I've never played nor heard of Elite. I am therefore very happy to watch this Matt Chat. My first experience in this sort of style was probably Wing Commander: Privateer as you mentioned. The first game I owned and played that came close was probably Star Raiders for the Atari 2600. However the overlay for that got misplaced quickly, and I think it faded to the back of the drawers. Therefore, Privateer (twelve years later?) was where it really picked up for me.
Forgive me for never having heard of Elite. That's probably a tough thing to read after you've referred to it as the greatest game of all time.
How is the animation of this game? From your video, it looks like it is fairly smooth with the occasional slowdown when animation kicks up. That sure was a lot of debris I saw during the aftermath of the various battles. It seems to me like the speed or "framerate" (if you want to call it that) would be fairly important to this game in order to maintain interest. It's just a guess. I would really have to sit down and play it. Wireframe graphics are perfectly fine so long as they animate well, in my opinion. The majority of the animation for Elite looks pretty good, but of course I was watching a flash video.
I think my favorite part of Elite would probably be recovering the cargo floating out in space since it has a bit of a surprise factor to it. Is the only goal of the game to achieve the best status and wealth? Does it end in any sort of way? I don't recall finishing Privateer, but I know there was some sort of plot. Would you usually reach a point in Elite where you would start over due to achieving the best status, or could you keep pushing through the game and still have fun despite achieving the best status? Seems like once you hit top status you would probably want to just start over to maintain the challenge factor or goal.
In a game like say...Street Rod, I *think* you could pretty much just keep racing and doing whatever you wanted to forever until finally challenging and beating the King of the Road/County. Didn't know if there was some sort of "finish it off" type of ending like that for Elite.
I've never played nor heard of Elite. I am therefore very happy to watch this Matt Chat. My first experience in this sort of style was probably Wing Commander: Privateer as you mentioned. The first game I owned and played that came close was probably Star Raiders for the Atari 2600. However the overlay for that got misplaced quickly, and I think it faded to the back of the drawers. Therefore, Privateer (twelve years later?) was where it really picked up for me.
Forgive me for never having heard of Elite. That's probably a tough thing to read after you've referred to it as the greatest game of all time.
How is the animation of this game? From your video, it looks like it is fairly smooth with the occasional slowdown when animation kicks up. That sure was a lot of debris I saw during the aftermath of the various battles. It seems to me like the speed or "framerate" (if you want to call it that) would be fairly important to this game in order to maintain interest. It's just a guess. I would really have to sit down and play it. Wireframe graphics are perfectly fine so long as they animate well, in my opinion. The majority of the animation for Elite looks pretty good, but of course I was watching a flash video.
I think my favorite part of Elite would probably be recovering the cargo floating out in space since it has a bit of a surprise factor to it. Is the only goal of the game to achieve the best status and wealth? Does it end in any sort of way? I don't recall finishing Privateer, but I know there was some sort of plot. Would you usually reach a point in Elite where you would start over due to achieving the best status, or could you keep pushing through the game and still have fun despite achieving the best status? Seems like once you hit top status you would probably want to just start over to maintain the challenge factor or goal.
In a game like say...Street Rod, I *think* you could pretty much just keep racing and doing whatever you wanted to forever until finally challenging and beating the King of the Road/County. Didn't know if there was some sort of "finish it off" type of ending like that for Elite.
Thanks for the video, Matt.
- Chris
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