GroovyBee Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 An updated version of Elite by Frontier Developments (Braben's company) is seeking Kickstarter funding :- After 1 day its nearly at 10% of the £1.25M funding mark with more than 2470 backers . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulBlazer Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 Yeah, at first, I was worried about the $2 mil mark, and then I read what they had there and thought about it. This is ELITE. The classic game. The grandfather of every space game ever made. A living legend. A game we ALL have played in one form or another, around the entire world. That alone should push it up to $2 mil. Sure, we have to wait 18 months for it, and it doesn't sound like it's going to have any quests and/or a story that you can follow if you wish, and for some reason there's no screenshots.....but it should be a awsome game! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 This sounds really promising but there are so many similar games now they will really have to work to have something special. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oracle_jedi Posted November 24, 2012 Share Posted November 24, 2012 Elite 4 has been in development for what? 14 years now? Braben wants another $2M and might have it ready by 2014? As Soulblazer points out there are no screen shots, just sample artwork and ideas. I'd love to see a fully updated Elite based game, even as a MMORPG, but I won't hold my breath. I bought Elite and Fronter for the ST. And Elite Plus, Frontier and First Encounters for the PC, even installing the 17 or so floppy disks. Braben conveniently skips right over the utter disaster that was First Encounters in his pitch, and as always writes co-creator Ian Bell out of Elite's history. Frontier Developments clearly can deliver games, but their track record leads me to think that Braben has neither the management nor technical skill to deliver on this massive undertaking. And I might be more willing to pitch some money to help him if he would stop undermining efforts to port the original Elite to obsolete platforms such as the Atari 8-bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mister_pal Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Considering how long Elite 4 has been in development now, I have serious reservations about this release ever seeing the light of day. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svenski Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 I've pledged, would be awesome if this makes it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oracle_jedi Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 This discussion did prompt me to install DosBox on my laptop and re-install Frontier, damn that game is still awesome almost 20 years later. I also was completely unaware of the remake in progress - Pioneer. I've installed the latest copy of that and it looks incredible. I've only just started poking around with it, but damn it looks impressive, and it's free! http://pioneerspacesim.net/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted December 12, 2012 Author Share Posted December 12, 2012 Multiplayer footage and player roles in development diary video #3 :- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gMbLjUjs1w Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Considering how long Elite 4 has been in development now, I have serious reservations about this release ever seeing the light of day. It sounds to e like they saw game projects getting large amounts of funding on kickstarter and they changed the name and created a kickstarter project. How else would the gameplay in that trailer be this far along so fast? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammR25 Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 This sounds a lot like Star Citizen with a lot less funding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cybergoth Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Still 400K away from a green light. I'm considering the Deluxe Boxed Edition, albeit @ 130 Euro that's quite expensive... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted January 3, 2013 Author Share Posted January 3, 2013 Its reached its funding target. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svenski Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Can't wait - was getting a bit fed up of the constant email updates though . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory DG Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 This. Looks. Friggin. AWESOME! I saw an article on it in PC Gamer magazine how it works BRILLIANTLY with the Oculus Rift VR headset. Then checked out some videos on YouTube... Man, I loved Frontier: Elite II on the ST! Can't wait for this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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