This game needs to impose itself upon the player.

[Brrokk]

If you played other games you'd realize that Elite is becoming more and more like other games every day, and each new thing added to the game has been a watered-down half-implemented "me too" feature cribbed from some of the saddest trends in mass-market schlock. The best parts of Elite are indeed special and if not unique, are at least exemplary in their execution. I don't think the best way to celebrate this is by cheering every time Frontier sand off one more corner or dilute another play system into inconsequentiality.

I've played other games over years and I still think ED is pretty unique. Sandbox nature; player choice of goals; mode structure; huge galaxy... oh, and it's the only game which has the Cobra III.