Comments on: Elite IV Still In The Works

By: Bogie

Bogie — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:45:59 +0000

You know i’ve been watching the infinity webpage for a while now and always had a thought waht if this is Elite 4 in disguise. The coder of Infinity is a Genius and would not surprise me if he might actually be David Braben!

http://www.infinity-universe.com/Infinity/index.php

By: j39hsieh

j39hsieh — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:07:09 +0000

Damn it’s http://starwraith3dgames.home.att.net/go.htm for Evochron Legends.

By: j39hsieh

j39hsieh — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:06:14 +0000

And you’ve also got Ad-Astra (www.a-astra.com), Evochron Legends (www.starwraith3d.com) and a couple others now. Hopefully they are still steaming ahead , er I mean rocketing starward, with this game.

By: neoanderthal

neoanderthal — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:14:51 +0000

I played Elite back in the days of yore on my best mate’s 6502 Commodore 64 – it was a never-ending source of frustration that it wasn’t available on my 6502 Atari. I loved that game and shall have to get the x86 version to give it a go.
It will make a fine addition to Angband, I think.

By: Urael

Urael — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:26:41 +0000

giblethead2000: The X series is a close competitor, true, but not nearly a spiritual successor. If you want to spend months painstakingly building a corprate trading empire, while occasionally shooting a few pesky, revenue-threatening bad guys, this is the game for you. I defer to Mr Gillen’s PC-Gamer review of X-Beyond the Frontier, one line of which I can quote/paraphrase entirely from memory:

“the worst thing about X:BTF is that it makes you workaaaaaargh”

Plus, I hate the ‘town-square’ sectors with their NSEW jump-gates, reliance on jump-gates to get anywhere (yes, even with the jump-drive, which simply lets you use a number of gates in sequence in one go), the window-dressing planets…

Comabt’s alright, though. :)

By: Kelly Hrdina

Kelly Hrdina — Wed, 14 May 2008 02:48:28 +0000

[hooray for thread resurrection]

I’m an American and certainly know who David Braben is. Then again, I also know what proper football is. Elite was released in the US by “Firebird Software” I think. I still have the box (as well as the boxes for Frontier and F:FE) in my attic.

That being said, I won’t believe that Elite IV is coming until I actually hold it in my hands. I think it’s been vapo(u)rware longer than DNF.

By: giblethead2000

giblethead2000 — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:59:35 +0000

And, of course there are the X series games from http://www.egosoft.com/ — which have been called the “spiritual successor” before now. They’re quite good.

By: Justin Sherrill

Justin Sherrill — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:21:40 +0000

Don't forget the Escape Velocity series from Ambrosia Software: The first two are Mac-only; the third is Mac and Windows. They are similar to Elite, with very nice interfaces. Escape Velocity: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/ev/ Escape Velocity Override: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/evo/ Escape Velocity Nova: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/evn/

By: dwm

dwm — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:24:49 +0000

Ahh, Elite – Thargoids, fuel-scoops, and landing at space stations at full throttle without the aid of a docking computer.
Good times.

By: Watcher95

Watcher95 — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:14:31 +0000

Well, the reason I was obsessed myself is that i was also an American Stationed in the UK with the USAF, RAF Mildenhall myself =)

By: mike

mike — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:29:32 +0000

not only do i as an american know about elite…
i am mildly obsessed with it..
i was stationed at Chicksands RAF back in the 90s
i played elite back in college. i could blame it for flunking (but i wont).
i found elite :frontier while stationed in that fine alcohol soaked nation of yours. The amiga i had was ntsc. i sent a polite postcard to an address i found in cambridge for D.braben and got an extremely kind hand written note back from his wife saying he would get an ntsc copy out to me when they got their international translation issue fixed.
id like to frame it but i think that would just prove that im a a bit nutty.
i sell dvds on amazon under the name of cmdrjameson.
i check the frontier website alot for new videos for “the outsider” because i know the tech used there will be used in elite 4.
waiting is the hardest part.

By: Crispy

Crispy — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:02:35 +0000

Oh and how could we forget Vegastrike? (OK I'll admit I only know about this because my friend recently went single boot Linux and wasn't exactly flushed for good games)