hahah omg indeed. also this game has the best sound effects I have ever heard among other space sims. Elite Dangerous is a masterpiece for what it is. Star Citizen needs to study the way Elite Dangerous is highly optimized.
Why do people always complain about the fact that trading in ED is boring? You don't fucking have to trade! If you do bounty hunting, ED offers a lot of action and you can make a lot of money from it. And if you get into combat zones, you can even join huge space battles. What bothers me about this video is, that you see the tester only flying around in the smallest spaceships which you can get within an hour. He obviously never tried a combat ship. Which means he never really tried real combat and therefor never even saw the fun parts of the game.
Seems like a common issue in the game journalism industry. Games have gotten to the point where you can't judge them based on the ammount of time they are given to play.
Wow this dude is super mad and about a game that is boring as hell, convoluted and and makes the thing you want to do the most as hard as possible, pure frustration.
"revolutionary" is not what a game is about. It also has to be fun and gets to the point. This is why CoD excels and these indie titles don't. This was created for a niche group who liked space. CoD appeals to the masses and brings fun quick. Most people are too impatient to wait, they bought the game for immediate please. If I wanted a tedious, long space sim I'll go play EVE Online, at least that game has an established playerbase and a ton more content.
Illier1 I'll agree, it's a shame though. Recycled garbage get's higher opinions from the mainstream. CoD was great, no, amazing at first. It just kept getting recycled after mw2, blops was the last good one.....blops 2 was also decent.
TheKSH991 yes, it totally is. Frontier Developments has always been an indie company, no big publisher owns them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_Developments
It's not supposed to be an instant gratification, action packed all the time type of game. It's a relaxing game about exploring the unknown. It's not for everyone but it is great.
Well not relaxing all the time, the game consists of long relaxing stretches of peace and calmness interspersed with moments of tense action. It's definitely the kind of game that benefits from an iTunes playlist full of jamming music in the background.
The problem for me its that its not uknown... theres more or less nothing out there. After a short while the gameplay loop kicks in and it really becomes just flying from one end to the other with cargo. Some fight or do something else... but exploration wise its why I sort of left the game and only play it every third or so month to do some space trucking. Story and lore is hidden in UI and theres no real dynamic events, things to really find and be amazed by but a few things that you might never see. And frankly thats my problem... very expensive and little content for that price plus f2p cosmetic stuff. Maybe the additions coming to exploration can help me come back however.
"Elite Dangerous is definitely not trying to be a successor to classics like Freespace or Privateer..." Really... Did you not even do a Google search? The Elite franchise began the space simulator genre in 1984! As for gameplay it sounds like you'd rather a simple match based combat experience rather than the world that Elite offers. Fair enough but Elite has to cater for those who want to trade or explore or are just out looking at their favorite star systems or nebulae. If it were to become what you want it to be (all combat all of the time) then half the target audience would be alienated.
Games can be grounded and realistic as long as the realism doesn't come at the cost of enjoyment. Travelling through a vast amount of nothing, while realistic, wouldn't be the most enjoying thing. I think the con is warranted.
So a company produces a game with 100 BILLION (Yes, billion) star systems, and this isn't impressive enough. This is an exploration game, not an action game IGN.
Josh Simpson well if there is nothing to do, whats the point of all the star systems? That is not my problem with the game but it is critisism I can understand. I've liked elite so far and I recently got myself an HTC Vive which makes the experience even better. I am simply waiting for more content, not more ships (already have most of then). More diversity in SRV's would be nice too.
everyone saying how dull and open it is, well it really depends what you do. I bounty hunt and earn around 2 mil an hour with no long journeys and pure dogfights. There is a role to fit everyone's play style.
From the opening line you can tell this reviewer doesn't even know what type of game hes reviewing. Makes him sound ignorant and uninformed. You are playing an online space sim, of course the content you do will be inconsistent. It's not rocket science.
gamingdevil800 the problem with simulating and making 400 billion star systems, is that players can get spread out. the only thing to bring players together are good trade routes or story lines, and even then its rare to see other players. that's a serious problem.
Paul Prithu Let fanboys have their game! No idea how and when did E:D community became so toxic! It wasn't like there at all during alpha/beta. I backed E:D and I stop playing in gamma exactly because all the reasons this IGN reviewer mentioned. There were a TON of people worried about the fact that this vast universe was empty and with no personality. People were getting credits to buy better ships and that was basicaly it! There were/are no interesting and complex mechanics or dynamics behind every role or even every action. I believe that was the time where fanboys started to emerge and fill the reddit and forums with the usualt troll remarks towards those that wanted E:D to be a better game. Now the game is out and it's suffering the exact problem we said it would. So there you have it.
An online space sim in which there is nothing to do. Thats the criticism, and it seems rightly placed. Just because space is big, doesn't mean there has to be nothing to do in it. The fact that getting an interaction with the environment is something to cheer about is worrisome. Whats the point of taking to the stars and seeing what it would be like to be a pilot if you can't do anything?
movmakerNeo There are densely popualted areas around "Rare" Trade routes and conflict zone, but the fact you can fly out and be all but a lone is an awesome bit of gameplay. I agree this reviewer just didn't like that the game requires a bit of dedication. It isn't for the casual gamer, its for the kind of gamers who love space sims (eve online for example).
I've met the developers of the game and they seem a decent sort, they say what they mean and won't promise anything unless they know they can deliver (unlike Sean Murray). They seem committed to continue adding to the game to really flesh it out. If you don't like the game now then keep complaining, they'll see it and, if enough people feel the same as you, you may see some happy changes coming.
Ashwath Nair I'm a game design student and some of the devs are alumni of my Uni and former students of one of my tutors. They came down 2 or 3 months back for a meet and greet, basically having the current students meet and drink with successful former students and be inspired is what they were aiming for. Basically they were saying that the game was bloody hard to make, I was talking to the guy in charge of the planet textures and he must have spent the better half of an hour talking about how making the animated textures for the gas giants was so hard because it was an animation built on code rather than a hand made animation, making the storm on Jupiter look realistic and never ending and stuff like that. Somewhere in there they were saying there's still more the studio wants to add to the game and they were aiming to do it in upcoming updates.
the hook blade Think it was for the Wii U version of Legend of Zelda: Windwaker. Oh and they knocked the score down for Gears of War: Remastered Edition for too much A button ???
This game is still not what the other 50% of the Elite hardcore fans want it to be. Which is a successor to Elite 2 and 3. The fans who remember landing on planets and finding a desolate moon with a mining colony or recluse cult settlement, are still lacking the enthusiasm to embrace this game completely (myself included, having paid Premium Beta and only waiting for planetary landings to get into this). This is the real awe and inspiration which is lacking in the exploration part of Elite as of yet. Finding planets and moons is ok, but what is the point if they are lifeless at this point. People want to discover that abandoned outpost on Ross 128 or that bustling mining town in Bernards Star. We don't want to keep coming upon the same cookie cutter space stations time and time again. We want each settlement to reflect its level of progress. If the space stations had already implemented this (which they have not) Then discovering those outpost in orbit would of been wholly satisfying too. Other than this, EVA (extravehicular activity) is the only other promising feature to break the monotony of space travel. We want to marvel at our ships from the inside. To be able to upgrade crew quarters and feel a sense of pride and attachment for the vessel we purchased. So far losing a sidewinder or viper or whatever carries no consequence, other than a reload. But if you had things on the ship that held great sentimental worth than things would be more interesting. I hope ED gets to its final goal. Of delivering an Elite 4 experience and improvement to the Elite 2-3. To incorporate its big game hunting ideas and expand on the universe which largely feels like an empty placeholder as of now. This from a big hardcore fan.
Marco Polo I hate how they block planets behind a paywall but I hate engineering even more, it make me someone who doesn’t have horizons almost useless in pvp against horizons players
In Europe we had 10 years of popular space games before Wing Commander while you guys in the US may have been more familiar with Mario and Sonic; we were playing Elite, Federation of free traders, Star glider and Captain blood amongst others on our crappy home micros. It's no coincidence that young Chris Roberts grew up here with a BBC micro, or young Jez Sans worked on the C64 version of Elite before he developed the Super FX chip and Star Fox. Chris Sawyer converted Frontier Elite 2's machine code to PC long before roller coaster tycoon. The producer of GTA (having also worked on Frontier) described the original GTA as 'Elite in the city'. It's been massively influential to our gaming landscape. Check out where Elite came from. Privateer and Freelancer were in fact trying to succeed Elite. Really wish these reviews would do a google search, imagine a review for a new CIV game that was in complete ignorance of the rest of the series.
Just a tiny one-sentence passing notice about the fact that the game world has 200 BILLION starsystems each with their own planets and asteroids, of which there are millions of asteroids in a single belt around a single planet. You know, just the largest most expansive recreation of a complete galaxy that we have ever seen in the games industry since the original Elite (and Frontier). No big deal, right?....... THAT is the biggest draw of the game. That is why you buy or play Elite. The fact that combat and the other mechanics are good is a bonus. You dont buy or play elite to have 5 minute length matchmade 4 on 4 capture the flag match with unlockable attachments for your space rifles. Yet another in the infinite lists of reasons why i never listen to reviews by so called game "journalists". They are just 4 minutes of nonsense babbling written together on a napkin to sound like it would fit in a multimedia setting. No real info, no real research, no real details. Just completely vague useless nonsense for 4 minutes. And then a score which means nothing. Positive nonsense or negative nonsense, just useless words which dont say a lot with any meaning.
Why do you need to land on a planet? It has 400 billion star systems and you expect them to add all the buildings,trees,and life to every planet?! They don't have a city full of employees working constantly on the game. The game is good the way it is already and they are still updating it to make it better. It is a nearly 1:1 scale of the Galaxy and a space sim where you stay in space and fly spaceships. Anyway I think frontier developments hopes to eventually add planet landing in. Just be patient.
Haven Gaming Check out No Man's Sky, It is all procedurally generated and would take nearly 5 billion years to visit every planet. No Man's Sky has planets that are to scale with life, etc,. Also not this company only has 4 people working on the game.Having said that I do think Elite: Dangerous could offer more, but what it does offer is most likely the most realistic space simulator compared to No Man's Sky or Star Citizen. I can't wait to play Elite: Dangerous on Xbox One that is for sure.
People love bitching that space is boring in the comments but that doesn't matter when it comes to gaming not everyone is a fan of a Sim. It's totally warranted to say most of the game is flying through nothing to let people know that's what their getting into. Just like DayZ is a lot of walking and running through the woods.
This is a great game, and it will only get better. It's such a refreshing change from all the "press x to win" half assed games that have become the norm. Along with South Park: The stick of truth and DCS: World which has long been a reliable staple in my gaming life, this is my favorite game in a long time....
R1ch4rd W4lk3r Digital combat simulator made by Eagle dynamics. Head over to their website (or steam if you prefer) The base program is completely free. Essentially is the best flight sim on the market. But it is a full on sim with all systems modeled and accurate flight models etc so it does take some learning, but it's worth it! This guy makes some excellent videos that may give you an idea of what to expect.. th-cam.com/users/GlowingAmraamvideos
The space is really huge, so if you go out exploring the Galaxy, the odds of meeting a player (unless you wing up with a friend) are close to zero, BUT there are many community events that change each week, and you sure as hell will meet lots of players there. If you're in big or famous locations, those are also always very population heavy.
Your reviews became more like a parody reviews.. It's so sloppy and non mature that it seems like you are trying to mock the devs and people who tried to make something really amazing. There are a hand full of space games, sims or arcades or whatever, that exist at all, just because how hard is it to imagine it, make it logical and understandable for people / players to play and enjoy. Plus, on the other side it the budget. You need a lot of money especially for a space sim, I would guess, cause there is so much to do, maybe something similar to a GTA series, which always broke some records in gaming industry. Anyway, I just wanted to say one more thing and that is that.. The Star Citizen will not be that huge at all, it will have 100 planets, but detailed and you can land on everyone of them. So then you will say probably how you explored all 100 planets within a week, and with that said, game starts to be boring and empty hah.
+MakoRuu Games with that much hype surrounding them usually crash and burn. I'm not getting my hopes up for a game made by like 4 guys. Elite is here now, and it is proven.
I just started playing this game and I'm loving it. This is not one of those games that will tell you where to go or what to do or even how to do it but that learning process is also what makes it fun, it gives you a sense of accomplishment when it finally clicks and you actually know what you're doing after hours of research and trial and error. And most of the boredom from this game comes from not having any goals or objectives, which you must set for yourself. But even the most boring thing in this game which is merchanting can be fun when you find a lucrative route and start making bank. And while yes the game still has some balancing issues as in mining/pirating don't make nearly as much money as trading while being far more tedious it's being worked on.
IGN really should redo their review on Elite Dangerous, as it has had such a long development cycle through the past 3 years, from Thargoids and Guardians to Beyond, the game is truly better than it was 3 years ago, new mining mechanics, new exploration mechanics, passenger missions, new ships, weapons and HUD redesigns all make Elite much better than it was before.
I have been trying to get more out of no man's sky since I found this video. I literally sold no man's sky to get this game. It was worth losing 254 hours of gameplay.
Not all of us want to spend every minute in a game shooting something. Elite D is perfect for someone like me that wants to trade, and explore more than constant shooting.
What elite dangerous is missing is NPC characters on stations. Aside from other ships, you are alone. And that's what drives the monotony, making the game as they say, a mile wide but an inch deep. If you could explore night clubs, bars, markets and hotels that vary station to station, there'd be an exploratory payoff to all that long-hauling. Otherwise the game loses all playability once you earn your first few million creds, repeating everything over and over...
Word, this is a work sim. If you enjoyed Eurotruck simulator you will enjoy Elite: Dangerous. Unfortunately it is not my piece of cake, give me Star Citizens Arena Commander any day over this. I might return once you can walk around your ships and build space stations.
This gets 7 and a half while generic lesser titles like call of duty often get perfect scores. It just goes to show how little credibility ign had anymore.
They've confirmed both free and paid expansions, whether planetary landing is gonna be part of the free or the paid expansions has not been confirmed yet
I see this review now, after No Man's Sky's release and I realise just how much fun I had with this game. THIS is what I wanted from No Man's Sky. Trading, Factions, the occasional space battle, on top of all the exploration that I'm doing.
Bare with me.. QUITE a few years ago My father and I went to a TV store to get a new television (This was in the mid 90's). When we got there we spoke to the store manager who showed us a number of TV's including this one Sony TV. The quality was AMAZING! He then went on to tell us all these 'amazing' features it had. Three scart sockets, two headphone jacks a separate RCA and god knows what else. We ended up buying it (£800) only to get home and find it had one scart socket, one headphone jack and NONE of these other amazing features built in....Oh and it wasn't the same model he'd been showing us in store but rather a cheaper one. We took it back and said we think he gave us the wrong TV. "Oh I didn't say it had ANY of those. I said you could buy adaptors to give it 3 scarts. That was the TV I'd shown you" etc. We had to take him to small claims court to get our money back. The judge said "You've not only supplied these people with false information about the product in an attempt to get them to buy the product but also gave them a product that they'd never seen before hoping they wouldn't notice." The judge then went on to say they were in contempt of the trades description act and could get in serious trouble. Two years later the guy was in court again for doing the same thing to another customer but this time he was heavily fined and also lost his business over it. Now, what Shaun has done is exactly the same damn thing but on a MUCH larger scale.. Only two months before release he ran of a list of features this game has... and it has not and would have known these features were not in the game at the time of his interviews. This is basically fraud and he was attempting to sell us (Thankfully I didn't buy it) based on features that are not in the game. He needs to get a job at E.A. He's a damn good liar. Sorry for the essay xD
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I laughed when he said "When Elite does a good job of making each ship distinctive, that immerses you in the seat of the pilot" when all their ships look like blocks. Compare that to the "actually" distinctive ships of Star Citizen, where you can get up, walk around, use access panels around the ship that can have certain roles asigned to them. The ships are customizable, inside and out that have damn good effects on how you play in the ship..
I'm a big fan of the game, but I have to concede this much - I think he's being fair all things considered. Some reviews I've seen gush about the game, while others pan it, and both come across as a bit self-serving and not very open minded. Fact is, Elite Dangerous is not for everyone, and this IGN review shows why. He's not wrong about any of the downsides mentioned, but to me, they're simply not downsides. When explaining he used the expression "all killer, no filler" to explain what Elite isn't, but to me that filler is a necessary part of the immersion. If things were more scripted or if forced encounters more numerous, basically the very thing that draws you to the game in the first place (piloting your own spaceship) would be ruined. To people like me, this game is fantastic as is, and will only get better as they expand on it, but we're not what you'd call an average breed of gamer. We're a niche in the grand scheme of things. And remember, despite his misgivings he also said things like "what kept me coming back" - which is in itself a form of praise. Oh, and of course if the reviewer WANTED balls to the wall action, he simply should have played in one of the areas the online community are currently warring over. Tons of PVP going on in some systems I hear. I stay the hell away from those places. And yes, it's sad that he failed to recognize that Elite came out BEFORE Freespace and Privateer, but oh well ;)
I used to play Elite and Elite:Frontier on my PC back in the 90's; those were among the best games I played in my life, and I've always wanted a modern game that came close to that experience. And that experience was precisely what is described here. The emptiness, the waiting time during travel... that was a huge part of the game atmosphere and philosophy. I am happy to see it is!
Hopefully at some point IGN does a revisit. Maybe when 3.0 releases.I realize IGN is a terrible source of accurate. helpful reviews, it's just I'd like to see their "opinion" on the game in a few months time.
Two years on Elite has greatly evolved. This game is a 10 year project for the developers, so new features are constantly being added. We now have player wings, political factions, varied stations, planetary landings, the ability to customize ships through engineers and NPC co-pilots to man launchable fighter craft to fight beside you. You'll still do a lot of traveling to get where you need to go, and the game is hard as hell! But if you want a game that gives you a deep feeling of accomplishment when you do get ahead, because it's not easy, try Elite. Next month we get multi-crew so fellow players can fly in the same ship, and an avatar creator. And oh yeah! Aliens just started showing in human space last month! Keep you canopy intact! For the Federation o7 CMDR Frank K, Vice Admiral, Federal Defense League
This game requires you to master your ship not just clicking on what to attack or what to mine. I keep finding new things about my ship like I always used to put power to wep and sys before but then I started to notice I can't turn as well. Putting power to eng increases both your maneuverability and speed, which makes sense and is very useful depending on who you are fighting and what ship you have. Also when going to resource sites you need to consider where the sun is or you might be fighting in pitch black darkness. Things like this are what make me love this game it requires some common sense.
Elite dangerous wasn't about creating a space sim with all the content to last thousands of hours. It was about making the 4th game of the elite series and making elite dangerous better than the first three games of the series it's great the way it is and frontier developments is still hard at work to constantly add huge updates.
Elite is an MMO, you can play it solo but the galaxy is still connected, which means stuff changes, such as prices for trade goods and which factions run the systems. Also, it's to a much, much smaller scale to EVE, the biggest playable ship is 290 meters long.
People keep asking about this game (Elite: Dangerous) vs No Man's Sky. While they both have different choices in graphic design and the overall coding of each game, they both have one main purpose and that is space exploration. Elite simply becomes a beautiful grinder quite fast because you can't travel onto any planets, and even if a player could eventually walk on planets, based off of our real universe, most planets wouldn't have life. In No Man's Sky the ability to land on planets is available to everyone, and most planets hold life. I just see no real purpose in a space exploration game if you are stuck in the empty void of space, only trying to upgrade your ship. This game looked awesome at first, but now it seems like a possible let down because there is no real exploration if you can't discover. Discover new planets, discover new life! That is the main purpose of No Man's Sky. They even implemented the purpose to travel to the center of the universe to uncover what is there. Before a dev team sets out to make a rpg like game I believe there have to be enough objects and creatures to be able to interact with, especially if there is no real story. No Man's Sky has been living up to it's hype under the microscope of the whole gaming press, while this game hasn't within a glance of a review.
I've been playing this game for 2 years now, you can't make a review unless you play this game at least 2 months or so, I can tell he hasn't played that long seeing he has prepared this video calling a cargo scoop a cargo hook.
It is not a 1 to 1 simulation of the galaxy a lot of games are misleading on what you should expect , but it is still the best space game I ever played.
Bob Green Oh trust me it is. It's great fun. This reviewer has no idea what he is on about, reviewing a genre he clearly dislikes. It does what it does extremely well. It is a niche genre; however, that some may dislike. That doesn't make it a bad game.
TheSixthSense No ands, buts, or ifs... This game is not worth buying!!! This is coming from 1984 Elite fan who supported this game on Kickstarter. Elite Dangerous is a buggy, incomplete mess, and multiplayer is a total waste of time! I have no reason to lie... Do not make the same mistake I did. Cheers,
Bob Green I never played the older elite games, so I had no expectations of this game coming into it. From that perspective, I thought that this game was brilliant, but obviously you may be comparing it to the older games, and I know that previous game is always better, no matter the series, from elite, to Counter Strike, even to Call of bloody Duty (probably due to nostalgia). Either way, this game does a lot of things right, and as I said, is a bit of a niche game, where if you dislike the genre you will most likely dislike the game. Why don't you like it?
THIS GAME IS ABSOLUTELY AWESOME. Worth every penny I have spent. I also know that the creators will keep astonishing us with amazing updates but, in my case, I am having a thrill with it as it is now. Absolutely impressive graphics, the all experience makes me feel like a kid in a candy store. They also are quick in sorting out anything that is not working to perfection. For me, it is the perfect simulation game in the market.!!
Even though I love the snot out of this game, for the average gamer I believe this is about as accurate and unbiased a review as you can get. Different kinds of people will love or hate this game, but it certainly helps if you are a space nerd. And I am. Traveling between stars is something I dreamed about since I was a kind, and that is why I liked the original 1984 game and it's sequels. Another thing is that most of the things that Elite Dangerous lacks will be added in the next several months. Player groups, more diverse missions, more detailed galaxy politics. And of course, walking around your ship, stations and landing on moons and planets. I've stopped playing games about 8 years ago mostly because I got bored with them. I simply don't care about battlefields, sexy lost treasure hunter heroines, trolls, elves or other mystical creatures. But now I go all warm and fuzzy inside when I navigate my ship close to an O type star and see the inside of my cockpit bask in it's blue light. Bottom line, I'm sure I will play this game for years to come.
Luke Paul, me too. Internet usage here has much limitation and single player is the only ideal way. ED is serious in doing business, they would 1 day. The current ED was launched in a rush because they needed larger fundings from worlwide off the shelves sale
Unless they have changed things since earlier builds, they do have an offline mode, where space is filled with just NPC craft. It does however use the online markets, and missions etc, but at least you can fly about without potential trollers to ruin your day.
Elite: Dangerous is a true Sandbox. The experience is heavily affected by the actions of other players, and the universe is evolving all the time. However, if all you want is to 'poke the bear' as it were, there are resource extraction zones full of pirates in need of killing, but just like the original Elite, unless you're a god, combat is very challenging in your starter ship. A lot has changed since release, as well. Frontier Developments did themselves a real disservice by releasing the game before it was fully cooked. There are now all these out of date reviews hanging around giving people the impression the game is what it was four months ago, at release. It now has co-op teams, improved combat and a fantastically rich set of community tools to help you find trades, combat and other fun.
You have to love these self proclaimed elite pro's, generic arguments about "make your own fun" and "you don't understand elite". The game is boring, it all boils down to hauling goods back and forth. In before fan boys comments, take a step back and weigh up what you have done in the time you did it, there's far more dull moments than fun one, the balance is off and that's a fact. Most people (not these blind folded, unflinchingly dedicated "elite pro's") prefer to have fun all the time in a game, simulator or not, and I promise you this, you won't. Why would I wan't to LOOK for fun for hours, why doesn't FUN find me (oh lemme guess, I must MAKE my own fun, Frontier should pay me then I guess), aarrghh im done, ill sit back and wait for the "content" and then try this silly little game again.
***** What is there to do, run the same generic missions over and over? Maby bounty hunting in Resource collection sites, over and over. No, if you want to progress to lets say Python (don't care if you want to or not, I do), you will have to make some serious credit (through Hauling) otherwise you will grind those meaningless tasks over and over. Conflict zones are content, more diverse and meaningful than killing the same vipers over and over at a resource site. The problem being, it ends there, that's the real content the game has to offer and nothing more, after hours of fighting there to try and make a difference it also becomes stale really quickly.Now, you tell me what else is there to do that won't be a repeatable event over and over that is credits viable, diverse and meaningful? Here's comes the, "Explore the galaxy, same stars and systems visually with randomly generated names", "Kill pirates, same pirates visually with predefined randomly generated names, for no reason", "Mine asteroids, just no", "Haul goods, arrgghh". No, if you want to get somewhere in this game, you need to Haul goods and do it alot, once again, over and over. Ive done it all and there is nothing more than a handful of things to do, then the repetition starts, which would have been ok with me if it was more than a handful of things, hence the "More Content".If you don't see this then your opinion is biased and based off of an artificial connection to the development team and your trying to convince yourself you did not waste your money with this game in it's CURRENT STATE. Im disappointed, the hype was massive but they fell short, in my opinion (see what I did there).
Some people enjoy hauling goods, trading and exploring space. For some people the fun comes from the hours of space travel and discovery, not the dog fighting. When I used to play Freelancer I spent most of my time finding the best trade routes, and repeatedly docking with trade lanes, travelling up and down the same routes making tons of money. I enjoyed it. If you don't enjoy the game, don't play it. Leave people to enjoy it how they want to rather than accusing them of being biased and creating an "artificial connection to the development team".
Steven Lewis Maby im coming off wrong, I love space sims, I was VERY excited about elite due to pre launch info etc. The idea that was sold is not what I got, "watch trailer", even if they embellish alot, that's still the basic idea of what I expected. There's nothing wrong with hauling when you know your hauling towards something and currently there's nothing. As it stands, there isn't much versatility in this game, just alot of repetition with no goals to repeat towards. Oh, and those that say set your own goals, please, we all do, but when my goals don't aligned with exploring 400 Bil star systems there's not much beyond that. My point being, the focus of this game is it's size, not the content in the given space. I'm sure they will add more content ass time goes on and that's fine, then ill pick the game up again, with that being said, I get the feeling this game should still be in beta until it adds more stuff, it was rushed out the door and the devs know that.
Even though he was clueless about Elite coming out in 1984, I think his review is fairly accurate. Elite was my favorite game back in the day on my little Commodore 64 and to play this new version is too cool. Although there is a lot to like about it, I've had my share of "wow....seriously?" moments... but it's still addictive. I finally got my Clipper yesterday... a nice change from the Type 6.
The game has improved DRAMATICALLY since this review! Ive been playing consistently since 2018 and definitely recommend it, especially with new features being added early 2021. Get it now whilst it's free!!
Ive found that going to ringed planets composed of rocks typically has the most mining, which also has the most criminals that can be blown up for bounties. Even with the starter sidewinder, I was able to raise $100k and upgrade to an Eagle rather quickly. There's a video that explains this and is a great way to start your journey. Also, get a HOTAS. Its amazing.
On PS4 Rebel Galaxy is similar to this game. It's a decent game and it's pretty good for a indie game. So don't expect a complex game like this one. Was developed by a small team but it's a really good game.
Quite a fair review, but it's important to mention that it does well to simulate the vast emptiness and indeed loneliness of space - you're meant to feel lonely and even bored at times. Recommended for anyone who wants to explore space
Imagine, The makers of destiny and Elite teaming for a title Destiny: Elite. With the full features of destiny found accessible when traversing through our local solar system and quickly accessible through some sort of warp drive. But those that have a heart for space exploration can explore the milky way galaxy as if traveling through the Elite game. -fighting fallen, dreadnaught, and cabal spaceships that pass by, with your party. I see soo much potential with an already fulfilling destiny game, and even more potential in a true open world destiny game. I’d be okay with spending $100 on a high quality game like that
>wants a space game
>complains about said space game being too much of a space game
Only at IGN
ZeroImpactNext it's also not a call of duty game
Nash -osu! iGN always overrated CoD
Uhhh not quite "only at ign" this is pretty much what it's metacritic score is and the same complaints from other reviews
"We want a real space sim"
*makes a real space sim*
"They're too far apart"
7.4 IGN!!! Too much space....
+DreamOfTitans And then no mans sky would be a 10. smh.
hahah omg indeed. also this game has the best sound effects I have ever heard among other space sims.
Elite Dangerous is a masterpiece for what it is. Star Citizen needs to study the way Elite Dangerous is highly optimized.
+DreamOfTitans In a real space sim you would maybe be able to go max as far from earth as to mars....
+DreamOfTitans "Just another COD clone"
9. 1
"Something new and exciting"
7.4
Never change IGN
Why do people always complain about the fact that trading in ED is boring? You don't fucking have to trade! If you do bounty hunting, ED offers a lot of action and you can make a lot of money from it. And if you get into combat zones, you can even join huge space battles.
What bothers me about this video is, that you see the tester only flying around in the smallest spaceships which you can get within an hour. He obviously never tried a combat ship. Which means he never really tried real combat and therefor never even saw the fun parts of the game.
Seems like a common issue in the game journalism industry. Games have gotten to the point where you can't judge them based on the ammount of time they are given to play.
No you can't the game is pure boredom
Wow this dude is super mad and about a game that is boring as hell, convoluted and and makes the thing you want to do the most as hard as possible, pure frustration.
@@philliph.p.1985 you are completely correct times a million
@@philliph.p.1985 if I had money it wouldn't be boring
he seems to not understand how big space is
marc joseph He probably never read the 'Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'.
svp on peut l avoir sur pc?
Axel N'safou oui
+D4K44R1 :3
+marc joseph I don't think you've played this game.
You give this 7.2 and to call of duty an 9? Come on! This is way more revolutionary and better than any COD
"revolutionary" is not what a game is about. It also has to be fun and gets to the point. This is why CoD excels and these indie titles don't. This was created for a niche group who liked space. CoD appeals to the masses and brings fun quick. Most people are too impatient to wait, they bought the game for immediate please. If I wanted a tedious, long space sim I'll go play EVE Online, at least that game has an established playerbase and a ton more content.
Illier1 I'll agree, it's a shame though. Recycled garbage get's higher opinions from the mainstream. CoD was great, no, amazing at first. It just kept getting recycled after mw2, blops was the last good one.....blops 2 was also decent.
Illier1 indie?!! this is not an indie title
TheKSH991 yes, it totally is. Frontier Developments has always been an indie company, no big publisher owns them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_Developments
***** I thought he was referring to the quality of indie games I didn't think he was being literal about it
It's not supposed to be an instant gratification, action packed all the time type of game. It's a relaxing game about exploring the unknown. It's not for everyone but it is great.
Well not relaxing all the time, the game consists of long relaxing stretches of peace and calmness interspersed with moments of tense action. It's definitely the kind of game that benefits from an iTunes playlist full of jamming music in the background.
+Char Aznable Yes, but that isn't necessarily a good thing.
And the reviewer articulates that in his review.
TheCasualGamer I'm looking forward to it. It's a game from my teen years. Played the crap out of Elite on the Commodore 64.
The problem for me its that its not uknown... theres more or less nothing out there. After a short while the gameplay loop kicks in and it really becomes just flying from one end to the other with cargo. Some fight or do something else... but exploration wise its why I sort of left the game and only play it every third or so month to do some space trucking. Story and lore is hidden in UI and theres no real dynamic events, things to really find and be amazed by but a few things that you might never see. And frankly thats my problem... very expensive and little content for that price plus f2p cosmetic stuff. Maybe the additions coming to exploration can help me come back however.
"Elite Dangerous is definitely not trying to be a successor to classics like Freespace or Privateer..."
Really... Did you not even do a Google search?
The Elite franchise began the space simulator genre in 1984!
As for gameplay it sounds like you'd rather a simple match based combat experience rather than the world that Elite offers. Fair enough but Elite has to cater for those who want to trade or explore or are just out looking at their favorite star systems or nebulae. If it were to become what you want it to be (all combat all of the time) then half the target audience would be alienated.
IGN doenst know what they're talking about, just like their fake graphics comparisons.
Let's not forget that the original Elite game actually came out BEFORE Freespace or Privateer... Hell, it came out before Wing Commander.
Zephyrnix I did kinda just say that...
MrSquishedsquashed You did lol. I'm sowwy :(
Zephyrnix Lol I wasn't even born when it came out but I've been playing Elite Dangerous since Beta!
Really IGN? You dislike that a simulator is simulating the vastness of space? Please pick people that know what they're getting into to review a game
You really think IGN has the iq to figure that out?
Just because you don't like their opinion doesn't mean that it's wrong.
Cons:
No personality
Boring Stretches
Lol what does IGN think space is? A colorful LSD trip?
Games can be grounded and realistic as long as the realism doesn't come at the cost of enjoyment. Travelling through a vast amount of nothing, while realistic, wouldn't be the most enjoying thing. I think the con is warranted.
it still sucks
"Space is Empty" 7/10-IGN
So it's like Euro Truck Simulator but in space?
yes but you can also kill other people and be killed, so you can play like a pirate of een bountyhunter and you can mine.
no it's more like skyrim in space
It's like skyrim with plasmas.
***** Your comment doesn't translate into English properly.
I like euro truck simulator
Person that dosent like space games reviews a space game.... IGN
Plus planets landings
Most of these things have been tweaked and he doesnt understand how this game works.
What were you honestly expecting from IGN?
7/10 too much space
+sfs2040. ikr
So a company produces a game with 100 BILLION (Yes, billion) star systems, and this isn't impressive enough. This is an exploration game, not an action game IGN.
Josh Simpson no it isn't cod or bf1 which is why they don't like it
Josh Simpson well if there is nothing to do, whats the point of all the star systems?
That is not my problem with the game but it is critisism I can understand. I've liked elite so far and I recently got myself an HTC Vive which makes the experience even better. I am simply waiting for more content, not more ships (already have most of then). More diversity in SRV's would be nice too.
No mans sky, should i say more?
400 billion
@Fulvic Yes please
"Dozens of hours of gameplay"
*still flying Adder*
*fighting Anaconda with said Adder*
Lol I didn't even pick a fight with a conda in my python
Just dont pick a fight with a conda without a specialised Combat ship thats gonna Cost at least 10mil
doesn't manage his pips while actively using two lazer weapons
Looks like they didn't pay you enough to give a 9/10
Lmfao
😂
geordiegamerad honestly it looks boring
@@marcar9marcar972 the game is actually really fun when you learn it
This Comment aged very well.
Too much space 7.4/10 -IGN
this guy might've coined the term vacuum filling the cockpit, because it doesn't make sense lol
My brain stuttered a little when he said that.
everyone saying how dull and open it is, well it really depends what you do. I bounty hunt and earn around 2 mil an hour with no long journeys and pure dogfights. There is a role to fit everyone's play style.
From the opening line you can tell this reviewer doesn't even know what type of game hes reviewing. Makes him sound ignorant and uninformed. You are playing an online space sim, of course the content you do will be inconsistent. It's not rocket science.
well it is rocket science when you really think about it
gamingdevil800 the problem with simulating and making 400 billion star systems, is that players can get spread out. the only thing to bring players together are good trade routes or story lines, and even then its rare to see other players.
that's a serious problem.
Paul Prithu Let fanboys have their game! No idea how and when did E:D community became so toxic! It wasn't like there at all during alpha/beta. I backed E:D and I stop playing in gamma exactly because all the reasons this IGN reviewer mentioned. There were a TON of people worried about the fact that this vast universe was empty and with no personality. People were getting credits to buy better ships and that was basicaly it! There were/are no interesting and complex mechanics or dynamics behind every role or even every action. I believe that was the time where fanboys started to emerge and fill the reddit and forums with the usualt troll remarks towards those that wanted E:D to be a better game. Now the game is out and it's suffering the exact problem we said it would. So there you have it.
An online space sim in which there is nothing to do. Thats the criticism, and it seems rightly placed. Just because space is big, doesn't mean there has to be nothing to do in it. The fact that getting an interaction with the environment is something to cheer about is worrisome. Whats the point of taking to the stars and seeing what it would be like to be a pilot if you can't do anything?
movmakerNeo There are densely popualted areas around "Rare" Trade routes and conflict zone, but the fact you can fly out and be all but a lone is an awesome bit of gameplay. I agree this reviewer just didn't like that the game requires a bit of dedication. It isn't for the casual gamer, its for the kind of gamers who love space sims (eve online for example).
I've met the developers of the game and they seem a decent sort, they say what they mean and won't promise anything unless they know they can deliver (unlike Sean Murray). They seem committed to continue adding to the game to really flesh it out. If you don't like the game now then keep complaining, they'll see it and, if enough people feel the same as you, you may see some happy changes coming.
They're still adding to the game? It's already a year old. That's amazing!
Ashwath Nair I'm a game design student and some of the devs are alumni of my Uni and former students of one of my tutors. They came down 2 or 3 months back for a meet and greet, basically having the current students meet and drink with successful former students and be inspired is what they were aiming for.
Basically they were saying that the game was bloody hard to make, I was talking to the guy in charge of the planet textures and he must have spent the better half of an hour talking about how making the animated textures for the gas giants was so hard because it was an animation built on code rather than a hand made animation, making the storm on Jupiter look realistic and never ending and stuff like that.
Somewhere in there they were saying there's still more the studio wants to add to the game and they were aiming to do it in upcoming updates.
+Lazy Spark can you tell me, will elite dangerous be similar to EVE Online in the ecosystem aspect?
BlitzBandit I honestly don't know. They only teased changes, they never said what they were doing.
Lazy Spark dude that's amazing. I'm a game designer myself :)
docens of hours of play..... still using sidewinder ....
renato muu Hundreds of hours of play... still in a Python.
96 hours played.... I have 2 anacondas
IGN 7.4 - too much space
my friend once told me they reduced the score of the game for having too much water.
the hook blade Think it was for the Wii U version of Legend of Zelda: Windwaker. Oh and they knocked the score down for Gears of War: Remastered Edition for too much A button ???
II DIRECTx II damn
the hook blade IGN is a joke
www.ign.com/articles/2014/11/18/pokemon-alpha-sapphire-and-omega-ruby-review
This game is still not what the other 50% of the Elite hardcore fans want it to be. Which is a successor to Elite 2 and 3. The fans who remember landing on planets and finding a desolate moon with a mining colony or recluse cult settlement, are still lacking the enthusiasm to embrace this game completely (myself included, having paid Premium Beta and only waiting for planetary landings to get into this).
This is the real awe and inspiration which is lacking in the exploration part of Elite as of yet. Finding planets and moons is ok, but what is the point if they are lifeless at this point. People want to discover that abandoned outpost on Ross 128 or that bustling mining town in Bernards Star. We don't want to keep coming upon the same cookie cutter space stations time and time again. We want each settlement to reflect its level of progress. If the space stations had already implemented this (which they have not) Then discovering those outpost in orbit would of been wholly satisfying too.
Other than this, EVA (extravehicular activity) is the only other promising feature to break the monotony of space travel. We want to marvel at our ships from the inside. To be able to upgrade crew quarters and feel a sense of pride and attachment for the vessel we purchased. So far losing a sidewinder or viper or whatever carries no consequence, other than a reload. But if you had things on the ship that held great sentimental worth than things would be more interesting.
I hope ED gets to its final goal. Of delivering an Elite 4 experience and improvement to the Elite 2-3. To incorporate its big game hunting ideas and expand on the universe which largely feels like an empty placeholder as of now. This from a big hardcore fan.
Marco Polo I hate how they block planets behind a paywall but I hate engineering even more, it make me someone who doesn’t have horizons almost useless in pvp against horizons players
In Europe we had 10 years of popular space games before Wing Commander while you guys in the US may have been more familiar with Mario and Sonic; we were playing Elite, Federation of free traders, Star glider and Captain blood amongst others on our crappy home micros. It's no coincidence that young Chris Roberts grew up here with a BBC micro, or young Jez Sans worked on the C64 version of Elite before he developed the Super FX chip and Star Fox. Chris Sawyer converted Frontier Elite 2's machine code to PC long before roller coaster tycoon. The producer of GTA (having also worked on Frontier) described the original GTA as 'Elite in the city'. It's been massively influential to our gaming landscape. Check out where Elite came from. Privateer and Freelancer were in fact trying to succeed Elite. Really wish these reviews would do a google search, imagine a review for a new CIV game that was in complete ignorance of the rest of the series.
Just a tiny one-sentence passing notice about the fact that the game world has 200 BILLION starsystems each with their own planets and asteroids, of which there are millions of asteroids in a single belt around a single planet.
You know, just the largest most expansive recreation of a complete galaxy that we have ever seen in the games industry since the original Elite (and Frontier).
No big deal, right?.......
THAT is the biggest draw of the game. That is why you buy or play Elite. The fact that combat and the other mechanics are good is a bonus. You dont buy or play elite to have 5 minute length matchmade 4 on 4 capture the flag match with unlockable attachments for your space rifles.
Yet another in the infinite lists of reasons why i never listen to reviews by so called game "journalists". They are just 4 minutes of nonsense babbling written together on a napkin to sound like it would fit in a multimedia setting. No real info, no real research, no real details. Just completely vague useless nonsense for 4 minutes. And then a score which means nothing.
Positive nonsense or negative nonsense, just useless words which dont say a lot with any meaning.
that is exactly what i think, well said man. p.s. there's actually 400 billion star systems
Yeah but can you land on any planet?
Why do you need to land on a planet?
It has 400 billion star systems and you expect them to add all the buildings,trees,and life to every planet?! They don't have a city full of employees working constantly on the game.
The game is good the way it is already and they are still updating it to make it better. It is a nearly 1:1 scale of the Galaxy and a space sim where you stay in space and fly spaceships. Anyway I think frontier developments hopes to eventually add planet landing in. Just be patient.
Haven Gaming Yeah, but that's so repetitive...
Haven Gaming Check out No Man's Sky, It is all procedurally generated and would take nearly 5 billion years to visit every planet. No Man's Sky has planets that are to scale with life, etc,. Also not this company only has 4 people working on the game.Having said that I do think Elite: Dangerous could offer more, but what it does offer is most likely the most realistic space simulator compared to No Man's Sky or Star Citizen. I can't wait to play Elite: Dangerous on Xbox One that is for sure.
Problem is, you can't seamlessly land on planets. I know they will add it, but I think that is a must for any space sim.
ImaGuest Once you're on a planet... you're no longer in space?
... And two people voted your comment up?!
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
ForeverRepublic thats the one thing i desire in a space sim is to land on a planet get out and find some supplies i guess i will wait for no mans sky
Viatac Nasser Yeah, No Man's Sky looks awesome.
Tom Voke I don't have an interest in this game until they do, I'm just waiting for No Man's Sky.
Tom Voke All good
People love bitching that space is boring in the comments but that doesn't matter when it comes to gaming not everyone is a fan of a Sim. It's totally warranted to say most of the game is flying through nothing to let people know that's what their getting into. Just like DayZ is a lot of walking and running through the woods.
A game that teaches patience to the "now" generation?
IMPOSSIBLE
*IMPOSSIBRU
A game that teaches challenge to care bears..
This is a great game, and it will only get better. It's such a refreshing change from all the "press x to win" half assed games that have become the norm. Along with South Park: The stick of truth and DCS: World which has long been a reliable staple in my gaming life, this is my favorite game in a long time....
Ahhh... the DCS reference. Good one, chap! Virtual pilots all the way! S!
HoneyBadger
Always nice when somebody else knows what we're on about, we will stop everybody else missing out eventually... Tally-ho my friend! ;)
bowser515 enlighten me on DCS
R1ch4rd W4lk3r
Digital combat simulator made by Eagle dynamics. Head over to their website (or steam if you prefer) The base program is completely free. Essentially is the best flight sim on the market. But it is a full on sim with all systems modeled and accurate flight models etc so it does take some learning, but it's worth it! This guy makes some excellent videos that may give you an idea of what to expect..
th-cam.com/users/GlowingAmraamvideos
thanks man, i'll take a look and give it a try :D
so you can just randomly encounter other players in space? That's awesome
Unlike the *other* space game that's supposed to let you randomly encounter other players in space.
:^)
On specific star systems, and during community goals, you'll find A LOT of players. Any ship with a "CMDR" prefix is a real person.
The space is really huge, so if you go out exploring the Galaxy, the odds of meeting a player (unless you wing up with a friend) are close to zero, BUT there are many community events that change each week, and you sure as hell will meet lots of players there. If you're in big or famous locations, those are also always very population heavy.
10/10 not enough stars
Lol
400.000.000.000 stars is not enough for you? :) than jump in ''andromeda'' galaxy where is 1 trillion stars
Your reviews became more like a parody reviews.. It's so sloppy and non mature that it seems like you are trying to mock the devs and people who tried to make something really amazing. There are a hand full of space games, sims or arcades or whatever, that exist at all, just because how hard is it to imagine it, make it logical and understandable for people / players to play and enjoy. Plus, on the other side it the budget. You need a lot of money especially for a space sim, I would guess, cause there is so much to do, maybe something similar to a GTA series, which always broke some records in gaming industry.
Anyway, I just wanted to say one more thing and that is that.. The Star Citizen will not be that huge at all, it will have 100 planets, but detailed and you can land on everyone of them. So then you will say probably how you explored all 100 planets within a week, and with that said, game starts to be boring and empty hah.
Филип Пешић how conceded do you need to be to think that just because someone doesn’t share your view that they literally become a parody?
It's good enough to hold people over until Star Citizen releases in 2016.
+MakoRuu I doubt it. SC at least has fun dog fights and a cool hangar to walk around ships.
It's also going to have First Person Shooter combat.
ED CQC
+MakoRuu Games with that much hype surrounding them usually crash and burn. I'm not getting my hopes up for a game made by like 4 guys. Elite is here now, and it is proven.
You say that now, but where will you be when Star Citizen is released?
I just started playing this game and I'm loving it. This is not one of those games that will tell you where to go or what to do or even how to do it but that learning process is also what makes it fun, it gives you a sense of accomplishment when it finally clicks and you actually know what you're doing after hours of research and trial and error.
And most of the boredom from this game comes from not having any goals or objectives, which you must set for yourself. But even the most boring thing in this game which is merchanting can be fun when you find a lucrative route and start making bank.
And while yes the game still has some balancing issues as in mining/pirating don't make nearly as much money as trading while being far more tedious it's being worked on.
IGN really should redo their review on Elite Dangerous, as it has had such a long development cycle through the past 3 years, from Thargoids and Guardians to Beyond, the game is truly better than it was 3 years ago, new mining mechanics, new exploration mechanics, passenger missions, new ships, weapons and HUD redesigns all make Elite much better than it was before.
I am here because I am disappointed by no man's sky.
Jack Sparrow me 2
NMS is an arcade game and Elite Dangerous is a sim. It's good to be able to love and enjoy both :)
Not after today ;)
I have been trying to get more out of no man's sky since I found this video. I literally sold no man's sky to get this game. It was worth losing 254 hours of gameplay.
@@scott_itall8638 i was here on reply to say that lol
Not all of us want to spend every minute in a game shooting something. Elite D is perfect for someone like me that wants to trade, and explore more than constant shooting.
lol i bought this(+seasons pass, 50 bucks) with my no mans sky refund(60 bucks), best decision of my life xD
can you explore on foot?
droopy562 you can go down on all of the 400 billion planets but idk if you can leave your car there
just read a review on steam saying the same exact thing lmao.
"Buy No Man's Sky
Play 2 hours
Ask for refund
Buy Elite Dangerous
Thank me "
Adam Warren yes i did it after reading that comment xD
Adam Warren hmm well the controls are quite complicated i must say yes... but tell me what else you get if you decide
IGN 8 years ago: "Empty space is boring, we give this 7/10".
IGN in 2023: "Fast travelling in space is boring, we give this 7/10".
I personally give this game a good 9.4 as it stands, can't wait for future updates and expansions. This game is exactly what it is, a space simulator.
What about now
Elite deserves another review! It's changed a lot
What elite dangerous is missing is NPC characters on stations. Aside from other ships, you are alone.
And that's what drives the monotony, making the game as they say, a mile wide but an inch deep.
If you could explore night clubs, bars, markets and hotels that vary station to station, there'd be an exploratory payoff to all that long-hauling.
Otherwise the game loses all playability once you earn your first few million creds, repeating everything over and over...
Elite dangerous is its own thing, it doesnt try to be awesome it just is
+pausa831 just started playing. Addictive.
This game would probably be amazing with an Occulus Rift.
It's compatible. Same with Star Citizen.
It is. I have one right next to me JUST for this game. It's one of the best experiences I've had in gaming.
RiverEagles999 did you puke?
Hijynx87 Nope. Not at all. Didn't even feel nauseous. Only game that made me feel slightly sick was Half Life 2 VR
Elite Dangerous fully supports Occulus Rift and the reviewer didn't bother to test that.
Ooooh now I remember why I stopped visiting IGN.
Yeah, I usually like to hope TotalBiscuit does a video on things I like :') His points are usually far more objective xD
Word, this is a work sim. If you enjoyed Eurotruck simulator you will enjoy Elite: Dangerous. Unfortunately it is not my piece of cake, give me Star Citizens Arena Commander any day over this. I might return once you can walk around your ships and build space stations.
This gets 7 and a half while generic lesser titles like call of duty often get perfect scores. It just goes to show how little credibility ign had anymore.
Uk Gamer because the generic games are probably better
This is a Space Sim, of course it will be 'empty' or 'boring' but those small delights in between are rewarding in themselves.
Cacyademonenom you’re defending the game for being ‘boring’? I get you don’t like IGN but are you really going to defend boring gameplay?
The only thing that would make this game absolutely perfect is if they allow you to land on atmospheric planets with some type of life
"Not COD." 0/10 - IGN
COD is a good game in terms of mechanics. But its a yearly rehash, so the magic has worn off.
luneth spark and keep seeing what's next pony!!!
I honestly look at Elite as less of a game and more of virtual reality simulator. It's legitimate work to become a successful captain.
You can't land on planets, and you can't leave your cockpit either.
Elite might get those features later, as paid DLC. Maybe.
paid dlc is for AAA multiplat games. expansion pack maybe, but most likely mods or a free update.
They've confirmed both free and paid expansions, whether planetary landing is gonna be part of the free or the paid expansions has not been confirmed yet
Rabbid You can buy all of their paid expansions for £30 on their website
Dawid Sopata
I'm not finding it anywhere. Anyway I don't see how that's relevant to my comment.
Paul Prithu store.elitedangerous.com/elite-dangerous-expansion-pass.html
Its always nice to go back into a games past sometimes.
"Too much Space" 7/10 IGN
I see this review now, after No Man's Sky's release and I realise just how much fun I had with this game. THIS is what I wanted from No Man's Sky. Trading, Factions, the occasional space battle, on top of all the exploration that I'm doing.
So you want no mans sky to be just like this game?
+Valtämjaren No, he wanted NMS to be what Sean said it would.
Adam Warren I know, right?
Bare with me..
QUITE a few years ago My father and I went to a TV store to get a new television (This was in the mid 90's). When we got there we spoke to the store manager who showed us a number of TV's including this one Sony TV. The quality was AMAZING! He then went on to tell us all these 'amazing' features it had. Three scart sockets, two headphone jacks a separate RCA and god knows what else. We ended up buying it (£800) only to get home and find it had one scart socket, one headphone jack and NONE of these other amazing features built in....Oh and it wasn't the same model he'd been showing us in store but rather a cheaper one.
We took it back and said we think he gave us the wrong TV. "Oh I didn't say it had ANY of those. I said you could buy adaptors to give it 3 scarts. That was the TV I'd shown you" etc.
We had to take him to small claims court to get our money back. The judge said "You've not only supplied these people with false information about the product in an attempt to get them to buy the product but also gave them a product that they'd never seen before hoping they wouldn't notice." The judge then went on to say they were in contempt of the trades description act and could get in serious trouble. Two years later the guy was in court again for doing the same thing to another customer but this time he was heavily fined and also lost his business over it.
Now, what Shaun has done is exactly the same damn thing but on a MUCH larger scale.. Only two months before release he ran of a list of features this game has... and it has not and would have known these features were not in the game at the time of his interviews. This is basically fraud and he was attempting to sell us (Thankfully I didn't buy it) based on features that are not in the game. He needs to get a job at E.A. He's a damn good liar.
Sorry for the essay xD
Adam Warren Yeah, something like that happened to me.
I am too stupid to enjoy this game
I think you're actually too smart ;)
+Der Krazy Kraut why ? I want to buy
Buy the super cool amazing deer sim. You play a deer that needs to get some "mon mon"(money) because he wants to be Deer Gates. To get mon mon you need a job. Get the new deer sim.
Honestly , maybe. I dont know you but this game is very technical! not for everyone.
I laughed when he said "When Elite does a good job of making each ship distinctive, that immerses you in the seat of the pilot" when all their ships look like blocks.
Compare that to the "actually" distinctive ships of Star Citizen, where you can get up, walk around, use access panels around the ship that can have certain roles asigned to them. The ships are customizable, inside and out that have damn good effects on how you play in the ship..
Need a modern rig to play it though.ED runs on my grey bearded PC just fine.Track Ir and CH hotas,it really is immersive.
4 Years later: How did Star Citizen turn out for you? Having fun playing it? I mean not playing it?
I'm a big fan of the game, but I have to concede this much - I think he's being fair all things considered. Some reviews I've seen gush about the game, while others pan it, and both come across as a bit self-serving and not very open minded.
Fact is, Elite Dangerous is not for everyone, and this IGN review shows why. He's not wrong about any of the downsides mentioned, but to me, they're simply not downsides. When explaining he used the expression "all killer, no filler" to explain what Elite isn't, but to me that filler is a necessary part of the immersion. If things were more scripted or if forced encounters more numerous, basically the very thing that draws you to the game in the first place (piloting your own spaceship) would be ruined. To people like me, this game is fantastic as is, and will only get better as they expand on it, but we're not what you'd call an average breed of gamer. We're a niche in the grand scheme of things.
And remember, despite his misgivings he also said things like "what kept me coming back" - which is in itself a form of praise.
Oh, and of course if the reviewer WANTED balls to the wall action, he simply should have played in one of the areas the online community are currently warring over. Tons of PVP going on in some systems I hear. I stay the hell away from those places.
And yes, it's sad that he failed to recognize that Elite came out BEFORE Freespace and Privateer, but oh well ;)
However, I think Yahtzee had the best review in Zero Punctuation ;)
www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/9991-Elite-Dangerous-Review
I used to play Elite and Elite:Frontier on my PC back in the 90's; those were among the best games I played in my life, and I've always wanted a modern game that came close to that experience. And that experience was precisely what is described here. The emptiness, the waiting time during travel... that was a huge part of the game atmosphere and philosophy. I am happy to see it is!
Hopefully at some point IGN does a revisit. Maybe when 3.0 releases.I realize IGN is a terrible source of accurate. helpful reviews, it's just I'd like to see their "opinion" on the game in a few months time.
IGN are a bunch of casuals that dont even know the basics of "gaming".Dont care about their opinion.
Two years on Elite has greatly evolved. This game is a 10 year project for the developers, so new features are constantly being added. We now have player wings, political factions, varied stations, planetary landings, the ability to customize ships through engineers and NPC co-pilots to man launchable fighter craft to fight beside you. You'll still do a lot of traveling to get where you need to go, and the game is hard as hell! But if you want a game that gives you a deep feeling of accomplishment when you do get ahead, because it's not easy, try Elite. Next month we get multi-crew so fellow players can fly in the same ship, and an avatar creator.
And oh yeah! Aliens just started showing in human space last month!
Keep you canopy intact!
For the Federation o7
CMDR Frank K, Vice Admiral, Federal Defense League
So its one of those truck simulators but in space.
StringStorm oh hey stringstorm! You play elite?
This game requires you to master your ship not just clicking on what to attack or what to mine. I keep finding new things about my ship like I always used to put power to wep and sys before but then I started to notice I can't turn as well. Putting power to eng increases both your maneuverability and speed, which makes sense and is very useful depending on who you are fighting and what ship you have. Also when going to resource sites you need to consider where the sun is or you might be fighting in pitch black darkness. Things like this are what make me love this game it requires some common sense.
WHY IS EVERYONE COMPARING IT TO EVE ONLINE?!
cuz they dont know Eve Valkyrie :^)
Sif The Sun Praiser
gg
this game is THE synonym of quality
7.4 out of 10. Too much space.
Elite dangerous wasn't about creating a space sim with all the content to last thousands of hours. It was about making the 4th game of the elite series and making elite dangerous better than the first three games of the series it's great the way it is and frontier developments is still hard at work to constantly add huge updates.
Haven Gaming Stor Cityzin 4 dayz m9
This game is 10/10, this guy doesnt know wtf he's talking about.
Think IGN should revisit Elite. It's had massive changes since 2015 and there is more content coming very soon.
So is this like a single player EVE Online?
but its a multiplayer game
+srba filipovic lol
more of a hands on eve online with more player input required for flight and combat
Elite is an MMO, you can play it solo but the galaxy is still connected, which means stuff changes, such as prices for trade goods and which factions run the systems. Also, it's to a much, much smaller scale to EVE, the biggest playable ship is 290 meters long.
Ah yes, starting off strong with something that is obviously false. If you want space combat, there are lots of places where you can do that
LOL! Some people just need to told where to go and what to do, hand held the whole way. Like this review :D
People keep asking about this game (Elite: Dangerous) vs No Man's Sky. While they both have different choices in graphic design and the overall coding of each game, they both have one main purpose and that is space exploration. Elite simply becomes a beautiful grinder quite fast because you can't travel onto any planets, and even if a player could eventually walk on planets, based off of our real universe, most planets wouldn't have life. In No Man's Sky the ability to land on planets is available to everyone, and most planets hold life. I just see no real purpose in a space exploration game if you are stuck in the empty void of space, only trying to upgrade your ship. This game looked awesome at first, but now it seems like a possible let down because there is no real exploration if you can't discover. Discover new planets, discover new life! That is the main purpose of No Man's Sky. They even implemented the purpose to travel to the center of the universe to uncover what is there. Before a dev team sets out to make a rpg like game I believe there have to be enough objects and creatures to be able to interact with, especially if there is no real story. No Man's Sky has been living up to it's hype under the microscope of the whole gaming press, while this game hasn't within a glance of a review.
I've been playing this game for 2 years now, you can't make a review unless you play this game at least 2 months or so, I can tell he hasn't played that long seeing he has prepared this video calling a cargo scoop a cargo hook.
He also only flew the hauler
At least he didn’t say, “the game makes you feel like you’re Spider-Man.”
D.E Real space sim experience . IGN = waaa waaa too much space more lasers pew pew pew
It is not a 1 to 1 simulation of the galaxy a lot of games are misleading on what you should expect , but it is still the best space game I ever played.
It looks like a good foundation for a space sim game. But I am not buying this before there is much more content added.
Save your money this game is not worth buying!
Bob Green Oh trust me it is. It's great fun. This reviewer has no idea what he is on about, reviewing a genre he clearly dislikes. It does what it does extremely well. It is a niche genre; however, that some may dislike. That doesn't make it a bad game.
TheSixthSense No ands, buts, or ifs... This game is not worth buying!!! This is coming from 1984 Elite fan who supported this game on Kickstarter. Elite Dangerous is a buggy, incomplete mess, and multiplayer is a total waste of time!
I have no reason to lie... Do not make the same mistake I did. Cheers,
Bob Green I never played the older elite games, so I had no expectations of this game coming into it. From that perspective, I thought that this game was brilliant, but obviously you may be comparing it to the older games, and I know that previous game is always better, no matter the series, from elite, to Counter Strike, even to Call of bloody Duty (probably due to nostalgia). Either way, this game does a lot of things right, and as I said, is a bit of a niche game, where if you dislike the genre you will most likely dislike the game.
Why don't you like it?
TheSixthSense Hell, I'm an '84 Eliter and I think they've done a great job so far. It'll only get better as they add things in, too.
I got here from the 600 hours rescue mission of a man stuck in the void.
So much for PC Master Race lmao
Baited
It would make a great screensaver! XD
Lolnicetrytroll
You're all pleasantly oblivious. I feel bad for someone never knowing what a simulator was, or being so ADHD that they could never be appreciated.
David Plentl Ok.
THIS GAME IS ABSOLUTELY AWESOME. Worth every penny I have spent. I also know that the creators will keep astonishing us with amazing updates but, in my case, I am having a thrill with it as it is now. Absolutely impressive graphics, the all experience makes me feel like a kid in a candy store. They also are quick in sorting out anything that is not working to perfection. For me, it is the perfect simulation game in the market.!!
7/10
Too much space.
Even though I love the snot out of this game, for the average gamer I believe this is about as accurate and unbiased a review as you can get. Different kinds of people will love or hate this game, but it certainly helps if you are a space nerd. And I am. Traveling between stars is something I dreamed about since I was a kind, and that is why I liked the original 1984 game and it's sequels.
Another thing is that most of the things that Elite Dangerous lacks will be added in the next several months. Player groups, more diverse missions, more detailed galaxy politics. And of course, walking around your ship, stations and landing on moons and planets.
I've stopped playing games about 8 years ago mostly because I got bored with them. I simply don't care about battlefields, sexy lost treasure hunter heroines, trolls, elves or other mystical creatures. But now I go all warm and fuzzy inside when I navigate my ship close to an O type star and see the inside of my cockpit bask in it's blue light.
Bottom line, I'm sure I will play this game for years to come.
I just really want Star Citizen...:(
Ah mate :(
The emptiness and the hand written notes are what I loved about the original Amiga game this is based on.
Things would be great if they have standalone offline single player
I was thinking that! (:
Luke Paul, we can only hope for ED to come up with standalone version when they earn enough cash out of the current ED sales.
:D Definitely! I'm more of an single player kind of guy, I'll happily play it multi, but as you've said, hopefully we'll get lucky :D
Luke Paul, me too. Internet usage here has much limitation and single player is the only ideal way. ED is serious in doing business, they would 1 day. The current ED was launched in a rush because they needed larger fundings from worlwide off the shelves sale
Unless they have changed things since earlier builds, they do have an offline mode, where space is filled with just NPC craft. It does however use the online markets, and missions etc, but at least you can fly about without potential trollers to ruin your day.
Elite: Dangerous is a true Sandbox. The experience is heavily affected by the actions of other players, and the universe is evolving all the time. However, if all you want is to 'poke the bear' as it were, there are resource extraction zones full of pirates in need of killing, but just like the original Elite, unless you're a god, combat is very challenging in your starter ship.
A lot has changed since release, as well. Frontier Developments did themselves a real disservice by releasing the game before it was fully cooked. There are now all these out of date reviews hanging around giving people the impression the game is what it was four months ago, at release. It now has co-op teams, improved combat and a fantastically rich set of community tools to help you find trades, combat and other fun.
Euro Truck Simulator: Space
ImaGuest It was a JOKE
Its not for everyone. For me its the best game ive ever played
+Loaf Bloke oops wrong guy
+Maria Landeros with the steam summer sale I'm thinking about getting elite dangerous, do you think its still worth it?
Fab. Gabriel I would buy it. Might as well, but be prepared for countless hours of grinding like Guest said.
"It feels like a lot of work"
Jeez haven't you realized that what you're doing is a job, space courier with Caribbean space pirates.
You have to love these self proclaimed elite pro's, generic arguments about "make your own fun" and "you don't understand elite". The game is boring, it all boils down to hauling goods back and forth.
In before fan boys comments, take a step back and weigh up what you have done in the time you did it, there's far more dull moments than fun one, the balance is off and that's a fact. Most people (not these blind folded, unflinchingly dedicated "elite pro's") prefer to have fun all the time in a game, simulator or not, and I promise you this, you won't. Why would I wan't to LOOK for fun for hours, why doesn't FUN find me (oh lemme guess, I must MAKE my own fun, Frontier should pay me then I guess), aarrghh im done, ill sit back and wait for the "content" and then try this silly little game again.
***** What is there to do, run the same generic missions over and over? Maby bounty hunting in Resource collection sites, over and over. No, if you want to progress to lets say Python (don't care if you want to or not, I do), you will have to make some serious credit (through Hauling) otherwise you will grind those meaningless tasks over and over.
Conflict zones are content, more diverse and meaningful than killing the same vipers over and over at a resource site. The problem being, it ends there, that's the real content the game has to offer and nothing more, after hours of fighting there to try and make a difference it also becomes stale really quickly.Now, you tell me what else is there to do that won't be a repeatable event over and over that is credits viable, diverse and meaningful?
Here's comes the, "Explore the galaxy, same stars and systems visually with randomly generated names", "Kill pirates, same pirates visually with predefined randomly generated names, for no reason", "Mine asteroids, just no", "Haul goods, arrgghh".
No, if you want to get somewhere in this game, you need to Haul goods and do it alot, once again, over and over.
Ive done it all and there is nothing more than a handful of things to do, then the repetition starts, which would have been ok with me if it was more than a handful of things, hence the "More Content".If you don't see this then your opinion is biased and based off of an artificial connection to the development team and your trying to convince yourself you did not waste your money with this game in it's CURRENT STATE.
Im disappointed, the hype was massive but they fell short, in my opinion (see what I did there).
Some people enjoy hauling goods, trading and exploring space. For some people the fun comes from the hours of space travel and discovery, not the dog fighting. When I used to play Freelancer I spent most of my time finding the best trade routes, and repeatedly docking with trade lanes, travelling up and down the same routes making tons of money. I enjoyed it. If you don't enjoy the game, don't play it. Leave people to enjoy it how they want to rather than accusing them of being biased and creating an "artificial connection to the development team".
Steven Lewis Maby im coming off wrong, I love space sims, I was VERY excited about elite due to pre launch info etc. The idea that was sold is not what I got, "watch trailer", even if they embellish alot, that's still the basic idea of what I expected. There's nothing wrong with hauling when you know your hauling towards something and currently there's nothing.
As it stands, there isn't much versatility in this game, just alot of repetition with no goals to repeat towards. Oh, and those that say set your own goals, please, we all do, but when my goals don't aligned with exploring 400 Bil star systems there's not much beyond that. My point being, the focus of this game is it's size, not the content in the given space.
I'm sure they will add more content ass time goes on and that's fine, then ill pick the game up again, with that being said, I get the feeling this game should still be in beta until it adds more stuff, it was rushed out the door and the devs know that.
Even though he was clueless about Elite coming out in 1984, I think his review is fairly accurate. Elite was my favorite game back in the day on my little Commodore 64 and to play this new version is too cool. Although there is a lot to like about it, I've had my share of "wow....seriously?" moments... but it's still addictive. I finally got my Clipper yesterday... a nice change from the Type 6.
"space is too space!"
-7/10 ign
Lol
The game has improved DRAMATICALLY since this review! Ive been playing consistently since 2018 and definitely recommend it, especially with new features being added early 2021.
Get it now whilst it's free!!
7.4/10 "Too much space"
- IGNorant
Ive found that going to ringed planets composed of rocks typically has the most mining, which also has the most criminals that can be blown up for bounties. Even with the starter sidewinder, I was able to raise $100k and upgrade to an Eagle rather quickly. There's a video that explains this and is a great way to start your journey. Also, get a HOTAS. Its amazing.
BORING
1/10 FUN
7/10 GRAPHICS
8/10 INNOVATION
3/10 GAMEPLAY
have random things.
On PS4 Rebel Galaxy is similar to this game. It's a decent game and it's pretty good for a indie game. So don't expect a complex game like this one. Was developed by a small team but it's a really good game.
This guy has obviously never played EVE: Online
Quite a fair review, but it's important to mention that it does well to simulate the vast emptiness and indeed loneliness of space - you're meant to feel lonely and even bored at times. Recommended for anyone who wants to explore space
ign! you can't review games...
Imagine,
The makers of destiny and Elite teaming for a title Destiny: Elite. With the full features of destiny found accessible when traversing through our local solar system and quickly accessible through some sort of warp drive. But those that have a heart for space exploration can explore the milky way galaxy as if traveling through the Elite game. -fighting fallen, dreadnaught, and cabal spaceships that pass by, with your party. I see soo much potential with an already fulfilling destiny game, and even more potential in a true open world destiny game. I’d be okay with spending $100 on a high quality game like that