The cathedrals that are the most visible surviving monument to the culture of the middle ages took a century each to build. Perhaps the truly great video games of our era will take just as long.
Cathedrals are built of stone and cement - materials that are durable and whose properties change little over centuries. Video games are built on ever-changing hardware and graphics APIs. Consider that, at this point, Star Citizen will span Windows 7 - Windows 11 and three console generations. How much code has changed in SC just to keep up with the march of progress around them?
Not a bad thought. But this looks more like a project that has been mismanaged like DN4. They have raised well past 370 million at this point.
They are basically making Wing Commander Privateer 4 at this point. Game wise they would have been better off shipping something years ago that worked and then iterating on it. However, it seems money wise the route they are going is their business decision and that is doing very well. There are a lot of tall 'promises' made that are not going to live up to the hype.
I personally gave up pre-buying any games ages ago. I have plenty of existing games that work. In some cases I have not played some for 20+ years and I am going back and playing them again and it is a blast as I do not remember much of it other than a vague 'I think I liked this one'.
What game I do see looks very nice. But there is not a lot of meat on those bones. In its current state looks like a very solid tech demo. When they finally ship I look forward to seeing what they got. But at this point I do not expect much.
