I will get Star Citizen. I will get the $45 Citizen Starter Pack. Any thoughts?

don't do it bro

longest pre-order of my life

>>713953179
what happened?

>>713953494
i did what you're thinking of doing back in 2013 and still have no game

>>713953628
is it fun?

>>713953843
if you like griefing other players in a pvp environment, then yeah

there are moments where the game truly showcases what no other game can do, but at some point over the years the lines between game and simulator got blurred and what exists now is not only unfinished it's not even close to what was pitched many years ago

i was expecting some kind of spiritual successor to wing commander

Post yfw you didn't buy Star Citizen

>>713954312
Is it like Freelancer online? I'm going to get it.

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Looks like it's actually scary.

>>713952102 (OP)
I got it for free and i'm still disapoiontent

when I played there was only one way to grind real money and the rest of the game was co-op wanking for half the income at twice the fuckaround (doubled again cause every person you add to the group is just more chances to be waiting half hr over some bug) or grinding skins.
This was only a few months ago too I wasn't expecting a complete game by any means but it dosn't take long of playing and seeing updates to know this shit will never be a real game

Oh but if your really interested start with the titan avanger it's the only good starter the rest are scams (either they suck too much to get started or are WAY to overpriced for a ship you can grind out in a night or two)

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>>713958785
bumping my thread thanks

>>713952102 (OP)
God I loved Freelancer, seems like one of the simplest things to just make a sequel or something, but no we need a muilti billion project/scam.

>>713960183
Roberts went to hollwood believing his wing commander 3-4 experience would make him the legendary film director he always knew he was.
He got BTFO, but he came back from tinkleclown with new dream and a headful of how-to-found-a-cult knowledge learned from scientologists, moonies, and celebrity yoga.
He was never gonna just make a video game ever again in his life.

>>713960183
SC looks pretty good. Doesn't it do what Freelancer does but better?

>>713956258
No it’s not its buggy trash
>>713954312
The game hardly works, it’s a posterchild for wasted effort. They put so much work into polishing random trees in the (way too big) starter city and none into making it fun or work at all

>>713954675
>tfw got it for free

>>713961078
lol no it has zero gameplay and is a sunk cost pyramid scheme where you pay real world money for ammunition.

>>713952102 (OP)
>log into game
>travel 15 mins around cavernous empty station to ship
>take off (admittedly quite cool)
>ship explodes for no reason
>respawn
>have someone else’s gear, money, items
>run around shooting shit with their gun. spend all their money on junk
can’t even imagine the spaghetti code they must have behind the scenes to allow bug like this to happen lol

>i am gay
>i will spend money to be more gay
gay

>>713961078
No. freelancer is remembered for a cheesy campaign and the fun mods it had afterwards.
SC is trying to be more evocative of Wing Commander with a big campaign. Plus multiplayer like EVE, but you actually get to get into your starship.

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I reckon this game has nearly killed the genre. It lives entirely on this
>bro but IF it comes out it’ll be huge check out [tech demo from 3 years ago]
Which makes legitimate devs not want to make anything similar just in case
And bc sunk cost fan boys shit on any other game with
>this game is going to be redundant once star citizen comes out!!!

>>713961749
Doesn't help that x4 was shit, elite dangerous is okay I guess.

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>>713956258
>people lusting after this never to be finished shit when the actual Freelancer successor is on its way
Do you guys just like getting scammed or what

>>713961802
I was thinking of getting ed but it's not as good looking and it's getting dated.

>>713961749
>I reckon this game has nearly killed the genre.
This genre was dead after the nineties, dying just before RTS' did.
>Which makes legitimate devs not want to make anything similar just in case
What, like Elite Dangerous.

>>713962187
looks kind of bad

>>713962217
Could always play starfield if you want decent graphics and don't care about gameplay.
No man's sky dogfighting is also not that bad now.
In retrospect this genre gets a lot of games most of them are just kinda shit.
Perhaps the real problem lies with the fact space is just a boring empty shithole full of big rocks.

>>713962345
So does freelancer with the nostalgia turned off

>>713962625
That's because it's old I don't want a copy of freelancer I want something like it.

SC has animals and tanks.

>>713962682
Sorry anon, you can’t have it both ways

>>713962345
it is

>>713962682
Complete with paper thin characters and an emotionless plot

>>713963180
I tried to like this game but leveling in a spaceship just feels wrong.

>>>/vm/1800159
Doesn’t seem like many people are having fun and the dev updates look extremely out of touch

>>713963180
not online innit

>>713954312
>i was expecting some kind of spiritual successor to wing commander
That's what Squadron 42 is meant to be

>>713956258
>Is it like Freelancer online? I'm going to get it.
It's the same developer and yes, he want to do what he couldn't do back then.

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>>713961703
Freelancer was an unfinished product, and whatever you glorify about it, the merit goes to Crobert because all Microsoft did is slap a lazy clic&shoot & part levelling system to release it ASAP. Then they got lucky the base material was good enough to attract modders.

Not saying I'd encourage Crobert feature creeping everything. He obviously made the project harder that it should be by overpromising 20% of feature that require 80% of effort.
I'm only in for Squadron 42

If there's anything wrong is that despite Star Citizen proving there's a guaranteed market, no one is bothering making Space fighting game worth a shit.
All you'll find are games with gameplay barely equivalent to what we had in the 90s.
It's frigging 2025, you need to do more than copy Freelancer with a simplified gameplay made to be playable on a tablet.

>>713965163
>If there's anything wrong is that despite Star Citizen proving there's a guaranteed market, no one is bothering making Space fighting game worth a shit.
There's a guaranteed market of people who already played the genre in its heyday and have now grown up and have cash to spare. Like me. That's a market, but it's still a niche one; the same one Elite Dangerous also taps into.
The modern audience likes space games, they just don't care for arcadey space combat games ripping on Star Wars and Top Gun.

>>713962187
oh yeah I wanted to pick this one up

>>713954675
>used to use the it cost me $15 or whatever i spent on it to get a pre order for the single player
>it's been 13 years and not even the single player is ready
I wish I was a didn't buy chad.

>>713965950
Elite dangerous is niche because it's lazy shit.
Under the pretext of doing it "just like the 1984 Elite game" they make a cheapass procedurally generated ocean-wide puddle-deep grind simulator, one that's not even actually good as a space truck-simulator.

>The modern audience likes space games, they just don't care for arcadey space combat games ripping on Star Wars and Top Gun.
Actually, that's exactly what they'll buy for sure.
"modern audience" here mean mainstream and they have pretty low standard. They've never seen other spaceship game than what is popular or the spaceship minigame sold along Fallout-in-space Starfield.

Good advertising outdo good mechanic anytime.

Some retard told me a few months ago that 1.0 is soon or whatever. Any truth to that?
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>>713969840
Yep 10 more years and you'll see the beta version
Then it's smooth sailing from there

>>713960183
Freelance was great, but it was annoying how the ship progression steps in the game made zero sense.
The "world police" faction had the weakest heavy fighters.
Also, never understood the trader/freighter game. Probably because it was a remnant of the more ambitious initial concept.

>>713954675
my friend bought it for me