Ultratwinkie said:
tovansky said:
so... all the footage is captured from a real in-game cutscene gameplay...
You never played an X game before have you? There are no cut scenes.
There are, but they are in game. And crap.
I've tried X3, but was underwhelmed. The interface was unfriendly, the economy and management of it cumbersome and awkward and the story was badly written, told and implemented. Sure, it looked pretty, but it was definitely one of those games that would have benefited from an interface redesign and other 'wider appeal' simplifications, like Civ 5 did to its series.
I can remember the last frustrating experience I had had: I captured my first heavy fighter after a scuffle with some pirates and discovered that it sold for 33 million credits - enough to buy me a mining station, a hauler for it and have enough left over to get started - figured it would be the way to get some money rolling in, get things ticking over smoothly. But no. get the station set up, but the hauler lacks the automation commands to work, even after having bought software for it that claimed to be what I needed. I tried to figure out how to get anything to work, couldn't, and got fed up. It just wasn't any fun, something that's important in a video game - there was no draw, the story mission were hidden in some menu somewhere, there weren't any obvious side quests to do other than try getting factories up and running - all in all not beginner friendly.
So, rant aside, would be nice if they made some move to open the game up to newbies, otherwise their player base is just going to stagnate. Their graphics aren't all that amazing these days - Black Prophecy has some pretty shiny stuff and it's free to play, for example. Egosoft need more than overly complex game mechanics to stand on, tbh.
