• FancyLad
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    801 month ago

    Vaporware until proven otherwise. I’ve given up on caring

    • @limitedduck
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      311 month ago

      Stat Citizen has its problems, but it’s literally not vaporware since there’s something available that you can download and play with.

      • @Cagi@lemmy.ca
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        1 month ago

        It is the exact opposite of vapourware, even. They have over a thousand employees in multiple studios across the globe pushing out regular, massive updates.

    • @Fecundpossum@lemmy.world
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      261 month ago

      Yeah, and it’s sad bro. I put about 900 hours into Elite: Dangerous, which I enjoyed a great deal, but it still left me longing for something with more depth. Back then I thought Star Citizen would be the next leap forward in my career as a space trucker who dabbles in bounty hunting and deep space exploration. I wanted to have games worthy of justifying a home cockpit setup, and now it seems like a lost cause.

      I really hope someone picks up the torch. Even if it’s just Frontier making a generational leap with the Elite IP.

      • subignition
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        231 month ago

        Elite:Dangerous is sad for its own reasons, too, and I have a similar count of hours logged. Glacial pace of development and a lack of strong game design / sense for balance. I’m still stunned by how much of a selling point the background simulation was, and how limited it actually is in practice (it did get some love over the years, but far too little too late IMO.)

        • @Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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          41 month ago

          I really wanted to like it, but it just never scratched the itch when I played it. I love stuff like freespace 2, but E:D just never did it for me. Which sucks, because the community search thing sounded really fun at the time.

          • @gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            31 month ago

            It annoyingly needs a more complex HOTAS to properly play than most cheap entry-level ones have, while also not having ENOUGH complex need to justify me pulling my godamn keyboard over for

            Literally the main reason I don’t play it even though slapping my quest 2 on and space VR flying is fucking fun

      • FancyLad
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        51 month ago

        I remember how awesome Distant Worlds was, as a community event, and I wish I appreciated it more at the time. 65000 light years and back, I even bought a T-shirt and coin to commemorate the event lol o7

        • @Fecundpossum@lemmy.world
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          61 month ago

          My big in game accomplishment was making it to SagA*, I spent some time in colonia and joined a discord of nerds that hung out there getting big exploration creds. I actually made the trek all the way back to the bubble after spending about a month in the galactic core. It was an epic adventure in my mind, but afterwards it was hard to be motivated for the engineering grind.

      • Sonotsugipaa
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        41 month ago

        I haven’t played E:D so I can’t really make comparisons, but maybe X3/X4 can pique your interest?
        I don’t think they can justify a home cockpit setup, they’re also kinda hard to get into (especially X3, you can’t get far without a guide), but hey, there’s a combined 1.5% chance that you haven’t heard of them and that you’ll enjoy at least one of them if you don’t care much about graphics. Or voice acting. Or UI/UX.

        • Agent KaryoOP
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          51 month ago

          X3 is a fun game, with a very developed universe (you’ll see factions conduct invasion in real-time as you do your own thing) with a wide variety of gameplay. The universe of X3 honestly makes Star Citizen seems like a theme park for children.

          That being said it is extremely difficult to get into them both because there are so many gameplay options and the UI/UX is subpar (prepare to be constantly fiddling with menu and looking up how to execute a given course of action).

    • @morbidcactus@lemmy.ca
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      1 month ago

      I sold my pledges off 9 years ago, the reason I even made a reddit account in the first place. Was getting disillusioned with it back then and I was super excited when I initially backed it, had a decent amount of ships in the hangar at the time, but felt like I was only ever going to see them in the hangar