Elite to make a comeback?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20897768 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20897768)
That would be interesting to see. Amazing how much money a game needs - I wonder how much the original Elite cost to make.
I remember being really crap at Elite ;D
I was quite good at it. We used to play it in the college computer room virtually every day. ;D
LOL now show your age Freddy, what computer were you using?
The original Elite on an Amiga was good. At least I think that one was the original.
It had various names when it crossed onto PC. I always found the later versions to be a bit too realistic on the fighting with lasers etc, and less enjoyable on that front. Frontier being the sequel.
A lot of games have used trading within them. I feel the game has to evolve on many fronts, not just graphical. X1, X2 and X3 (http://www.egosoft.com/games/x3/info_en.php) have taken that genre of game quite a way forward. There are other space trading/building games as well, like Eve (http://www.eveonline.com/).
One to keep an eye on though.
Elite pre-dates the Amiga (which is what I played it on), it was a BBC game :o
Yes Elite first appeared on the BBC machines. We were mostly playing on BBC 'B' computers. :o
My dad used to bring BBC's home occasionally from the college computing department, along with commodore PETs and early 1980's Sharp computers LOL
Does anyone know if there is a nice space/trading game like EVE but without subscription ? So I pay once and play forever...
Freddy do you mean virtual or multiplayer?
Has to be multi player. MMO..
The only game I can think of is X3 but that is a single player game.
Though a bit of looking around, I did find this...
http://www.mmobomb.com/review/black-prophecy (http://www.mmobomb.com/review/black-prophecy)
Yeah I read above you mentioned X3, but single player games are a bit of a yawn for me these days. That Black Prophecy one I had already found but they shut it down a while back due to financial problems.
Oh well, I will play the 14 day free trial of Eve and see if I can rearrange some money if I like it.
Thanks anyway :)