I started playing Elite on the BBC Micro, when the ships and planets were all wire-frame. Even then the game was thrilling and exciting.
At that time, it never crossed my mind that I'd still be enjoying the game in my old age (now 64). Even more so that I'd be playing elite with a joystick and throttle, and immersed in full 360 degree gameplay in 3D Virtual Reality.
Sometimes I think that nowadays players are far too quick to be critical of the perceived shortcomings of the game.
If you compare the quality of Elite now to when I played it in my youth, you would see that the game today is one of the most wonderful of creations that has ever been coded for players to enjoy.
It is such a shame that many players have turned their backs on the game and no longer spend time to enjoy it.
I still get an enormouse amount of thrill every time I sit in the pilot seat and launch myself into space.
Today's graphics are breathtaking compared to how the game played in my youth. I guess, many youngsters do not realise how lucky they are to be able to venture to all four corners of the galaxy, equipped with beautiful ships, and to see such glorious sights... And all from the comfort of their armchair.
How anyone can say they have gotten bored of the game is beyond me. I have watched it grow, over the years, beyond anything I could imagine in my youth and now I just absolutely love it.
Elite is by far the best Space SIM ever created; and FDev really should be congratulated for all their efforts.
Share your thoughts... It would be nice to see a thread filled with positive vibes.
Probably in the same age group, as in I remember using punchcards as data storage.
I think your opinion of the game is vastly different than mine.
For sure at launch (ED) was the be-and-end-all of the genre, but has since grown stagnant and been over taken by most of it competitors. ED was uique in that it supported MAC and then went on to suppurt VR. ED in VR was amazing. ED went on to cater for consoles. Looking at Elite now, it dropped Mac support, it dropped VR support and it dropped consoles.
Frontier as a company, have never once had a successful launch, and can be remembered as a company that delivered great promises, talked a great game, but at the end, were more fur coat and no knickers.
How many rewrites have we had of engineers? Exporation? Crime & Punishment?
We're now heading into a future with the OD codebase which was builton the Fr codebase and in all these changes, Frontier have never once consolidated the bug on the platform before moving onto the next. There are bugs that were on horozons and still in OD. Of course, frontiers answer is to hide those bugs using their asinine bug reviews.
Over it's history Elite has had many calls for removal of Devs, PMs and community leaders. That in and of itself shows thge distrust and discourse frontier have had and continue to have.
Meanwhile, the game ambles aimlessly into the future bereft of any real roadmap. It could have been the greatest space-sim ever made, it could have been a contedah. But no, it's had it's day and it was found wanting. It simply lacked good leadership. On the random night I load up horizons, I get to the main menu and then just feel sick at the amount of hours I put into Elite Dangerous, in the hope that at some stage in it's 10 year plan, it would get it right. And I simply click on the X and play one of the others.
I'm glad you and others are enjoying it. I hope it brings you what you desire. I've had my money's worth for sure, but I can't really say I enjoyed it.
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