A game so good that ...

[Cholmondely]

I can honestly say that each time I come into one of the stations in E: D in VR I'm truly awestruck. Something I've wished for since 1984.

Thank you for all this... I had no idea!

[ffutures]

My problem with VR is that I have a weird problem with the retina in my left eye - it's sort of creased due to tissue growth around it - and that eye sees straight lines as a bit wavy, which makes it very difficult to fuse 3D images properly. It's one of the reasons why I don't ride a motorbike any more, but for general purposes I can get around well enough because there are lots of other visual cues to distance - it isn't my dominant eye anyway, so it isn't too big a problem. Unfortunately things don't work so well when I'm looking at two flat images and trying to turn them into a 3D view. So I don't have a 3D TV or VR gear, and I've given up on 3D photography which used to be a hobby. I can see how not seeing the keyboard would be a problem with a VR setup for something as complicated as a flight simulator or even Elite / Oolite, so I doubt I'll be messing around with it any time soon.

Getting back to the actual topic, Oolite is actually the only game I play on my PC other than solitaires etc., it's a 3GHz Windows 10 box with a Radeon card which works well enough for that, though my main reason for getting it was to run OCR and drawing software that needed a lot of processing speed etc. The software I use is old enough that it doesn't need super-high speed, so I doubt I'll be changing any time soon.

[Commander Mick]

Elite Dangerous was the one game I actually did buy whole new computer for and dare I mention Star Citizen. Right now, I like them both and would play them back to back, but I like the latter more these days....

[Cholmondely]

Elite Dangerous was the one game I actually did buy whole new computer for and dare I mention Star Citizen. Right now, I like them both and would play them back to back, but I like the latter more these days....

Umm... just read the wikipedia page on Star Citizen... how do you know that they are not just ripping you off for your money?

[Commander Mick]

How do you know as much as any game developer promising a great game. Elite Dangerous may have beaten Star Citizen in releasing a complete game, but it looks like their expansion isn't everything it was originally planned to be. Star Citizen may only be a tech demo, atm, but boy it's one hell of exciting tech demo. They can have my money and a bit more.... I want to add to my fleet of one ship, a F7C-S Ghost Hornet and thanks to help from other players and some grinding out delivery missions with the Origin 125a I brought with gifted aUEC and I can now afford to completely upgrade my Hornet. To my feet I would love to add the Cutlass Black and maybe Mercury Star Runner if it becomes available again during the next Ship expo. I would buy the Carrack built for Exploration.

Seriously, I did initially buy my computer for Elite Dangerous, and only brought the Hornet starter package for Star Citizen to try it out and initially I was unimpressed with it, until it's became what it is today.