So you’re saying that Star Citizen will never be an MMO, right?
I think he said there was some room for doubt.
Pretty sure he just confirmed that it’s going to be an MMO, we just have to wait a bit.
Haven’t you heard? It’s “the greatest game to ever be conceived” thanks to Roberts’ “amazing vision and management skills”.
I think I threw up in my mouth a little bit.
“Conceived in mid creation” is a pretty accurate description of the scope creep on this one.
I feel bad for this dude.
I understand that the tool they developed could actually make every building accessible and have multiple floors, however that would be a big waste of time and a massive drain on our computers I am sure. CIG will probably focus on fleshing out specific areas like Area 18 and Area 17 etc. to keep points of interest compact, relevant and looking as good as can be.
What I am hoping they could do with this technology though is to generate interiors on the fly for random missions that could end up in any building, anywhere on the planet. How about a nice chase of some bounty wth your ship in between those city buildings and then chase them into their HQ for a mass ground gunfight in some unknown area? call for back up? Could be fun.
Dude. No.
Don’t. He made his bed.
And then you shoot the guy with a bullet and then there’s bacteria on the bullet and the bacteria goes into the guy you shot and gets into his bloodstream and then you shrink yourself like in Fantastic Voyage and go into the guy’s bloodstream and have to fight against white blood cells all of which are procedurally generated!!!1!11!!
In some ways, City of Heroes did that many years ago, if I recall correctly. Going on a mission would unlock a door in the city with a procedurally generated interior inside. Though my hazy memory might be wrong. I think even Anarchy Online has something similar.
Mind you, I’m just saying that by itself, this doesn’t necessarily have to be an impossible problem to solve. But I’ll agree with the “Dude. No”. That’s not the point of this game and the last thing we need is more pie in the sky thinking right now. Let’s put the “wouldn’t it be cool ifs” aside and focus a bit on core gameplay.
I played a game like that once, Derp something or other…
It’s funny, but I recently saw a post to the effect of “we’ll either be living it or playing it” with uncanny-valley levels of sincerity; meaning either the game of this person’s dreams will arrive or the world will eventually turn into Roberts’ vision. Like, if the game never releases that’s OK because eventually it really will be the 25th century and people will be speaking Xian because Roberts predicted it…
Wish I could find the post. I can’t linger too long in that field of insanity.
Chris Roberts is the Singularity.
That is what City of Heroes did, but not quite on the scale of or as quickly as would be necessary to handle that person’s dreams.
This 312K view thread of an unreleased game has always piqued my curiosity when I see it at the top of the new threads. What exactly is the gist? Are some of you playing a beta of this? Does everyone here really hate this developer, or is it a bit tongue in cheek? I’ll sometimes skim the newer posts, but I can’t really make heads or tales of it all.
Don’t try. Just let the fetid wave wash over you.
Well, there is a really interesting story here, in relative terms. This game, Star Citizen, was put up on kickstarter by Chris Roberts, well known for his wing commander series. Release dates kept (keep) slipping with massive feature creep on a massive bed of backer cash. I believe over 100 million dollars! That’s a lot. Derek Smart, who is well known on internet gaming forums such as this one became interested in the project, likely as it was similar in nature to his own projects. He became skeptical of its viability and started documenting reasons why. He’s been posting a lot here, which has helped keep the thread to the top, and has likely drawn many views. I for one have really enjoyed his posts because he takes the time to polish them. That is mostly why I read the thread. Also it’s neat to see how flameless it all is, given the subject matter. I’m not really sure why that is. Worth studying.
It’s mostly flameless because I think all of us have a fairly united opinion. Some of us find the whole thing hilarious, some are optimists and backers worn down into realists, and some of us are more… militantly opposed. But I don’t see anyone from the other side popping in to let us know how stupid and poor we are for not tithing to what will prove to be the greatest undertaking in electronic entertainment EVAR. If we could get some of that traffic, I think this topic would devolve pretty quickly.
We had some of that traffic and drove them off.
I’m just here to watch the wreck evolve!