Despite having played a few games I want to write about, I’ve been extra busy and haven’t had time to write a post. Instead I’ve just been watching the disappointing progress of the Outcast HD Kickstarter campaign. It’s got 12 days left and ~$370,000 left to raise, so it needs a serious boost. Seriously, go donate to this. Outcast is awesome. It’s only $20 to get a copy of the game when it’s released, and if they don’t meet their goal you won’t be charged anything.
Anyway, to fix my not-posting problem I’m resorting to a tactic I’ve used before: making fun of a game’s name.
Now, I’m actually very excited about all the upcoming space-based games in development right now (and I may even post about some of them soon, if by “soon” I mean “in a few months”). TIE Fighter was a very important game in my youth, and both it and Freespace 2 are deserving of History Lesson treatment in the future. So I’m looking forward to the recent crop of Kickstarter-funded space sim games, including the two giants, Star Citizen and Elite: Dangerous. The latter promises to be a fully modern entry in the series that started the whole open-universe, free-flying space sim genre, and it’s looking really good. But oh, that name. It’s as if the developers just picked a subtitle at random. Well, two can play at that game. Here we go:
Elite: Scary
Elite: Intriguing
Elite: Dastardly
Elite: Afterburner
Elite: Shiny
Elite: Capitalism
Elite: Slightly Worrying
Elite: Make It So
Elite: Spaceman
Elite: Serious Business
More after the jump.
Elite: Launch Sequence Initiated
Elite: Pew Pew
Elite: Buy A Joystick
Elite: The New Hotness
Elite: Mostly Harmless
Elite: Take Proper Safety Precautions
Elite: Triumphant
Elite: Space Economics
Elite: Aimless
Elite: Frisky
Elite: You May Buy A VR Headset For This
Elite: Sexy Never Left
Elite: Calm
Elite: Back In Action
Elite: Trade Stuff
Elite: Peculiar
Elite: Stay On Target
Elite: LASERS
Elite: In Space No One Can Hear How Elite You Are
Elite: All Systems Nominal
Elite: For The Love Of Money
Elite: Confusing
Elite: Zoom Zoom
Elite: Escape Velocity
Elite: Not Exactly Rocket Science, But Close
Elite: There Is Yaw In It
Elite: More Power To Shields
Elite: Spaceships Are Awesome
Elite: Fleeting
Elite: Spacetime
Elite: Cockpit
Elite: Sparkly
Elite: Big
Elite: Swashbuckling
Elite: Watch Your Six
Elite: Space Never Changes
Elite: Controlled Burn
Elite: Bogeys
Elite: Weapons Hot
Elite: Even More Elite
That’s all I’ve got at the moment. Feel free to leave your own ridiculous names in the comments.
Aditya Raj Bhatt
Haha, can not match you in the names department, just dropped by to say that a new version of dungeon crawl stone soup is out (0.14) and it has some _massive_ changes, so you might want to play it and see.
waltorious
I actually have played it, but thanks for the heads up anyway. A new Roguelike Updates post is one of several I have in the works.
Gregg B
Haha, this is great. My favourite is Elite: Make It So.
Elite: IST (what could IST stand for?)
Elite: It’s A Trap!
Elite: Floating in a Tin Can
Elite: You’ve Tried The Rest, Now Try The Best
Elite: Cosmic Space Furniture
Elite: 1337
Elite: Ninja’d
Elite: pwd.
My god, Elite: Dangerous really is a terrible name.
waltorious
Elite: Schmelite
Elite: Unsettling
Elite: Explosions
Elite: Oh My
Elite: Tokyo Drift
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Elite: Elite