Comments on: PCG: Precursors preview

By: DSX

DSX — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:45:34 +0000

I’ve always longed for a KOTOR + X-Wing orgy where you could play ridiculously long campaigns as both an FPS and … Space Fighter Sim? (not sure what acronym to use). Throw in a Sins-of-a-Homeworld style fleet RTS system and I’d pretty much never play another game ever again. Except Diablo 3.

By: Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:18:05 +0000

I don’t know what to say about the Precursors concept except that it’s The Game That Had To Be Made. Seemless Sci-Fi FPS, vehicles, flight sim, RPG elements – it’s a game I’ve fantasized about making if I could make games. As good as Mass Effect is, it’s only a mockery of this pure and holy vision.

By: Jim Rossignol

Jim Rossignol — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:32:22 +0000

I had a lot of fun with Boiling Point, but even patched it is deeply surreal and broken. If you expect a kind nightmarish comedy, rather than an open-ended FPS, you might get something out of it.

By: Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:25:45 +0000

Is the latest patched version of Boiling Point worth getting? It’s like 5 bucks on ebay.

By: mkreku

mkreku — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:44:07 +0000

Would have loved to read more about this game. Did you get to play it? How did it look? Far from finished? A snowball’s chance in hell of making it good?

I know their (Deep Shadows) broken English must have been a barrier, but still.. this preview could have been written by someone who had never played/tried/seen the game. Like me.

By: Pseudonym

Pseudonym — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:13:33 +0000

Speaking of what Ape said, calling it Precursors isn’t going to help steer people away from comparing it to Star Control II.

By: ape

ape — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:07:59 +0000

I have been aching for a good space adventure and hopefully this might be it. Though, judging from Boiling Point, it might also be a broken mess.

I guess I’ll just go play Star Control II now.

By: andy

andy — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:39:52 +0000

“rather then than just better something Derek Smart would make”

not exactly ambitious!

By: Caiman

Caiman — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:35:43 +0000

This is clearly an attempt at my Dream Game (TM), long imagined but never delivered. I never played Boiling Point, but judging by its reputation I’m probably going to be dreaming for a while longer.

By: Sucram

Sucram — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:51:48 +0000

Don’t know enough yet to judge if it’s really over ambitious, while they are talking some big ideas it’s the details that tend to suck up the development time.

I hope their goal is to make this game stonkin’ fantastic! rather then than just better something Derek Smart would make. So that if they fail, they fail wonderfully.

Good luck to them.

By: Duoae

Duoae — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:38:20 +0000

Ambitious? It’s been in development for years now… I doubt it’ll be the most polished game in history – much like Boiling point was – but i think it’ll be fun and interesting.

By: cullnean

cullnean — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:08:15 +0000

ambition is what we need from dev’s these days