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[Thor.]

Star Citizen and X Rebirth literally cannot be compared. I got X Rebirth as a bonus, and recently made the grave mistake of playing it. I know I'm a harsh critic but this is, without any doubt or qualification, the worst game I have played all year.

 

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/x-rebirth

 

Rebirth was originally intended to be DLC, and was designed over five years ago. And both halves of that sentence really, really show. The graphics are absolutely abysmal-there's only the most basic shadows, polygon counts are laughably low and the textures themselves are extremely blurry. All in all in looks like Vanilla Oblivion running on Medium or Low settings. The gameplay is also hideously screwed: previous X games traded on an immense universe with about a hundred Sectors, a hundred ships and near limitless player freedom and customisation. Rebirth is linear, has one ship, and four star systems and most of it's completely empty. The only real innovation over previous X games is that you can now leave your ship. Hooray! because being able to walk around a station so badly rendered that it looks like it came out of Quake Three, is apparently worth losing everything that a space sim needs.

 

The controls are abysmal, the game is completely broken with it's linear story being incompletable without cheat codes. As if that wasn't even bad enough, there's only ten NPC skins and every single station is completely identical. Literally. They all have "hidden" items. But they're the same items in the same places. Much like the NPCs are just the same NPC in the same place with the same dialogue and a slightly different name. This is a really, really bad game in every possible sense. It's a massive backstep from the superb Albion Prelude, and so far off the pace of a modern Space Sim that I can't look at it with anything other than absolute disgust.

Ouch harsh reviews, i was hesitant for a reason, and you might be the one to back it up. thanks, you may need to speak out at the forums then, at least mention those facts.

 

Its never bad to be a critic, as long its correct. :thumbsup:

I posted under the news section of x rebirth, maybe you can convince Dark0ne otherwise, at least add reunion to the forums, as well. Sense its score was much better than the others. Its nice hes giving games a chance though. Also its not listed in the steam workshop as moddable so i am curious why not, especially the other games.

Edited November 25, 2013 by Thor.

[Werne]

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[slayerpaul]

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[billyro]

:sleep:

[ub3rman123]

 

So, my friend went for his driving test today. And guess what? He failed as well. They fail everyone, I bet. "Money money money money money money," says the tester.

 

Technically I got it on the first test I completed even though that was my second try. The first time out my instructor was a bit unwell and passed out, which was really kinda inconvenient-really hard to impress an instructor who's out cold.

 

 

I passed my test on the first try, despite having made the odd mistake of technically trying to outrun a train past a level crossing.

 

It was one of those trucks with train wheels on the track, and I'd never seen one before, so I considered it normal traffic.

[billyro]

 

 

So, my friend went for his driving test today. And guess what? He failed as well. They fail everyone, I bet. "Money money money money money money," says the tester.

 

Technically I got it on the first test I completed even though that was my second try. The first time out my instructor was a bit unwell and passed out, which was really kinda inconvenient-really hard to impress an instructor who's out cold.

 

 

I passed my test on the first try, despite having made the odd mistake of technically trying to outrun a train past a level crossing.

 

It was one of those trucks with train wheels on the track, and I'd never seen one before, so I considered it normal traffic.

 

 

I would have gotten failed for that. :(

Stupid Australia and its oh so precious safety measures. We're supposed to be the outback, laid back country, not the sooky toddlers.

[Vindekarr]

I have a racing licence, and a car in my garage given over entirely to racing, and yet when I'm on public roads I drive like a stereotypical geography teacher. It's funny, I've never once felt an urge to go fast on public roads-I've never understood why people speed. If you love cars, you can very easily get a racing licence, some lessons, join a club and actually be a freakin' racing driver. Street racing always struck me as idiocy personified. I've I work/go to uni with have either have their cars crushed, lose their licence or been sent to prison for street racing, and yet I've done exactly the same thing and won a freakin' medal. Never made sense. And as a result I drive like my grandfather: slow, steady, patient. As a result I've never written off a car, get good insurance quotes for my age/profession and the local cops know I'm not worth pulling over.

 

As for the X series, my favourite by far is Albion Prelude, a DLC'ed up version of Reunion. About sixty ships(vanilla) and 355 developer-approved modded ships, eleven playable races, over a hundred star systems and the whole game is a big, non-linear sandbox. It's basically Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim in space. You make your character, get a ship, you get a little bit of money, and you go do whatever the heck you want. Even if that is jump out the nearest airlock and then harass a passing aircraft carrier with a laser pistol. It's difficult in the same brutal, horrible way Dark Souls is difficult, and like Dark Souls no matter how many times it punches you in the face you keep coming back and gtting punched again. It's addictive, wonderfully complex and I absolutely love it. I'd recommend it to anyone with either masochistic/sadomasochistic sexual tendancies and or a deep love of sci-fi.

 

The best thing about Albion Prelude is a combination of graphics(which are truly, stunningly beautiful even unmodded) ship weights, camera shake and scaling that somehow makes you feel like you're in a Star Wars or Star Trek movie. Whether you're in a ten-metre M3 dogfighter or a ten mile long Xenon I you feel like you're inside a movie. It's remarkably cinematic, and the big ships somehow manage to be every bit as fun as the little ships. Once you own a few ships the game also gains some RTS elements, as you have access to a bewildering depth of command functions. Play your cards right and you can actually take of the X universe and become The Emperor Of Pirate Kind or whatever appellation you so chose. I'm quite serious-the game actually lets you take over the whole universe.

[Werne]

Hmm, Folding@home uses a lot of CPU power, I used to run it on my old dual-core and I somehow though it would use less power on an octa-core.

 

Ah well, I don't need that much CPU power anyway, I'm perfectly happy with just one core so they're free to use the rest of them. :smile:

[K00L]

Brrr

[slayerpaul]

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