Originally posted by pwain
The game he describes is eve online, isn't it ?

No he describes Elite.

You should google the games.

First one called Elite, second one called Elite frontier and the last one called Elite first encounter.

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Would love to see a new "Elite" game.

Though this Kickstarter campaing for Elite seems to be pretty much rushed out of thin air...

VG24/7: Elite Dangerous: Braben’s square peg

“The danger is that everyone has their own idea of what the next Elite should be. The question is: if those ideas are very different to each other, then it’s going to be very hard to try and deliver to that in a way that everyone will be happy.”

To answer our question Braben goes right back to the original game, “We pitched Elite to Thorn EMI back in 1982, and their response was, ‘We want the game to have three lives, to have a score and to take around ten minutes to play through.’“We said no, but the point was that they looked at what games were in the market and successful, and they wanted us to make our game like those."

“It was quite a long time ago. It had been skunk-worked in the background but it hadn’t been a full-on project, and I think that’s the problem."

“It’s a different kind of pressure,” he said. “It’s a pressure to make the right choices, and you’re not making choices for an imagined market. With this, the beauty is that we’re making choices for ourselves, and that actually is a lot easier."

“We did start writing code before the Kickstarter project, a lot of technology, because one of the biggest risks of this project for me anyway, is going multiplayer, and getting the network to work in a reliable way.”

A few quotes: Great interview!

First gameplay video released.

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Originally posted by CobraMKIII

First gameplay video released.

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Looks like there is no newtonian flightmodel like the other Elite games.

Personly I never liked newtonian flightmodel  I like this model that was shown here, feels more like good old  classic ww2 dogfights :)

Originally posted by 13lake
First video on the 19th day, imagine the boost in pledges if it had been put out 10 days ago, I fear David needs better marketing and hyping, I have no doubt in whether this will deliever, but advertising and small updates leave much to be desired.

Valid points shared by many of the fans, including me. I do think Frontier have gone into this somewhat unprepared, David Braben has had to be proded and poked by pledgers to update and maintain the Kickstarter page, which isn't encouraging at all.
Having said that, nobody ever said you have to reveal everything about your project on day 1...

Originally posted by Torgrim

Originally posted by CobraMKIII

First gameplay video released.

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Looks like there is no newtonian flightmodel like the other Elite games.

Personly I never liked newtonian flightmodel  I like this model that was shown here, feels more like good old  classic ww2 dogfights :)

Newtonian will be in, don't know how exactly but it's confirmed in the games FAQ. David Braben has been critical of Frontier's combat though, so it looks like he's on the wright track.

Originally posted by CobraMKIII

Originally posted by Torgrim

Originally posted by CobraMKIII

First gameplay video released.

Link

 

 

Looks like there is no newtonian flightmodel like the other Elite games.

Personly I never liked newtonian flightmodel  I like this model that was shown here, feels more like good old  classic ww2 dogfights :)

Newtonian will be in, don't know how exactly but it's confirmed in the games FAQ. David Braben has been critical of Frontier's combat though, so it looks like he's on the wright track.

Liked the dogfight in that video, with newtonian it wont be dogfight per say

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Lots of pledges the last 24h

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I'm not pledging to this game as I've pledged for another, however this kickstarter idea is all well and good, but I've not seen or played a game which has been made yet from this business model . Until which time that there is some tangible evidence that these people are selling a completed finish product, then I'm afraid I'll not be spending more money for a game which is not worth any more than any other box set sold to me after those developers paid up front to provide it to me.

This business model should be given a chance of course, but the gaming public have to be careful or we could all end up paying $500 or £300 to play a game only worth around £30 or $45.

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