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Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>noman  <no_m_an@zzzyahoo.yycom> wrote:
>>With the power of today’s computers and the reach of the internet I
>>finally feel I have the tools to build the connected experience that I
>>always dreamed of. A world that would be more satisfying and richer than
>>any film I could work on.
>
>This part doesn't sound promising.  Sounds overly ambitious and aside
>from added layers of chrome in the graphics, I'm not really sure how
>technology has changed much in the last ten years to enable him to make
>a game he couldn't make before.

Well the raw computing power would allow for bigger fights - fleet
actions and such while still having the high detail graphics people
expect these days. 
More detailed asteroid fields with realistic motion perhaps?
PhysX could also play a big part.

Hopefully he's gotten past his "I want to be a movie director" phase

Also hopefully it'll be more a Wing Commander/Privateer kind of game
rather than a Freelancer type of overly scripted idiocy (and boy did it
have some insanely stupid errors.)
Honestly, it's like they employed the same "fact and continuity"
checkers that the SyFy channel does for it's movies.
[Ok that was after the buyout and after he left.]

I could really go for another game like Privateer with modern
graphics/physics and more ships.

>Hmm... I guess motion controls are new, but hopefully that's not what
>he's thinking of.

You thinking of the wii/kinect type motion stuff?
If so, ewwwww!  
I can't think of anything less appropriate for controlling a spaceship
(unless it's one of those little pod ships from Earth Final Conflict.)

Xocyll
-- 
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