The good:
Will there be an alpha cycle à la Minecraft? Yes.
so hopefully we'll get a chance to test it out soon.
Can we have build-your-own-ships? Yes
Can me and my buddies all crew up on one ship? Yes
Not sure how this will work. Although the idea of me driving while a friend lays down fire from a turret sounds interesting. Also could be cool if you could board enemy ships then drag em back to dock to fix up and sell to other players.
But what about planet gameplay? There will be planet gameplay
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The bad
What will be the price? No price decided yet. A solo mode should be avaible, and there will certainly be a monthly fee for playing on the multiverse (MMO fashion) since even when you will not be connected trajectory and your ship's computer will still be simulated.
Will the game be from the perspective of first person inside the ship or will it be zoomed out? First person inside the ship.
I prefer third person. Being able to see your ship makes it easier to move about and looks a lot cooler.
The ugly
What do you plan for graphics ? Realistics à la EVE ? Simple graphics. Very simple. The game will have no textures. Flat colored polygons with modern lighting, but no textures. None. (except a few)
Honestly... Frontier - Elite II aesthetically looks pretty ugly. Not exactly the strongest argument. It does NOW, but it was beautiful back in the day.
The first halo looked beautiful back in the day too.
So no textures...could you mod textures in? I don't know much about technical stuff (polygons are made of candy, IIRC) so that might not be possible but I'd prefer it tbh.
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And the first Halo still does look good.
Uniocular
I'm going to have to agree that Halo does still look pretty good. Not by today's standards, but just in general.
Still... no textures? I normally don't care about graphics, but that sounds... ew.
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I loved the look of Star Fox and Shadow Squadron, so no textures doesn't mean much to me.
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Notch is starting over
because the game is "not fun".
OMG NO NOSECONES
That kind of is the point - if it's not fun, who will play it?
Not-fun is what we do at work.
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Conceptually Frameworked
Looks like he's thinking of making it a bit of a shooter though.
Which is disappointing to me, but okay.
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Nothing new from that vid...