2 billion Harmless Rodents can't be wrong.
― PoMo with a shotgun (snoball), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone playing Dangerous?
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Friday, 19 December 2014 12:01 (nine years ago) link
I just had a look at the main web site. It's £40 for the game, but they also seem to want people to buy additional paint jobs for the ships, at £10 a pack!
Well that's me out.
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Friday, 19 December 2014 21:29 (nine years ago) link
Tempted, but in these days of steam winter sales, £40 for one game isn't happening.
― thomasintrouble, Friday, 19 December 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
Great game, pops up in Steam sales these days for you cheapskates
― DG, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
how robust a computer would one need to run this, DG?
― Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Thursday, 16 July 2015 09:16 (eight years ago) link
Why, Stevie, not a particularly hefty one. Quad-core CPU/4GB RAM/3D card with min 1GB RAM. I might as well whack some links in here
Official site
Player gallery
Ship builder
Trade tool (for cheats booooooooooo)
― DG, Thursday, 16 July 2015 12:44 (eight years ago) link
Thanks DG - I shall def consider it
― Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Thursday, 16 July 2015 12:59 (eight years ago) link
bought in the steam sale, ticks all the old first encounters/ original elite boxes, really enjoying it. Stevie, my cpu is not fast, 4GB ram and only a Radeon 6670 1Gb, and it keeps a steady 31/32 FPS.
― thomasintrouble, Saturday, 18 July 2015 14:47 (eight years ago) link
it is £40 today! yikes! do you have to join steam to get the discounts?
― Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Saturday, 18 July 2015 19:03 (eight years ago) link
but no planet landings?
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Saturday, 18 July 2015 21:18 (eight years ago) link
It drops down to £25 fairly regularly - I'd expect another sale at the start of August to coincide with Gamescom
Talking of which they have a "big" announcement to make abt Elite there, smart money being on planetary landings which they've been hinting at for a while now
― DG, Sunday, 19 July 2015 16:19 (eight years ago) link
Yep
https://www.elitedangerous.com/en/horizons
― DG, Monday, 24 August 2015 19:01 (eight years ago) link
cool, but pricey ?
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Monday, 24 August 2015 22:10 (eight years ago) link
ie, this game with planetary landings would now cost me £70 ?
I'll wait for reviews and such, at the moment this game is beyond my reach
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Monday, 24 August 2015 22:13 (eight years ago) link
If you buy the game now and the expansion later yeah but if you wait till it comes out £40 gets you the expansion and 'base game' (I agree this is a little confusing)
― DG, Monday, 24 August 2015 23:08 (eight years ago) link
ah right, but won't original buyers be a little pissed at that?
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OVPOV-aSsg
― 👁 (am0n), Thursday, 31 August 2017 19:30 (six years ago) link
my memory of this was trying to play it on my Dad's BBC Micro computer as a kid. Everything was white lines on a black background. Every key on the keyboard had a function. I was very good at crashing the thing into the ground.
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Friday, 1 September 2017 08:13 (six years ago) link
^^^Elite Plus was the best version, tasty 256 colour MCGA graphics
Still not met a (new) Thargoid
― DG, Monday, 4 December 2017 12:55 (six years ago) link
:O
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-T6VFGzdK4
― am0n, Friday, 15 December 2017 14:36 (six years ago) link
that vid makes the game seem fun, is it fun?
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Friday, 15 December 2017 15:24 (six years ago) link
Not managed to get into Dangerous because my attention is way too short these days. But I fired it up the other night, sat there listening to my podcasts whilst watching ships flying around the spaceport. In vr it was quite nice.
Eventually bothered to try and learn some stuff, combat trained, figured out all the menus and space navigation. Almost gave up after my first mission to hyper-jump to another system was scuppered because a bloody big moon was in the way of my jump.
All in all, think I'm going to revisit as my interest was tickled.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Monday, 21 December 2020 23:56 (three years ago) link