$600 Million And A Decade Later, Where Is Star Citizen?
Over a decade of development hell, $600 million in funds, and ever-rising expectations, Star Citizen seriously needs a release date now.
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In all honesty: Star Citizen is better in many important ways than Starfield. Yeah it has technical issues and it is perpetually incomplete, but you can do things in this game that you can't do in any other.
you can do things in this game that you can’t do in any other.
I'm not a SC hater, and had purchased Squadron 42 almost a decade ago, and I call bull shit on your statement. Please name all of the things you claim it innovates no other game does. I bet you money it does not and you cannot name anything special.
OK, take a delivery mission from the crowded space station you're currently on, load a rover onto your ship (by which I mean actually load a rover onto your ship, not just press "equip rover" in a menu) . Walk onto your ship (again, meaning actually walk onto your ship, not just load straight into the cockpit), travel to your fly down onto the planets surface without a single loading screen, head down to your rover bay, get in and drive over to the delivery location to deliver the package. All without one single loading screen at any point in the process.
The closest I can think of to that is space engineers, except space engineers doesn't really have "missions" in the same way SC does and the station would be a ghost town, and all the ships/rovers would look like LEGOs lol
Don't get me wrong, the game is very unfinished and even by alpha standards it isn't at all perfect and there's a 50/50 chance that at some point in the process above you'll get a 30k or some other game breaking bug, but I don't see how you can have played the game like you say and not think that it's doing things other games aren't. There's no other game that I'm currently aware of that actually provides the same immersive experience (when it works) as SC.
Whether or not those extra bits of immersion actually matter to you is an entirely separate question, but they are present and a good measure further than any other scifi game I'm aware of. If I'm wrong pleasepleaseplease fill me in, because I fucking love that shit in SC but can't deal with the bugginess for more than short intervals lol
Given the current pace of development, how long would you reckon it might take them to get rid of the bugs, at least, the annoying game-breaking ones? I don't mind incomplete content, but game breaking bugs is something I don't have the patience to deal with. Like, I made the mistake of pre-ordering Cyberpunk - dropped it on day one cause of the bugs and didn't touch it until three years later, when it was finally in a playable state (for me). Just wondering if Star Citizen would reach that sort of bug-free stage within the next couple of years.
Frankly, who the fuck knows lol
If you can't stand bugs, id just hold off entirely until Beta at least. Frankly they've still got a ways to go to just get the basic content in the game, several core gameplay loops like exploration are still missing, and some core pieces of tech like server meshing are still MIA as well.
Could be a year or two, could be another decade, could be never.
My advice for SC is as follows - if the game in it's current state (check it out during a free fly event - which is probably coming up soon) is something you enjoy playing, then grab a starter ship and enjoy, but if you just want to play the "finished" game, then wait. And under no circumstances drop hundreds of dollars on internet spaceships lol - it's really not that hard to grind your way in-game to good ships, and frankly you'll have more fun that way, because there's nothing to do with the most expensive ships right now anyways.
The thing is I got Starfield for free on game pass.... And it scratches the itch along with Starsector.
More people need to try Starsector. It’s so goddamn good.
100% agree
Played SC before, backed in 2015. SC is shit and a broken piece of vaporware.
Are you saying you played it in 2015 and your whole opinion is based on that experience?
Played it in 2015, 2018, 2021.
It's been the same shit every time I tried it, and CIG's behaviour as a company is garbage.
