[warning] Unpopular Opinion

[Mitth'raw'nuruodo]

Making space freighters look like actual trucks was a lazy gimmicky design choice.

As a fan of space sims, I was excited to see a game called "Star Trucker" in the upcoming games list, as it sounded like a great idea. But seeing these "space trucks" in a game which marks "simulation" as its genre, tells me developers are more interested in gimmicks than immersion and simulation.

Also pretty lazy. Instead of putting effort creating interesting and meaningful new designs of space ships, you just borrowed the appearance of a real-world vehicle. You used the same methodology as Treasure Planet - a Disney cartoon movie made for children.

Disappointed to see this kind lazy inauthentic design approach in a post The Expanse science-fiction production.

[GastoneFrizzi]

it's an art style, not a gimmick. No idea where you got this opinion from, the game is called Star TRUCKER, where there are TRUCKS in the STARS

[HENRYda8th187]

Maybe he wants space ship delivery service simulator.

[Fabe]

LOL, yeah no. I think a large appeal of the is that fact the ships do look like real world trucks. Go play Elite if you want actual spaceships. Also Disney's Treasure Planet was a pretty good movie.

[zero]

... it's called star trucker? its about trucks, not space ships.

if you want to deliver cargo in a space ship way rather then a truck there is like a dozen games in that genre already.

also, for the record, your desires would be inauthentic, a dev making a game inspired by a common job and putting it in a fantasy setting is an interesting concept.

[Kambien]

Huge amount of the appeal is the fact they look like semi's.

[The Field Marshal]

Originally posted by Mitth'raw'nuruodo:

Making space freighters look like actual trucks was a lazy gimmicky design choice.

As a fan of space sims, I was excited to see a game called "Star Trucker" in the upcoming games list, as it sounded like a great idea. But seeing these "space trucks" in a game which marks "simulation" as its genre, tells me developers are more interested in gimmicks than immersion and simulation.

Also pretty lazy. Instead of putting effort creating interesting and meaningful new designs of space ships, you just borrowed the appearance of a real-world vehicle. You used the same methodology as Treasure Planet - a Disney cartoon movie made for children.

Disappointed to see this kind lazy inauthentic design approach in a post The Expanse science-fiction production.

This more sounds like "your" "personal" opinion to be honest, that or this is an attempt at a clown farm. Most discussions I have seen involving Star Trucker are very positive, the only negative is were all impatient and want to be in huge space convoy's in our huge space Kenworths. Apart from that I would say it's an unpopular minority.

Most space sci-fi games are all the same with small variations to make them slightly stand out, Star Trucker plays on an entirely new perspective and is very refreshing. The concept is unique and is a fairly untouched one at that, the concept to my knowledge has only been used in a very select few old anime's.

I don't think it's lazy, rather they put a lot of effort into this game. If I were to compare Star Trucker to other games, I would compare it to being a cross between the X series games like X3 / X4 and American Truck Simulator, yes the ships are basically an enlarged version of Australian Kenworths and that's awesome, space ships are fairly generic in design where as they went with a different approach to space ship design. Even Treasure Planet had a unique perspective and it would make for a very good game in itself.

In the end buy it or don't buy it, simple as that.

[Crunchy[Daz]]

I'm sure random generic spaceship #1243 would look alot better then a trucker theme. I mean the game is only literally called Star "Trucker" right?

Whats happening here is that you don't like that artistic choice. Thats it, thats all, Thats all thats happened. But rather then just accept that and admit it, they devs HAVE to be lazy and they MUST be using gimmicks? Really? You really can't just admit that you don't like the art style used?

I don't like anime and I also don't insult the people that create it over my dislike of it.

[Duex]

Originally posted by HENRYda8th187:

Maybe he wants space ship delivery service simulator.

Which is basically what star citizen is. Hauling is one of the few features that game actually has implemented where you literally put cargo in your ship box by box.

Also OP if the expanse had a space truck, it probably wouldnt have gotten cancelled.

[Mr_Wolford]

Originally posted by Mitth'raw'nuruodo:

Making space freighters look like actual trucks was a lazy gimmicky design choice.

As a fan of space sims, I was excited to see a game called "Star Trucker" in the upcoming games list, as it sounded like a great idea. But seeing these "space trucks" in a game which marks "simulation" as its genre, tells me developers are more interested in gimmicks than immersion and simulation.

Also pretty lazy. Instead of putting effort creating interesting and meaningful new designs of space ships, you just borrowed the appearance of a real-world vehicle. You used the same methodology as Treasure Planet - a Disney cartoon movie made for children.

Disappointed to see this kind lazy inauthentic design approach in a post The Expanse science-fiction production.

somebody never watched the movie: Space Trucker(1996)
that's where they got the inspiration from.

[Yrch]

The very fact that they look like semis is why i even looked at this game.
freaking love thats its actually "just" Trucks in space on space highways

[Jackie Daytona]

I prefer it the way it is, If you want realism play Elite Dangerous and it's full sim and it's boring, turns out flying in an endless void in a cold lifeless ship sucks. Glad this has character, I hope they add radio stations that fit the world too, I'm gonna blast Deep Purple while I play this and put Heavy Metal anime from the 70's on in the background. total immersion for me.

[Deo]

the idea came from the movie Space Truckers

[It's Chobo]

This is just someone trying to farm awards. He won't be coming back.

[GastoneFrizzi]

Originally posted by It's Chobo:

This is just someone trying to farm awards. He won't be coming back.

nobody should give awards to a troll

[Quilnux]

I think it's a pretty interesting choice. I don't think I've ever seen a space hauling game that puts an actual truck in space. So I like it. But to each their own I suppose.