thargoids were attacking and b)if you didn't have an energy bomb you were dead.

I did like David Braben's Frontiers for the PC. Not because it was a playable game (it wasn't), but because the ships didn't do that mad WWII fighters in space thing. They moved around in 0g and 'dogfights' were simply impossible.

I suspect (but don't know) that Earth and Beyond is not a space sim in that sense.

Pei · « **Reply #14 on:** September 18, 2002, 12:23:56 PM »

Hey Bounder, what part of God's Own County are you from?
I was born and raised in Scarborough.