@pusheadmetal: But there IS a single-player mode. This game has "open play", where you may encounter, and form wings with, other players and "solo" play - which means it's just you. Both modes have a huge number of NPC ships though...so there'a always other ships around (both as part of your missions and just, you know, cruising / mining / trading / pirating etc).
What there isn't (in case you really, really wanted one) in an offline mode...you need to be hooked up to the net to play this.
@CruiserCaptain: Agreed. EU was definitely in my top 5 games on the 360, having never previously played a turn-based strat game. absolutely loved it. sad that the next one won't be coming to the One (think it's pc and PS4 only) but maybe sometime in the future. Didn't get quite into EW - not sure why - think EU scratched the itch as much as I needed it too, but EW was also great.
I guess if I get really desperate I can fire up Massive Chalice but it's not the same!
@Xristophoros: I'm not telling myself "how great the Kinect is". Personally, like I said, I have absolutely no interest in it at all. Like America Football games...I couldn't care less about them...but they sell in huge numbers so I realise there's a demand for them. There appears to also be a demand for the Kinect, whoever buys it and whatever use they have in mind for it. Somewhere around 30 million of them. How do you know what MS had in mind for it? Also, you say it's a "massive failure for the X1", but as you've already mentioned, it was initially developed for the 360.
I don't wish to get in a personal argument with you (I'm sure you have better things to do; I know I do) but I think it's you that's deluding yourself, and need to realise that it WAS a success, HAS sold in huge numbers, and MS ARE (probably) very happy with the current sales (even if they had to accept that a lot of gamers (like me) didn't want it so they unbundled it from the One). As you said yourself, think rationally.
@Xristophoros: I don't like the Kinect and I'd never buy it - I just don't play games that would make use of it. But, you seem to have agreed that something between 24m and 30m of them have been shipped....and you call it a "colossal failure"?? Really? It doesn't matter why people buy these things; MS wouldn't have designed it and thought "right - we are ONLY going to sell these to people who play Zumba or some other dance game, nothing else". They would have designed it and said "right - let's sell as many as we can!"
>24million? A Colossal failure? Come one now. I have no love for that thing at all...but nothing that sells between 24 and 30 million can be termed a failure.
MS are in the business of business...they would only continue to manufacture things that people continue to buy. A surprising number of people by the look of it.
@rzaartz: Yeah. I played some TR on the 360 - and now i's giving it another go on the One (thank you Games with Gold!). I mean, it's a good game, with some good combat, and looks great but it's not about raiding tombs. The original games were all about that - you couldn't progress unless you solved whatever tomb you were in. But on TR, you can progress all the way through without ever going in a tomb. I mean, there are some simple tombs as side quests; see a thing, jump on to a box to make something raise up a bit so you can jump up to the thing, then leave the tomb, but it's not the same.
Like I said, TR was a pretty good game, but there's no tomb raiding to be had.
@Sohereiam: as long as they continue to make discs, i'll keep buying them (unless I die first obv). not just because of the amount of time it takes to d/l these games, but so I can sell it on again to recoup some of the costs when I'm done with it. I rarely buy brand new games....pick them up on eBay (other online auction sites are available!) for, say £25...play for 3 months, then sell for £15. done.
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