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Now that is a very good point which has been raised on other sim genres such 
as flight sims and sub sims and whether people should buy sims just to 
encourage developers to make them. But I'm a gamer that values my money. I 
dont just buy a game to pay for development. I buy a game to play and have a 
bit of fun away from work.

Perhaps I have become spoilt by some minority games like Rome Total War, 
Frontier, Falcon 4, Call of Duty and Halflife that have melded their 
ingredients to produce classic games - even games like Wing Commander were 
great as I see them!

But also I guess I find it difficult to understand how a carefully crafted 
game like X isnt better. Sure it has nice graphics theres no arguing that. 
But the gameplay just seems so barren. I actually find playing the game to 
be a rather depressing experience because of it. I actually feel quite empty 
whilst playing and I come away from the computer feeling like Ive wasted 
hours of my life. Now that surely cant be good!

I can explain what things X needs to be great. And they all revolve around 
simple changes to the gameplay. But there just doesnt seem to be anyone in 
the development team who seems to see eye to eye with me. Instead of adding 
the things that I feel would be crucial they instead tinker with the 
commerce system or add larger space stations. These are things I do not care 
about personally. What I really want to do is have the flexibility to fly 
anywhere in the universe in a semi-realistic(!) manner and fly down to the 
planet surfaces and land myself. I want there to be a challenge in actually 
flying the craft whilst avoiding Spacial phenomenon. I want to be able to 
learn some skills that will make me better at the game over time. Elite had 
these kinds of things, that are solid, fun gameplay features. I cant see any 
of this kind of thing in the X games. They are games for another type of 
person that I am, and every time I buy one I am hoping that this time just 
perhaps they have got it right. So far they havent got it even near. I'll 
not be buying anymore. Its sad that this is the only space simulation in 
development it really is, but Im not funding developers with such limited 
vision. Thats how I feel.

Nats

"Lemming" <thiswillbounce@bumblbee.demon.co.uk> wrote in message 
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> On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:44:06 +0100, "Nats"
> <nstutt@nstutt.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>So?
>>
>>Its a pretty sad lookout in space sim games or any other kind of sims for
>>that matter, when you start to look forward to an 'X' game. PC games
>>development hasnt been so bad for years. I see these last few years as a
>>large black hole in PC gaming - and games like 'X' are doing nothing to
>>remedy the situation. Stop giving these guys your money for goodnessake!
>>Then we might actually get a space sim worth buying.
>
> Stan, if we stop buying space-sims, even crap space-sims, then the
> people who might develop decent space-sims will turn their attentions
> elsewhere.
>
> Lemming
> -- 
> Curiosity *may* have killed Schrodinger's cat.