Games

There is this tiny company called Nihon Falcom. They make this game series called Trails that I adore. they have like three programmers work on each entry.

In the time since Star Citizen was announced they have released:

• The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails 2012
• Ys: Memories of Celceta 2012
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 2013
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II 2014
• Tokyo Xanadu 2015
• Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana 2016
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV
• Ys IX: Monstrum Nox 2019
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak II
• Ys X: Nordics

as well as a bunch of ports of older games to modern platforms and localizing them to the west. All of these are worth playing and some of these were GOTY material for me.

Its good to quantify how much time has passed, and how much you can get done with a smaller budget and focused scope.

Do you play indie games? They seem to be exactly what you're describing.

that's a fucking thing?!

don't judge until you've seen the dynamic cloth physics! that is what everyone wants, right?

I’ve been part of some amateur game dev projects and SC has the vibe of an amateur project where the devs are constantly focusing on whatever catches their fancy at the moment, going back and tinkering with things they’ve already made, and sort of aimlessly scope creeping. There’s nobody to strongarm them into writing, much less following a game design document.

All of that is intuitive to me to understand.

Then there is “the dream” that is being sold to people who want this type of game. That level of very specific fandom is also easy to understand, at least from a distance. People get super into all kinds of games and spend outsized amounts of money and time.

Star Citizen is like the perfect storm of these elements.

It'll release ANY DAY NOW. -The idiots that keep giving RSI money

I think it has turned into a sunk cost fallacy for so many now. They put so much money into it they can't afford for it to fail/not continue.

Get ‘em, boys.

Star Citizen is only available on a single platform too. At least Cyberpunk was multiplatform.

Writers, no matter how good, are just regular people. I have much higher expectations and not as much patience towards a game studio with infinite money and no released games whatsoever in over a decade.

People think you can slap on an "in development" sticker to anything and absolve it of all criticism.

You don’t understand they released a cinematic trailer of slow moving scenery only shots that makes it game of the year.

Everything.

Whatever they can get you to pay money for

That's the plan. They started with star citizen being the focus and then 2 years ago they pulled most of the staff to finish SQ42. Now that they're in the "polishing phase" for sq42 they have started pulling people back to work on star citizen. Next year is going to be big for star citizen, very very important core tech being implemented and a deluge of content should come with the reallocation of workers to star citizen.

Source: I'm literally obsessed with star citizen/sq42 and know too much about it, send help. (My wallet is ok lol)