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Posted: Fri, 17th Nov 2006 21:44 Post subject: Elite |
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Quote: | Braben reveals Elite's Future
Friday 17-Nov-2006 12:16 PM Two versions planned, with Elite MMO on the way, but don't hold your breath...
David Braben, co-creator of seminal Eighties space fighting sim Elite has revealed the future of the much-loved franchise to CVG in an exclusive interview earlier this week.
Braben, whose Frontier Developments has just completed Thrillville before moving on to work on next-gen political thriller The Outsider, has told CVG that a modern remake of the classic is still very much in his thoughts and that not one, but two versions of Elite for the Noughties are planned.
However gamers shouldn't be holding their breath as these new Elites will follow after The Outsider has been completed and will indeed depend on some of The Outsider's technology.
Braben told us, "There are two project designs that we've got now. One is a multiplayer game, the other is a single-player, still allowing multiplayer, but not massive multiplayer, which we do plan to do and that will follow on from The Outsider and use some of the technologies that that employs. That's the way they fit together."
Braben continued, "Certainly the first Elite incarnation will be a single player game, that supports multiplayer, but we're not talking thousands, we're talking tens of players."
While an Elite MMO still remains the ultimate dream (coincidentally as we argued for recently in our Bring It Back! feature,) Braben is under no illusions that it will be a simple task: "Although I think it's a long way off, one thing I'm wary of is that it's a very difficult game to provide for well. There will be groups of fans who will be very critical of what happens, that's true of every game really, but it's a lot of work to keep that going for a long time."
Perhaps most interestingly Braben also gave us some insights into the original spec for the game as it was being developed in 2000 and some of the reasons Elite slipped off the radar. "What happened is that we started the Elite sequel back in 2000, and that was structured as a mass multiplayer game. In doing our research and at the planning stage of how all the network infrastructure would work we found the network was nowhere near as sophisticated as people were saying and by that I mean the companies.
"I was very wary that we would be trailblazing and one of the ways we were planning to do it was to put a piece of hardware in every single phone exchange, so it was a much wider plan to achieve the very short ping times that you need to play the game we wanted to do. So we put that essentially on indefinite hold at that point because I knew it wasn't going to work well. And I'd rather not do it, than do something that didn't work well."
Concluding our chat, Braben also revealed that far from seeing the original Elite as a kind of millstone still hanging around his neck, he still had very positive memories of its original development.
"I was very lucky to be part of that when Ian and I did it in the Eighties, it was great fun to have done and from a nostalgia point of view. For me, looking back on it, it was a very very good time. Writing games was quite different then, because to be honest we wrote Elite for ourselves, basically. Yes it was meant to be commercial, but the point is there was none of this 'who will this appeal to?'. It was a case of 'yes it's great, let's do it!' You can make something absolutely spot on in that way, [even] given the constraints that you have."
So it's all around excellent news for Elite fans, but we'll just have to wait for Frontier to complete The Outsider before we can venture forth in a Cobra Mark III all over again. |
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http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=149344&skip=yes
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Posted: Fri, 17th Nov 2006 22:12 Post subject: |
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Damn that is some good news. So it should hit the shelves around 2010/2011 ?
btw:
look at this !! http://www.fl-tw.com/Infinity/index.php
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Posted: Fri, 17th Nov 2006 22:17 Post subject: |
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Posted: Sat, 18th Nov 2006 14:49 Post subject: |
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I have a bad feeling this will haunt us for years to come, popping in headlines on some sites now and then, but eventually won't be finished.
I can't say i would be sad if it did'nt come to markets. Some games are better left undone.
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Posted: Wed, 19th May 2010 19:18 Post subject: |
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did you read the link?
Quote: | Eurogamer has been told by multiple sources that the game was in pre-production stages until recently but has since been put on hold. |
That damn game has been in "pre-production" stages for YEARS. And they've been commited to the game for years. And it's on hold now? It's NEVER coming out. And if it ever does get released, it'll be the travesty of a game that Battlecruiser 3000AD was.
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Posted: Wed, 19th May 2010 21:23 Post subject: |
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Pre-production as in "still sitting in a meeting discussing the color of lasers before I start coding" ? I'd say at least 3 years before we get the first screenshot.
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Posted: Wed, 19th May 2010 21:29 Post subject: |
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Well, they said that they'll start working on Elite4 after that Whatsitsname they work on now gets released.
So it might as well be on hold.
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Posted: Thu, 20th May 2010 01:48 Post subject: |
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The game seems cursed. It will only be finished if David Braben allows Ian Bell to enter the project.
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Posted: Thu, 20th May 2010 06:41 Post subject: |
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So this is basically Duke Nukem Forever?
Strong commitment, lawl. Sure. That's why it has been put on hold during PRE-PRODUCTION. No one should take this seriously. They haven't even began coding. Probably have two doodles to show for concept art.
I like Elite, but nothing I've heard about this has me even mildly excited. I'll get interested if they actually commit to it for real -- with money, code, and time. Until then it doesn't even meet Duke Nukem Forever vaporware standards.
And that makes me sad.
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Posted: Thu, 20th May 2010 08:28 Post subject: |
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A classic coming back and a great one at that.Long overdo,Woot!
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Posted: Fri, 22nd Jul 2011 20:41 Post subject: |
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He's (Braben) full of shit.
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zmed
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Posted: Fri, 22nd Jul 2011 20:44 Post subject: |
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I gave up ever seeing this released a few years ago.
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Posted: Fri, 22nd Jul 2011 23:16 Post subject: |
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The big problem why I think it goes so slow are that the genre of space-combat-exploration-trading-games have been more or less dead for like 15 years. There are few games of the sort, but it's a genre that won't attract the CoD-kids. So I imagine it can be hard to get funding if you want to do one.
I loved the games like Elite and Privateer, also I miss Wing Commander. I hoped for years now for a revival of the genre.
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Posted: Fri, 22nd Jul 2011 23:21 Post subject: |
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Ah yes Wing Commander IV, I should watch that dvd rip again the game itself probably not playable anymore, ww2 planes in space firing missiles + bad pixels, they should really do a remake.
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Posted: Wed, 27th Nov 2013 21:04 Post subject: |
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For some reason, this just seems so much more promising than star citizen. The game feels like playing the space-sim render movies from the 90s which is kind of awesome.
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saddamhussein wrote: | For some reason, this just seems so much more promising than star citizen. The game feels like playing the space-sim render movies from the 90s which is kind of awesome. |
I just hope they stick to their own style and produce both great games. I want Elite to be Elite and Star Citizen to be Freelancer/Wing Commander. Space sims have been gone for a while so I really don't mind playing both of them 
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