Elite Dangerous is half-baked. Perhaps more accurately, it's a buffet full of half-baked "dishes". PowerPlay is half-baked. Multicrew is half-baked. Economics in ED are half-baked, and by proxy this makes things like trading and even the BGS at least feel half-baked. Engineers, C&P, scenarios, squadrons, the list goes on... And don't get me started with the game on PS4!
There was hope that Beyond would finish baking the half-baked items, but instead it just replaced a few half-baked game mechanics with new half-baked game mechanics. Even exploration, which is my current favorite thing to do in ED (and I love the new tools), feels half-baked.
HALF... BAKED...
Is there any hope that all these things with so much potential will ever be put back into the oven and fully-baked, or will Frontier just continue to add new half-baked experiences to the game and call that progress? As I said in another thread, space games really don't need new ideas, they just need to better execute the ideas already there.
This isn't meant to be a "DOOM" or a rage-quit* thread. Even half-baked, I think ED is a pretty good game. But I also think it would be so much more amazing if everything already available to us was fully-baked. Unfortunately I'm not seeing any evidence that Frontier is a company capable of giving us a fully-baked game... And on that note, let the discussion / debate begin!
* the next time I quit the game, I promise to do so without fanfare
There was hope that Beyond would finish baking the half-baked items, but instead it just replaced a few half-baked game mechanics with new half-baked game mechanics. Even exploration, which is my current favorite thing to do in ED (and I love the new tools), feels half-baked.
HALF... BAKED...
Is there any hope that all these things with so much potential will ever be put back into the oven and fully-baked, or will Frontier just continue to add new half-baked experiences to the game and call that progress? As I said in another thread, space games really don't need new ideas, they just need to better execute the ideas already there.
This isn't meant to be a "DOOM" or a rage-quit* thread. Even half-baked, I think ED is a pretty good game. But I also think it would be so much more amazing if everything already available to us was fully-baked. Unfortunately I'm not seeing any evidence that Frontier is a company capable of giving us a fully-baked game... And on that note, let the discussion / debate begin!
* the next time I quit the game, I promise to do so without fanfare
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