I'm not sure you could get an 8GB GPU in 2012 - could you? And 16GB of RAM wasn't really a consideration for most.

Idk man...Star Citizen is a famous resource hog.. and i dont think they reinvent the wheel with SQ42

Last time they had a free weekend and I checked it out, the game still ran like doodoo on my machine built in 2016.

Also, Windows 11 minimum. On a Bulldozer. That doesn't sound quite right.

Yeah, fucking what?

Star Citizen?

Optimized?

Its notoriously a horrifically buggy and unoptimized branch of literally the Crysis engine which was famously memed into oblivion as being quite hardware intensive.

... on the very hardware specifically mentioned.

That's made basically no progress in terms of optimization for about a decade now.

This is delusional.

Like did nobody see the recent 'hey guys this is our dev branch you can see how much more optimized it is - woops its buggy laggy and crashes all the time' live stream?

For him it seems fine 😁

Oops, same, I paid 37 dollars back in 2012. I did NOT remember this at all, though I occasionally watched news about Star Citizen, thinking what idiots would buy the game lol

That was star citizen, the mmo, this is squadron 42, the single player game

Even as someone who is legitimately excited for this game to come out, this reaction is so completely justified. CIG have only themselves to blame for all the skepticism at this point.

Of course, they're also continuing to make money hand over fist, so I guess they don't really care...

Can't say for certain, but I think voice acting contracts with famed actors were already announced. So the money has likely already been sent out and something will be released, one way or another.

Considering the game still requires a minimum of 16gb of memory and an 8gb graphics card I wouldn't say it's not pushing more and more graphics. All that the specs imply is that the bottleneck will be the GPU.

The people that were allowed to play the game were very happy with it this weekend...better than anticipated actually.

Just a bit more polishing everything is basically ready any day now trust

They let around 100 people play the game throughout the weekend.

All reviews where very favorable.

So,.I think sq42 is pretty close to release

I don’t know if I will have the patience to watch 50 hours of cutscenes even in second monitor mode.

I see you're not familiar with the Hideo Kojima method of storytelling. He's still got the Guinness Record for it.

I dunno - Wing Comander III and IV with Mark Hammill, Malcolm McDowell, John Rhys-Davies - that's a top (bottom?) tier trash sci-fi cast.

I preferred them to the movie even just as a movie - well the story was probably worse, but at least you got to fly space ships in the gaps, and that was the first time I'd seen erm ... "heavyset" middle-aged luke skywalker

These two were how i revised for my school exams - without those, i dunno, I might have had to revise.

Thats not what they reported.. they said its a lot of things to do and people did play at different speeds.

Which means you can influence how the game plays out

50 hours of b-movie cut scenes it just every AAA game these days. Regardless of what some people really want to believe, no games are ever really on par with actual A-list cinema. That's not to say no game has a good story. Being interactive provides cover for a lot of mediocre storytelling, but the reality of the situation is that actual Hollywood grade production, direction and writing simply isn't making its way into game development. This may change as gaming becomes bigger than cinema, but I still thing the medium presents a lot of challenges.

It will run surprisingly well.

Like Cyberpunk 2077 on the PS4.

There are so many things to actually criticize CIG for that it seems weird to come up with something like this out of nowhere. When they were last selling SQ42 as a standalone it was $40. Despite all of the entirely justified memes about expensive ships you can still buy the complete Star Citizen game for $45 and unlock all those ships in game. While CIG have zero problem shilling $5000 ship packages to overly eager whales, they've always kept their base asking price impressively low.

They are getting more money each year...

Me too, though I was dumb and also bought a ship in one of the first ship sales. I kinda wanna load it back up and see what it looks like now

Plot twist: Crackhappy converted after bitch ex wife and is now happily married to his husband

• Grand Theft Auto 7 releases. Not 6. Seven.

Yes, I think it would be way more fun to play if they spoke some language I don't understand or at least said "frak" a lot.

Recent reviews: mixed 64%

Technically true but multi-player part was reached after the seventh day in Kickstarter and .persistence after 4 weeks and 3 million...so very very early

It has been crowdfunded by all the contributions that went toward Star Citizen

That's not true. You don't know how much went to the Roberts family and inventors (which have extremely beneficial put options as per published financial reporting). It's a fact that Chris Robert lied about the scope and nature of external investment.

Alright, 20hrs later and additional stats are now available for the wishlist: Currently sitting at rank 429 with18,002 players wishlisted. https://steamdb.info/app/4045720/charts/

It will be Vulcan exclusive as of the latest leaks... so.. take everything on that page with a grain of salt