Heracles Porsche, Aiwha Bait and Zaria Min Deir join us extracting relevant information from EVE Online’s CSM minutes. The Amarr Challenge Event is discussed and a viable path to DUST happiness is presented. Having DUST 514 as a backdrop, Eternal Crusade’s development and gameplay are analyzed before shout outs. (Summary credit: Aelns Dene)
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I mounted kind of a poor intellectual defense for why I still play this game… but I was serious when I said watch my videos to understand why I still play this game. When I have an great game on dust, chances are it ends up on my youtube. My channel makes a better explanation for why this game is worth playing then I can.
I don’t think anyone needs an “intellectual defense” for playing a game. Do you enjoy it? If the answer is yes, then that’s all you need.
And to clarify I never said the game wasn’t fun to play. Merely that it cannot survive on life support forever. I remain hopeful for the future but as things are, Dust lack much of the things that keep me energized and excited to play, even if the day to day gameplay is amusing.
Dust still has some great moments, but our small concurrent online numbers and the intractable(as measured by CCP’s meager level of commitment) pathologies of the engine-as-implemented mean that those moments are infrequent, and between those great moments lie wide, dark valleys of frustration.
My positive take-away from the game is that when it’s good, it’s very good.
Have also been following Eternal Crusade(not in alpha though, gunshy of alphas now). It looks very tight, if the mechanics maintain or improve on their current fidelity it’s enough to get me over the 3rd person thing – gameplay always comes first.
Looking at Eternal Crusade i can see lessons from EVE and Dust written all over it – not sure if that is actually the case but the choices being made certainly speak directly to our shared experience in Dust.