I made a post on October 12th about “An awesome new game I can’t stop thinking about”. That game is Miner Wars 2180. The game I would never be able to play on my old hardware. I said “I’ll pay any price it asks for. I can’t get those sweet graphics out of my head.”
Well, it’s for sale; $20.00. There’s three things that hold me back.
1. The bad ratings given by players and critics. They say the story is confusing, and it’s not a Descent wannabe. They also say it’s unfinished. But the biggest threat they say, is the Online DRM which requires you to be logged into their servers to play their game.
2. The demo crashed on me once, but only once.
3. $20 for such amazing graphics and gameplay, sounds like an unfinished game.
Now, the DRM doesn’t bug me as I have a solid connection (just as long as it doesn’t decide to reset on me, or refuse to connect). What does, and I do have to agree, the story makes no sense. In the demo, it seems to be a need to know basis; as in, you need to know these people even though you never met them.
The demo goes as “this place is going to blow! But there’s stranded miners inside, they need to be rescued!”, then it goes to a point where I’m seeing a timer counting down. I’m panicking, since I can’t pull up the NAV to tell me where I need to go. Then when it hits 0, all is good. All it was, was a “survive this long, help is coming” scenario.
It never told me this, because I was focusing too much on what was infront of me instead of the dialog.
There’s also mineral collection. It never tells you what these minerals can be used for. I believe one is for Oxygen supply. The others.. *shrug* maybe for newer weapons or ship upgrades? Or maybe it’s just a limit of the demo.
I’m sure these two things I mentioned will make sense, if I was to get the full version. When I did get “outside”, I could literally go anywhere I wanted. But I also had to worry about fuel. And there was one time where this large enemy ship was firing on me (this was when I had a “The Demo is complete!” splash on my screen, and caused me to die).