You are tied to the shooter environment, tied to the few levels provided and stuck to the FPS experience. Of course it can be fun to take that station wagon to the race track to see what it can do – but if you are tied to only drive it on the race track, not being able to take the kids to school, go groceries shopping and make that weekend trip into the mountains, it becomes stale really quick.įurther “major releases” brought the “Star Marine” module, a first-person shooter, in which you can board other players or AIs craft and forcefully take over, explore abandoned space stations and…oh no you cannot. A slice of it taken out of context on what it is really about, to immerse yourself in a fully interactive galaxy where you could do whatever your heart desires to earn your space bucks. Great fun, right? Yes but it is still besides the point of the game. Except for the engine which should enable the car to move and to fulfil its primary purpose, to provide mobility and freedom of movement to you.Īfter further releases adding more and more ships without engines you could buy for your hangar, 2014 saw the release of "Arena Commander", a module where you finally could enter your ships and blast away at other players and AI controlled craft. You were literally tied to your hangar, destined to look at fancy 3D models that didn’t do anything useful.Īs a comparison imagine your car dealer, after you paid the first leasing fee puts that brand new car into your garage, with all those fancy bells and whistles on it.
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And of course it let you experience the full purpose of your starships, which is taking you around a living, breathing universe letting you shoot at stuff and…except it didn’t. Deliverables/releases that lack valueĬIG made a point in trying to make parts of the current state of development available to people who contributed funding to the project and in 2013 released the “Hangar Module” where players can walk around a 3D hangar and look at their ships that came with their purchased bundles from the outside and inside and interact with a couple functions on their spacecraft. So how did this train wreck happen and why is it a prime example on how not to develop a product? Let’s break it down. And even in tidays times of an ongoing pandemic, funding through crowd funding is even increasing. Now, in 2020 a release is nowhere in sight and besides private funding, the game has received a staggering 300 million USD in crowdfunding provided by more than 2.7 million people according to Forbes. The game, being exclusively crowdfunded quickly reached the necessary amounts to achieve all its defined stretch goals (Six million USD) and much, much more than that and development began in full. The games original pitch marketed it as "everything that made Wing Commander and Privateer / Freelancer special." It was described as a re-envisioned and modernized version of Privateer with state of the art graphics and gameplay, a persistent universe in which you can play solo or with others as well as a full Single-Player campaign in the spirit of the old Wing Commander Games. So you can imagine my excitement when in 2012 Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) headed by Chris Roberts – the mastermind behind the Wing Commander franchise and Freelancer announced Star Citizen. Much later in 2003, Digital Anvils Freelancer revived the genre and the game is still among my all time favourites to this day. I know I do.As a boy I grew up with games like Wing Commander and in particular, Wing Commander Privateer – a game where you take control of a spaceship and forge your own destiny as a mercenary, trader, smuggler or pirate. But that doesn't mean you won't enjoy it. Merely answering your question, which is that if you are looking for another game 'like' the ones you mentioned, this isn't really it. So I'm not saying this as a dig against NMS. I've got several thousand hours of playtime in NMS, btw. The strongest aspects of NMS are in the exploration and discovery, and in the base-building.
But where NMS falls flat is that there's not really any challenge in any of those things, nor is there any actual 'reason' (provided by the game), for any of those things.
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Yes, it operates in a similar way in that you can upgrade your ship, do missions, do trading, etc. Except ED, which I was just a moderate fan of (played around 800 hours of it before getting moving on, if that tells you my definition of moderate fan.Īnd no, NMS is absolutely nothing like them, to be honest. I'm also a huge, huge fan of all the other games you mentioned. Privateer remains my favorite game, of all time, for the broad category of space-combat-exploration games.
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