Looks like X-Rebirth is gonna be on consoles soon

Read some of the reviews that X fans gave it:

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/x-rebirth

So they charge £40, design the entire game around a XBox/Playstation controller and strip the game of all complexity. I remember them trying to port an X game to the original XBox but they backed out of it and for the best. They have been working on this game for 7 years too...lol another great PC franchise ruined because of consoles.

Them reducing the complexity doesn't sound like such a bad thing when you consider what the older games in the series are like. From what I've heard, it's essentially single player EVE online, and a slight arcadization of that style isn't such a bad thing. I am more concerned with the horrible performance reports I am hearing of--people with Titans barely getting 40fps.

No it won't. It just easier to believe that the game was built for the consoles instead of accepting the game is extremely ambitious and being built by a developer with less than 30 employees on a tiny budget and is just not finished. They don't have the the money to port it to consoles. They didn't even have the money for proper QA.

This is how Egosoft is. After 10 years of them making the X series you would think people would understand that. However ignorance is bliss and people just blame the consoles when they don't fully understand something.

@cfisher2833: They streamlined the series in response to a decade of criticize by people that the game series is too difficult and complex. However they are attempting to keep the depth of the series. It's an extremely ambitious goal that is too ambitious for such a small developer.

Then why did they completely dumb down their game if they are only releasing it on PC?

It's extremely easy to port to PS4, wouldn't be surprised to see a PS4 port announced shortly

Same goes for Rome 2, that was also obviously designed for a controller

They are removing unnecessary complexity that didn't add to the game. That's not dumbing it down. You still build fleets and an empire but in a way that is less dependent on menu surfing and more "immersive". All of it is there but it's extremely unpolished and a lot of things aren't well thought out.

It's ignorant to believe they are porting to the consoles. There is no basis for that other than pure ignorance and fans who somehow cannot believe an underfunded, understaffed studio who is clearly being rushed to get a game out put out an unfinished, unpolished game.

I guess we will have to wait and see but the fact that a 360 controller is better supported than the KB+M makes me really worried. X Rebirth made it to top seller on steam (even priced at £40!) when everyone already knew how complex the franchise was so it's not like it was necessary to make all those changes. And it appears that a lot of the complexity that they removed wasn't just the unnecessary complexity of the previous games.

Use of a gamepad is a good thing, because flying with keyboard and mouse wasn`t very immersive.

PC gamers may be quite whiny sometimes. Everybody by now should have a gamepad. I my self have 4 different controllers. They are bloody cheap now.

And no, this game won`t come to consoles, it`s too niche and complex for them, and the dev just doesn`t have money for that.

Lol, no.

Good luck porting this unoptimized and buggy mess to the consoles.

Too niche and complex? Have you seen the backlash that rebirth has recieved? It's clear that this is gonna end up on consoles

All the games from "X" series used to get a havy backlash around the time of the release, some of the reviewers/gamers considered them virtually unplayable, but Egosoft always ironed out most important issues with patches.

I wouldnt take 326 users opinion any indication on how good the game is. There is a discussion about the game on RPS forums and while indeed is a bit disappointing most of the disappointment comes from issues that plagued previous games on x-universe and knowing egosoft and their post support on games those are likely to be fixed. Complaints are mainly about performance and combat and egosoft know it and are working to fix bugs according to this find in egosoft forums

http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=348351

I'm glad I'm not the only one who was pissed off by the price tag. **** that.

how is that clear, when there is pretty much no evidence that points to it coming to consoles

how is that clear, when there is pretty much no evidence that points to it coming to consoles

your reasoning makes no sense.

Not sure about the complexity as I've never played an X game or followed this one but the controller support is likely because most Steam games have it. They're trying to get controller support as the norm for when Steam OS comes out.

Egosoft games always launch in terrible state. You either deal with it or hold off with purchase for 6 months while waiting for patches.

The game is shit on a fundemental level. It's not the bugs, it's the design. No amount of patches are going to fix it.

Well read the forums or user reviews to see. Patching a game is fine to fix performance issues and bugs but when you completely change the gameplay to make it perfectly playable on a console then you have a problem. I don't understand why they would do that on a PC exclusive especially one like the X series other than them wanting to port it over (just like they wanted to do with the original XBox).

As far as I can tell from users' reviews, they complain mostly about bugs, lousy optimization and the unfinished state of the game. You can easily describe any X game Egosoft released exactly like that lol...

But yeah, they screwed up with that price tag. They should have released it on early access on Steam first.

The game is abysmal, consoles don't want it.

The developer openly stated on wikipedia that the game won´t be on consoles.