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Knightwolf 1785I've played Star Citizen for a bit and I have to say: I enjoyed it. Wish I had a computer that could run it again.
To be honest, I was rather pissed when Roberts bluntly stated that "it's your fault if you don't have a PC able to run my game". It was somewhere around 2013 or 2014. It was somewhere around 2013 or 2014 and it was still a time when you could easily own a reasonably-priced (for Polish realities) PC that could run things on medium. Post-2016 was a period when I had to drop any PCMasterRace chances, because prices went seriously up with EU trade regulations that unified digital game and electronics prices in Eastern Europe... but for 1300 Euro minimal wages like in Germany (Poland: 400 Euro at that time).
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09 Jul 2021, 9:18am
Rho TefnutetKnightwolf 1785I've played Star Citizen for a bit and I have to say: I enjoyed it. Wish I had a computer that could run it again.
To be honest, I was rather pissed when Roberts bluntly stated that "it's your fault if you don't have a PC able to run my game". It was somewhere around 2013 or 2014. It was somewhere around 2013 or 2014 and it was still a time when you could easily own a reasonably-priced (for Polish realities) PC that could run things on medium. Post-2016 was a period when I had to drop any PCMasterRace chances, because prices went seriously up with EU trade regulations that unified digital game and electronics prices in Eastern Europe... but for 1300 Euro minimal wages like in Germany (Poland: 400 Euro at that time).
Games by Chris Roberts always demanded the latest specs to run smoothly, it was this way even back in his Wing Commander days...
09 Jul 2021, 10:54am
Amata LireinGames by Chris Roberts always demanded the latest specs to run smoothly, it was this way even back in his Wing Commander days...
Kinda stupid if you ask me. I think this could be one of the reasons why he was removed from leading Freelancer development, because Microsoft likely wouldn't be really happy if game under their wing would require stuff that would run only on small part of PCs.
Freelancer... If Microsoft did a full remaster of that game with stable multiplayer servers (likely with entirely reworked character save as you could do that on multi), along with changes as they were done in Discovery Freelancer - like getting rid of each region having certain level requirement and instead it was modified into safer House spaces, challenging House border systems and dangerous outskirt systems with extremely hostile outer systems filled with aliens) I would play the hell out of that.
Given how simple Freelancer controls were, they would have no issues to adapt to pads. Especially when you realize how many controls are on Elite: Dangerous and they are reasonably intuitive.
09 Jul 2021, 11:24am
09 Jul 2021, 12:47pm
ArtieAs far as I remember, he left (or was left) for his managing skills. Micromanaging everything, constantly changing things, throwing studio's work away, feature creep, regularly missing milestones due that, etc. Same stuff as is happening with Star Citizen.
That's why I said "could be one of the reasons". I am fully aware why Chris Roberts got put away from Freelancer.