Star Citizen Implied to Have Open, Fully Explorable Cities

So, does anybody look at Star Citizen and see some No Man's Sky looking back at you? The massively-multiplayer space game has been in development for years and years, and every time they pop back in the news, it's undoubtedly on the tail of some huge announcement. The hype surrounding this game isn't as prominent as No Man's Sky, in large part because it's very much a Master PC Race exclusive and it doesn't have Sony's huge marketing machine at its back, but the game's fans are still enraptured by the promise of the game even though it seems almost impossible to keep, at this rate.

The latest promise was shown off at last weekend's CitizenCon 2947, which I guess is a thing now. In a trailer, they showed off a brand new Blade Runner-esque city which, Cloud Imperium Games founder Chris Roberts implies, is fully explorable.

"So, we've gone a bit bigger. The big difference we have with [the planet] ArcCorp now, is that there isn't really a skybox. Everything is real. Well, not real, it's digital but it's there"

You can see what he's talking about in this giant hour-long video. We went ahead and skipped to the mark, but if you want to watch the whole thing, nothing's stopping you.



Star Citizen is currently rolling out Version 3.0 of the Alpha version, and most early reports of the game are promising, but still, this game is showing all the hallmarks of a No Man's Sky: all hype and no action. And at this rate, considering it started raising money five years ago over Kickstarter, it might just never leave alpha/beta. Games can get away with doing that these days. Kind of gross, right?

Well, it's not that important. No one's making death threats over this game (yet), so as far as I'm concerned, they can make all the promises they want as long as they either deliver or prepare to backpedal like crazy when they fail.

We might be able to forgive No Man's Sky, but you know what they say: Fool me once.