Yeah, the planets in ED don't look great, plus the scale is weird, maybe getting down onto these and driving around might help. The planets in Infinity Battlescape look much better, far more realistic and to scale. The planets in Space Engineers that are coming this year, look more to scale than either of these games.
However, none of these games are finished, so we'll have to wait and see. For me the scale in ED is odd, not totally believable, but getting buildings and vehicles down on to planets could help cure that feeling, give us something of the scale/comparison.
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Anyway looking forward to them all, its space ,what can you say.