The Yamiks posted the following video yesterday:-
[video=youtube;soAkY_No2BM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soAkY_No2BM[/video]
Here then are my thoughts on/response to it:-
To paraphrase the big initial question, "What's the best space game/series around?"
For me, Egosoft's X series, specifically X3 Reunion, Terran Conflict and Albion Prelude,... which even though i'm a Playstation/console diehard, i've played to death on PC, all the time though wishing i was playing it on my system/family of systems of choice and i constantly wish that hopefully the entire X series will be released on Playstation, but it'd still mean the World to me to just to get to play Reunion to Albion Prelude on Playstation
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On the three games mentioned however, here are my thoughts on them...
On Elite, once i knew it was getting a Playstation release eventually, i waited for that release, then i bought it when it came out on PS4 at the end of last June.
While i played quite a lot of it between its' PS4 release and around December and enjoyed it overall, aside from in a few ways (the fact Elite is available on Playstation, has optional multiplayer and tries a few different things), i had/have the constant feeling that X was a better overall game/experience and i miss the many things X has which Elite doesn't or that X simply just does better.
I've honestly gotten pretty bored with Elite, barely playing it in the last few months, though i'll try to get back into it when the various Beyond content patches come out, but the big thing for me is that there really isn't that much to do in the game, it in particular doesn't have enough ships and specifically not enough ships that are diverse enough from each other that they really offer a different experience when you switch from one to another :_ .
(Actually indie game Rebel Galaxy has more diverse and interesting ships than Elite does, though of course there isn't much left to do in that game once you complete its' story campaign, but specifically on Rebel Galaxy, it's a game which is crying out for a more fleshed out, X like experience, but that'll probably never happen .)
On No Man's Sky, i bought it on sale, but again its' lack of variety, slow pace and draw of better games saw me play it for a night or two and i haven't touched it since, though like so many other games i'm planning to get back to it "soon"... (i haven't even tried out the new content that was patched into it months ago ).
Star Citizen then looks very promising and like pretty much every game, i hope it one day gets a Playstation release, but it'll likely stay a PC exclusive and IF i can manage to play it on the generally modest PCs i buy, i will (with the platform being a secondary gaming one for me, which i've been able to play X and various other PC games on), but if as i suspect you won't be able to play it without a high end PC, i reckon i and a lot of players won't end up actually playing or being able to play it...
(I initially played X and other PC games on a Pentium 4 PC, with one gig of ram and an Nvidia 6200 "Turbocache", between early 2005 and the end of 2016, when i replaced it with a €400 Dell PC with an i3 processor, 8 gigs of ram and an integrated graphics card.
My first PC could play up to Albion Prelude perfectly well, while my current PC can play X Rebirth and Cities Skylines at medium settings.)
Firstly i don't currently have around €1000 or more to spare to spend at all on a high end PC and it's certainly not really the sort of money i'd ever spend in principal, for what would be for me, as said, a secondary gaming platform .
[video=youtube;soAkY_No2BM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soAkY_No2BM[/video]
Here then are my thoughts on/response to it:-
To paraphrase the big initial question, "What's the best space game/series around?"
For me, Egosoft's X series, specifically X3 Reunion, Terran Conflict and Albion Prelude,... which even though i'm a Playstation/console diehard, i've played to death on PC, all the time though wishing i was playing it on my system/family of systems of choice and i constantly wish that hopefully the entire X series will be released on Playstation, but it'd still mean the World to me to just to get to play Reunion to Albion Prelude on Playstation
. On the three games mentioned however, here are my thoughts on them...
On Elite, once i knew it was getting a Playstation release eventually, i waited for that release, then i bought it when it came out on PS4 at the end of last June.
While i played quite a lot of it between its' PS4 release and around December and enjoyed it overall, aside from in a few ways (the fact Elite is available on Playstation, has optional multiplayer and tries a few different things), i had/have the constant feeling that X was a better overall game/experience and i miss the many things X has which Elite doesn't or that X simply just does better.
I've honestly gotten pretty bored with Elite, barely playing it in the last few months, though i'll try to get back into it when the various Beyond content patches come out, but the big thing for me is that there really isn't that much to do in the game, it in particular doesn't have enough ships and specifically not enough ships that are diverse enough from each other that they really offer a different experience when you switch from one to another :_ .
(Actually indie game Rebel Galaxy has more diverse and interesting ships than Elite does, though of course there isn't much left to do in that game once you complete its' story campaign, but specifically on Rebel Galaxy, it's a game which is crying out for a more fleshed out, X like experience, but that'll probably never happen
.) On No Man's Sky, i bought it on sale, but again its' lack of variety, slow pace and draw of better games saw me play it for a night or two and i haven't touched it since, though like so many other games i'm planning to get back to it "soon"... (i haven't even tried out the new content that was patched into it months ago
). Star Citizen then looks very promising and like pretty much every game, i hope it one day gets a Playstation release, but it'll likely stay a PC exclusive and IF i can manage to play it on the generally modest PCs i buy, i will (with the platform being a secondary gaming one for me, which i've been able to play X and various other PC games on), but if as i suspect you won't be able to play it without a high end PC, i reckon i and a lot of players won't end up actually playing or being able to play it...
(I initially played X and other PC games on a Pentium 4 PC, with one gig of ram and an Nvidia 6200 "Turbocache", between early 2005 and the end of 2016, when i replaced it with a €400 Dell PC with an i3 processor, 8 gigs of ram and an integrated graphics card.
My first PC could play up to Albion Prelude perfectly well, while my current PC can play X Rebirth and Cities Skylines at medium settings.)
Firstly i don't currently have around €1000 or more to spare to spend at all on a high end PC and it's certainly not really the sort of money i'd ever spend in principal, for what would be for me, as said, a secondary gaming platform
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