Anell
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.01.24 02:48:00 -
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Nice review, thank you for putting it up, I have been pretty curious about dust . While I suspected a lot of the graphical and some of the gameplay problems from watching videos, it is good to hear a first hand account.
There really is no mystery as to why CCP made this game for the PS3. Console owners (in this case, Sony) pay developers to make their game exclusive to their console. CCP made this a console game when that so obviously makes no sense to anyone who plays EVE because they were paid money to make it a console game. Fortunately for their entire existing player base, console "exclusives" tend to only last for 1 year. So it is fair to say that we will have to last a year from the date of release and then as if by magic, a year later the PC version (aka the real version) of dust will likely be released.
As someone who played EVE in beta and then in release the state of dust brings back some memories. When EVE was released it was not really a game so much as a graphic and physics engine that might one day become a game. In other words, content was sorely lacking. I mean at the time of release there weren't even rats in the belts, and the word missions had no meaning in the game. If you got podded, you lost skill points regardless of the state of your clone.
Over the years EVE changed A LOT. I don't doubt that if dust makes it, CCP will change it a lot as well. However, none of that helps the short run and certainly it does nothing for the console crowd who not only expect amazing graphics and gameplay out of the gate, in 5 to 7 years they will expect an entirely new game system.
My concern is less about dust right now and more about EVE. One of the systems I frequent seems to be a base for dust players. There was 30 or 40 of them in system and the content of their chat was a mix of normal vulgarity and racial slurs. While trash talk in EVE is not uncommon, the level of this chat was several orders of magnitude below that of the norm. In other words, they were a bunch of bratty 12 year old console kiddies mucking up my sophisticated space sim. I would very much like to see the dust bunnies out of local chat and in their own chat tab, perhaps one that is accessible by default to EVE players but one we can also just turn off. |