GQ Magazine "gets" Elite: Dangerous!
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I'm in two minds about this. On the one hand the article, particularly the paragraph highlighted in the OP, is an honest appraisal of the game we're currently playing. On the other hand, if you've never played ED before, those same words might leave you with the impression of a wholly different game than the one we have.
I think the problem is that ED is, by its nature, almost impossible to describe without experiencing. And if you try to describe it you end up with a sort of descriptive paradox. If I try to put myself in the position of someone who's never played the game, reading that GQ article for the first time, I suspect my reactions would be something like this:
I don't think anyone's being dishonest, it's just that enjoyment or otherwise of ED is so subjective and that subjectivity doesn't translate easily into the written or spoken word.
This is why I never recommend ED to friends, even if they ask. I describe it as best I can, explain which aspects I love and which I find annoying, emphasise that everything I've said is totally subjective, then advise them to do their own research before buying. I never want to be the guy who flat-out recommended "that awful game" to a friend.
I think the problem is that ED is, by its nature, almost impossible to describe without experiencing. And if you try to describe it you end up with a sort of descriptive paradox. If I try to put myself in the position of someone who's never played the game, reading that GQ article for the first time, I suspect my reactions would be something like this:
- Read the article.
- Conclude that ED sounds like the perfect game for me.
- Buy the game and play it.
- Get the feeling that it's a great game, but not really the game that the article described.
- Re-read the article.
- Realise that it's exactly the game that the article had described, just not necessarily the one I thought it had.
I don't think anyone's being dishonest, it's just that enjoyment or otherwise of ED is so subjective and that subjectivity doesn't translate easily into the written or spoken word.
This is why I never recommend ED to friends, even if they ask. I describe it as best I can, explain which aspects I love and which I find annoying, emphasise that everything I've said is totally subjective, then advise them to do their own research before buying. I never want to be the guy who flat-out recommended "that awful game" to a friend.
Now that really depends on where you live. If you are anywhere larger than a village then you are not going to see much of the real galaxy at all...
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You will STILL see more than ED's paltry offerings. Plenty of variety and no brown
You will STILL see more than ED's paltry offerings. Plenty of variety and no brown
Yep, plenty of the galaxy to see here:
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Yep, plenty of the galaxy to see here:
https://cdn.shutterstock.com/shutterstock/videos/4435916/thumb/1.jpg
https://ak8.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/855979/thumb/1.jpg
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Funnily enough, same thing here ...
But lets be honest you wont be flying round in your own personalised craft any time sonn..
Yep, plenty of the galaxy to see here:
https://cdn.shutterstock.com/shutterstock/videos/4435916/thumb/1.jpg
https://ak8.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/855979/thumb/1.jpg
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But you have what looks like a crashed megaship on the left.
Since its GQ I would have expected some recommendations on what to wear when playing. Mention Sandro they might think he designs clothes http://uk.sandro-paris.com/
good stuff
Unfortunately the reality is for the majority of us even if it wasn't raining the light pollution makes most of the galaxy invisible, a great shame.
While the review is well written, all it does is sound like an FD infomercial. It glosses over the fact that ED was a shell of a game at launch missing many features and is only NOW coming into its own (is that enough for some? Maybe?). It also mentions the GRIND that has replaced gameplay, mentions it in one sentence...... And theres fanfare because they are about to plunder a new market.. ED will not improve in my opinion, they have set the stage and are continuing to sell a 3 wheeled wagon as an F1 racing car
I see your point but from what little I know of GQ they are not much interested in things as far in the past as the Launch of Elite Dangerous, and it's not as if the state of the game then has any relevance to us here and now as it isn't as if there was any way for us to play that version of it anymore.
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Therein lies the rub im afraid...take away the ship in that pic and ye have a scene that is merely average in modern games. Why build a landing pad at the bottom of a water basin? Very poor forward thinking in times of flooding one would assume. Where the plant life? Theres a few mutated stunted looking bushes growing around the water...I could count of at least a dozen games who already put out way better quality stuff that this.
A decade ago it might have impressed a few kids but by modern standards, its mediocre at best. Command and conquer games had better looking terrain and more plant life and that was...12/13 years ago? Possible even further back? Take out that ship and it literally could be a screenshot from any other average game.
Ive also got no idea who or what GQ is...gaming magazine?
A fashion magazine and not one comment on the lack of long hair options... I am dissapointed.
Yeah, but you got an abandoned settlement and a Thargoid landing craft. Go now, farm those rare materialsYep, plenty of the galaxy to see here:
https://cdn.shutterstock.com/shutterstock/videos/4435916/thumb/1.jpg
https://ak8.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/855979/thumb/1.jpg
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Are you really being pedantic about concept art?