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News Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge - Historical Construction/Impressions
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Hatbox Ghostbuster
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Yeah, I can see an "auto-pilot override" feature being utilized.
Also, remember when it was talked about that if you did really well in flying you'd get more credits or something or there would be a negative repercussion for being an awful pilot? I can see all that getting scaled back.
TP2000
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None of that was ever going to work, outside of a hipster Imagineering lab full of 23 year old interns after a Starbucks run.
The moment WDI started talking publicly about stuff like that at D23 Expo my eyes rolled skyward and I knew these were guys who had NEVER worked in a theme park before, and I'm suspicious that they've even visited Disneyland for more than three hours and seen how 50,000 paying customers per day interact with the place.
Meanwhile, back in the real world...
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Hatbox Ghostbuster
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Pipe-dream Internet hype through and through.None of that was ever going to work, outside of a hipster Imagineering lab full of Twentysomething interns after a Starbucks run.
The moment WDI started talking publicly about stuff like that at D23 Expo my eyes rolled skyward and I knew these were guys who had NEVER worked in a theme park before, and I'm suspicious that they've even visited Disneyland for more than three hours and seen how the paying customers interact with the place.
Meanwhile, back in the real world...
Disney Irish
Premium Member
It could have been substantially lower too. That is the problem with speculation.
There are a lot of video games that keep you on the rails while you have the opportunity to do really well or poorly, but not totally wipe out. Just look at the Mario Kart type of games where bumping into something can send you spinning, but you keep moving forward and eventually right yourself. For a space shooter, there is your astromech droid taking over if you do nothing. They can give you NPC friends (fighters) to help you along the way. If you don't shoot out the obstacle or enemy, your NPC companion will stop missing and hit the right target for you.
Hatbox Ghostbuster
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True. But like with a lot of things on here, it doesn't really matter one way or the other. Disney is gonna do what Disney wants to do, and we just get to sit back and continue to ask ourselves how much we're willing to pay for it.
George Lucas on a Bench
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None of that was ever going to work, outside of a hipster Imagineering lab full of 23 year old interns after a Starbucks run.
The moment WDI started talking publicly about stuff like that at D23 Expo my eyes rolled skyward and I knew these were guys who had NEVER worked in a theme park before, and I'm suspicious that they've even visited Disneyland for more than three hours and seen how 50,000 paying customers per day interact with the place.
Meanwhile, back in the real world...
Hehehehehee
Disney Irish
Premium Member
I'm in agreement here, there is too many examples of games where they give you full control including damage but don't actually cause you to end the game. I'd even imagine they could have different skill levels to provide more control, less control, etc.
SuddenStorm
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I'm calling it now- the ride's gonna end up being a glorified Star Tours with limited meaningful user input.
Old Mouseketeer
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I'm not so sure. I think Nevol had a more nuanced analysis of the parameters. I think it will be a combination of things. There are so many kinds of failsafes they can build in to keep it from going off the rails. And they can always add software upgrades. But I mostly I think it will be interesting.
Falcon : Star Tours :: Flight of Passage : Soarin'
mickEblu
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Haven’t been on flight of passage but from what I have read their are a few surprise moderate thrills for brief moments?
You could grab whiteknuckled onto the handlebars of your dragon-bike and be fooled by your eyes and a fan blowing in your face into thinking you're falling a hundred feet and scream like a tween girl at a boyband concert, or, you can sit up and cross your arms and close your eyes and enjoy a little bouncy ride that goes up and down only a few feet without any danger of losing your balance and say at the end, "Gee, that was relaxing."
It is genius and artful deception that it is not anywhere near thrilling in reality.
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EPCOTCenterLover
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Rode FoP twice in June. Incredible and just plain fun! Enough thrills to satisfy without making you sick. The art direction and presentation is among Disney's best for a simulator attraction. This and Everest make DAK a pretty fun place to spend a day!
Incomudro
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Phroobar
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I agree. I think we are over reacting. Any kind of multi-player kind of coop game would adjust itself for the skill level of the players. Disney is going to give everyone a full ride whether the guests go all gung ho playing it or just sit there eating churros. The Falcon has shields that will go down based on hits and the length of the game. They could easily have the shields go down over the ride length and almost loose them completely at the end. It's not like the Falcon is going to blow up and the guests are dead. They must survive to get off the ride. It would break continuity.
However it would be a great way to reduce the AP heard.
Jones14
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With regard to the post-ride reputation, it could be as simple as the message you get when the ride ends. Assuming Hondo is the guy who gives you the Falcon to fly, he could come over the com and either congratulate you or comment on how you barely made it.
Another easy way to achieve it is to give ops two spiels to use as they escort you out, one good, one bad. There could be a light at unload that turns green or red to let them know which to use.
Another easy way to achieve it is to give ops two spiels to use as they escort you out, one good, one bad. There could be a light at unload that turns green or red to let them know which to use.
