EVE General Discussion

It's a matter of perspective. Y2K was just the other day.

update is coming in two weeks. That not quick enough for ya?

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There is merit to some of the negative things being said about DUST. Criticism is good when it's constructive, and some of the criticisms voiced about DUST are perfectly valid.

IGN however is not worth the time and effort to click through and read to see what they have to say. They'll say anything to get click traffic, and are historically one of the worst sites for previewing games positively then shitting all over them at release. For some idiotic reason, a lot of people still go there to read about things.

Anyway, mainsteam gaming media sites like IGN are the ones that crapped over EVE when it first came out, yet today are doing massive writeups about EVE's amazing sandbox gameplay and community involvement. They flip flop constantly, serving only to get more advertisement revenue via clicks.

DUST is similar in some ways to other shooters, and at the same time vastly different. That can be tough for most professional reviewers to grasp.

I think the ign review is a bit harsh,

dust is really no worse than the other console shooters, the reviewers seems to have only played maybe a few rounds . at the most .


his points with the controls being off and the vehicles being wonky while at first glance may seem accurate it has not prevented people from mastering them in game .

so apparently they are not to the point that prevents people from being successful in the game .

he also glosses over the customization and deeper aspects of the game. I am sorely disappointed he did not mention anything about the HAVS
as these allow for a bit o fun in the game.


while dust is not a amazing fps it is a different game with a different take on your average console fps .

there fore it does offer the player a alternative to same ol console shootathons of today .

and apparently there has been enough players wanting something like this to keep the battles going . whether that will still be true come next year is something im personally interested in seeing, as i seriously doubt it will last .


but i would not be disappointed to be proven wrong .

To be fair, I think the walking in stations was just some code they borrowed from the work they had completed already with dust. If you've seen dust, they also walk in stations.

I log onto Black Ops and there are, at any given time, over 150k people on with me. DUST 5k. Don't need a review to tell me what that means.

And no amount of updates to a console FPS are going to change the fact that a new shooter is released every quarter or thereabouts. Number of space MMO's released to compete with EvE and slow their steady growth the past 10 years?

Here is my review. All the negatives the reviewer brought up were brought up by the playtesters ages ago. Washing CCP's balls won't make DUST a good game. If CCP wouldn't listen to the community in Beta I do not have much hope for DUST now that it is released and all the gimmics are gone.

I'm genuinely not.

Legitimate points about controls, collision and graphics are legitimate.

That having been said, I enjoy running around Dust when I have an odd 40 minutes to waste during the day.

And besides, was Eve perfect with Beta? Give Dust 20 expansions and see if IGN change their minds....

My only real concern with Dust is once it has reached full integration with Eve will the large null sec alliance who more or less have unlimited funds be able to roflstomp all before them..

I have talked to a few people who have tried Dust but have stop because they can see that unless you are part of a large corp with backing by Eve players you will not have a chance so there is no point in continuing.

Is Dust better now than a couple of months ago? I tried the Beta when I first got a PS3 and I must say I thought it was utter bollocks. I could however see what they were going to do and hoped for change and improvement.

Would love to know if that was done.