Confusion
- Thread starter Naomi Ying
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Fact is. Elite Dangerous doesnt give a about you. You aint no DRAGONBORN or han Solo. but you CAN Be. you have to work for it. do anything you want. work your way up the ranks and ships. be SOMEBODY. it is all FAIR AND EQUAL, and the universe is beautiful galaxy is full sized and devs are actually kinda nice and ahh i like it. its what most sci fi fans dream of. Now all we need is walking. the only time i ever got upset with elite.. was the engineering...
"I really love it, But i dont know why" -Naomi Ying
OP you remind me of that guy (or gall) that smacked his (or her) head on the bulkhead of the death star - and I don't know why?
"Earn more sessions by sleaving" - Roxanne
"You can put a hat on a turd, and give it a name, and it's still a turd" - Don't Remember
I think I know why I like it. For two reasons:
1. Appreciation of the size of the universe. It only took a few hours of play over a few days for me to begin have a newfound appreciation for the vastness of our galaxy. I mean I always KNEW how vast but until you play the game a bit you BEGIN to understand and appreciate this fact more. That is to say nothing about the vastness of our universe. As I continue to play and explore I find that this appreciation is expanding and deepens. I recognize the variety of everything and yet "sameness" of system (honk) after system (honk) after system....... you get the idea.
2. Seeing the human condition applied on a galactic scale. The expansion of real human history from a finite time on a finite planet..... and seeing this cast upon a whole section of the galaxy. I suppose you can get an appreciation of this from watching sci-fi and other entertainment... but flying down to a planet where you can find one solitary outpost with some poor soul's last audio file and at the same time brazillions of miles away you have some security officer representing a government that is scanning your ship at a nav beacon. Having traveled a nice cross-section of our world and appreciating time, space, and human differences that really do exist... I can recognize an echo of this same characteristic expanded far into the unknown future and spread over a section of the galaxy. Humanity has changed but is still the same.
I enjoy the variety of shipping, combat, passengers, Thargoids, ruins, exploring... but I think my mind thinking about #1 and #2 whilst I play is what is keeping me engaged.
1. Appreciation of the size of the universe. It only took a few hours of play over a few days for me to begin have a newfound appreciation for the vastness of our galaxy. I mean I always KNEW how vast but until you play the game a bit you BEGIN to understand and appreciate this fact more. That is to say nothing about the vastness of our universe. As I continue to play and explore I find that this appreciation is expanding and deepens. I recognize the variety of everything and yet "sameness" of system (honk) after system (honk) after system....... you get the idea.
2. Seeing the human condition applied on a galactic scale. The expansion of real human history from a finite time on a finite planet..... and seeing this cast upon a whole section of the galaxy. I suppose you can get an appreciation of this from watching sci-fi and other entertainment... but flying down to a planet where you can find one solitary outpost with some poor soul's last audio file and at the same time brazillions of miles away you have some security officer representing a government that is scanning your ship at a nav beacon. Having traveled a nice cross-section of our world and appreciating time, space, and human differences that really do exist... I can recognize an echo of this same characteristic expanded far into the unknown future and spread over a section of the galaxy. Humanity has changed but is still the same.
I enjoy the variety of shipping, combat, passengers, Thargoids, ruins, exploring... but I think my mind thinking about #1 and #2 whilst I play is what is keeping me engaged.
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