![]() I had to select the locations, buy the equipment, set everything up, and then set up security craft (and set up their patrols). I now was able to build a trade empire that ran itself. The controls for managing the trade empire, capital ships, turrets, etc. X2 came out later, and I was even happier. I could charge whatever I wanted for scruffin fruit or whatever they ate, and they had to call me "sir." My initial dealings with the Paranid were not friendly, and by the time I stopped playing the game, I had a monopoly on their food supply. I loved the detail that they put into the cockpits for each type of ship and the various improvements over the initial game. I could pilot new ships! I could remotely control ships to run the economy. I loved the first game, but I of course wanted more. My history with the X series goes back to the beginning. If it sucks, it sucks, but it is yet for me to decide. I am writing this because I do not wish people to judge me based on my acquisition of this game. Admittedly, it might have been on a wish list somewhere, so I am partially responsible, but I did not buy it. The cockpit is just there because people wanted a cockpit.įorget X:R, it's a lost cause (or a fraud if you ask some). They have even applied a "cartoon like" filter to make it an insult (think a filter like Borderlands 2) In fact the cockpit has just some minor info displayed and is practically useless. Yes they failed to deliver what space games have since 1984 (at least). Behind the matrix you can see your useless and irritating and badly rendered co-pilot Yisha, saying stupid comments and her head turning in an non-human way to see you.Īlso the cockpit has no radar if you noticed (there is NO radar in the game, except some "deep space scanner" that is actually more of an arcade minigame). The only time you actually "move" your head is when you enter or exit the cockpit (using the prerendered "sit down" sequence!), or when you automatically turn right to check a semitransparent matrix. If you want to look 30 degrees to the right, you have to TURN THE SHIP. Yes they don't give you what flight simulators did the last 20-25 years. ![]() You see in X:R you DO NOT MOVE YOUR HEAD. The problem with X:R rebirth cockpit is that it could easily be 2D instead of 3D (ok except some lighting effects). I will report my findings, free (as much as possible) of preconceptions and unpolluted by other people's opinions, as well as I can. I'm trying to psyche myself up for the task of doing the install, and then being disappointed.and then powering through that disappointment to enjoy the game hidden beneath that layer of hate that other players have heaped upon it. However, I haven't tried it yet, so maybe it will work just fine. I believe that they probably intended the game for console only and then went to PC as a kind of afterthought. I did read, though, some disturbing information about the lack of joystick support. I want to see specks of space dust glistening in the cold alien starlight on the windshield, and watch them glow red hot and ionize in the atmosphere as I attempt planetary landing. I want to feel its nurturing computer displays, keeping me warm, and protecting me from the vast nothingness of space outside. Everything he says is the opposite of how I feel. Clearly, I saw, this man is my antithesis. He goes on from there, but after that point, he had already lost me. I played X-3 games, and they did away with the cockpit in all of those, and I was very disappointed with them on many levels, but most because the lack of a cockpit made me feel like a guy in a space suit riding around on the outside of a rocket like Slim Pickens in Dr. A cockpit makes you feel like you're in a ship. My feelings on this are exactly the opposite. He complained most vociferously about the cockpit.how his view of the universe was obstructed by the interior of the ship. However, his mistake was that he showed the game as he complained about it, and the game really looked cool. I watched a video that was about 25 minutes of some guy disparaging the game. So, I haven't installed it yet, but I have had time to look at reviews. They so often want me to create numerous accounts, join online communities, download patches, remember passwords for stuff that I'll never log into again, deal with antipirating software, and then take four hours to 's a real fear of new installations and all the hassle that new games create these days. I have not yet installed it because I have this fear of new installations. ![]() I received XRB for a present last December.
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