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Elite was probably the most memorable game from my youth. I do hope that Elite: Dangerous is a suitable modern realisation of the world the original portrayed i

Elite was probably the most memorable game from my youth. I do hope that Elite: Dangerous is a suitable modern realisation of the world the original portrayed in my imagination. The Frontier titles seemed to fall quite short in my view. I always thought Eve might be the massively multiplayer Elite I always want to play, but ended up being too impenetrable given limited time to play it... hopefully Elite: Dangerous' online incarnation doesn't fall into the same trap. The world that the manual and novella painted were incredibly vivid... I always imagined that I might actually encounter a generation ship at some point (in fact, maybe that does happen, I don't think I got passed the mission to track down the stolen prototype ship).

the_af 12y ago
I never played Elite back in the day, though of course I'm familiar with it now, but I did play Frontier and I liked it. One thing about Frontier that blew my mind and that Elite didn't have (AFAIK) was seamless transitions between planetary surfaces and outer space. Maybe now it's not as technically amazing as it was then -- even though right now I can't think of a modern game that does it -- but the absence of loading screens during the transition between planet and space is what made Frontier so immersive for me.
- joosters 12y ago
  Have you seen the trailer for No Man's Sky? http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nLtmEjqzg7M http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nLtmEjqzg7M
  - nsxwolf 12y ago
    Very interesting, but those transitions don't appear to have a realistic sense of scale... not necessarily a bad thing (and maybe I'm misjudging the speeds and distances)
  - the_af 12y ago
    That was awesome, thanks! No, I hadn't seen it. And yes, the seamless transitions I was talking about are there!
    - e12e 12y ago
      And there is of course Elite: Dangerous: http://elite.frontier.co.uk/ http://elite.frontier.co.uk/ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-danger... And while I'm dropping links, I found this older interview with Bell (hosted on Bell's homepage, apparently): http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/archive/b5081501.htm http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/archive/b5081501.htm

the_af 12y ago

I never played Elite back in the day, though of course I'm familiar with it now, but I did play Frontier and I liked it. One thing about Frontier that blew my mind and that Elite didn't have (AFAIK) was seamless transitions between planetary surfaces and outer space. Maybe now it's not as technically amazing as it was then -- even though right now I can't think of a modern game that does it -- but the absence of loading screens during the transition between planet and space is what made Frontier so immersive for me.

joosters 12y ago
Have you seen the trailer for No Man's Sky? http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nLtmEjqzg7M http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nLtmEjqzg7M
- nsxwolf 12y ago
  Very interesting, but those transitions don't appear to have a realistic sense of scale... not necessarily a bad thing (and maybe I'm misjudging the speeds and distances)
- the_af 12y ago
  That was awesome, thanks! No, I hadn't seen it. And yes, the seamless transitions I was talking about are there!
  - e12e 12y ago
    And there is of course Elite: Dangerous: http://elite.frontier.co.uk/ http://elite.frontier.co.uk/ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-danger... And while I'm dropping links, I found this older interview with Bell (hosted on Bell's homepage, apparently): http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/archive/b5081501.htm http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/archive/b5081501.htm