Elite: Dangerous • Page 3
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Dirtbox 92,595 posts
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chiefian 475 posts
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Registered 13 years agomorriss wrote:
BBC MICRO
BBC Micro
Released in late 1981
8 bit microprocessor
6502 CPU at 2 MHz
640*256 screen resolution
Cost £375 at launch
1.5 million sold
£375?! Bloody hell, that was a fortune back then!
We had one though, and we had Elite.
Fuck that is expensive! My Dad wanted one in 84 but he couldn't afford one.
eBay has a few. -
morriss wrote:
Was not!
Spectrum version of Elite was shit. -
WrongShui 6,858 posts
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Registered 16 years agoElite 4, Syndicate 3 and X-Com...8? All out on the same day. Like buses. -
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Dirtbox 92,595 posts
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Dirtbox wrote:
The poor '64 wasn't built for pure maths. Still managed fairly well, mind.
Retroid wrote:
If you like your Elites constructed from flickering lego.
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chiefian 475 posts
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Registered 13 years agoLeolian'sBro wrote:
WrongShui wrote:
This would be the best day ever.
Elite 4, Syndicate 3 and X-Com...8? All out on the same day. Like buses.
And about as likely as Angelina Jolie cheating on Brad with Megan Fox and the video found its way on to the Internet...
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localnotail 23,079 posts
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Registered 13 years agoI've still got my badge. Am I really sad for becoming a fan on facebook? -
spindizzy 7,755 posts
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Registered 17 years agoDirtbox wrote:
Who gives a fuck about them? Make Elite 4 in the spirit of the original and watch an entire generation of 35-45 y/o joygasm.
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haowan 7,385 posts
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Registered 15 years agoStill waiting. I guess it'll be a few years yet - they've yet to finish Outsider, then there's a whole dev cycle for E4 to wait out. -
THFourteen 54,987 posts
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Registered 16 years agoi reckon that EVE has put the kaibosh on this project, -
barchetta 3,335 posts
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Registered 20 years agoI have always admired EVE from a distance, via word-of-mouth or reportage. Not having the necessary hardware didn't help but to be honest I don't think I could give myself up to a game that appears to require vast amounts of time and discipline.
CCP are developing an FPS/RTS hybrid - 'Dust 514' but that doesn't look to be treading on Elite's toes too much.
I'd imagine there are many other like me who would love to get back into a Cobra MKIII, mix it up online but be able to stop playing and not feel like I was missing out. Although I can see the logic of evolving Elite into an MMO, I'd like to think that a more 'traditional' approach wasn't out of the question.
Hell, as I and a number of others have mentioned, an XBLA/PSN update would be nice too. -
Retroid wrote:
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95p for a computer mag (with over 50 pages of reviews!). Those were the days... -
Whizzo 44,810 posts
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Registered 20 years agoJumpgate Evolution, if it ever gets released, will more than likely scratch the Elite Online itch.
EVE really isn't anything like Elite. -
Yah, I agree with Whizzo. JGE is the one to watch. Eve is a role-playing game based in space, as opposed to a sandbox space game in which you can play a role (if that makes sense) -
Dirtbox 92,595 posts
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barchetta 3,335 posts
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Registered 20 years agoWhizzo wrote:
Jumpgate Evolution, if it ever gets released, will more than likely scratch the Elite Online itch.
EVE really isn't anything like Elite.
Just had a quick look over the Jumpgate website - I can't see 'The Blue Danube' fitting in very well with that! -
barchetta 3,335 posts
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Registered 20 years agoLooks like I'm sticking with my emulators or Oolite for now then. -
skuzzbag 5,950 posts
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Registered 17 years agomorriss wrote:
Lutz wrote:
We upgraded to a Master 128
We were posh... had a BBC Master...
I had a BBC B, a Spectrum, a C64, a Dragon 32, a Tatung Einstein and an Archimedes and an Amiga later on.
Parents weren't rich but they were very, very geeky. -
DaM 17,729 posts
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Registered 20 years agoskuzzbag wrote:
Parents weren't rich but they were very, very geeky.
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Ginger 7,256 posts
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Registered 19 years agoWJF wrote:
Erm, have you ever played Eve?
Yah, I agree with Whizzo. JGE is the one to watch. Eve is a role-playing game based in space, as opposed to a sandbox space game in which you can play a role (if that makes sense)
It's THE sandbox game. And the only real difference to elite is that flight isn't physics based and it's not direct control (i.e. joystick) -
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coastal 5,432 posts
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coastal 5,432 posts
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Registered 15 years agoOnly if dogfighting = rotate, rotate, up, fire, rotate, rotate, rotate, up, up, fire. -
Dirtbox 92,595 posts
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DodgyPast 9,353 posts
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Registered 16 years agoDirtbox wrote:
Then you're just following the usual noob misconception that would get you killed pretty rapidly in any combat situation except for the very worst blob fests.
Elite was about dogfighting, not selecting your enemy and clicking attack.
There is a heck of a lot of piloting skill involved trying to get as much time at optimal ranges as possible while minimising the amount of damage you take from enemy fire.
Until Apocrypha I would agree the combat with NPCs was particularly dumb though since then there have been areas of space where the AI has been particularly beefed up and presents a fairer representation of what small gang combat can be like.
/Is celebrating finally getting a second solo kill and also getting some nice gang kills yesterday
Strangely the part of the game that Eve really captures is quite how harmful a ship loss could be, dying could be pretty expensive in Elite, either before you got the escape pod or when carrying a large cargo and it is never particularly cheap in Eve. -
Ginger 7,256 posts
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Registered 19 years agoDirtbox wrote:
And there was me thinking that Elite was about the trading as well as everything else - if you want a dogfighter then buy a dogfighter, not a sandbox
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Actually I'd also add that it's a shame you write off Eve DB as I think you'd really enjoy it since a core mechanic of the game for succeeding is finding new and innovative ways to profit from being a complete space bastard.
FWB has even found a darker side profiteering from other people's wars.
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