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Article #106248Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time
From: Xocyll
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 14:56
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 14:56
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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:
>>In any case, we are talking about Chris Roberts, who had a space-ship
>>hide behind an asteroid in the Wing Commander movie, and where everyone
>>on board had to stay quiet to escape detection, copying scenes from
>>countless WW2 movies involving u-boats. Laws of physics take a backseat,
>>if they come in the way of having a fun and enjoyable space opera, which
>>is fine by me.
>
>I like to think that most space games takes place in a universe which is
>almost exactly like our own except one little physical difference. Outer
>space isn't a vacuum, instead there's some sort of invisible unbreathable
>gas that permeates all of space. Pretty much explains everything in
>your typical space-sim game, like why you can hear exploding spaceships,
>lack of inertia, fighters than bank when turning, even those sparkly
>little things that move past your ship so you can tell you're moving.
That's the "ether" used in a lot of very old scifi ('30s.)
Xocyll
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